Real name: Wayne Carson Head

American country musician, songwriter, and record producer, born in Denver, Colorado, 31 May 1943; died 20 July 2015, aged 72.

Since the 1960s he has composed an impressive string of hit records and platinum selling albums. Had his first US #1 hit record in 1966, with Eddy Arnold's Somebody Like Me. He received a Grammy Award in 1982 for Willie Nelson's recording of Always On My Mind.