The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory   music minder Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day   Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Interval: LAST WEEK Click on an Entertainer's name in the list 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: 146   Babatunde Olatunji   Date Born: Thursday 7 April 1927   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Olatunji composed music for the Broadway theatrical and Hollywood film productions of Raisin in the Sun. He assisted Bill Lee with the music for his son Spike Lee's hit film She's Gotta Have It. Billie Holiday   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1915   Description: Vocalist, US   Summary: Holidays personal life has been said to be turbulent, just as the songs that she sang. Drug use came into her life in the early 40's. P/E Bobby Bare   Date Born: Sunday 7 April 1935   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Just before he was drafted into the Army, he wrote a song called "The All American Boy". The singles' labels all credited the artist as being "Bill Parsons." But it was Bare who actually recorded it. Bruce Gary   Date Born: Saturday 7 April 1951   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: He was nominated for two Grammy Awards as a stage performer, producer, and recording artist. Charles Pitts   Date Born: Monday 7 April 1947   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: YOUTUBE: The Bo-Keys performing "Theme From Shaft" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 7.20.2011. Charlie Thomas   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Charlie Thomas in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American rhythm and blues singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Dallas Taylor   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1948   Description: Drummer, USA David Frost   Date Born: Friday 7 April 1939   Description: TV Host, UK   Summary: Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE, Born, Tenterden, Kent) moved to Beccles, Suffolk as a child and is an English television presenter. Don Julian   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1937   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He performed both solo and with backing bands. His most famous backing group was "The Meadowlarks" (later named "The Larks") Duncan James   Date Born: Friday 7 April 1978   Description: Vocalist, actor Francis Ford Coppola   Date Born: Friday 7 April 1939   Description: Film director, producer, screenwriter   Summary: Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family of Italian ancestry (his paternal grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata).He received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, as he was born at the Henry Ford Hospital. Freddie Hubbard   Date Born: Thursday 7 April 1938   Description: Trumpeter, USA   Summary: Hubbard a Bop and Contemporary player was said to be the Satchmo of the seventies by Leonard Feather. Guy Berryman   Date Born: Friday 7 April 1978   Description: Bassist, Scotland   Summary: According to an article released by MSN UK in April 2008, Berryman was the fourth richest man under the age of 30 in the UK, with an estimated wealth of £25 million. Jackie Chan   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1954   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Jackie Chan won the Favorite Buttkicker award at the Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards in 2011 for The Karate Kid. Chan holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Stunts By A Living Actor" James Garner   Date Born: Saturday 7 April 1928   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Garner, the youngest of three children the son of Mildred and Weldon Warren Bumgarner, a carpet layer.His mother, who was part Cherokee, died when he was four years old. John Oates   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1948   Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer,USA   Summary: Known for his association with Daryl Hall in the duo,"Hall and Oates". Mick Abrahams   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1943   Description: Guitarist,UK   Summary: Abrahams wanted to pursue a more blues/rock direction, while Anderson wanted to incorporate more overt folk and jazz influences. Mongo Santamaria   Date Born: Saturday 7 April 1917   Description: Percussionist, Cuba   Summary: His 1963 hit rendition of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Nick Perito   Date Born: Monday 7 April 1924   Description: Composer, Arranger. USA   Summary: Perito remained in New York after World War II, entering the Juilliard School of Music and graduating from the college in 1949. Percy Faith   Date Born: Tuesday 7 April 1908   Description: Bandleader, Arranger, Canadian Pete La Roca   Date Born: Thursday 7 April 1938   Description: Drummer, Timbales, USA   Summary: In 