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1965–2016. Website. www .danhicks .net. Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, and the leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. His idiosyncratic style combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He is perhaps best known for the songs ...
Hicks has been regularly involved in NBC's Olympic Games coverage. During the Summer Olympics, he is the stroke-by-stroke announcer for swimming, a role he has held since 1996, and was the play-by-play announcer for speed skating for the Winter Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He moved to alpine skiing for the 2014 and 2018 Games, [3] taking ...
Feb 8, 2016 · Daniel Ivan Hicks was born on Dec. 9, 1941, in Little Rock, Ark., the son of Ivan Hicks, a career military man, and the former Evelyn Kehl. His family moved to Santa Rosa, Calif., near San ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Dan Hicks was a genuine American eccentric. A member of influential West Coast group The Charlatans, he was better known for his role as bandleader of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, a vaudeville and ragtime troupe who specialised in what Hicks termed “folk jazz”, albeit with tongue in lugubrious cheek. His best known songs were throwback tunes ...
Feb 9, 2016 · Here’s how it works . Guitarist Dan Hicks, widely acknowledged as one of the defining figures in American roots music, died February 6 at age 74 after a two-year battle with cancer at his home in Mill Valley, California. The fiercely creative singer and songwriter is survived by his wife Clare Hicks and step daughter Sara Wasserman.
Feb 7, 2016 · Dan Hicks was a singer and songwriter who blended folk, jazz, pop, country and blues in his music. He founded the band Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks in the 1960s and had hits like "I Scare Myself" and "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away".
Feb 6, 2016 · The Associated Press. MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Dan Hicks, a musician whose work in the 1960s helped define San Francisco’s psychedelic sound, has died. He was 74. The singer, songwriter and ...
