Not only was Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA, he has risen to become a
twenty-time Grammy winner and American icon.
Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town, where his
parents struggled to make ends meet. Bruce didn't fit in at school but
found solace in rock and roll and playing guitar. After the breakup of a
local band he'd joined, Springsteen went out on his own and people began
to take notice. He signed with Columbia Records and under pressure to
come up with a hit, wrote Born in the USA, which tells the story of
America during the years of the Vietnam War. A multi-millionaire and
twenty-time Grammy winner, the Boss has remained a working class hero
whose music deals with the political and social changes in our country.