Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft-rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, Washington in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, California when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late 1960's he was based in Pasadena, studying at ~Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of "Danny's Song", a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina.