John Hornsby

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John Hornsby was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is a composer, musician and actor. He is the brother of and collaborator with musician/composer Bruce Hornsby. He co-wrote seven of nine songs on the album The Way It Is, which went multi-platinum. The single, "The Way It Is" topped the American charts in 1986. The album contained another top five hit with "Mandolin Rain". "Every Little Kiss" also did respectably well. Other tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the "Virginia sound", a mixture of rock, jazz, and bluegrass with an observational Southern feel. Bruce Hornsby's group, "Bruce Hornsby and the Range," would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1986.

Hornsby contributed to six movie soundtracks, and was an actor in "A Place to Grow" in 1998, playing one of the "Centennial Singers."[1]