{"id":83778,"date":"2026-03-25T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=83778"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:48:11","slug":"profile-of-the-day-elton-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-elton-john-83778.html","title":{"rendered":"Profile of the Day: Elton John"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Elton_John-1-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Elton_John-1-600x350.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Elton_John-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Elton_John-1-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Elton_John-1.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>Image: Elton John \/ Nationaal Archief, CC0<\/em><p><em style=\"color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy birthday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Sir-Elton-John\/6000000012368832956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elton John<\/a>! Today the singer turns 79. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, England on March 25, 1947. He began playing the piano at the age of 3, and by the age of 11, he had earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today John is one of the best-selling artists in the world with over 300 million records sold worldwide. In 2024, he became the 19th person to achieve the coveted EGOT status when he won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for <em>Elton John: Farewell from Dodger Stadium<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His life was the subject of the 2019 biographical film <em>Rocketman<\/em>, starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Taron-Egerton\/6000000163018488822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Taron Egerton<\/a> as John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite song?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore Elton John&#8217;s family tree on Geni and share your connection to the cultural icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Sir-Elton-John\/6000000012368832956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">View Elton John&#8217;s Geni Profile<\/a><style type=\"text\/css\"> iframe{ border: 1px solid #999; } <\/style><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> iframe{ border: 1px solid #999; } <\/style>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/family-tree\/index\/6000000012368832956?minimal=1\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Elton John \/ Nationaal Archief, CC0 Happy birthday to Elton John! Today the singer turns 79. John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, England on March 25, 1947. He began playing the piano at the age of 3, and by the age of 11, he had earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. Today John is one of the best-selling artists in the world with over 300 million records sold worldwide&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-elton-john-83778.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":113387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6048,4331],"class_list":["post-83778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile-of-the-day","tag-elton-john","tag-singer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83778"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113389,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778\/revisions\/113389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}