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Born On This Day In Music, June 11th
1987
Dappy, English singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor, best known for being the lead singer of grime trio N-Dubz.
1969
Steven Drozd, American musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for the Flaming Lips and Electric Würms. The Flaming Lips 1999 release The Soft Bulletin was NME magazine’s Album of the Year and the group has won three Grammy Awards.
1969
Bass player “Smilin'” Jay McDowell is born in Bedford, Indiana. He joins BR549, an energetic, traditionally influenced band that emerges from Nashville’s lower Broadway to become a critical favorite in the late-1990s, gaining several Grammy nominations
1966
Singer/songwriter Bruce Robison is born in Bandera, Texas. Finding an artistic home in alternative-country, he nets commercial success as the songwriter of Tim McGraw’s “Angry All The Time” and The Dixie Chicks’ “Travelin Soldier”
1964
American singer-songwriter Penny Ford from Eurodance group Snap! Their debut album World Power (1990), sold over 7 million copies worldwide and became one of the most successful dance albums to date and contained the No.1 hit ‘The Power’.
1961
Robert Birch, singer with British hip hop/electronic dance group Stereo MCs who had the 1992 UK No.12 single ‘Step It Up’.
1960
Nick Hallam, DJ, producer, co founder of Gee Street Records, and a member of Stereo MCs who had the 1992 UK No.12 single ‘Step It Up’.
1958
English drummer Kevin Wilkinson who worked with Howard Jones, The League of Gentlemen, The Waterboys, China Crisis, and Squeeze. Wilkinson committed suicide on 17 July 1999, aged 41, by hanging himself in the family home.
1958
Barry Adamson, English musician who has worked with Magazine, Visage, Pete Shelley, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electro musicians Pan sonic.
1954
American vocalist, songwriter Johnny Neel who has worked with The Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, Michael McDonald and Dickey Betts.
1952
Donnie Van Zant, American rock vocalist, guitarist best known as having been a member of 38 Special, from its formation in 1974 until 2013. He is the middle of three brothers: his older brother Ronnie was the original lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash.
1951
Lynsey De Paul, UK singer, songwriter, who scored the 1972 UK No.5 single ‘Sugar Me’. She became the first woman to win an Ivor Novello song-writing award. She died October 1, 2014.
1950
Graham Russell – singer, guitarist of Air Supply, is born Cyril Graham Russell in Nottingham, England.
1949
Frank Beard, American drummer with ZZ Top, who had the 1984 US No.8 & 1985 UK No.16 single ‘Legs’. Beard is notable as being the only musician in the band without a long beard, an ironic fact considering his last name. The band has had global album sales in excess of 50 million as of 2014.
1948
Rock drummer Skip Alan of The Pretty Things, Them is born in England.
1947
Glenn Leonard, American R&B and soul singer with The Temptations, from 1975 to 1983.
1947
Richard Palmer-James, English musician who worked with King Crimson in the early 1970s and was a founding member of Supertramp; he sang vocals and wrote the lyrics for their self-titled debut album.
1946
John Lawton, from English rock band Uriah Heep who had the 1975 UK No.7 album Return To Fantasy. They have sold over 40 million albums worldwide. He died unexpectedly on 29 June 2021 age 74.
1944
Judy Craig lead singer of the American girl group The Chiffons, who had the 1963 US No.1 hit ‘He’s So Fine’. The song is also renowned as the plaintiff song in the famous plagiarism case against George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’.
1940
Joseph DiNicola, from American group Joey and the Starlighters. who scored the 1962 US No.1 single ‘Peppermint Twist, Part 1’. Jimi Hendrix was a member of the band during 1964.
1939
Country singer Wilma Burgess, known for hit singles like “Misty Blue” throughout the ’60s and ’70s, is born in Orlando, Florida. Died: August 26, 2003, Nashville, TN
1934
James “Pookie” Hudson the lead singer of the fifties doo-wop group The Spaniels. Their 1954 hit ‘Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite’ was featured in such films as Three Men and a Baby and American Graffiti. The Spaniels became one of the first artists to sign with Vee-Jay Records, the first large, independent Afro-American owned record label. Hudson died on 16th January 2007.
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