(CNN) –– Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has died at the age of 84, his spokeswoman Victoria Lord told CNN.
Gordon died of natural causes at 7:30 pm Monday at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Lord added.
On April 11, Lightfoot canceled his 2023 US and Canadian concert schedule due to “health related issues,” according to a Facebook post.
Lightfoot rose to fame on the US charts in 1970 with the song “If You Could Read My Mind”. That track also led to the artist receiving his second of four Grammy nominations, for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.
His 1976 ballad about the sinking of a freighter in the Great Lakes, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Other hits include “Carefree Highway” and “Sundown.”
(CNN) –– Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has died at the age of 84, his spokeswoman Victoria Lord told CNN.
Gordon died of natural causes at 7:30 pm Monday at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Lord added.
On April 11, Lightfoot canceled his 2023 US and Canadian concert schedule due to “health related issues,” according to a Facebook post.
Lightfoot rose to fame on the US charts in 1970 with the song “If You Could Read My Mind”. That track also led to the artist receiving his second of four Grammy nominations, for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.
His 1976 ballad about the sinking of a freighter in the Great Lakes, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Other hits include “Carefree Highway” and “Sundown.”
