John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (El 31 de diciembre de 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, lo que en American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activista, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success lo as a solo singer. After traveling and living in numerous lugares while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists. By 1974, he was one of america's best-selling performers, and AllMusic has descrito Denver as "among the most amado rock and roll of his era". Denver recorded and released approximately de 300 canciones, about 200 of which he composed, con un total de sales of over 33 millones de records en el mundo. He recorded and performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and cantó about his joy en la revista nature, his disdain for city life, his enthusiasm for music and his relationship trials. Denver's music apareció on a variety of charts, including country music, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, en todos los earning 12 gold and four álbum platinum signature with his canción "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Annie's Song", "Rocky Mountain High", "Calypso", "Thank God i'm a Country Boy", y "Sunshine on My Shoulders". Denver apareció en varios films and television especiales during the 1970s and 1980s. He continued to record in the 1990s, es decir, focusing on environmental issues by lending vocal support to space exploration and testifying en frente del Congreso, en protesta against censorship in music. He lived en Aspen, Colorado for much of his life and lo known for his love of Colorado, which he cantó about numerous times. En 1974 Denver lo named poet laureate of the state. The estatal de Colorado legislatura así que adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state canciones en 2007. Denver lo avid piloto who died at the age of 53 en a single-fatality crash while flying his experimental Rutan Long-EZ canard aircraft.