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He was born in Roswell (New Mexico).
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He got into the world of music when his grandmother gave him his first guitar when he was 12 years old,(1910 Gibson acoustic guitar).
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He dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles, California to join the Chad Mitchell Trio, a folk group.
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He left the group, then known as Denver, Boise and Johnson,to start a solo career.
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This year he released his first LP, (Rhymes and Reasons). For the next four years (1969-1973), he established himself as a star of the popular American song.
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He had a minor career as an actor. His most notable film-was "Oh, God!".
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John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. He recorded other specials.
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Denver was also very interested in the causes and solutions of hunger, and visited Africa to witness first hand the suffering caused by hunger and also to work with African leaders to find a solution.
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He also founded his own environmental group called Windstar Foundation.
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He helped create the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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He was presented together with the tenor Plácido Domingo
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He recorded other specials with dolls John Denver and the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday.
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Denver testified along with Frank Zappa and Dee Snider on a censorship issue at a PMRC hearing.
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He appeared at the XXVI International Song Festival of Viña del Mar (Chile) and caused a great success in that country.
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He was presented in China, the Soviet Union and in the recently devastated Chernobyl. The effort of Denver to strengthen ties between the opposing powers in the Cold War led him to record a song against the arms race together with the Soviet singer Alexandre Gradsky, the first time the regime allowed something similar.
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John Denver traveled even further to appear in China.
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He wrote an autobiography titled "Take Me Home".
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He sang in Vietnam, being the first time that an American artist sang after the Vietnam War.
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He was recording an episode of (Nature Series), focused on natural wonders, the inspiration of his most beloved songs. The result is a moving and melodic film that records his last trips into the wilderness and contains his latest song "Yellowstone, Coming Home," composed while navigating the Colorado River with his son and young daughter.
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As an experienced pilot, Denver had its own Learjet, gliders and flew on aerobatic planes and sometimes on an F-15. This passion for the air cost Denver his life when he fell into the sea in his recently acquired Rutan Long-EZ (N555JD) on.
