Since the late 1960s, Taylor has written and recorded more than your share of the emblematic songs, "songs like" You have a friend, "" Carolina in My Mind "and" Shower the People.
The singer, who performs Saturday at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, is known for his music, his political activism and personal struggles that inspired much of his early work. But here are six facts you may not know about Taylor:
1. In the 1970s, Taylor and singer Carly Simon was one of the most famous marriages and turbulent rock. According to an interview in the current issue of Time magazine, Simon Taylor saw the photo on the cover of Time in 1971 and told his sister: "I'm going to marry that man," although not yet they had met. A month after they met, married in 1972 and divorced in 1983. Their two children, Ben and Sally, are also musicians.
2. Fans can get free guitar lessons from the website of Taylor. The video lessons show their hands on guitar as he explains chords, finger placement and more while playing such songs as "Country Road" and "Fire and Rain".
3. Their "Greatest Hits by James Taylor" album is one of the 100 best albums of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, with 11 million copies sold. Overall, it has sold 33 million records during his career spanning nearly five decades.
4. Taylor was the first American artist signed to Apple Records label of the Beatles. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1968.
5. In her five Grammys, four were in the pop category, while his most recent, in 2003, prize went to a country song. He won for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for a duet with Alison Krauss, "How's the World of treatment."
6. It is probably no surprise that Taylor is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2000. But it is also a member of numerous other halls of fame, including the Songwriters Hall of Fame, North Carolina Music Hall of Fame and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
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