Chip Taylor · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1940
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Songs from a Dutch tour
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- Total plays
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Chip Taylor (b. January 1, 1940 in New York City) is the stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight noted for writing the song, Wild Thing. Taylor's brothers are the actor, Jon Voight, and the geologist, Barry Voight. He is the uncle of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven. After a hardly successful attempt to become a professional golfer, Taylor entered the music business. He wrote and composed pop and rock songs, both alone and with other songwriters including Al Gorgoni, Billy Ve
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Yonkers
- Sibling
- Jon Voight
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Angel of the Morning
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Buddah Records
- Image
- Chip Taylor.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Austin
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- relative
- James Haven
- date of birth
- 1940-03-21
- birth name
- James Wesley Voight
- Commons category
- Chip Taylor
- pseudonym
- Chip Taylor
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- name in native language
- Chip Taylor
- date of death
- 2026-03-23
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
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