Born On This Day In Music, September 6th

1980
English singer and media personality Kerry Katona who with Atomic Kitten had the 2000 UK No.1 single ‘Whole Again’. Katona left the group in 2001. Katona was the winner of the third series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2004

1974
Nina Persson, singer with Swedish rock band The Cardigans who had the 1997 UK No.2 single ‘Lovefool’ which was included in the soundtrack to the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet.

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1973
John Reid is born in Easterhouse, Scotland. A vocalist with the 1990s house music band Nightcrawlers, he co-writes Keith Urban’s 2009 country hit “Only You Can Love Me This Way”

1973
Anika Noni Rose, Tony Award-winning American singer and actress. Appeared in the 2006 motion picture musical Dreamgirls.

1971
Dolores O’Riordan, singer, songwriter with The Cranberries who had the 1994 hit singles ‘Linger’, ‘Dreams’ and ‘Zombie’. The bands 1993 album Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We spent a total of 86 weeks on the UK chart. She died unexpectedly on 15 January 2018 while she was in London, England, for a recording session.

1970
Cheyne Coates, Australian singer, Madison Avenue, (1999 Australian No.1 and 2000 UK No.1 single ‘Don’t Call Me Baby’).

1970
American rock musician and multi-instrumentalist, Dean Fertita. Was a member of The Waxwings, The Raconteurs and joined Queens of the Stone Age to replace the late Natasha Shneider.

1969
Macy Gray US singer, (Natalie McIntyre), 1999, UK No. 6 single ‘I Try’ 1999 US No. 4 album ‘How Life Is’.

1969
Marc Anthony, US singer, songwriter, (2000 US No.2 single ‘You Sang To Me’).

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1969
Paddy Boom, (Patrick Seacor), drums, Scissor Sisters, (2004 UK No.1 self-titled album, 2004 UK No. 12 single ‘Laura’).

1969
Dance-pop artist CeCe Peniston is born Cecilia Veronica Peniston in Dayton, Ohio, but would be raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Known for the 1991 hit “Finally.”

1967
American musician William DuVall, best known as being the current co-vocalist and a rhythm guitarist for the grunge band Alice in Chains.

1965
British musician Terry Bickers, lead guitarist, with House Of Love who rose to prominence in 1987 with their first single ‘Shine On’ released on the independent label Creation.

1963
Mark Chesnutt is born in Beaumont, Texas. With honky tonk forming the center point for his music, he emerges with “Too Cold At Home” in 1990 and becomes one of the steadiest hitmakers of the decade.

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1961
Pal Waaktaar, guitar, A-Ha (1985 US No.1 single ‘Take On Me’, 1986 UK No.1 single ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’). The first Norwegian group to score a UK and US No.1.

1961
Colin Ferrguson, H2o, (1983 UK No. 17 single ‘Dream To Sleep’).

1958
English singer Buster Bloodvessel, (Douglas Trendle) who with Bad Manners had the 1981 UK No. 3 single ‘Can Can’. He took his stage name from the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in the The Beatles 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour.

1957
Joe Smyth is born in Portland, Maine. He becomes the drummer for Sawyer Brown, behind the kit for such hits as “Thank God For You,” “The Race Is On,” Six Days On The Road” and “Step That Step

1954
Stella Barker, The Belle Stars, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Sign Of The Times).

1948
Claydes Smith, Kool & The Gang, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Celebration’, 1984 UK No.2 single ‘Joanna’, plus over 15 other Top 40 hits).

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1947
Sylvester James, singer, (1978 US No.36 & UK No. 8 single ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty. Died on 16th December 1988.

1943
Roger Waters: singer, songwriter, bassist and co-founder of Pink Floyd. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, over time Waters became the band’s principal lyricist. Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and released a series of successful solo albums. He has also authored an opera, Ca Ira. The most active of all the Floyd members, he has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999, playing The Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety as well as the current and hugely successful The Wall tour.

1942
Dave Bargerdon, from jazz-rock American music group Blood Sweat & Tears. They scored the 1969 US No.2 single ‘Spinning Wheel’, and the 1969 US No.12 single ‘You’ve Made Me So Very Happy’. They had a US No.1 with their second album Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.

1940
Jackie Trent, singer, 1965 UK No.1 single ‘Where Are You Now (My Love). With her husband Tony Hatch she wrote songs for Frank Sinatra, Petula Clark, Des O’Connor, Val Doonican, Shirley Bassey, Vikki Carr, and Dean Martin. Trent died in hospital on 21 March 2015, aged 74, in Minorca, Spain, after a long illness.

1939
David Allan Coe is born in Akron, Ohio, an event he calls “the first of a long line of crimes I was to be convicted for” in his autobiography. He pens “Take This Job And Shove It” and “Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone),” and records “The Ride” and the “perfect country & western song,” “You Never Even Called Me By My Name”.

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1925
Jimmy Reed, blues singer, guitarist, 1964 UK No.45 single ‘Shame Shame, Shame’. Wrote ‘Big Boss Man’, Bright Light’s Big City’. Major influence on The Rolling Stones. Elvis Presley covered ‘Baby What You Want Me To Do’. Reed died on 29th August 1976.

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