Johnny Nash

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John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr., (born August 19, 1940), is an American reggae and pop music singer-songwriter best known in the United States for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now."

He was also one of the first non-Jamaican singers to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.

Early life

Nash was born in Houston, Texas, on August 19th, the son of Eliza (Armstrong) and John Lester Nash. As a youth, he sang in the choir at Progressive New Hope Baptist Church in South Central Houston. Nash performed covers of R&B hits on Matinee, a local variety show on KPRC-TV; from 1956, he performed on Arthur Godfrey's radio and television shows for a seven-year period; Nash has been married three times and has had two children.

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Career

Nash made his major label debut in 1957 with the single "A Teenager Sings the Blues," which was released on ABC-Paramount. With a cover of Doris Day's "A Very Special Love," he had his first chart published in early 1958. Nash found success as an actor early in his career, appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's "Take a Giant Step" in 1959. Nash received a Silver Sail Award for his film debut at the Locarno International Film Festival. Nash has continued to produce singles on a number of brands, including Groove, Chess, Argo, and Warner Bros.

Nash performed the theme song to the syndicated animated cartoon series The Mighty Hercules, which appeared on various television stations from 1963 to 1966.

In 1964, Nash and boss Danny Sims formed JoDa Records in New York. "All I Really Want to Be Is Me" was released by JoDa of The Cowsills. Although JoDa filed for bankruptcy after only two years, Nash and Sims went to Jamaica to market American singers due to the low cost of recording in the region.

Nash's 1964 hit "Let's Move and Groove Together," the ballad on the US Billboard R&B chart. Sims and Gordon went to Jamaica together this year. Newton Willoughby, the company's lawyer, was the father of Jamaican radio host Neville Willoughby. Sims launched Cayman Music, a new music publishing firm in Jamaica after selling off his old entertainment assets in New York. In the United States, Nash hopes to break the local rocksteady sound. Neville Willoughby took Nash to a Rastafarian party, where Bob Marley and the Wailing Wailers were playing. Members Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, and Rita Marley introduced Nash to the local music scene. Nash has been signed by the four foursomes to an exclusive publishing deal with Cayman Music worth J$50 a week.

Nash, Arthur Jenkins, and Sims banded together in 1967 to create JAD Records (after their first names Johnny, Arthur, and Danny) and recorded their songs at Federal Records in Kingston. In 1968, JAD issued Nash's "Hold Me Tight," a top-five hit in both the United States and the UK, earning it to be a top-five hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Nash's "Stir It Up" cover in 1971 hit another UK target.

The R.I.A.A.A.'s 1972 reggae-influenced single "I Can See Clearly Now" sold over one million copies and was given a gold disc. In November 1972, the United States was founded in Lisbon, Mexico. At No. 1, "I Can See Clearly Now" is the highest position. On the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, one of the top the charts for four weeks, despite spending the same four weeks at the top of the adult contemporary chart. "Guava Jelly," "Comma Comma," "You Poured Sugar on Me," and JAD's follow-up hit "Stir It Up" are four original Marley compositions on display on the I Can See Clearly Now album, as well as the follow-up to "Stir It Up" and "Stir It Up" on the I Can See Clearly Now album. "There Are More Questions Than Answers" was a third hit single taken from the album.

Nash performed 'Robert' in the Swedish romance film Want So Much to Believe (1971), which also portrayed 'Robert'. Bob Marley co-composed and arranged by Fred Jordan, who contributed to the movie's partly instrumental reggae with strings.

JAD Records stopped being available in 1971, but it was revived in 1997 by American Marley consultant Roger Steffens and French musician and producer Bruno Blum for the complete Bob Marley and the Wailers, 1967-1972 ten-album series, for which many of the Nash-produced Marley and Tosh songs were mixed or remixed by Blum for release. "Tears on My Pillow," his first hit in the United Kingdom was with the album "Live on My Pillow" which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in July 1975 for a week.

For several years Nash seemed to have vanished from sight after a front page of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World" in 1976 and "Let's Go Dancing" in 1979. With the album Here Again (1986), he had a brief revival in the mid-1980s, which was preceded by the minor UK hit, "Rock Me Baby." With the appearance of Jimmy Cliff's cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" in Disney's 1993 hit film Cool Runnings, younger audiences were introduced to Nash's music, and Nash's original version appeared over the opening scene of John Cusack's 1997 film Grosse Point Blank's opening scene. Nash performed again at SugarHill Recording Studios and in Tierra Studios in Houston's hometown, Houston, in May 2006. He began working with SugarHill chief engineer Andy Bradley and Tierra Studios' Randy Miller, and began moving analog tapes of his songs from the 1970s and 1980s to Pro Tools in Pro Tools' digital form.

Acting career

Nash has appeared in film and television. Spencer Scott appeared in Take a Giant Step, directed by Philip Leacock, one of the first black family films written by a black writer in 1959. In 1960, he appeared in "Apple" alongside Dennis Hopper in the crime drama Key Witness. He starred Robert in the Swedish romance Vill s. gärna tro in 1971.

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