JOHNNY NASH 'I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW' SINGER DEAD AT 80

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JOHNNY NASH
'I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW' SINGER DEAD AT 80

10/6/2020 4:46 PM PT




Johnny Nash, the guy who sang the incredibly happy and infectious
1970s #1 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now," has died.

The singer's son tells TMZ ... Johnny was at home Tuesday when
he passed away of natural causes. No word on cause of death yet.

Johnny was born in Houston and made his debut as a major label
artist in 1957 with the single, "A Teenager Sings the Blues."
However, it was his reggae-tinged hit that topped the charts in
November of 1972, and stayed there for 4 weeks.

Nash sold more than 1 million copies of the single, and it made him
an international star, especially in Jamaica ... where he became one
of the first non-Jamaican singers to record reggae on the island.

While he might go down in music history as a one-hit wonder, what
a smash. "I Can See Clearly Now" has been covered numerous times
after Johnny. A couple of those covers even reached the top 20 -- the
most recent one being Jimmy Cliff's 1993 version for the
"Cool Runnings" soundtrack.

His son, John Nash III, tells us, "He was a wonderful father and family
man. He loved people and the world. He will be missed within his
community. Family was his everything."

Johnny was 80.

RIP