July 22nd: Born On This Day In Music

1992
American singer and actress Selena Gomez. She released her solo debut album Stars Dance in 2013 which debuted atop the Billboard 200 in the US and included the top ten single ‘Come & Get It’.

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1973
Rufus Wainwright, Canadian / American, singer-songwriter, son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and the brother of Martha Wainwright. 2003 album ‘Want One’, 2005 UK No.21 album ‘Want Two’, 2007 UK No.2 album ‘Release the Stars.’

1973
Australian musician, songwriter, Daniel Jones, who with Savage Garden had the 1998 US No.1 & UK Top 5 single ‘Truly Madly Deeply’, the hit ‘To the Moon and Back’.

1971
Chris Helme, vocals, The Seahorses, (1997 UK No.3 single ‘Love Is The Law’, UK No.2 album, ‘Do It Yourself’).

1967
Pat Badger, bass, Extreme, (1991 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘More Than Words’).

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1964
William Calhoun, drums, Living Colour, (1991 UK No.12 single ‘Love Rears Its Ugly Head’).

1963
Emily Saliers from Grammy Award–winning folk rock music American duo Indigo Girls who have released over 15 albums.

1961
Keith Sweat, American R&B, soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, radio personality and an innovator of New Jack Swing.

1956
Mick Pointer, from British rock band Marillion who had the 1985 UK No.2 single ‘Kayleigh’. The band achieved eight Top Ten UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a No.1 album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood.

1953
English rock singer Brian Howe, best known for replacing Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company. Howe’s career was jump-started in 1983 when Ted Nugent recruited him to handle lead vocals for his Penetrator album and front its subsequent world tour. He died on May , 2020 of cardiac arrest age 66.

1951
American guitarist and record producer Richard Bennett. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session musician, he has worked with Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Rodney Crowell, and Vince Gill and has produced albums for Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.

1947
Don Henley, singer, songwriter, and drummer with the Eagles, who had the 1977 US No.1 & UK No.8 single ‘Hotel California’, plus 5 US No.1 albums. The Eagles ‘Greatest Hits 1971-1975’ is the second biggest selling album in the world with sales over 30m. Henley had the 1985 solo US No.5 & UK No.12 single ‘The Boys of Summer’.

1944
Rick Davies, vocalist and keyboardist with Supertramp, who had the 1979 UK No.7 and US No.6 single with ‘The Logical Song’ and the 1979 US No.1 and UK No.3 album Breakfast In America. Davies is the only member of Supertramp to have been with the group for their entire history, and has composed many of their most well-known songs, including ‘Goodbye Stranger’, and ‘Bloody Well Right’.

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1943
Bobby Sherman, US singer, (1969 US No.3 single ‘Little Woman’ and six other US Top 30 hits).

1941
Estelle Bennett, The Ronettes, (1963 US No.4 & UK No.4 single ‘Be My Baby’). Died at her home in Englewood, N.J. on 11th Feb 2009, aged 67.

1941
American singer, songwriter, bandleader and record producer George Clinton. He is regarded, along with James Brown and Sly Stone, as one of the foremost innovators of funk music.

1940
One-hit-wonder Thomas Wayne, known for 1959’s “Tragedy,” is born Thomas Wayne Perkins is Batesville, Mississippi. His brother is Johnny Cash’s guitarist, Luther Perkins. He died in a car accident, at the age of 31, in Memphis on August 15, 1971.

1937
R&B singer Chuck Jackson is born in Latta, South Carolina, but is raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Died on February 16, 2023

1924
Margaret Whiting is born in Detroit, Michigan, but is raised in Los Angeles, California, where her dad, Richard, composes popular tunes such as “Hooray For Hollywood” and “On The Good Ship Lollipop.” Modern listeners know her for her holiday duet with Johnny Mercer, “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Died on January 10, 2011.

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