John Denver
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JOHN DENVER Singer Songwriter Musician Humanitarian
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John Denver. Singer Songwriter Musician Humanitarian. Nicknamed jitterbug because he was always singing Started playing guitar at age 12 Most of his college experience involved making music and sometimes getting paid for it Dropped out of college in 1263 to pursue music. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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JOHN DENVER
Singer
Songwriter
Musician
Humanitarian
HENRY JOHN DEUTSCHENDORF
1943-1997Born December 31 in Roswell New
Mexico
1974 Back Home Again album:
This Old Guitar
His music as in this song is usually acoustic, guitar heavy and void of percussion and fancy extras. He has a beautiful clear-tone, tenor
voice.
Nicknamed jitterbug because he was always singing
Started playing guitar at age 12
Most of his college experience involved making music and sometimes getting paid for it
Dropped out of college in 1263 to pursue music
BIOGRAPHY CONTINUED
“Music does bring people together. It allows us to
experience the same emotions. No matter what language we speak, what
color we are, the form of our politics, or the expression of
our love and faith, music proves we are the same”
~ John Denver
Moved to LA and began performing with the Chad Mitchell Trio
1967 Marries wife Annie (1982 they get divorced)
1969 RCA records signed John
John Denver died in 1977 when an experimental airplane he was driving crashed
JOHN’S MUSIC1969- Rhymes and Reasons
1971-Poems Prayers and Promises
1972-Rocky Mountain High
1973- John Denver’s Greatest Hits
1974- Back Home Again
1975-Windsong
Several more…
1997- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
2007- The Colorado legislature adopts Rocky Mountain High as one of two official Colorado
state songs
CROSSOVER ARTIST: COUNTRY
Country Songs/Style:
Thank God I’m a Country Boy
Country dialect and themes
Classic country instruments
Sincerity in delivery
Clapping
(explain what makes it country)
CROSSOVER ARTIST: FOLK
CONSCIOUSNESS, INSTRUMENT OF
ADVOCACYSofter Protest Songs
It’s About Time
1985- Receives the Distinguished Public Service Medal from NASA
and the Presidential World without hunger award from President
Reagan.
1992- First American artist to preform in communist China.
CROSSOVER ARTIST: INTERESTING
COLLABORATIONSJohn Denver and The Muppets A Christmas Together
Perhaps Love sang with Placido Domingo
Sang Edelweiss on a TV Special with Julie Andrews
BIBLIOGRAPHY"John Denver." Britannica Book of the Year, 1998. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/158108/John-Denver>.
Stansfield, John. John Denver: Man for the World. Palmer Lake: Filter Press, 2008. Print.
John Denver. Red Light Management, 2012. Web. 20 Nov. 2012. <http://johndenver.com>.
