| Click here for the latest news!Exclusive audio from Christmas in Washington (2004) Click hereCheck out exclusive content in the KL Connection (Kenny Loggins Fan Club) web site!Find it at your local Target store, or purchase online from Target.Unity Telethon, airing Saturday, December 15th on Cox Cable in Santa Barbara.October 14, 2007 Kenny Loggins will be performing a benefit concert for The Waldorf Learning Center of North Kohala.Neal, the Wilkinsons, Keith Urban, the Wreckers ...Jay Leno, David Letterman, and the CMA Awards, and is currently on tour with Kenny Loggins.August 24, 2007 Oleta Adams visited us backstage!This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.Please improve this article if you can.Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948 in Everett, Washington) is an American singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s.Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina, he has also recorded as solo artist and written hit songs for other artists.Biography
Loggins was born in Everett, Washington and raised in Alhambra, California.An early version of "Danny's Song" (later recorded by Loggins and Messina) was included on this effort on Mercury Records.Two covers are featured as well, Jackson Browne's "These Days" and "Don't Try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" which was made famous by Long John Baldry.Loggins also wrote the song "What a Fool Believes" with Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.In the 1990s, Loggins continued his album career, including the popular 1994 children's album, Return to Pooh Corner, which included the title single, a reworking of "House at Pooh Corner", his top 40 hit from 1969 with an added verse and backing vocals by Amy Grant.In 1991, Loggins recorded and produced Leap of Faith, an important album in his career featuring the hit "Conviction of the Heart."On Earth Day in 1995, Loggins performed at The National Mall in Washington, D.They had two children together.The oldest is named Crosby Loggins who cut his first CD in 2007 entitled We All Go Home.In 2005, Loggins reconnected with Jim Messina.Kenny Loggins Inducted Into RockWalk.Trivia:
Unoffically know as "The King of Movie Soundtracks".Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.American Idol (USA: new title) ...American Idol 3 (USA) ...RV: Runaway Vacation (Australia) (UK) ...Fast Times at Ridgemont High (International: English title: informal short title) (UK: video title) ...Actor:1990s1980s1970sLive by Request: Kenny Loggins (1997) (TV) ....PerformerKenny Loggins: Outside from the Redwoods (1994) (TV) ....SNL (USA: informal title) ...SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) ...Saturday Night (USA: second season title) ...Kenny Loggins (1982) TV episode ....Episode dated 26 April 2005 (2005) TV episode ....American Idol 2 (USA: promotional title) ...American Idol 3 (USA) ...Auditions: Las Vegas (2005) TV episode ....HimselfDanger Zone: The Making of 'Top Gun' (2004) (V) ....Concert: Songs from the Movies (2003) (TV) ....Dying the Knot (1999) TV episode ....HimselfThe Chipmunks: Rockin' Through the Decades (1990) (TV) ....Rockin' with the Chipmunks (USA: video title) The 17th Annual American Music Awards (1990) (TV) ....HimselfThe 29th Annual Grammy Awards (1987) (TV) ....PresenterDisneyland's Summer Vacation Party (1986) (TV) ....HimselfWe Are the World (1985) (TV) ....NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title) ...HimselfThe 11th Annual American Music Awards (1984) (TV) ....PresenterThe 24th Annual Grammy Awards (1982) (TV) The 23rd Annual Grammy Awards (1981) (TV) ....What Do You Guys think about 'Love Will Follow'?With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.Internet Movie Database Inc.Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.You have no recently viewed items or searches.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.Do you know something we don't?Producers: Kenny Loggins, Terry Nelson, David Pack.Courage is always rewarded.It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.Julia taught me that Spirit gives us nothing we're not ready for.So I passed on their offer.Julia is defining a new feminism.It's the power of the open heart.And its ok to be sexual.Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.That's when you really trust to the maximum.We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.That's an old saying I just made up.The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite.This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing.What had been running me was this program that 'You run as fast as you can and when you stop running, your life comes apart and you die.Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children.You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.The youngest of three boys, he was born seven years to the day after his oldest brother, Robert.His father, a traveling salesman, moved the family from Washington to Detroit and back again, before settling in Alhambra, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.Kenny went to a Catholic school where he kept a low profile.His middle brother, Dan, taught him to sing harmonies, and later, Kenny learned to play guitar.As a teen, he started playing clubs in California.It was here that Kenny met Jim Messina, who had just the month before, retired from his band, "Poco".In November of 1970, Messina, who was now an independent producer for ABC Dunhill, interviewed Loggins as a songwriter.The first album was entitled "Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin' In."Their hit singles, included "Your Mama Don't Dance", "Watching The River Run", "Danny's Song", "Love Song", and many others.However, due to creative differences, the pair split in 1976 and both Kenny and Jim set out on solo careers.Kenny's first three solo albums, "Celebrate Me Home," "Nightwatch," and "Keep The Fire" all went platinum.The following year "This is It" took the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal, followed by The Top 20 hit "Don't Fight It", a collaboration with Journey singer Steve Perry."Footloose", he reached his commercial peak with the soundtrack of the Tom Cruise movie, "Top Gun" in 1986.Top 10 hit, "Nobody's Fool"."Vox Humana" was certified gold.In that same year, "Footloose" was nominated for an Academy Award.His 1991 album, "Leap of Faith," spawned four Top 5 Adult Contemporary singles.Kenny's popularity waned a bit at the end of the decade and he managed only a minor hit with "Conviction Of The Heart" in 1991, taken from his 'divorce' album, "Leap Of Faith".In 1993, Kenny released his first live album in twelve years, "Outside From the Redwoods."It won in the categories of Outstanding Achievement in Writing (Special Class) and Outstanding Original Song for "This Island Earth."Vice President Al Gore declared the song as the unofficial anthem of the environmental movement.Earth Day concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.He realized that he might be the one to make such a record when he noticed that his last album, "Leap of Faith," was capturing the attention of young children as well as adults.And my sense was that there was something happening in my music that was resonating with children as well as adults.Making "Return To Pooh Corner", which he describes as "music to enjoy children by," had a profound effect on Kenny."Here are the songs that I sing to my children...In this same year, he released "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", a compilation of 14 of his greatest hits as a solo artist, and "The Unimaginable Life", an album sharing the same title as a book he wrote and published simultaneously with his wife Julia.In February, 2001, Kenny's second children's album, "More Songs From Pooh Corner" was nominated for a Grammy Award, but lost to "Woody's Roundup", by Riders In The Sky.Messina Sittin' in Again Reunion Tour".Kenny told the press, "I remembered who we were.CLASSIC TRIVIA:
Kenny's second cousin, Dave Loggins had a hit record with "Please Come To Boston" in 1974. |
