Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne is an American singer, songwriter and musician who has sold overmillion albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as These Days, The Pretender, Running on Empty, Lawyers in Love, Doctor My Eyes, Take It Easy, For a Rocker, and Somebodys Baby. In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Brownes mother, Beatrice Amanda , was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta Berbie Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three Browne and his family moved to his grandfathers famous house, Abbey San Encino in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966.

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