Walt Cronin
United States, California, West Los Angeles
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About Walt Cronin
Walt Cronin is a Vietnam veteran and singer songwriter of Americana, Folk and Country music living in Los Angeles, CA.
Cronin was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago moving out to California in the late 1970’s.
He underwent therapy for PTSD and trained for 4 years with Arthur Janov PhD, the founder of Primal Therapy having been influenced from reading about John Lennon’s experience. His wish was to become a veteran counselor, receiving his (expired link). in Psychology.
His interest was to volunteer with the returning veterans from Vietnam and then Iraq and Afghanistan at local vet centers which proved to be difficult due to his own symptoms having been a navy corpsman (combat medic) with a marine platoon in Vietnam in 1970.
Needing to make a living, he started his own business as a special event video producer working for many years in the Los Angeles area.
He has become a veteran advocate through a number of the songs he has written based on life in America after returning from the Vietnam war and is a member of Veterans For Peace.
Cronin has performed his music at various veteran events such as Returning Soldiers Speak and the Art of War to bring about awareness of Post Traumatic Stress and to reach the younger generations to seek the help that had been denied for many years to him and his fellow veterans when they had returned from Vietnam. He is currently working on his 5th music CD.
He is married to his wife Viola from Germany for 25 years. He just recently completed a veteran arts program through Creativets to study at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago for 3 weeks this last Spring of 2015 learning ceramic sculpture for disabled veterans.
A number of his songs in the Americana and Folk genres can be streamed at (expired link) (expired link) Website
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