Source: Good News Network
Happy 70th Birthday to singer-songwriter and musician James Taylor. Born in Boston, he was raised in North Carolina by a trained opera singing mother and physician father. He wrote his first song on guitar at 14 and was soon playing coffee houses on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts where the family spent summers.
As a high school senior applying to colleges, he was hit with a deep depression and spent 20 hours a day sleeping. After a 9-month stint at a local hospital, he came to see it as part of his personality and found a new reprieve (without college). He later overcame a heroin addition and setbacks in his career… Continue and WATCH some new tunes and interview… (1948)‘Sweet Baby James’ became one of the most popular musical artists of all time, selling more than 100 million records worldwide, with hit covers like “You’ve Got a Friend”, “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)”, and “Mockingbird”—the duet with his then-wife Carly Simon—and his own song “Fire and Rain”, written while in recovery. Taylor has won five Grammy Awards, including Pop Album of the Year in 1998 for Hourglass. His new tour starts May 28,…
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