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Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne

Birthday: 1948-10-09 | Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany

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".

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Laurel Canyon

as    Self

2020
2019
David Crosby: Remember My Name

as    Himself (archive footage)

2012
Jackson Browne with Special Guest Sara Watkins Live

as    Himself - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano

2011
Troubadours

as    Self

2008
Talking Guitars

as    himself

1994
Jackson Browne: Going Home

as    Himself

1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

as    Self - Backing Vocals

1980
No Nukes

as    Self