Editing Johnny Nash (section)

{{Short description|American singer (1940–2020)}}
{{About|the singer-songwriter}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Johnny Nash
| image             = Johnny Nash.png
| caption           = Nash in 1965
| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = John Lester Nash Jr.
| alias             = 
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1940|8|19}}
| birth_place       = [[Houston]], Texas, U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2020|10|6|1940|8|19}}
| death_place       = Houston, Texas, U.S.
| origin            = 
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]<ref name="Texas Observer">{{cite web|url=https://www.texasobserver.org/why-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-needs-texan-johnny-nash/|title=Why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Needs Texan Johnny Nash|author=Lomax, John Nova|date=December 29, 2021|publisher=[[Texas Observer]]|accessdate=January 24, 2025}}</ref>|[[jazz]]<ref name="Texas Observer" />|[[soul music|soul]]<ref name="Texas Observer" />|[[reggae]]<ref name="Texas Observer" />}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|actor}}
| years_active      = 1956–2020
| label             = {{hlist|[[Epic Records|Epic]]|[[JAD Records|JAD]]|Cayman Music}}
| website           = {{URL|johnnynash.com}}
}}

'''John Lester Nash Jr.''' (August 19, 1940{{spnd}}October 6, 2020)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/08/johnny-nash-obituary|title=Johnny Nash obituary|access-date=8 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |first=Peter |last=Mason |date=8 October 2020}}</ref> was an American singer and songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "[[I Can See Clearly Now]]".<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |editor=Colin Larkin |editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=Virgin Books |date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=889}}</ref> Primarily a [[reggae]] and [[traditional pop|pop]] singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marley |first1=Rita |last2=Jones |first2=Hettie |title=No Woman No Cry |date=August 19, 2011 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-0-330-54174-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0yjnVzkuPAC |language=en}}</ref>