Guy Clark – Bio, Net Worth, Height
| contour: | Guy Clark |
|---|---|
| Age of death: | 74 years old |
| high: | 6 ft 1 in (186 cm) |
| Profession: | singer |
| net worth: | to do |
| status: | deceased |
origin
Guy Charles Clark is a Grammy-winning country/folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is known for hits such as “Desperados Waiting for a Train” and “Texas, 1947.” Clark was born on November 6, 1941 in Monaghans, Texas. He was mainly raised by his grandmother. His father was a World War II veteran who later became a lawyer. Clark excelled in literature and sports in high school. He eventually learned to play and build guitar.
Profession
Clark became a member of the Peace Corps in 1963. He later moved to Houston, where he survived by repairing guitars and performing at local venues. He met songwriter “Townes Van Zandt”, with whom he worked until his death in 1997. Clark moved to California in the late 1960s and then to Nashville in 1971. He signed a recording contract with RCA and signed his debut studio album, Old No. 1, released in 1975. The album peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Country chart and featured the single “LA Freeway”. In 1976 he released his second album for RCA ‘Texas Cookin’.
Clark later signed with Warner Bros. and released three albums, Guy Clark (1978), Texas South Coast (1981) and Better Days (1983). He has worked with several other labels including Sugar Hill Records, Asylum Records and Dualtone Records. His latest album, My Favorite Pictures of You, was released in July 2013. The album reached number five on the American Folk Albums chart and won a Grammy for Best Folk Album. Many of Clark’s songs have been covered by artists such as Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, and Jerry Jeff Walker. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. He also received the AMA Songwriting Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
personal
Guy Clark passed away on May 17, 2016 at the age of 74. His official cause of death has not been disclosed. However, he was a heavy smoker and had been battling cancer for years. Clark was married to singer-painter “Suzanne” in 1972 until her death in 2012. She died of lung cancer.
Photo by William Wallace [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Guy Clark real name, birthday, wiki
| real name: | Guy Charles Clark |
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| Birthday: | November 6, 1941 |
| place of birth: | United StatesTexasMonaghans |
| Zodiac: | Scorpio |
| high: | 6 ft 1 in (186 cm) |
| Profession: | Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist |
| Active for several years: | 1970-2016 |
| net worth: | |
| marriage: | Susannah Clark |
| Death instrument: | dead |
| die: | May 17, 2016 |
| cause of death: | unpublished |
| place of death: | Austin, Texas |
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