1968 he left music to become a lawyer Peter Tilbrook   Date Born: Monday 7 April 1947   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   Summary: Peter became a member of ’The Bent Beaks’ managed by Greg Hocking in the sixties and numorous bands including ’The Masters Appretices’. Ravi Shankar   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1920   Description: Sitar, India   Summary: Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his "services to music". Ravi Shankar   Date Born: Wednesday 7 April 1920   Description: Sitar, Teacher   Summary: Shankar is best known as the teach er of the Sitar to ex Beatle, George Harrison during Harrions career. Russell Crowe   Date Born: Tuesday 7 April 1964   Description: Actor, NZ   Summary: Crowe, going under the name of "Rus le Roq", recorded a 1980s tune titled "I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando". Spencer Dryden   Date Born: Thursday 7 April 1938   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Born to Alice Chapel and father Wheeler Dryden, half brother to the famed Charlie Chaplin. Tj James   Date Born: Saturday 7 April 1973   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Australia   Summary: TJ is very much a mainstream artist with a legion of fans both in Australia and overseas. Wells Kelly   Date Born: Thursday 7 April 1949   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: "Dancing In The Moonlight". A song written by Wells' brother Sherman Kelly Carl Cotner   Date Born: Saturday 8 April 1916   Description: Fiddle, USA   Summary: "The Gene Autry Show" [Musical Director] Carmen Mcrae   Date Born: Thursday 8 April 1920   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: McRae was born in Harlem, New York City on April 8, 1920, to West Indian (Jamaican) parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae. Charlotte Dawson   Date Born: Friday 8 April 1966   Description: Actress, Australian television personality Izzy Stradlin   Date Born: Sunday 8 April 1962   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Stradlin was born as Jeffrey Dean Isbell in Lafayette, Indiana, of English, French and Scottish descent. Jacques Brel   Date Born: Monday 8 April 1929   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Poet, Actor, Belgium   Summary: Brel was born in Schaarbeek, Belgium, a district of Brussels, but lived half of his life in Paris. Jj Jackson   Date Born: Tuesday 8 April 1941   Description: Vocalist, Copmoser, USA   Summary: Jackson started out as a songwriter and arranger for Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy Witherspoon, and the Shangri-Las, among others. Julian Lennon   Date Born: Monday 8 April 1963   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: The first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of his first wife Cynthia Lennon. His godfather was Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. He was named after John Lennon's late mother, Julia. Larry Norman   Date Born: Tuesday 8 April 1947   Description: Vocalist , Composer, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Norman's recordings are noted for their Christian and social subject matter, and he is often described as the "father of Christian rock music". Mary Pickford   Date Born: Saturday 8 April 1893   Description: Actress, Silent Films, Canadian   Summary: Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Canada. Her father, John Charles Smith, was the son of British Methodist immigrants, and worked a variety of odd jobs. Her mother, Charlotte Hennessy, was from an Irish Catholic family. Mel Schacher   Date Born: Sunday 8 April 1951   Description: Bassist, USA   Summary: Schacher is best known for his playing style, known as "lead bass". Paul Gray - Bass   Date Born: Saturday 8 April 1972   Description: Bassist, US   Summary: An American musician, best known as the bassist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Slipknot Peta Toppano   Date Born: Sunday 8 April 1962   Description: Actress, Australia   Summary: Peta Toppano is a British-born Australian actress who found success in Australian television. Sonja Henie   Date Born: Monday 8 April 1912   Description: Actress, Norway   Summary: Considered by many as one of the greatest figure skaters in history. She was diagnosed with leukemia in the mid-1960s. She died at age 57 in 1969 during a flight from Paris to Oslo. Alex Sadkin   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1949   Description: Producer, USA Art Van Damm   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1920   Description: Accordionist, USA   Summary: He adapted Benny Goodman's music to the accordion. Carl Perkins   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1932   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: Perkins successfully auditioned for Sam Phillips at Sun Records early in October of 1954. Dave "chico" Ryan   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1948   