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Biography
Infobox person| name = Jesse Colin Young| image =| image_size = 145px| caption = Jesse Colin Young - Live Performance| birth_date = Birth date and age|1941|11|22|mf=y| birth_place = Queens , New York | death_date =| death_place =| occupation = lead vocalist , guitarist , Solo & Celtic Mambo | spouse = Connie Jesse Colin Young (born Perry Miller; November 22, 1941cite web|url= http://www.jessecolinyoung.com/personal.htm|title=Jesse Colin Young - Official website|publisher=jessecolinyoung.com|accessdate=2011-02-01) is an United States|American singer / songwriter / folksinger and a founding member of the group The Youngbloods .
Early life
Young was born and raised in Queens , New York City . His mother was a violinist and his father was an accountant with a strong interest in classical music. At the age of 15 years old, Young received a scholarship to the Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts and was later expelled.cite web | url = http://www.jessecolinyoung.com/downloads/jcy_bio.pdf | title = Jesse Colin Young: a biography | author =jessecolinyoung.com| accessdate = 2011-02-14
Career
During the 1960s, while living in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan , Young released two solo albums, The Soul of a City Boy and Young Blood . He then formed the group called The Youngbloods which included guitarist Jerry Corbitt, keyboardist/guitarist Lowell "Banana" Levinger, and drummer Joe Bauer. Their first album contained the song " Get Together (Chet Powers song)|Get Together ", written by Chet Powers , which was re-released as a single in 1969 and used as an advertising theme for television. Young and his band, the Youngbloods, founded a record label called Raccoon Records , and released four additional albums. http://www.bluedesert.dk/colinyoung.html Jesse Colin Young Bio at Blue Desert Records, Retrieved March 4, 2011
Young left the group in 1972 and released a solo album called Together (Jesse Colin Young album)|Together . His fourth solo album, Song for Juli , had four singles and remained on the Billboard Top 200 chart for several months. In 1978, Jesse recorded the album American Dreams , which was followed by the album The Perfect Stranger in 1982. In 1987 he released the album The Highway Is for Heroes . http://www.bluedesert.dk/colinyoung.html Jesse Colin YoungBio at Blue Desert Records, Retrieved March 4, 2011
He continued touring and re-formed the Youngbloods band for a time before going back to a solo recording career in 1987. He has since begun re-issuing older material.
In 1993 he began his own recording company called Ridgetop Music .
Personal
In September 1979 Young performed in the "No Nukes" concert.
His recording studio and house in Inverness, California , were destroyed in the Mount Vision fire in 1995.cite news | title = Residents return to find homes lost, homes saved | work = San Francisco Chronicle | author = Eric Brazil | date = 1995-10-05 | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/e/a/1995/10/05/NEWS5112.dtl Young, his wife, Connie, and their two children spent the next ten years living in Hawaii , where they maintained a coffee plantation. In 2006, Young moved his family to South Carolina .
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Persondata | NAME = Young, Jesse Colin | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American musician | DATE OF BIRTH = November 22, 1941 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Queens , New York | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Young, Jesse Colin Category:American bass guitarists Category:American folk singers Category:Mercury Records artists Category:1941 births Category:Living people
