John Fogerty

What strikes me about John Fogerty is how a kid from Berkeley conjured the sound of the Louisiana bayou so convincingly. With Creedence Clearwater Revival he wrote a string of songs that feel less composed than excavated, as if they were always part of the American landscape. That gravelly voice and lean, swampy guitar carry an honesty most polished rock never reaches. Decades on, he is still performing and still fighting for the catalog he created, and I respect that stubborn devotion. For me Fogerty is not about the Hall of Fame plaque; he is proof that a song can sound like a place you have never been yet somehow remember.

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Name (English)

John Fogerty

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・フォガティ

Reading

じょん・ふぉがてぃ

Born

May 28, 1945 (age 81)

Origin

Berkeley, California, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / songwriter / composer / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://johnfogerty.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/johnfogerty/
• Xhttps://x.com/John_Fogerty
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fogerty
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%AC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326538

Tags

• California
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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