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Ryan went on to become a member of Bill Haley & His Comets. Dennis Quaid   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1954   Description: Actor, Guitarist, USA   Summary: He is the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid. Quaid has Irish and Cajun ancestry. George David Weiss   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1921   Description: American songwriter, US   Summary: After leaving school, he became an arranger for such big bands as those of Stan Kenton, Vincent Lopez, and Johnny Richards. Hal Ketchum   Date Born: Thursday 9 April 1953   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: An American country musician, songwriter, performer. Ketchum appeared in the 1988 film Heartbreak Hotel. Ketchum also made a cameo appearance as a bank robber in the 1994 film Maverick. Hank Mills   Date Born: Thursday 9 April 1936   Description: Comoser of music, USA   Summary: Mills authored a number of country and western hits of the 1960s and 70's Hugh Hefner   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1926   Description: Playboy Magazine   Summary: Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois, the elder of two sons born to Grace Caroline (née Swanson; 1895–1997) and Glenn Lucius Hefner (1896–1976), both teachers. Jamie Redfern   Date Born: Tuesday 9 April 1957   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Redfern was a founding member of the Australian show Young Talent Time. Mance Lipscomb   Date Born: Tuesday 9 April 1895   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Lipscomb was the son of an ex-slave from Alabama and a half Choctaw Indian mother. Marion Ryan   Date Born: Sunday 9 April 1933   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Marion Ryan was one of the most glamorous of the British singers of popular music to emerge during the 1950s. Paul Robeson   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1898   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, William Drew Robeson I, ran away from a North Carolina plantation where he had been born a slave. Phil Medley   Date Born: Sunday 9 April 1916   Description: Composer, USA   Summary: Twist and Shout would become one of the selling hits of all time and one of the mast covered songs by any band. Rachel Stevens   Date Born: Sunday 9 April 1978   Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   Summary: At the age of fifteen, Stevens beat 5000 competitors in a modeling competition sponsored by Just 17 magazine. Roddy Jackson   Date Born: Thursday 9 April 1942   Description: Singer, musician, USA   Summary: He was born in Fresno, California, moving to Merced as a child. His father was a singer and pianist who toured with The Sons of the Pioneers. Sidney Simien   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1938   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA   Summary: Born into a sharecropper's family in the tiny farming community of Lebeau, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Terry Knight   Date Born: Friday 9 April 1943   Description: Producer, Composer, Singer, Promoter, Radio Personality   Summary: He wrote and recorded a single, "Saint Paul" which contributed to the "Paul is dead". Tonino Accolla   Date Born: Saturday 9 April 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Italy   Summary: He dubbed over are Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hanks, Mickey Rourke, Ralph Fiennes, Jim Carrey, etc Virginia Gison   Date Born: Monday 9 April 1928   Description: Dancer, singer, and actress of film, TV Ward Bond   Date Born: Thursday 9 April 1903   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: In 2001, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Wc Fields   Date Born: Sunday 9 April 1876   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: His father migrated to America from England. His father, James Dukenfield, came from an English-Irish family of noble origin. Babyface   Date Born: Thursday 10 April 1958   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Keyboardist, Record Producer   Summary: Edmonds has worked with Bootsie Collins, who named him 'Babyface' and the name has stuck. Bo Hannson   Date Born: Saturday 10 April 1943   Description: keyboard player/composer, Sweden   Summary: During the early '70s, Hansson burst on the international scene with his concept album Lord of the Rings, an all-instrumental album inspired by the literary trilogy written by J.R.R. Tolkien. The album received gold record awards in England and Australia. Bobby Hatfield   Date Born: Wednesday 10 April 1940   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Their first charted single as the Righteous Brothers was "Little Latin Lupe Lu" and their first #1 was "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," produced by Phil Spector. Bobby Smith   Date Born: Friday 10 April 1936   