Born On This Day In Music,

March 30th

1990 – Thomas Rhett
Thomas Rhett, American country music singer, the son of singer-songwriter Rhett Akins. His third single, ‘It Goes Like This’ topped the Country Airplay chart and also peaked at No.2 on the Hot Country Songs. His 2015 single ‘Die a Happy Man’ topped the country charts for 16 weeks.

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1979 – Norah Jones
American singer, songwriter, pianist Norah Jones who had the 2002 US & UK Grammy award winning No.1 album ‘Come Away With Me’ which has sold over 27 million copies. Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar.

1979 – Simon Webbe
Simon Webbe, singer with English boyband, Blue who had the 2002 UK No.1 single ‘If You Come Back’. The group also worked alongside artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Lil’ Kim.

1973 – Adam Goldstein
American disc jockey Adam Goldstein, (DJ AM). Worked with Crazy Town, Blink 182, Madonna and Will Smith. He was found dead in his New York City apartment on 28th Aug 2009 of an accidental drug overdose.

1968 – Celine Dion
Celine Dion, French, Canadian singer who had the 1994 US No.1 single ‘The Power Of Love‘ and the 1998 UK No.1 single ‘My Heart Will Go On’, plus over 10 other UK Top 40 singles. Her 1995 album D’eux became the best-selling French-language album of all time. She won the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland, in 1988.

1967 – Martin Kent
Martin ‘Ace’, Kent, guitarist with British rock band Skunk Anansie who had the 1996 UK No.20 single ‘Weak’. The band have spent a total of 141 weeks on both the singles and album charts.

1966 – Joey Castillo
Joey Castillo, American drummer best known for his ten-year tenure in Queens of the Stone Age, from 2002 to 2012.

1965 – Tim Dorney
Tim Dorney from English alternative rock band Republica who had the 1997 UK No.7 single ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ and the single ‘Ready to Go’.

1964 – Tracy Chapman
American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman who had the 1988 UK No.5 & US No.6 single ‘Fast Car’. Her 1988 debut album Tracy Chapman, garnered Chapman six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year.

1962 – MC Hammer
American hip hop artist MC Hammer, (Stanley Kirk Burrell) who had the 1990 US No.1 album Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em, which spent a record-breaking 21 weeks at the Top of the chart. Also known for his 1990 hit single ‘U Can’t Touch This’. Burrell became a preacher during the late 1990s with a Christian ministry program on TBN called M.C. Hammer and Friends.

1955 – Randy VanWarmer
American singer-songwriter and guitarist Randy VanWarmer, who had the 1979 US No.4 & UK No.8 single ‘Just When I Needed You Most’). He died of leukemia on January 12th 2004.

1954 – Lena Lovich
English-American singer, songwriter Lena Lovich, who had the 1979 UK No.3 single ‘Lucky Number’.

1950 – Dave Ball
Dave Ball, Procol Harum, 1967 UK No.1 & US No.5 single ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale‘ (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits ‘Homburg’, ‘Conquistador’.

1950 – Re Styles
Re Styles, guitar, vocals, with American band The Tubes known for their 1977 hit single ‘White Punks On Dope’ and the 1983 US No.10 single ‘She’s A Beauty’.

1948 – Jim Dandy
James Mangrum, better known as Jim “Dandy” Mangrum, the lead singer and frontman for the American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. In 1973, they released their most successful album, High on the Hog. One of the songs from the album, Jim Dandy, (a cover of the 1955 LaVern Baker song), reached number 25 on the Billboard charts.

1945 – Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton guitarist, singer, songwriter who has been a member of The Roosters, Casey Jones and the Engineers, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds and Cream who had the 1967 UK No.11 single ‘I Feel Free’. He was a member of Blind Faith, and later formed Derek and the Dominoes who had the 1972 UK No.7 single ‘Layla’. As a solo artist Clapton scored the 1974 US No.1 single ‘I Shot The Sheriff’ and the 1992 UK No.5 & US No.25 single ‘Tears in Heaven‘.

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1943 – Jay Traynor
American singer Jay Traynor. He was the third lead vocalist of the Mystics, singing falsetto on ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, and lead on ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ and ‘Blue Star’. Later, he started Jay and the Americans with Kenny Vance and Sandy Yaguda, and was the original lead singer. He sang lead on the group’s first 1962 hit, ‘She Cried’. Traynor died on January 2 2014 age 70.

1943 – Ken Forssi
American bassist Ken Forssi. In 1965 he met Arthur Lee, who then had a band called Grass Roots and was greatly impressed. Lee hired Forssi as bassist, and soon officially formed Love. Love scored the 1966 US No.33 single ‘7 And 7 Is’, 1968 UK No.24 album Forever Changes.

1941 – Graeme Edge
Graeme Edge, drummerwith English rock band The Moody Blues who had the 1965 UK No.1 & US No.10 single ‘Go Now’ and the hits singles including ‘Go Now’, ‘Nights in White Satin’ and ‘Question’. He died on 11 November 2021 of metastatic cancer age 80.

1930 – Rolf Harris
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris who had the 1963 US No.3 single ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’, 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Two Little Boys’ and 1993 UK No.7 ‘Stairway To Heaven’. Harris’s career ended when he was convicted and imprisoned for sexual offences. In 2014, at the age of 84, he was jailed on twelve counts of indecent assault on four teenage female victims during the 1970s and 1980s. He was sentenced to 5 years and 9 months in jail.

1913 – Frankie Laine
Italian American singer, songwriter and actor Frankie Laine who scored the 1953 UK No.1 single ‘I Believe’, (which spent eighteen non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart), plus over 25 other UK Top 20 singles and the 1956 US No.3 single ‘Moonlight Gambler’. He died on 6 February 2007 aged 93.

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