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Joel Higgins Biography
Birth Name:
Joel Franklin Higgins
Birth Place:
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Profession
Actor, singer, musician, composer
Fast Facts
- During college, he sang in coffee houses to earn tuition money
- Worked for General Motors for six months after graduating college
- Enlisted in the U
- S
- Army in 1968 and was stationed in Korea
- Wrote jingles for Kool-Aid, Trident chewing gum, Coors beer and M&Ms
- Made his Broadway debut in the musical Shenandoah in 1975
- Appeared in the Broadway musical Angel in 1978, opposite Fred Gwynne; it closed after only five performances
- Wrote the theme song to Lucille Ball's 1986 sitcom Life With Lucy
- Was inducted to his high school's Hall of Fame in 2004
Relationships
- Graham Higgins -- Son
- Stacy Higgins -- Wife