Gordon may refer to:

People[link]

• Charles George Gordon, Major-General (Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum)
• Gordan, variant of Gordon
• Gorden, variant of Gordon
• Gordon (given name), the masculine given name
  • Gord, a short form of the name
  • Gordie, another version of the name
• Gordon (name), the surname
• Clan Gordon
• A soldier enlisted in the British Gordon Highlanders infantry regiment

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Gordon, Australian Capital Territory
• Gordon, New South Wales
• Gordon, Victoria
• Gordon River, Tasmania

Canada[link]

• Gordon, Ontario, Canada

Scotland[link]

• Gordon (district), Aberdeenshire, forming a local government district from 1975 to 1996
• Gordon, Scottish Borders, Berwickshire (now the Scottish Borders council area)
• Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency), Scotland
• Gordon (UK Parliament constituency), Scotland
• Gordon Castle, Moray

United States[link]

• Gordon, Alabama
• Gordon, California
• Gordon, Georgia
• Gordon, Nebraska
• Gordon, Ohio
• Gordon, Pennsylvania
• Gordon, Texas
• Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin, a town
• Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin, a town
• Gordon (CDP), Wisconsin, a census-designated place
• Gordon County, Georgia
• Gordon Heights, New York
• Gordon Township, Minnesota

Education[link]

• Gordon College (Georgia), a public college in Barnesville, Georgia
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts
• Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales

Other uses[link]

• Gordon (album), first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
• Gordon model, stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
• Gordon RFC, Sydney rugby union club
• Gordon the Big Engine, from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends series
• Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation), the name of several Atlantic hurricanes
• Gordon Shumway, the true name of the protagonist on the TV series ALF
• Fairey Gordon, a British light bomber of the 1930s-1940s
• Gordon (printing press), a common model of open platten printing press.

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Diana "Wynter" Gordon (born August 25, 1985 in South Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs. Her debut With the Music I Die was released in 2011.

Early life[link]

Gordon was born in Queens, New York City and was brought up in a poor and dangerous neighborhood in South Jamaica. She is the middle child of six, they lived in a two bedroom house.^[1] She recalled in an interview that many people she knew were deceased at a young age, because they "got into the wrong things".^[1] However, she refused to call her childhood difficult, she said that "if things were rough, I didn't feel it," explaining that the familiarity of the environment that she grew up in prevented her from objectively describing it.^[1] She attributed her well being to her strict mother who did not allow her to leave the yard and told her to go to the library after school.^[1] Her mother remarried when Gordon was 5, but Gordon did not have a close relationship with her step father.^[2] Her strict upbringing resulted in a strained relationship with her parents.^[2]

Gordon began singing at a young age and she began singing at funerals from the age of 6.^[1] She and her siblings would perform together in church and at street corners by her parents.^[2] They were strict about the music that Gordon and her siblings sang, only allowing them to listen to and sing gospel.^[2] However, Gordon would listen to the radio when her parents were not at home and recorded songs from the radio onto tapes that she smuggled into the house.^[2] It was during high school that Gordon decided that she was going to pursue music.^[3] She was later accepted to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts^[2] and interned at a record company.^[3] Gordon wrote her first complete song, "Daddy's Song" at age 15.^[3]

Career[link]

2005–08: Career beginnings[link]

After high school, Wynter threw herself fully into realizing her music dreams, while also dealing with surviving on her own for the first time. She juggled several jobs while working in the studio at nights and as much as she could. During this time, Wynter met her manager, Keith White who introduced her to Don Pooh at Atlantic Records. Wynter worked closely with producer D'Mile since 2004 where they both came with her first track to fame, "Gonna Breakthrough" written by Wynter Gordon and produced by D'Mile was used as the title track to Mary J. Blige's 2005 album The Breakthrough. Soon after, Wynter was given an opportunity and signed to Atlantic Records, through Don Pooh Music Group, where she has been working on her debut album since 2004. Also, in 2008, Wynter penned two tracks for Danity Kane's second album Welcome to the Dollhouse, "2 of You" and "Do Me Good".

[edit] 2009–present: With the Music I Die and New Recordings

Wynter co-wrote the single "Sugar", a track that she was featured on with Flo Rida on his album R.O.O.T.S. (2009) after laying down a reference vocal.^[4] The track became an international hit and peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. Wynter also co-wrote and sang on the dance track "Toyfriend" from French DJ David Guetta's album One Love (2009). She worked closely with Jennifer Lopez, writing four tracks including "What Is Love", "What Is Love Part II", "Starting Over" and "Everybody's Girl" for her seventh studio album Love? (2011). Wynter is also writing for artists including Adrienne Bailon, Estelle & Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester.^[4]

She released her debut album, With the Music I Die, on June 17, 2011 in Australia. The first single from the album, "Dirty Talk" topped the US (Billboard) Hot Dance Club Songs and the Australian Singles Chart, and was certified 3x Platinum, The song was released in the UK and Ireland on 18 February 2011 where it peaked eight in Ireland and 25 in the UK. The song spent a total on eleven weeks inside the Top 40.^[5] The second single, "Til Death" has currently peaked on the Australian Singles Chart at 16 and number 3 on the US Dance Chart. She opened for Patrick Stump's second US tour in August and September. "Buy My Love" was released as the third single from "With The Music I Die".

Wynter announced via Twitter that she has already recorded some songs and hinted at her second studio album.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Extended plays[link]

Singles[link]

Promotional singles[link]

As a featured artist[link]

Other appearances[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot Interlochen, Michigan (2009)
Background information
Birth name	Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr.
Born	(1938-11-17) November 17, 1938 (age 73) Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Folk, Folk Rock, country, pop
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	1950–present
Labels	United Artists Reprise Warner Bros. Linus

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC OOnt (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter^[1] and internationally as a folk-rock legend.^[2]

Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country charts^[3] with Marty Robbins' cover in 1965— and the 1967 Detroit riot-generated "Black Day In July" brought him international recognition in the 1960s. He experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the Number 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One". Lightfoot's recordings then made an impact on the international music charts as well in the 1970s, with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970) (Number 5 on the US charts), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), all reaching number 1, and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976) (reaching number 2).^[4]

Some of Lightfoot's albums have achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally. His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., The Kingston Trio, Marty Robbins, George Hamilton IV, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Viola Wills, Richie Havens, The Dandy Warhols, Harry Belafonte, Tony Rice, Sandy Denny (with Fotheringay), The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Scott Walker, Sarah McLachlan, John Mellencamp, Toby Keith, Peter, Paul and Mary, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, and Olivia Newton-John.

Robbie Robertson of The Band declared that Lightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absolutely a national treasure."^[5] Bob Dylan, also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favourite songwriters, and in an often-quoted tribute to his fellow songwriter, Dylan once observed that when he heard a Gordon Lightfoot song he wished "it would last forever."^[6] Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (arts) in 1979,^[7] and the Companion of the Order of Canada—Canada's highest civilian honor — in 2003.^[8] On February 6, 2012, Lightfoot was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Early years[link]