Neil Diamond Background Information

Neil Leslie Diamond was born January 24, 1941. He is an American songwriter and a singer and also a sporadic actor. Neil Diamond is among the pop music's mainly booming and stable songwriter and singer. He scored a good number of hits in 1960s, 1970s and also in 1980s.

From the period 1960-1980, Diamond was a very flourishing and successful music performer, with a number of hit tracks. In 2001, he declared a record sale of around 115 million copies, and in 2002, he was ranked in the third position on the listing of the mainly booming grown-up modern artists in the record of the Billboard register. In 2005, Neil Diamond sold around 120 million copies internationally, which includes 48 million copies in the United States.

Although his sales reduced after the 1980s, Neil continues to travel around and also has a very devoted fan base. His songs have been recorded brilliantly by a wide range of performers from a lot of diverse musical genres. In 1984, Neil Diamond was introduced to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and later in 2000, he was honored with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award.