From another site.

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Canadian Music Icon, Gordon Lighfoot has died.

Lightfoot who played Sault Ste. Marie last year and who's career has span over 6 decades passed away today confirms a friend close to the singer songwriter.

Gordon Lightfoot was born on November 17, 1938 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. His parents recognized and encouraged his interest in music; his first appearance At Massey Hall in Toronto, now a revered standard in his tour schedule, was just before he turned 13, as the winner of a competition for boys with unchanged voices according to a published biography on the entertainer.
Source:http://www.soonews.ca

(copy-pasted from the link from Alanabit. -Joe Offer-