Jackson Browne

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 Brownes 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 grandfathers 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 GermanAmerican singersongwriter 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 Somebodys 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