Gordon Lightfoot Biography

Gordon Lightfoot a Canadian Singer-Songwriter and guitarist who earned international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He further hosted BBC TV’s Country and Western Show, returning to Canada in 1964.

Gordon Lightfoot Age

Lightfoot was born on 17 November 1938, in Orillia, Canada.

Gordon Lightfoot Music Career

Lightfoot is a vastly recognized singer-songwriter and guitarist. It is known that he achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is well known for helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s.

Most noteworthy, Gordon was the subject of Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni’s 2019 documentary film Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind. Citing his work, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2017.

Lightfoot won a competition for boys whose voices had not yet changed. Afterward, he made his first appearance at Massey Hall in Toronto at 12 years of age. He went to Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute (ODCVI).

Furthermore, Gordon was also an accomplished high school track-and-field competitor and set school records for shot put and pole vault. Afterward, he joined McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. He also enrolled at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.

Gordon Lightfoot Net Worth

Lightfoot has an estimated Net Worth of $30 Million

Gordon Lightfoot Sundown

Sundown is the tenth original album by Gordon Lightfoot released in 1974 on the Reprise Records label. The album reached #1 in the US on the pop chart, the only Lightfoot album to achieve this. The album has 10 songs;

Gordon Lightfoot Songs

• High and Dry
• Seven Island Suite
• Circle of Steel
• Is There Anyone Home?
• The Watchman’s Gone
• Sundown
• Carefree Highway
• The List
• Too Late For Prayin’
• 10 Degrees And Getting Colder
• 14 Karat Gold
• A Lesson In Love

Gordon Lightfoot Awards

• Canadian Music Hall of Fame
• Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year
• Juno Award for Folk Artist of the Year
• Juno Award for Best Male Artist
• Juno Award for Folk Album of the Year
• ASCAP Awards
• Five Grammy Awards
• Vanier Award

Gordon Lightfoot Height and Weight

Lightfoot stands tall at a height of 6 feet (1.83 m) and has an average body weigh

Gordon Lightfoot Family

Lightfoot was born to Jessie Vick Trill and Gordon Lightfoot, Sr. His father owned and managed a local dry cleaning firm while his mother recognized Lightfoot’s musical talent early on and schooled him into a successful child performer. He was raised up along with his late sister sibling, Beverley Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot Education

Lightfoot weenrolled at Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute (ODCVI) where he performed extensively and taught himself to play folk guitar. He as well an accomplished high school track-and-field competitor and set school records for shot put and pole vault.

He then joined McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and later the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music where he studied jazz composition and orchestration for two years at Hollywood’s Westlake College of Music.

Gordon Lightfoot Wife

Lightfoot has married three times, he is currently married to Kim Hasse. The duotied the knot in 2014 in Toronto, Canada. He was previously married to his second wife Elizabeth Moon with whom he had two children; Miles and Meredith.

The duo later divorced in 2011 after a nine years separation. Before that, he was was married to Brita Ingegerd Olaisson, with whom he had two children, Fred and Ingrid the duo later divorced in 1973, the marriage ending in part because of his infidelity.

Gordon Lightfoot Children

Lightfoot has six children, he had two children; Miles and Meredith with his second wife Elizabeth Moon. He had another two from his first marriage to Brita Ingegerd Olaisson namely; Fred and Ingrid. H e as well has two other children, Gaylen McGee and Eric Lightfoot from relationships between his first and second marriages.