Jackson Browne

Browne lahir 9 Oktober 1948, di Heidelberg, Jerman, di mana ayahnya Clyde Jack Browne, seorang prajurit Amerika, ditempatkan untuk tugas pekerjaannya di surat kabar Stars and Stripes. Ibu Browne, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), adalah penduduk asli Minnesota keturunan Norwegia. Browne memiliki tiga saudara kandung. Roberta "Berbie" Browne lahir pada tahun 1946 di Nuremberg, Jerman; dan Edward Severin Browne lahir pada tahun 1949 di Frankfurt am Main, Jerman. Adik perempuannya, Gracie Browne, lahir beberapa tahun kemudian. Pada usia tiga tahun, Browne dan keluarganya pindah ke rumah kakeknya, Abbey San Encino, di distrik Highland Park Los Angeles. Di masa remajanya, dia mulai menyanyikan lagu-lagu daerah di tempat-tempat lokal seperti Ash Grove dan The Troubador Club. Dia bersekolah di Sunny Hills High School di Fullerton, California, lulus pada tahun 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne adalah penyanyi-penulis lagu dan musisi Jerman/Amerika yang telah menjual lebih dari 18 juta album di Amerika Serikat. Menjadi terkenal pada tahun 1970-an, Browne telah menulis dan merekam lagu-lagu seperti "Todays", "The Pretender", "Running on Blank", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", dan "Somebody's Baby". Pada tahun 2004, ia dilantik ke dalam Rock and Roll Hall of Fame di Cleveland, Ohio, dan diberi gelar doktor kehormatan musik oleh Occidental College di Los Angeles, California. Pada tahun 2015, Rolling Stone menempatkannya di peringkat ke-37 dalam daftar "100 Penulis Lagu Terbesar Sepanjang Masa".

Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), 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 grandfather's 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. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million 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 "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".