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Donovan owes him his first appearance, in 1965, on the TV show “Ready, Steady, Go” that made him known to the general public.Īfter this performance, his first single “Catch the Wind” (1965) was released, which soon appeared in the top five in the UK charts.

Donovan became friends with many musicians such as Derroll Adams, who has had a great influence on him too, and whose quotes and other references in music are common in his songs. Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Ramblin ‘Jack Elliott are among the influences that nourished his musical culture. The family moved to Hertfordshire, England, where he learned to play the guitar at the age of fourteen. To begin with, the boy was raised in Maryhill by his mother, Winifred and his father, Donald Leitch. Music is the main source of Donovan’s fortune.

How much is the net worth of Donovan? It has been calculated by authoritative sources that the outright size of his wealth is as much as $10 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017. Donovan has been active in the entertainment industry since 1964. Donovan Phillips Leitch was born on the 10th May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, and is a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist, who emerged in the middle of the 1960s as a folk singer, which earned him the nickname of the British Bob Dylan, but he soon became one of the greatest representatives of the psychedelic era in the late 1960s.
