Mellencamp's dad bought the two bedroom, one bathroom house in 1954 on West Fifth in Seymour "when John was 3 years old, and they sold in 1966 when he was 16," Burke said.

Like Mellencamp, the roots of Ponce's American story are in Seymour. "Got nothing against a big town. Still hayseed enough to say, look who's in the big town," the rocker sang in "Small Town." ...

John Mellencamp’s legacy will be cemented in stone. Seymour, Indiana native John Mellencamp and IU President Pamela Whitten pose for a photo together March 3, 2023, at the IU Mellencamp Symposium ...

John Mellencamp is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Mellencamp spent his childhood in Seymour, Indiana, and graduated from Vincennes University, where he studied communications. He played in ...

John Mellencamp entered this world in the small mill town of Seymour, Indiana on October 7, 1951. His great grandfather, also named John, ...

The link between Hoosier rock star and Fred Booker runs all the way back to Southern Indiana in the 1960s, when they were co-lead singers in a Seymour-based band called The Crape Soul.

John Mellencamp was honored with a bronze statue at Indiana University in Bloomington on Oct. 18. ... Born in nearby Seymour, Mellencamp has lived in Bloomington since the 1970s, ...

And it made a big impression on a 14-year-old John Mellencamp." Booker’s family was one of a handful of Black families in Seymour, Indiana, in the mid-1960s.

John Mellencamp was born on Oct. 7, 1951, in Seymour, Indiana. As a young musician in his 20s, Mellencamp traveled between Indiana and New York City between 1974 and 1975 in hopes of being discovered.

Mellencamp started singing in a band as a teenager in Seymour, Ind. When he first went to New York to seek his fortune in 1974, he was as interested in painting as in singing. (Even now, he still ...

FILE - John Mellencamp performs at the 33rd annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles on April 27, 2016. ... taking his personality as someone who grew up in Seymour, ...

FILE – John Mellencamp performs during a tribute concert to Billy Joel, the recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington on Nov. 19, 2014.