Born on this day in music: January 16th

1989
Kiesza, Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist. Her 2014 single ‘Hideway’ peaked at No.1 on the UK Chart.

1982
Samuel Preston, lead singer of British indie rock group The Ordinary Boys. Their name derives from a Morrissey song, ‘The Ordinary Boys’.

1981
Nick Valensi, guitarist with The Strokes who had the 2001 UK No.14 single ‘Last Nite’ and the 2001 UK No.2 album Is This It? Valensi is married to TV presenter Amanda de Cadenet who was formerly married to Duran Duran bassist John Taylor.

1979
Aaliyah, US singer, actress, killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas 25/8/01. (2000, US No.1 single ‘Try Again’, 2002 UK No.1 single ‘More Than A Woman’).

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1976
Stuart Fletcher, The Seahorses, (1997 UK No.3 single ‘Love Is The Law’).

1970
Brendan O’Hare, Teenage Fanclub, (1992 UK No. 31 single ‘What You Do To Me’).

1965
Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single ‘I Kissed a Girl’, and ‘Supermodel’ from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless.

1965
Maxine Jones, singer, En Vogue, (1992 US No.2 & UK No.4 single ‘My Lovin’).

1962
Paul Webb, English bassist, with Talk Talk, who had the 1984 hit ‘It’s My Life’ and the 1986 UK No.16 single ‘Life’s What You Make It’.

1959
Nigerian-born British singer Helen Folasade Adu (Sade).She had the 1984 UK No.6 single ‘Your Love Is King’, and the 1985 US No.5 single ‘Smooth Operator‘. Diamond Life (1984), reached No.2 on the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985.

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1955
Yan Style, from English pop and glam rock band Kenny who had several hit singles in the UK in the mid-1970s, including ‘The Bump’ and ‘Fancy Pants’.

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1950
American guitarist and Grammy Award-winning record producer, Bob Kulick best known for his studio work with Kiss and for his tenure in W.A.S.P. Kulick has also worked with Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton and Lou Reed. He died on 28 May 2020 from natural causes due to heart disease.

1944
Katherine Anderson, American singer, famed for her tenure in the Motown all-female singing group the Marvelettes who scored the 1961 US No.1 single ‘Please Mr Postman’. She was the only member to survive the group’s several incarnations that occurred during the 1960s until breaking up in 1970.

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1944
Country pop singer Jim Stafford is born in Winter Haven, Florida. His first charting hit is “Swamp Witch” in 1973.

1943
Ronnie Milsap, country music singer and pianist. He became country music’s first well-known blind singer, and one of the most successful and versatile country “crossover” singers of his time scoring the crossover hits, ‘It Was Almost Like a Song,’ ‘Smoky Mountain Rain,’ and ‘Stranger in My House.’ He is credited with six Grammy awards.

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1942
Raymond Philips, from English rock band, Nashville Teens who scored the 1964 UK No.6 single and US Top 20 hit ‘Tobacco Road’.

1942
William Francis, keyboards, with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits ‘The Cover of Rolling Stone’, ‘A Little Bit More’, ‘When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman’ and ‘Sylvia’s Mother’.

1942
Barbara Lynn, US singer, who had the 1962 US No.8 single ‘You’ll Lose A Good Thing’.

1937
American musician Bob Bogle, guitarist with The Ventures, who had the 1960 UK No.4 single ‘Perfidia’, and the 1960 US No.2 ‘Walk Don’t Run’.

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1934
Bob Bogle (lead guitarist, bassist for The Ventures) is born in Oklahoma. Died June 14, 2009 (aged 75)

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