Born On This Day In Music, May 30th

1975
American musician Brian Fair, lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Shadows Fall.

1974
American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), who with Gnarls Barkley had the 2006 UK No.1 & US No.2 single ‘Crazy’. His work has earned numerous awards and accolades, including five Grammy Awards.

1971
Patrick Dalheimer, bassist, from American rock band Live who achieved worldwide success with their 1994 album Throwing Copper, which sold eight million copies in the US.

1968
Tim Burgess, singer, songwriter with English indie rock band The Charlatans who had the 1990 UK No.9 single ‘The Only One I Know’. In the UK, all of the band’s thirteen studio albums have charted in the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, three of them being No.1s.

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1967
German musician Sven Pipien, bassist with The Black Crowes. He replaced original bassist Johnny Colt.

1966
American musician and lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He also performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

1964
American country music singer Wynonna Judd who first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. The duo released seven albums and scored 26 US hit singles, of which 14 were No.1 hits.

1964
American musician, singer-songwriter and political activist Tom Morello, guitar, from Rage Against The Machine, who had the 1996 US No.1 album Evil Empire. With Audioslave the 2005 US No.1 album Out of Exile. Morello was most recently a touring musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

1960
Stephen Duffy, singer, songwriter, guitarist, founding member of Duran Duran with John Taylor and Nick Rhodes (left in 1979). Member of Lilac Time, Me Me Me, (1996 UK No.19 singe ‘Hanging Around’), solo, (1985 UK No.4 single ‘Kiss Me’).

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1958
Swedish pop singer-songwriter and pianist Marie Fredriksson, with Swedish group Roxette, who had the 1990 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘It Must Have Been Love’. Roxette have sold an estimated 75 million records worldwide. Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019, aged 61 following a 17-year long battle with cancer.

1955
Nicky ‘Topper’ Headon, drummer from The Clash, who had the 1979 UK No. 11 single ‘London Calling’ and the 1982 US No. 8 single ‘Rock The Casbah. Their 1991 UK No.1 single ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’, was first released 1982. Also worked with Mirkwood, and The Moors Murderers.

1949
Klaus Flouride, from Dead Kennedys the American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco. The band was one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.

1945
American singer Gladys Horton. She was the founder and lead singer of the Motown all-female vocal group The Marvelettes who had the hits ‘Please Mr. Postman’, (when Horton was reportedly just fifteen years old). Horton would later sing lead on Marvelettes’ classics such as ‘Playboy’, ‘Beechwood 4-5789’ and ‘Too Many Fish in the Sea’. Horton died on 26 January 2011 aged 65.

1944
Lenny Davidson, from English pop rock band, Dave Clark Five, who scored the 1964 UK No.1 single ‘Glad All Over’, and the 1965 US No.1 single ‘Over And Over’ , plus over 15 other UK top 40 singles.

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1924
Latin jazz percussionist Armando Peraza who was a member of Santana from 1972 until the early 90s appearing on over 15 of the groups albums. He died of pneumonia on April 14, 2014 at the age of 89.

1909
Benny Goodman is born in Chicago. At just 12 years old, he begins performing professionally as a clarinetist; by 14, he joins a musicians union. He records his first solo in 1926 and by 1934 he is the leader of a 12-piece big band. He died June 13, 1986.

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