Erik Pedersen Managing EditorJohnny Nash, the angel-voiced reggae-pop singer-songwriter who had U.S. hits with “I Can See Clearly Now,” “Stir It Up” and “Hold Me Tight,” died Tuesday at his home in Houston.
He was 80. No cause of death was revealed.Nash scored a pop smash in 1972 with his self-penned “I Can See Clearly Now,” which spent a month at No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He followed up that success with a cover of reggae legend Bob Marley’s “Stir It Up” that just missed the top 10.
Nash’s first big pop hit was “Hold Me Tight,” which reached No. 5 in 1968.He first started hitting the U.S. pop charts in the late 1950s, with “A Very Special Love” and “The Teen Commandments” reaching the top 30.
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