Dick Gaughan
Dick Gaughan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom on May 17th, 1948 and is the Folk Singer. At the age of 75, Dick Gaughan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Richard Peter Gaughan (born 17 May 1948) is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, best known for folk and social protest songs.
He is regarded as one of Scotland's finest singer-songwriters.
Early years
Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Royal Maternity Hospital while his father was employed in Glasgow as an engine technician. He spent the first year-and-a-half of his life in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, before the family moved to Leith, a port on Edinburgh's outskirts.
Gaughan, the eldest of three children, grew up surrounded by the sounds of Scotland and Ireland. His mother, a Highland Scot from Lochaber who spoke Gaelic, received a silver medal for performing at a Gaelic Md. His father, a Leith native, played guitar. His Irish-born paternal grandfather, a native of Erris, County Mayo, played the fiddle and his paternal grandmother, a Glaswegian born to Irish parents, played button accordion and sang. The family suffered a lot of poverty, but the community in which they lived exhibited a strong sense of spirit, and many of Gaughan's songs honor his working-class roots. Gaughan served as an apprentice at a local paper mill in his teens, but he had aspired to be a guitarist from the age of seven. He became interested in the local folk music scene and formed the Edinburgh Folk Centre with two others. He began working as a programmer in early 1970 and migrated to London.