He performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs. In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles.
One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned. His cause of death was not immediately available. Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. TORONTO (AP) - Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday.
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