Gordon Lightfoot

**Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.** CC OOnt (17 ga Nuwamba, 1938 - 1 ga Mayu, 2023) ya kasance mawaƙi-marubucin Kanada wanda ya sami nasara a duniya kuma ya taimaka wajen bayyana zamanin mawaƙa-marubi na shekarun 1970s. An dauke shi daya daga cikin manyan mawaƙa na Kanada,  yana da kundin zinariya da platinum da yawa,  kuma yawancin shahararrun mawaƙa na duniya sun rufe waƙoƙinsa.  Mawallafin tarihin Lightfoot Nicholas Jennings ya rubuta, "Sunansa yana da alaƙa da waƙoƙi marasa lokaci game da jiragen ƙasa da fashewar jiragen ruwa, koguna da manyan hanyoyi, masoya da kaɗaici. "

Rufe waƙoƙin Lightfoot ta wasu ayyukan, ciki har da "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Home From The Forest", da kuma "Ribbon of Darkness", lambar da ta fi bugawa a kan jadawalin ƙasar Amurka  ga Marty Robbins, ya kawo masa karbuwa daga tsakiyar shekarun 1960. Nasarar jadawalin tare da rikodin kansa ya fara ne a Kanada a 1962 tare da No. 3 buga " (Ka tuna da Ni) Ni Ɗaya ne" kuma ya haifar da jerin manyan abubuwan da suka faru a gida da waje a cikin shekarun 1970s. Ya hau kan US Hot 100 ko Adult Contemporary (AC)  ginshiƙi tare da "Idan Kuna iya Karanta Zuciyata" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), da kuma "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). 

Robbie Robertson na Band ya bayyana Lightfoot a matsayin "dukiyar ƙasa".[1] Bob Dylan ya ce, "Ba zan iya tunanin kowane waƙar Gordon Lightfoot da ba na so. Kowace lokacin da na ji waƙarsa, kamar ina fatan zai kasance har abada. " Lightfoot shine mai wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa a bikin buɗewa na Wasannin Olympics na hunturu na 1988 kuma ya sami girmamawa da kyaututtuka da yawa yayin aikinsa.

## Rayuwa ta farko, iyali da ilimi
An haifi Lightfoot a Orillia, Ontario, a ranar 17 ga Nuwamba, 1938,  ga Jessie Vick Trill Lightfoot da Gordon Lightfoot Sr.,  wanda ke da kasuwancin tsaftacewa na gida.  Ya fito ne daga zuriyar Scotland. Yana da 'yar'uwa babba, Beverley (1935-2017).  Mahaifiyarsa ta gane kwarewar kiɗa ta Lightfoot tun da wuri kuma ta koya masa ya zama mai wasan kwaikwayo na yaro mai cin nasara. Ya fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a fili a aji na huɗu, yana raira waƙar Irish-American "Too Ra Loo Ra Ral", wanda aka watsa shi a kan tsarin adireshin jama'a na makarantarsa  a lokacin taron ranar iyaye. 

Yayinda yake matashi, ya raira waƙa a cikin mawaƙa na Ikilisiyar St. Paul ta Orillia a ƙarƙashin jagorancin mai kula da mawaƙa Ray Williams . Lightfoot ya yaba wa Williams da koya masa ya raira waƙa da motsin rai da kuma samun amincewa da muryarsa. Lightfoot yaro ne soprano; ya bayyana lokaci-lokaci a gidan rediyo na Orillia, ya yi a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na gida da oratorios, kuma ya sami bayyanar ta hanyar bukukuwan kiɗa daban-daban na Kiwanis. A lokacin da yake da shekaru goma sha biyu, bayan ya lashe gasar ga yara maza waɗanda muryoyin su ba su canza ba tukuna, ya fara fitowa a Massey Hall a Toronto, wurin da zai yi wasa sama da sau 170 a duk lokacin da yake aiki.

Yayinda yake matashi, Lightfoot ya koyi piano kuma ya koya wa kansa yin amfani da kara da kara. Ya yi raye-raye a Muskoka, wani wurin shakatawa a arewacin Orillia, yana raira waƙa "don wasu giya". Lightfoot ya yi aiki sosai a duk makarantar sakandare, Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute (ODCVI), kuma ya koya wa kansa yin wasa da guitar. Wani tasiri mai mahimmanci a kan kiɗansa a wannan lokacin shine marubucin waƙoƙin Amurka na ƙarni na 19 Stephen Foster . 

Lightfoot ya koma Los Angeles a shekara ta 1958 don nazarin abun da ke cikin jazz da kuma shirya waƙoƙi na tsawon shekaru biyu a Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Westlake . 

## Ayyuka

### Farko
Don tallafa wa kansa yayin da yake California, Lightfoot ya raira waƙa a kan rikodin zanga-zangar kuma ya rubuta, ya shirya, kuma ya samar da jingles na kasuwanci. Daga cikin tasirinsa akwai kiɗa na Pete Seeger, Bob Gibson, Ian &amp;amp; Sylvia Tyson, da The Weavers .  Homesick for Toronto, ya koma can a cikin 1960  kuma ya zauna a Kanada bayan haka, kodayake wasu daga cikin rikodin sa da yawancin yawon shakatawa an yi su ne a Amurka. 

Bayan ya dawo Kanada, Lightfoot ya yi tare da Singin 'Swinging' Eight, ƙungiyar da aka nuna a jerin shirye-shiryen CBC na Country Hoedown, da kuma Gino Silvi Singers. Ba da daɗewa ba ya zama sananne a gidajen kofi na Toronto. A cikin 1961, Lightfoot ya fitar da mutane biyu, dukansu an rubuta su a RCA a Nashville kuma Louis Innis da Art Snider ne suka samar da su,  wadanda suka kasance abubuwan da suka faru a Toronto kuma sun sami wasu airplay a wasu wurare a Kanada da arewa maso gabashin Amurka. " (Ka tuna da ni) Ni Ɗaya ne" ya kai No. 3 a rediyo na CHUM a Toronto a watan Yulin 1962 kuma ya kasance saman 20 a kan CKGM na Montreal, sannan kuma tashar Top 40 ta Kanada mai tasiri sosai.  Ɗaya daga cikin abubuwan da suka biyo baya shine "Negotiations" / "It's Too Late, He Wins"; ya kai No. 27 a kan CHUM a watan Disamba. Ya raira waƙa tare da Terry Whelan a cikin duo da ake kira Two-Tones / Two-Timers . Sun yi rikodin kundin rayuwa, wanda aka saki a 1962, Two-Tones a Village Corner (1962, Chateau CLP-1012). &nbsp;&nbsp;

A cikin shekaru bakwai masu zuwa, ya rubuta jerin kundin da suka kafa shi a matsayin babban mawaƙi-marubucin waƙa:

## Manazarta