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Don Woods
Don Woods is a country singer, song writer, author and poet. He presents his own brand of country music and has entertained and thrilled audiences in several countries. Don was bor...view moreDon Woods is a country singer, song writer, author and poet. He presents his own brand of country music and has entertained and thrilled audiences in several countries. Don was born in 1937 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and moved to Nottingham during the war. After serving three years in the army and then getting married at 23, he made his first venture into the world of show business starting what was to be a very successful career as a country and western singer. Sadly, his wife died of cancer at an early age and he was left to raise three young children which slowed his singing career. However, during these years he worked at three highly successful country and western nightclubs plus a twice weekly radio show. Then with his band ‘The Original Country Sounds’, he spread further afield to work all the major clubs throughout the Midlands. He eventually moved to East Anglia and was constantly busy singing in the clubs and pubs of Great Yarmouth for many years. In 1976, a new challenge was needed, so buying himself a motor home he headed for Europe where he successfully plied his trade going from country to country. In 1989, he crossed into Norway and immediately fell in love with the country and the people. He went from town to town working his way in the bars and hotels up and down the country, always receiving a warm welcome and great applause. However, whilst working up north in the arctic circle in 1993, he developed severe head pains. He was rushed back to England with an estimated six weeks to live to have an emergency operation to remove the cancerous growth that was attached to his central nervous system. The operation was successful but left Don completely deaf and unable to sing so he had to start a new career. Having invested in a typewriter and some secondhand books to see how it was done, he set off to be a writer and poet. So far since 1995, he has had 678 poems published plus 14 short stories, one book of his poetry and one children’s adventure story, The Troll Family Olsen’s Long Journey Home, also published by Austin Macauley and now this latest venture, a romance called The Waterfall which again is based around Norway. Don writes his poetry and stories on various subjects most based on his own varied and interesting experiences. Over the following years his hearing slowly came back to a point where he is able to sing well again. But he still carries on with his writing.view less