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Smith had been the group's main lead singer since its inception, having sung lead vocals on The Spinners first hit record in 1961, "That's What Girls Are Made For" (which has been inaccurately credited to the group's mentor and former Moonglows lead singer, the late Harvey Fuqua). Bunny Wailer   Date Born: Thursday 10 April 1947   Description: Vocalist, Jamaica   Summary: His music was very influenced by gospel and the soul of Curtis Mayfield. In 1967, he recorded "This Train", based on a gospel standard for the first time at Studio One. Chuck Connors   Date Born: Sunday 10 April 1921   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He achieved stardom when cast as "Lucas McCain" in the ABC television Western series The Rifleman (1958–1963), with Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark. Eddie Hazel   Date Born: Monday 10 April 1950   Description: Guitarist, USA   Summary: Also sessions guitarist for Motown backing the likes of ’The Temptations’ etc. Ernest Stewart   Date Born: Monday 10 April 1950   Description: Keyboardist, USA   Summary: A one time member of ’Rory and The Hurricanes’ Fud Livingston   Date Born: Tuesday 10 April 1906   Description: Clarinetist, Saxophonist, USA   Summary: His stint with Whiteman, which lasted from 1930 to 1933, was mainly as an arranger, though he played occasionally. YOUTUBE: Personnel: Red Nichols - cornet Miff Mole - trombone Fud Livingston - clarinet Arthur Schutt - piano Vic Berton - Drums Gene Kelton   Date Born: Friday 10 April 1953   Description: Singer-songwriter, guitarist   Summary: Kelton's songs are most notable for powerful guitar and lyrics that range from emotional to raunchy. Harry Morgan   Date Born: Saturday 10 April 1915   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: One of the finest actors mainly remembered for his role as Sherman T. Potter in the TV series of ’MASH’ in which he won an Emmy. Hayley Westenra   Date Born: Friday 10 April 1987   Description: Vocalist , Piano, Guitar, New Zealand   Summary: Westenra's parents, Jill and Gerald Westenra, have two other children, Sophie and Isaac. The family has a history in music. Kenny Lattimore   Date Born: Friday 10 April 1970   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: Lattimore is known for his dramatic stage shows, vocal agility, and romantic ambiance. The New York Times hailed him as a "modern soul man" on stage. Loni Ackerman   Date Born: Sunday 10 April 1949   Description: Actress, singer, USA   Summary: she made her Broadway debut in George M! in 1968, then replaced Xernadette Peters in the hit Off-Broadway production of Dames at Sea. Mandy Moore   Date Born: Tuesday 10 April 1984   Description: Vocalist, songwriter, actress and fashion designer. USA   Summary: Aside from her musical career, Moore has also branched out into acting. She made her film debut in the 2001 film Dr. Dolittle 2, though it was only a minor voice role. Later that year, she appeared as Lana in the comedy film The Princess Diaries, alongside Anne Hathaway. Mark Kemp   Date Born: Sunday 10 April 1960   Description: Author, USA   Summary: In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to the CD Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by '60s protest singer Phil Ochs Mark Oliver Everett   Date Born: Wednesday 10 April 1963   Description: Vocalist,Guitarist, USA   Summary: Mark Oliver Everett is the son of physicist Hugh Everett III, originator of the many-worlds theory of quantum physics. Martin Denny   Date Born: Monday 10 April 1911   Description: Instrumentalist,   Summary: Dick Clark hosted Denny on American Bandstand. "Quiet Village" reached #2 on Billboard's charts in 1959 with the Exotica album" reaching #1. Max Von Sydow   Date Born: Wednesday 10 April 1929   Description: Actor, Swedish   Summary: In 2002, von Sydow had one of his largest commercial successes, co-starring with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller Minority Report. Nate Nelson   Date Born: Sunday 10 April 1932   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The Flamingos also appeared in the 1956 Alan Freed movie, Rock, Rock Rock. Both Zeke Carey and Carter were drafted that year (Carter was drafted in September). Omar Sharif   Date Born: Sunday 10 April 1932   Description: Actor, Egypt   Summary: Sharif was born Michel Demitri Chalhoub in Egypt the son of Joseph Chalhoub and Claire both his parents are of Lebanese origin. Ricky Valance   Date Born: Wednesday 10 April 1940   Description: Vocalist, Welsh   Summary: The Guinness Book of Hit Singles states that his name was changed to Ricky Valance to remind fans of Ritchie Valens who died with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper in the Iowa snow a year and a half earlier. Sheb Wooley   Date Born: Friday 10 April 1931   Description: Vocalist , Actor, USA   Summary: He played Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon, and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television