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Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died on May 1. He was 84 years old, having been born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, 90 miles from Toronto – Canada’s largest city.

Lightfoot loved to sing as a small child. As a young adult in the early 1960s, he became a folk singer, performing songs he had written in the small clubs and coffee houses that were so popular in that era.

Serious about his music and wishing – like every other singer-songwriter – to make a name for himself (while becoming rich and famous), he spent several months in Los Angeles studying the art of music composition.

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