Born On This Day In Music, March 27th

1990 – Kimbra
Kimbra, (Kimbra Lee Johnson). She and Gotye won the Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance awards at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’, making her only the third New Zealand singer to win a Grammy Award in history.

1988 – Jessie J
Jessie J, (Jessica Ellen Cornish), English singer-songwriter, who had the 2011 UK No.1 single ‘Price Tag’ and the 2012 UK No.1 ‘Domino.’

1975 – Fergie
Fergie, US R&B singer, songwriter, former member of Kids Incorporated, Wild Orchid, co-host of the TV show Great Pretenders, and vocalist of The Black Eyed Peas. 2003 US & UK No.1 single ‘Where Is The Love’, 2006 US No.1 solo single ‘London Bridge.’ 2007 world-wide No.1 single ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry.’

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1970 – Mariah Carey
American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and entrepreneur Mariah Carey. She became the first and only artist to have their first five singles reach No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. She is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 64 million albums sold. Carey is named after ‘They Call The Wind Mariah’ from the musical Paint Your Wagon.

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1970 – Brendan Hill
Brendan Hill, drummer for Blues Traveler, is born in London, England.

1965 – Johnny April
Johnny April, bassist with American rock band Staind who had the 2001 US No.1 album, Break The Cycle.

1964 – Clark Datchler
English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer Clark Datchler, from British band Johnny Hates Jazz who had the 1987 UK No.5 single and international success with ‘Shattered Dreams’.

1962 – Derrick McKenzie
Derrick McKenzie, drummer with Jamiroquai who had the 1993 UK No.1 album Emergency on Planet Earth and the 1998 UK No.1 single ‘Deeper Underground’. Jamiroquai have sold more than 26 million albums worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1998.

1959 – Andrew Farriss
Andrew Farriss, keyboards, from Australian rock band INXS, who had the 1988 UK No.2 & US No.1 single ‘Need You Tonight’. Their 1987 album Kick has sold over 10m copies in the US alone and features four Top 10 singles; ‘Need You Tonight,’ ‘Devil Inside’, ‘New Sensation,’ and ‘Never Tear Us Apart.’ INXS has sold over 55 million records worldwide.

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1957 – Billy MacKenzie
Scottish singer Billy MacKenzie from The Associates who had the 1982 UK No.9 single ‘Party Fears Two’. On January 22, 1997, 39-year-old MacKenzie took his own life.

1956 – Paul Wickens
British musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Paul Wickens who has worked with Paul McCartney since 1989. Wickens has also worked with Styx, The Damned, Tim Finn, Paul Carrack, Nik Kershaw, Jim Diamond, Boy George, and David Gilmour.

1953 – Walter Stocker
Walter Stocker, from the Australian soft rock band Air Supply who scored the 1980 UK No.11 single ‘All Out Of Love’ and the 1981 US No.1 single ‘The One That You Love’.

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1950 – Tony Banks
Tony Banks, keyboards, Genesis, (1986 US No.1 single ‘Invisible Touch’, 1992 UK No.7 single ‘I Can’t Dance’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 hit singles & 6 UK No.1 albums).

1947 – Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown, keyboards, vocals, bass with English pop band The Herd, who had three UK top twenty hits in the late 1960s, including ‘From the Underworld’ and ‘I Don’t Want Our Loving to Die’.

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1939 – Bo Winberg
Swedish singer and guitarist Bo Winberg. He was a member of The Spotnicks, who together with the Shadows and the Ventures are counted as one of the most famous instrumental bands during the 1960s. The Spotnicks were famous for wearing “space suit” costumes on stage, and for their innovative electronic guitar sound. Winberg died on 3 January 2020.

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