program Rawhide. Sophie Ellis-bextor   Date Born: Tuesday 10 April 1979   Description: Vocalist, UKsongwriter, model   Summary: Sophie Ellis-Bextor is best known for cheek-bones that most models would die for and a posh voice and attitude that made her infamous on DJ Spiller’s anthem Groovejet in 2000. Steven Seagal   Date Born: Thursday 10 April 1952   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, where he lived until he was five years old. His mother, Patricia (1930–2003), was a medical technician, and his father, Samuel Steven Seagal (1928–1991), was a high school math teacher. Deem Bristow   Date Born: Friday 11 April 1947   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: An American voice actor. Douglas Hopkins   Date Born: Tuesday 11 April 1961   Description: Guitarist, Composer, USA   Summary: The Gin Blossoms were one of the hottest local bands in Tempe and the surrounding areas, and they signed a contract with A&M Records. Frank Wilson   Date Born: Friday 11 April 1924   Description: Actor, Singer, Director, TV Host, Australia   Summary: An Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host. Jodi Phillis   Date Born: Sunday 11 April 1965   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia.   Summary: She spent her childhood in California, United States, and moved back to Sydney, Australia to begin school. Joel Grey   Date Born: Monday 11 April 1932   Description: Actor, Dancer, Cabaret, USA   Summary: Grey was born Joel David Katz in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Grace and Mickey Katz, who was an actor, clarinetist, comedian and director. John Levy   Date Born: Thursday 11 April 1912   Description: Double bass, USA   Summary: In 1997, Levy was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame Lisa Stanfield   Date Born: Monday 11 April 1966   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: In 1992, Stansfield won a BRIT Award as best British female solo artist. Her second album Real Love did not quite live up to the success of Affection; it did spawn four Top 40 singles on the European charts: "Change", "All Woman", "Time to Make You Mine" and "Set Your Loving Free". Michael Card   Date Born: Thursday 11 April 1957   Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, Author, Composer, Radio Host   Summary: In addition to touring and writing, Card also hosts a weekly radio program. In the Studio with Michael Card is carried by stations in 48 states, Canada, and the Caribbean. Paul Fox   Date Born: Wednesday 11 April 1951   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: British musician and singer, best known from his work with the UK punk band, The Ruts. Richard Berry   Date Born: Thursday 11 April 1935   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: He began singing and playing in local doo-wop groups, recording with several of them including the Penguins, the Cadets. Tony Victor   Date Born: Sunday 11 April 1943   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: The group was best remembered for its ballads, and frequently sang versions of pop standards from the 1920s and 1930s. Alex Briley   Date Born: Thursday 12 April 1951   Description: Vocalist   Summary: A minister's son, he sang in church from an early age and studied voice at the University of Hartford. Briley performed with jazz flautist Bobby Humphrey. Andy Garcia   Date Born: Thursday 12 April 1956   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: García was born one of two siamese twins, to his mother Amelie, an English teacher, and his father, René García Núñez, was an avocado farmer and attorney in Cuba and later owned a fragrance business in the United States. Anna Rabson   Date Born: Thursday 12 April 1945   Description: Guitarist, Singer, USA   Summary: She had been nominated eight times for a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. Anne Miller   Date Born: Wednesday 12 April 1922   Description: Actress,Vocalist, Dancer   Summary: daughter of Clara Emma and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer who represented Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow and Baby Face Nelson, among others. Miller's maternal grandmother was Cherokee. Belinda Emmett   Date Born: Friday 12 April 1974   Description: Singer, Actress, Australia   Summary: Emmett was born in Gosford to Michael and Laraine Emmett and grew up in Umina Beach, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She had three siblings named Matthew, Shane and Lesley. Belinda Emmett   Date Born: Friday 12 April 1974   Description: Singer, Actress, Australia   Summary: Emmett was born in Gosford to Michael and Laraine Emmett and grew up in Umina Beach, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She had three siblings named Matthew, Shane and Lesley. David Cassidy   Date Born: Wednesday 12 April 1950   Description: Vocalist, Actor , USA   Summary: David