“My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.”

American actor and musician

David Cassidy was an American actor and musician. Born in 1950, he became widely known in the 1970s as Keith Partridge on the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. He died in 2017. He was also an international solo singer, with a career that reached far beyond his television fame. At one point, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, and his work linked popular music and television stardom.