Born On This Day In Music, May 22nd

1981
Su-Elise Nash, from British girl group Mis-Teeq who had the 2001 UK No.2 single ‘All I Want’ and seven consecutive top-ten singles.

1979
Russell Pritchard, bassist with English indie rock band The Zutons. Their 2006 UK No.9 single ‘Valerie’ was later covered by Mark Ronson (with the lead vocals provided by Amy Winehouse.

1967
Dan Roberts, bassist with Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies best known internationally for their 1993 single ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’.

1966
American singer-songwriter and actor Johnny Gill who had the 1992 UK No.17 single, ‘Slow And Sexy’. Gill was the sixth and final member of the R&B pop group New Edition, and was also a member of the supergroup called LSG, with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat.

1962
Jesse Valenzuela, from American rock band Gin Blossoms, who had the 1994 UK top 30 hit single ‘Hey Jealousy’, from their first major label album, New Miserable Experience (1992).

1959
English singer, songwriter Steven Morrissey from The Smiths, who scored the 1984 UK No.10 single ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’, plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles’. As a solo artist he scored the 1988 UK No.5 single ‘Suedehead’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles. Widely regarded as an important innovator in the indie music scene, he has also attracted media attention for his advocacy of vegetarianism and animal rights.

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1958
Gospel singer Regina McCrary is born. As a member of The McCrary Sisters, she appears among the background vocalists on Ray Stevens’ “Everything Is Beautiful” and Maren Morris’ “My Church”

1956
Latvian-born Russian-American musician and actress Natasha Shneider. She was most notably the keyboardist and vocalist in the band Eleven, along with her partner, bandmate Alain Johannes. Shneider contributed to tracks for Chris Cornell and Queens of the Stone Age. Shneider died from cancer on July 2, 2008, age 52.

1955
Iva Davis, singer-songwriter, musician from Australian rock band Icehouse who had the 1983 UK hit single ‘Hey Little Girl’. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were ‘Great Southern Land’, ‘Crazy’ and ‘Electric Blue’.

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1955
Mary Black, Irish singer, songwriter, who has released over 12 solo albums. For a number of years, What Hi-Fi? magazine considered Black’s voice to be so pure, that it was used as an audiophile benchmark for comparing the sound quality of different high fidelity systems.

1955
John Grimaldi, guitarist for Argent, is born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.

1954
Jerry Dammers, founder member and keyboard play with The Specials who had the 1981 UK No.1 single ‘Ghost Town’. He contributed to the founding of the Coventry based 2 Tone Records.

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1950
Bernie Taupin, English lyricist, poet, and singer and Elton John’s long-time song writing partner. Rod Stewart, Cher, The Motels, John Waite, Starship and Alice Cooper have all recorded his songs. In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement placed in the UK music paper New Musical Express by Liberty Records, a company that was seeking new songwriters, Elton John responded to the advertisement, and the pair were brought together.

1948
Southern-rock vocalist Doug Gray is born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He becomes a member of The Marshall Tucker Band, who earn a country Grammy nomination in 1977 for their single “Long Hard Ride”.

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1947
American drummer Bill Lordan who worked with Sly & The Family Stone, Bobby Womack, Ike and Tina Turner and the Robin Trower Band.

1941
Jackie Landry Jackson, singer, from African-American girl group The Chantels, who had the 1958 top 20 hit ‘Maybe’ and the 1961 hit ‘Look In My Eyes’. She died on December 23, 1997.

1941
Bruce Rowland, drummer, best known for his memberships of The Grease Band (he played for Joe Cocker’s performance at the Woodstock Festival) and folk rock band Fairport Convention as well as Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance. He was also a prolific session musician. He died on 29 June 2015.

1931
Kenny Ball, English jazz musician, best known as the bandleader, lead trumpet player and vocalist in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen who had the 1961 UK & US No.2 single ‘Midnight In Moscow’. Ball died on 7 March 2013 at Basildon Hospital, Essex, where he was being treated for pneumonia.

1924
Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, public activist and diplomat, famous for his 1974 UK No.1 single ‘She’. He was one of France’s most popular and enduring singers and was dubbed France’s Frank Sinatra, selling more than 180 million records, recording more than 1,200 songs (interpreted in nine languages) and he wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others. On 1 October 2018, Aznavour was found dead in a bathtub at his home at Mouriès at the age of 94.

Charles Aznavour – She

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Charles Aznavour – Yesterday When I Was Young

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