Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr. He was A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley.
Nash was married three times, and had two children. Oct 6, pm PT. By Chris Willman Plus Icon. See All. More From Our Brands. Expand the sub menu Film. Expand the sub menu TV. Expand the sub menu What To Watch. Expand the sub menu Music. Inspired by the new possibilities, in he wrote You Got Soul, a fine, fully-fledged rock-steady tune that was issued in the UK by Trojan Records and reached No 5 in the singles charts.
In Nash was invited to Sweden to write the soundtrack for a film, Love is Not a Game, in which he also acted opposite Christina Schollin. Nash took Marley and Sims with him, and they were away from Jamaica for the best part of a year. The film was a damp squib — it had only a brief run in Sweden in and plans to release the soundtrack as an album were ditched. The album, and its title track in particular, established Nash as a household name.
As it turned out, Nash had essentially begun to abandon the music business by the time Marley came to global attention. Nash, also an actor and producer, was among the first artists to bring reggae to US audiences. Born John Lester Nash Jnr, he grew up singing in church and by age 13 had his own show on Houston television. Mash also had roles in the films Take a Giant Step, in which he starred as a high school student rebelling against how the Civil War is taught, and Key Witness, a crime drama starring Dennis Hopper and Jeffrey Hunter.
It also turned up everywhere from Thelma and Louise to a Windex commercial, and in recent years was often referred to on websites about cataract procedures.
He rarely made the charts in the following years, even as he released such albums as Tears On My Pillow and Celebrate Life, and by the s had essentially left the music business.
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