My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
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When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
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Birth: | 14th August, 1941 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer |
David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. He is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Musically, he wrote or co-wrote Lady Friend, Why, and Eight Miles High with the Byrds and Guinnevere, Wooden Ships, Shadow Captain, and In My Dreams with Crosby, Stills & Nash. He is known for his use of alternate tuning, and jazz influence.
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