Born on December 24th in music

Born on this date in music, December 24th

1991 – Louis Tomlinson
Louis Tomlinson from English-Irish pop boy band One Direction who formed after finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010. Scored the 2011 UK No.1 single ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ and the 2013 No.1 ‘One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)’.

1975 – Joe Washbourn
Joe Washbourn, vocals, from British alternative rock band, Toploader who had the 2000 UK No.7 single with of ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ a cover of the French-American rock group King Harvest.

1971 – Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin, singer, (1999, US & UK No.1 single ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’. Recorded the world’s biggest selling football song ‘The Cup Of Life’).

1968 – Doyle Bramhall II
Doyle Bramhall II, guitarist, songwriter, Smokestack, Eric Clapton Band, Roger Waters.

1965 – Millard Powers
Millard Powers, American musician, songwriter, record producer, and Grammy-nominated recording engineer. Since 2005 he has played bass guitar in the Counting Crows.

1963 – Neil Turbin
Neil Turbin, American thrash metal vocalist known for being the first full-time vocalist for American band Anthrax and the heavy metal band DeathRiders.

1963 – Mary Ramsey
Mary Ramsey, who goes on to replace Natalie Merchant as lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, is born in Washington, DC.

1962 – Darren Wharton
Darren Wharton, British keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Worked with Thin Lizzy and fronted his own band, Dare.

1951 – Tom Wolk
Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, who played bass for nearly 30 years with Hall and Oates. He had also recorded with Carly Simon, Jellyfish, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Shawn Colvin and Billy Joel over the course of his career. He died on 28 February 2010 of a heart attack at the age of 58.

1946 – Jan Akkerman
Jan Akkerman, guitarist with Dutch rock band Focus who had the 1973 UK No.4 single ‘Sylvia’, and the 1973 US No. 9 single ‘Hocus Pocus’.

1945 – Lemmy
Lemmy, English musician, singer, and songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motorhead. Lemmy played in several rock groups in the 1960s, including the Rockin’ Vickers and worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and the Nice, before joining the space rock band Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead on their hit ‘Silver Machine’. He died on 28 December 2015 following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer.

1946 – Jan Akkerman

English bass guitarist Tab Martin. He was a member of the Tornados, (their 1962 instrumental ‘Telstar’, was the first British rock song to be a No.1 single in the United States), The Peddlers and also founded the Joe Meek instrumental band the Saints. Martin was known for his technique of playing his bass in an upright fashion.

1944 – Béla Kamocsa
Béla Kamocsa „Kamo” (born 24 December 1944, Oradea – died 14 January 2010, Timișoara[1]) was a Romanian instrumentalist (bass guitar, electric guitar), musician and singer of Hungarian ethnicity. He interpreted rock, blues and jazz music. He is best known for being a founding member (1962) of Romanian band Phoenix, in which he was a member until 1971. In 1982, he establishes Bega Blues Band, one of the first Romanian bands dedicated to blues music. He spends the rest of his career as part of this band. Died January 14, 2010.

1924 – Lee Dorsey
Lee Dorsey, known for his 1961 hit “Ya Ya,” is born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana. He befriends future rock and roll legend Fats Domino before moving to Portland, Oregon, at age 10. (1966 US & UK No.8 single ‘Working In The Coalmine’).