musicminder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Resource Directory Search For: In Table: Albums Businesses Entertainers Hits On This Day Home About Us Contact Us Businesses Entertainers Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Date: MAY 3rd Click on an Entertainer's name in the list below to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 17   BETTY COMDEN   Date Born: Thursday 3 May 1917   Description: Lyricist, Screenwriter, Actress, USA   Summary: Along with her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, she wrote the lyrics and often the librettos for some of the most celebrated musicals of stage and screen. CHRISTOPHER CROSS   Date Born: Thursday 3 May 1951   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Cross contributed backing vocals, along with The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson, to David Lee Roth's 1985 hit "California Girls." FRANKIE VALLI   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Valli sang the theme song from the 1978 film version of Grease, which was a number one hit.Valli made several appearances on the HBO series, The Sopranos portraying New York mob captain Rusty Millio. JAMES BROWN   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1933   Description: Vocalist, guitar, harmonica, bass, keyboards, drums, USA   Summary: James Brown was born to Susie and Joseph Gardner Brown in the small town of Barnwell, South Carolina in the Jim Crow South during the Depression era. JOE AMES   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1921   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: Born into a non-professional but musically talented family, the boys were brought up on classical and operatic music. Their parents, David and Sarah Urick, were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine who had nine children. JOHN RICHARDSON   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1948   Description: Drummer, Vocalist, UK   Summary: A member of English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton. KEVIN LINDBLOM   Date Born: Friday 3 May 1946   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Comedian, Australia   Summary: Kevin was an South Australian performer mainy known for his comedy. MARCEL DUPRE   Date Born: Monday 3 May 1886   Description: Organist, Pianist, Composer, France   Summary: Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen. MARK MORRISON   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1972   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: He is one of the most successful British urban R&B singers of all time. His multi-platinum single, Return of the Mack became a #1 top ten hit across Europe in 1996. MARY HOPKIN   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1950   Description: Vocalist, Wales   Summary: Mary was born in Wales to a Welsh speaking family and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. NAPOLEON XIV   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1938   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Among Samuels' compositions was "The Shelter Of Your Arms," which became a hit for Sammy Davis, Jr. PETE SEEGER   Date Born: Saturday 3 May 1919   Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Seeger was born to Charles Louis Seeger, a musicologist and an early investigator of non-Western music, and his mother, Constance de Clyver Edson, a prominent classical violinist. PETER STAPLES   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1944   Description: Bassist, UK   Summary: An original member of English group "The Troggs" during the sixties. STEVE JONES   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1955   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: Up to the age of twelve, he grew up in Hammersmith with his young mother, who worked as a hairdresser, and his grandparents TONE LOC   Date Born: Tuesday 3 May 1966   Description: Vocalist, Actor, USA   Summary: His dance mix of "Wild Thing Y2K" charted well on the Australian Dance Charts in the lead up to the year 2000 celebrations. WESLEY WILLIS   Date Born: Friday 3 May 1963   Description: Vocals, keyboards,   Summary: The Wesley Willis Fiasco songs were essentially punk rock songs with Willis howling his obscene, absurd rants as lyrics. ZACH SOBIECH   Date Born: Wednesday 3 May 1995   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: At age 14, Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. In May 2012 his doctors informed him that he had up to a year to live.           Disclaimer:   Music Minder takes as much care as possible to check the accuracy of the information provided. 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