Cassidy was born in New York, New York, the son of Irish American actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward. He has three half brothers, Shaun Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy, who were born after his father married actress Shirley Jones. David Letterman   Date Born: Saturday 12 April 1947   Description: Television Host, Actor, Film producer, USA   Summary: David Letterman was born in Indiana. His father, Harry Joe Letterman, was a florist who died in 1973; his mother Dorothy Letterman, now Dorothy Mengering, a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show. He has an older sister, Janice, and a younger sister, Gretchen. Eddie Haywood   Date Born: Monday 12 April 1915   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Pianist, composer and bandleader, born Atlanta, Georgia, died 1989 in Miami, Florida. Helen Forrest   Date Born: Thursday 12 April 1917   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She recorded with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton in 1940. In 1941, Forrest was hired by Harry James. Herbie Hancock   Date Born: Friday 12 April 1940   Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   Summary: Hancock studied from age seven. His talent was recognized early, and he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 5 in D Major at a young people’s concert with the Chicago Symphony at age eleven. Hound Dog Taylor   Date Born: Monday 12 April 1915   Description: Singer, Composer, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Stevie Ray Vaughan also covered Taylor's best known song, "Give Me Back My Wig", both in concert and in studio. YOUTUBE: Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers featuring Little Walter on harmonica. This was back in 1967. John Kay   Date Born: Wednesday 12 April 1944   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Canada   Summary: He joined a blues rock and folk music group known as "The Sparrows" in 1965, which had moderate success in Canada before moving to California, the band changed its name to Steppenwolf in 1967. Johnny Dodds   Date Born: Tuesday 12 April 1892   Description: Clarinetist, USA   Summary: A New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Judy Lynn   Date Born: Sunday 12 April 1936   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: She got a bit of a break when some folks from the Grand Ole Opry were doing a tour up in the northwest. Lili Pons   Date Born: Tuesday 12 April 1898   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. Ned Miller   Date Born: Sunday 12 April 1925   Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   Summary: In 1956, both Gale Storm and Bonnie Guitar had Top Five hits with different versions of the song "Dark Moon", which Ned co-wrote. Pat Travers   Date Born: Monday 12 April 1954   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist Canadian   Summary: Travers a native of Canada, is a Hendrix influenced guitarist who began his recording career with Polydor Records in the mid 1970s. Stan Free   Date Born: Wednesday 12 April 1922   Description: Keyboardist, Composer, Arranger, USA   Summary: Free's best-known recording is not under his own name it is the Moog hit, "Popcorn", with the artist listed as Hot Butter, which was Free and five studio musicians. Thomas Hemsley   Date Born: Tuesday 12 April 1927   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: Tom Hemsley was a remarkably rounded human being. A baritone of international status, he had read physics at university and had been an athlete of more than local reputation. Tiny Tim   Date Born: Saturday 12 April 1930   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: In the 1960s Khaury was seen regularly near the Harvard University campus as a street performer, singing old Tin Pan Alley tunes. Tracy Coster   Date Born: Tuesday 12 April 1966   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: She was born into country music, and she grew up with the music her father Stan wrote. Tracy started singing in her father's band when she was about thirteen. Al Green   Date Born: Saturday 13 April 1946   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and also inducted into The Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Barrie Mcaskill   Date Born: Monday 13 April 1942   Description: Vocalist, Australia.   