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Born on this day in music, October 21st
21 Oct 1995
Doja Cat, American singer, rapper, songwriter. Her second studio album, Hot Pink (2019), reached the top 10 of the US Billboard 200 and spawned the single ‘Say So’, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
21 Oct 1993
Kane Brown is born in Georgia. After earning attention with a series of videos posted online, he gains hits with the 2017 Lauren Alaina duet “What Ifs” and the 2018 solo single “Heaven.” His self-titled album goes to #1 for a total of a dozen weeks. In October 2017, Brown became the first artist to have simultaneous No.1’s on all five main Billboard country charts.
21 Oct 1977
Matthew Ramsey, American country music songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist (Old Dominion -“Break Up With Him”; “Snapback”), born in Buchanan, Virginia.
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21 Oct 1971
Nick Oliveri, American bassist, guitarist, vocalist who has been a member of Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, (from 1998 to 2004), Mondo Generator and Dwarves.
21 Oct 1971
Tony Mortimer, from English pop boy band East 17 who had the 1994 UK No.1 single ‘Stay Another Day’, plus 18 top-20 singles and four top-10 albums, and were one of the UK’s most popular boy bands during the early to mid-1990s.
21 Oct 1964
Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd; The Who), born in New York, New York
21 Oct 1959
Rose McDowell, singer, Strawberry Switchblade, (1984 UK No.5 single ‘Since Yesterday’).
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21 Oct 1957
Attila The Stockbroker, pop poet, worked with John Otway and TV Smith.
21 Oct 1957
Julian Cope, guitar, vocals, Teardrop Explodes, (1981 UK No.6 single ‘Reward’), solo (1986 UK No.19 single ‘World Shut Your Mouth’).
21 Oct 1957
American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer Steve Lukather, who with Toto had the 1983 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Africa’. Lukather has recorded guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums including the guitar solo for Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 No.1 single ‘Physical’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’, and was also heavily involved in the recording of virtually all of Jackson’s Thriller album.
21 Oct 1953
Eric Faulkner [Falconer], Scottish rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers – “Saturday Night“), born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Singer and guitarist of the 1970s pop group, Bay City Rollers who had the 1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bye Bye Baby’ plus 11 other UK Top 20 singles’ and the 1976 US No.1 single ‘Saturday Night’.
21 Oct 1953
Guitarist Charlotte Caffey is born in Santa Monica, California. A member of the 1980s all-girl pop/rock band The Go-Go’s, she teams with bandmate Jane Wiedlin and Keith Urban to write Urban’s hit “But For The Grace Of God” (1982 US No.2 single, ‘We Got The Beat’, 1982 UK No.47 single ‘Our Lips Our Sealed’).
21 Oct 1952
American keyboardist and vocalist, Brent Mydland, best known for being in Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990. His eleven-year tenure was longer than that of any other keyboardist in the band. He was found dead on the floor of his home on 26th July 1990 aged 38 from a drug overdose.
21 Oct 1947
Tetsu Yamauchi, bass player, Faces, (1973 UK No.8 single ‘Pool Hall Richard’,) Free, (1973 UK No.7 single ‘Wishing Well’).
21 Oct 1946
Lux Interior (Erick Lee Purkhiser), singer and founding member of The Cramps. Died in Glendale, California on February 4, 2009.
21 Oct 1946
American trumpeter, flugelhorn player, vocalist, and songwriter Lee Loughnane with Chicago who had the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘If You Leave Me Now’. The band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois as The Chicago Transit Authority before shortening the name in 1970. Chicago have had five consecutive No.1 albums on the Billboard chart and 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
21 Oct 1945
Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
21 Oct 1943
Ron Elliott, The Beau Brummels, (1965 US No.8 single, ‘Just A Little.’)
21 Oct 1942
Elvin Bishop, guitarist, (1976 US No.3 & UK No.34 single ‘Fooled Around And Fell In Love’). Member of Paul Butterfield Blues Band 65-68.
21 Oct 1941
Steve Cropper, American guitarist, with Booker T and the MG’s, that had the 1962 US No. 3 single ‘Green Onions’, and the 1969 UK No.4 single ‘Time Is Tight’. Cropper played guitar on the Otis Redding hit ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay’. As a session guitarist he has worked with many artists including: John Lennon, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart.
21 Oct 1940
South African–British keyboard player, guitarist, and vocalist Manfred Mann who had the 1964 UK & US No.1 single ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy‘ and with Manfred Mann’s Earth Band hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘For You’, ‘Blinded by the Light’ and ‘Spirit in the Night’.
21 Oct 1925
Charles “Doctor” Ross, American blues singer and guitarist (The Harmonica Boss), born in Tunica, Mississippi. Died May 28, 1993
21 Oct 1924
Celia Cruz, Cuban-American Grammy Award-winning guaracha, salsa, and bolero singer (La Sonora Matancera, 1950-65), known as ‘the Queen of Salsa’, born in Havana, Cuba. Died July 16, 2003
21 Oct 1917
Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. Died January 6, 1993
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