Born On This Day In Music, June 10th

2004
American pop singer Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd, better known by her mononym Gayle (stylized as GAYLE). She released the single ‘ABCDEFU’ in 2021, which charted worldwide, including reaching No.1 in the United Kingdom.

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1989
Joel Corry, British DJ, producer and television personality. ‘Head & Heart’ which features MNEK on vocals, spent six weeks at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in 2020.

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1987
Ghanaian-English rapper, singer, Tinchy Stryder, (Kwasi Danquah). Stryder has released three solo studio albums, Star in the Hood (2007), Catch 22 (2009), and Third Strike (2010). Stryder’s business ventures include the clothing line Star in the Hood, the Cloud 9 X Goji headphone and audio equipment range in collaboration with Goji Electronics.

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1973
American singer-songwriter Faith Evans who had the 1997 US & UK No.1 single with Puff Daddy ‘I’ll Be Missing You’, and the 2000 UK hit single with Whitney Houston ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.

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1967
Darren Robinson, (Human Breathbox), Rapper, The Fat Boys, (1988 UK No.2 single ‘Wipe-out’). He was also known as Buffy, The Human Beat Box, and DJ Doctor Nice. He, along with Doug E. Fresh and others, were pioneers of beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion used in many rap groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He died on 10th December 1995 age 28.

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1965
Joey Santiago, guitarist with American alternative rock band Pixies, who released the 1988 album Surfer Rosa. They influenced bands such as Nirvana, Radiohead, Bush, Blur and Weezer.

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1964
Emma Anderson, guitarist with the British alternative rock band Lush who had the 1996 UK No.21 single ‘Single Girl’.

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1964
Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer with American alternative rock band, Smashing Pumpkins who had the 1995 US No.1 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

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1961
Kim Deal, American singer, songwriter and musician who with American alternative rock band Pixies, released the 1988 album Surfer Rosa. She was also a member of The Breeders, with Tanya Donelly, Josephine Wiggs and her identical twin sister Kelley Deal and later performed with The Amps.

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1961
Mark Shaw, singer, with English rock band Then Jerico who had the 1989 UK No.13 single ‘Big Area’.

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1944
Rick Price, with British rock band The Move who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Blackberry Way’ and hits with ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’, ‘Flowers in the Rain’ and ‘Fire Brigade’.

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1941
Shirley Owens, singer with American girl group The Shirelles, notable for their popularity in the early 1960s. They were the first all-female black group to have a No.1 hit record with ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ in 1961.

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1934
American singer Gerald Gregory from 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. He died on 12 February 1999.

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1922
Judy Garland, singer, actress. Played Dorothy in the 1939 film ‘Wizard Of Oz’ sang ‘Over The Rainbow’ in the film, 1961 US No.1 comeback album ‘Judy At Carnegie Hall’. ‘Over The Rainbow’ was voted the ‘Song Of The Century’ in a 2001 poll published in America. She died June 22nd 1969 of a barbiturate overdose.

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1910
Chester Burnett, (Howlin Wolf) Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. Several of his songs, including ‘Smokestack Lightnin”, ‘Back Door Man’, ‘Killing Floor’ and ‘Spoonful’, have become blues and blues rock standards. He died from cancer on January 10th 1976.