John Lester Nash Jr. was born on born August 19, 1940 in Houston, Texas He is an Americanreggaeand pop music singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1 ... 10044 additonal characters for paid subscriptions ... l World" in 1976 and "Let's Go Dancing" in 1979, for many years Nash seemed to have dropped out of sight, with the exception of a brief resurgence in the mid-1980s with the albumHere Again(1986), which was preceded by the minor UK hit, "Rock Me Baby." Younger audiences were introduced to Nash's music with the appearance of Jimmy Cliff's cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" in Disney's 1993 hit film Cool Runnings.