John Lester Nash Jr. was an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston. He is best known in the U.S. for his 1972 hit ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ Nash was married three times, and had two children.
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John Lester Nash Jr. was an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston. He is best known in the U.S. for his 1972 hit \”I Can See Clearly Now\”. Nash was married three times, and had two children. Nash was also a composer for the Swedish romance film Want So Much Believe, in which he portrayed ‘Robert Marley’ in the movie soundtrack, partly instrumental with Bob Marley and J-composed by Fred Jordan. He died in a car accident in 2011. He had a son and a daughter, both of whom have died in car crashes in the last few years of their lives.
Nash is survived by his wife and two children, all of whom live in the United States. He also has a daughter and a son-in-law, who both live in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, New Mexico, respectively. Nash had a hit in the UK in 1975 with a cover of Sam Cooke’s ‘Wonderful World’ He also had a top five hit in 1965 with a ballad called ‘Let’s Move and Groove Together’ He was also an actor, appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson’s ‘Take a Giant Step’
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