Summary: In the early 60’s ’Barrie McAskill and the Drifters’ reigned over the Rock and Roll scene in Adelaide and Barrie was crowned,Adelaides King of Rock and Roll. Bob Nolan   Date Born: Monday 13 April 1908   Description: Vacolist, Actor   Summary: In 1934, Bob Nolan began his career in film as the singing voice for Ken Maynard in the 1934 film, In Old Santa Fe. In 1935, the Sons of the Pioneers appeared in their first full-length Western movie, Bobby Poe   Date Born: Thursday 13 April 1933   Description: Singer-Songwriter, Manager, Publisher, Promoter   Summary: Bobby Poe gave up his career as an artist to become an artist manager. Bud Freeman   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1906   Description: Saxophonist, USA   Summary: U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. Christopher Hitchens   Date Born: Wednesday 13 April 1949   Description: Writer, journalist   Summary: Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. Col Joye   Date Born: Thursday 13 April 1939   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australian   Summary: He was the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a No 1 Record Australia-wide. Col Joye bought his first guitar at age sixteen and began performing professionally at twenty-one. His 1959 song Oh Yeah Uh Huh was the first Australian pop record to reach No.1 nationally. Eve Graham   Date Born: Tuesday 13 April 1943   Description: Vocalist, Scotland   Summary: Eve Graham is the voice on Coca – Cola’s famous ‘Hilltop’ commercial, the most successful TV advertising campaign of all time. Gladys Moncrieff   Date Born: Wednesday 13 April 1892   Description: Vocalist, Australia   Summary: Moncrieff became known as 'Australia's Queen of Song' and then 'Our Glad'. Guy Stevens   Date Born: Thursday 13 April 1939   Description: Producer, UK   Summary: Producer in the sixties through to the late eighties for ’Free’ - ’The Clash’ - ’Mott The Hoople’ and many more. Hillel Slovack   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1962   Description: Guitarst, USA   Summary: Books - Behind The Sun, The Diary and Art of Hillel Slovak. 1999 , James Slovack Horace Key   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1934   Description: Vocalist   Summary: Charted with "HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME" 1971 Howard Keel   Date Born: Sunday 13 April 1919   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Howard began his first solo recording career at age sixty-four, as well as a wildly successful concert career in the UK.He is mainly remembered for his role in "ANNIE GET YOUR GUN" along side of Betty Hutton. Jimmy Mcculloch   Date Born: Monday 13 April 1953   Description: Guitarist, UK   Summary: THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN - an original member in 1969 The group broke up the same year. Leanne Douglas   Date Born: Wednesday 13 April 1955   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist   Summary: Inspired by many great guitarists such as Hank Marvin - The Shadows and many more. Lester Chambers   Date Born: Wednesday 13 April 1932   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: He sang lead on the Chambers Brothers songs "All Strung Out Over You," "People Get Ready," "Uptown," "I Can't Turn You Loose," and "Funky." Lowell George   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1945   Description: Guitariist, Musician, Songwriter, Producer, USA   Summary: George was also a respected producer, with his most famous work being the production of the Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street. Margaret Price   Date Born: Sunday 13 April 1941   Description: Vocalist, Wales   Summary: One of the most beautiful, luminous voices ever to grace the opera and concert stages. Mike Chapman   Date Born: Sunday 13 April 1947   Description: Composer of songs, Australia   Summary: He created a string of hit singles for artists including Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey. Peabo Bryson   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1951   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Mainly known for singing ballads and duets with several major singers. Also known for singing on many Disney Films. Rick Schroder   Date Born: Monday 13 April 1970   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Schroder was born in Staten Island, New York, the son of Diane, a telephone company employee, and Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr., a telephone company district manager. He has a sister, Dawn. Roy Loney   Date Born: Saturday 13 April 1946   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: After some re-recordings of their older material featuring only Jordan and Alexander from the original band, the Groovies disbanded in 1992. Teddy Charles   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1928   Description: Pianist, Composer, Session musician, USA   Summary: Charles was an innovative composer and arranger whose recordings were some of the most forward looking and highly regarded of the 1950s Tom Field   Date Born: Tuesday 13 April 1943   Description: Vocal, Guitar   Summary: The Springfields' song "Island of Dreams", written by Tom Springfield, has been covered by Mick Thomas, Johnny Tillotson, Mary Hopkin and by the Seekers. Tony Dow   Date Born: Friday 13 April 1945   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: He played Beavers brother played by Gerry Mathers as Wally Cleaver.       Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.