Jackson Browne
Known For
Acting
Born
1948-10-09 in Heidelberg, Germany
Biography
Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta "Berbie" Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany; and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three, Browne and his family moved to his grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino, in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens, he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Jackson Browne (voice)
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
Austin City Limits
as Self
Rockpalast
as Self (piano guitar vocal)
Trudell
as Self - Singer, Songwriter
Rock Concert
as Self
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
as Jackson Browne
Soundstage
The Max Headroom Show
as Self
Laurel Canyon
as Self
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
as Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
as Self
Troubadours
as Self
History of the Eagles
as Self
Jackson Browne: Going Home
as Himself
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Backing Vocals
The Velvet Underground
as Self
Echo in the Canyon
as Self
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
as Self