Born On This Day In Music, July 6th

1987 – Kate Nash
Kate Nash, UK singer, songwriter, who had the 2007 UK No.1 album Made Of Bricks and the 2007 UK No.2 single ‘Foundations’.

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1985 – D. Woods
D. Woods, singer with American girl group Danity Kane, (formed on the MTV reality show Making the Band 3). They became the first female group in Billboard history to debut their first two albums at the top of the charts.

1979 – Nic Cester
Nic Cester, singer, from Australian rock band Jet, who had the 2003 Australian No.1 & UK No.14 album Get Born. The group sold over 6.5 million albums.

1975 – 50 Cent
50 Cent, (Curtis Jackson), US rapper. 2003 US No.1 single ‘In Da Club’, debut album, ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ was named the biggest selling US album in 2003 going platinum six times over.

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1969 – Michael Grant
Michael Grant, Musical Youth, best remembered for their successful 1982 single ‘Pass the Dutchie’, which became a No.1 hit around the world. It was a cover version of two songs: ‘Gimme the Music’ by U Brown, and ‘Pass the Kouchie’ by Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis (kouchie being slang for a cannabis pipe).

1965 – Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell, keyboards, from Scottish pop rock band Texas who had the 1997 UK No.3 single ‘Say What You Want’, and the 1997 UK No.1 album White On Blonde which has been certified six-times platinum in the UK.

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1963 – Tim Bricheno
Tim Bricheno, guitar, All About Eve who had the 1988 UK No.10 single ‘Martha’s Harbour’ and with English gothic rock band, The Sisters Of Mercy the 1992 UK No.3 single ‘Temple Of Love’.

1961 – Robert Heaton
Robert Heaton, drummer in the English rock band New Model Army. Heaton died of pancreatic cancer on 4 November 2004, aged 43.

1959 – John Keeble
English pop and rock drummer John Keeble with Spandau Ballet who became one of the most successful groups to emerge during the New Romantic era and have produced a number of international hits during the 80s including ‘True’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Through the Barricades.’

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1957 – David Doucet
Guitarist David Doucet is born in Louisiana. In 1975, he becomes a founding member of the Cajun group BeauSoleil. The band contributes to Mary Chapin Carpenter’s 1991 country hit “Down At The Twist And Shout”

1953 – Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith, US singer, songwriter. In 1994 she won a Grammy Award for the album Other Voices, Other Rooms. She died on 13 August 2021 at the age of 68.

1952 – David Smith
David Smith, from British soul group The Real Thing, who had the 1976 UK No.1 single ‘You To Me Are Everything’.

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1952 – Graham Oliver
Graham Oliver, from English heavy metal band Saxon. As one of the leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal, they had eight UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s.

1949 – Michael Shrieve
American drummer and, percussionist Michael Shrieve best known as the drummer of Santana. He played on all albums from 1969 to 1974. When he was 20, Shrieve was one of the youngest musicians to perform at Woodstock in 1969.

1945 – Rik Elswit
Rik Elswit, guitarist, 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’.

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1944 – Byron Berline
American fiddle player Byron Berline. He joined The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1971, worked with Stephen Stills’s band Manassas and played on ‘Country Honk’ on the Rolling Stones’ album Let It Bleed. He also worked with many other artists including: Bob Dylan, Elton John, The Byrds, Janis Ian, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Rod Stewart, The Eagles and The Band. He died on 10 July 2021 age of 77.

1943 – Jan Bradley
Soul singer Jan Bradley, who becomes popular by covering Curtis Mayfield tunes before writing her own songs, is born Addie Bradley in Byhalia, Mississippi.

1939 – Jet Harris
Jet Harris, the bass guitarist of the Shadows until April 1962, and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with the drummer Tony Meehan who he topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in early 1963 with ‘Diamonds’.

1937 – Gene Chandler
American soul singer, Gene Chandler, (Eugene Dixon) who had the 1962 US No.1 single ‘Duke Of Earl’, and the 1979 UK No.11 single ‘Get Down’.

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1931 – Della Reese
Della Reese is born Delloreese Patricia Early in the Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. She died on November 19, 2017

1925 – Bill Haley
Bill Haley, (William John Clifton Haley), singer, guitarist, ‘The first Rock ‘n’ Roll star.’ As Bill Haley and his Comets he had the 1955 UK & US No.1 single ‘Rock Around the Clock’ Haley was one of the earliest acts to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. He sold over 60 million records during his career. Haley died on 9th February 1981.

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1924 – Louie Bellson
Jazz drummer Louie Bellson, famous for his work with Duke Ellington, is born in Illinois. Bellson died at age 84 from complications of a broken hip on February 14, 2009.

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