Born On This Day In Music,

April 2nd

1991 – Quavo
American hip hop recording artist Quavo best known as a member of the southern hip hop group Migos. Their second album, Culture, released in January 2017 debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart.

1983 – Yung Joc
Jasiel A. Robinson, (Yung Joc), 2007 US No.1 with T-Pain, ‘Buy U a Drank, Shawty Snappin’.

1981 – Scott Cain
Scott Cain, Australian singer and winner of the third Australian Popstars competition. (2002 Australian No.1 single ‘I’m Moving On’).

1979 – Jesse Carmichael
Jesse Carmichael, keyboards, Maroon 5, who had the 2004 UK No.1 album Songs About Jane’ the 2004 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘She Will Be Loved’ and the 2014 US No.1 album V.

1971 – Chico
Chico, (Yousseph Slimani), singer, reached the semi-finals of the UK 2005 series of The X Factor, (2006 UK No.1 single, ‘It’s Chico Time’).

1967 – Greg Camp
Songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist Greg Camp from American rock band Smash Mouth. Camp has written Smash Mouth’s most memorable songs of the later 1990s and early 2000s, including ‘Walkin’ on the Sun,’ ‘All Star,’ and ‘Then the Morning Comes’.

1961 – Keren Woodward
Keren Woodward, singer with British female pop group Bananarama who had the 1984 UK No.3 single ‘Robert De Niro’s Waiting’, plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles, and the 1986 US No.1 single ‘Venus’ a cover of the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue 1970 hit.

1956 – Gregory Abbott
American singer, Gregory Abbott who had the 1986 UK No.6 single ‘Shake You Down’.

1952 – Leon Wilkeson
Leon Wilkeson, bassist with southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who had the 1974 US No. 8 single ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ the 1977 US No. 5 album Street Survivors and the 1982 UK No.21 single ‘Freebird‘. Wilkeson was found dead on July 27, 2001, in a Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, hotel room; he was 49 years old. He had apparently been suffering from chronic liver and lung disease.

1949 – David Robinson
David Robinson, The Cars, who had the 1978 UK No.3 single ‘My Best Friend’s Girl.’ Their 1984 US No.3 & 1985 UK No.4 ‘Drive’ was used as part of the soundtrack for the Live Aid concert.

1947 – Emmylou Harris
American singer, songwriter and musician Emmylou Harris who has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has worked with numerous leading artists, including Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, The Band, Mark Knopfler, Albert Lee, Delbert McClinton, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Steve Earle and Ryan Adams.

1946 – Kurt Winter
Canadian guitarist and songwriter Kurt Winter from Canadian rock band Guess Who who had the 1970 US No.1 & UK No.19 single ‘American Woman’. Winter penned the hit singles ‘Bus Rider’ and ‘Hand Me Down World’, both of which were hits for The Guess Who. Winter died of kidney failure at the age of 51 on 14 December 1997.

1943 – Glen Dale
Glen Dale, guitar, vocals, from English harmony beat group The Fortunes, who had the 1965 UK No.2 & US No.7 single ‘You’ve Got Your Troubles’ and the hits ‘Here It Comes Again’ and ‘Storm in a Teacup’.

1941 – Leon Russell
Leon Russell, singer songwriter, mult-instumentalist. Worked with Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones Glenn Campbell, wrote ‘Delta Lady’ a hit for Joe Cocker. Played on The Byrds hit ‘Mr Tambourine Man.’ Russell died on 13th Nov 2016 aged 74.

1939 – Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye, singer, songwriter who had a 1968 US No.1 & 1969 UK No.1 single with ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ and a 1982 US No.3 & UK No.4 single with ‘Sexual Healing’. Gaye was a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, and then signed with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label’s top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned “The Prince of Motown” and “The Prince of Soul”. He was shot dead by his father on April 1st 1984.

1928 – Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Had the 1969 UK No.1 single with Jane Birkin ‘Je t’aime… Moi non plus‘ the only French language chart topper in the UK. The track was originally written for and sung with Brigitte Bardot in 1967, but that version was not released until 1986. Gainsbourg died of a heart attack on March 2nd 1991.

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