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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. His songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", "Rainy Day People", and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". His albums list shown below: Lightfoot!, The Way I Feel, Back Here on Earth, Sunday Concert, Sit Down Young Stranger, Summer Side of Life, Don Quixote, Sundown, Cold on the Shoulder, Summertime Dream, Endless Wire, Dream Street Rose, Shadows, Salute, East of Midnight, Waiting for You, A Painter Passing Through, Harmony, and Rhino Hi-Five. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1979 and the Companion of the Order of Canada—Canada's highest civilian honour in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate of music from Lakehead University in 2015.