David Cassidy

David Cassidy fascinates me as a case study in fame arriving too big and too early. As Keith Partridge he became, for a stretch, the highest-paid entertainer on earth, adored with an intensity that predates and arguably predicts modern fandom culture. Yet I always sensed a serious musician trapped inside the poster, a singer-songwriter who spent decades trying to be heard over the screaming. His voice had a genuine sweetness that the teen-idol machinery both amplified and cheapened. When he died in 2017, I felt the 1970s lose one of their defining faces, and pop history gain a cautionary, oddly moving chapter.

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Name (English)

David Cassidy

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・キャシディ

Reading

でゔぃっど・きゃしでぃ

Born

April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / singer-songwriter / television actor / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

High school

University High School

University

University High School

• Official sitehttps://www.davidcassidy.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cassidy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457306

Tags

• New York
• actor
• singer
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.