Born On This Day In Music

1994
RM (Kim Nam-joon), South Korean singer, songwriter, with the boy band BTS. They became the first Korean act to top the US Billboard chart with their studio album Love Yourself: Tear (2018). BTS also became the fastest group since The Beatles to earn four US No.1 albums, doing so in less than two years. They became the first Asian act to chart a No.1 song in the US since Kyu Sakamoto with ‘Sukiyaki’ (1963).

1993
Singer/songwriter Kelsea Ballerini is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She becomes a hitmaker in 2015 on the strength of her debut album, “The First Time,” which yields hits with “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Dibs” and “Peter Pan.” She joins the Grand Ole Opry in 2019.

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1981
Jennifer Hudson, Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. One of the finalists on the third season of American Idol, she went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 motion picture musical Dreamgirls.

1978
Michael Paget, musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist in the Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine. Their second album Scream Aim Fire peaked at No.2 on the UK chart and US Rock chart in 2008.

1974
Jennifer Nettles, American Grammy-winning country music artist, lead vocalist with the duo Sugarland. 2009 US No.1 album ‘Live on the Inside’.

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1968
Kenny Thomas, singer, (1991 UK No.4 single ‘Thinking About Your Love’).

1967
Jon Stewart, guitarist from English Britpop band Sleeper, who scored the 1996 UK No.10 single ‘Sale Of The Century’.

1966
Ben Folds, songwriter, keyboard player from American alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five. Their single ‘Brick’ from the 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen gained airplay on many mainstream radio stations. Folds went on to pursue a successful solo career.

1956
Barry Andrews, keyboards, XTC, (1982 UK No.10 single ‘Senses Working Overtime’).

1952
Gerry Beckley, America (1972 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Horse With No Name’).

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1952
Neil Peart, drummer, Rush, (1980 UK No.13 single ‘Spirit Of Radio’ 1982 US No. 21 single ‘New World Man’). Peart was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to be so honored, as a group. Peart died on 7 January 2020 age 67 after battling brain cancer for three years.

1944
Barry White, soul singer & producer. (1974 UK No.1 single ‘You’re The First The Last My Everything’, 1974 US No.1 single ‘Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Babe’) is born in Galveston, Texas. White died from Kidney failure on 4th July 2003 aged 58.

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1944
Colin Young, from British soul band The Foundations who scored the 1967 UK No.1 single ‘Baby Now That I’ve Found You’ and the 1969 US No.3 single ‘Build Me Up A Buttercup’. The group was the first multi-racial group to have a No.1 hit in the UK in the 1960s.

1943
Maria Muldaur, American singer, songwriter, who had the 1974 US No.6 & UK No.21 single ‘Midnight At The Oasis’.

1940
Tony Bellamy, Redbone, who had the 1971 UK No.2 & US No.21 single ‘The Witch Queen Of New Orleans’ and the 1974 US No. 4 hit single, ‘Come and Get Your Love.’ Redbone are accredited in the NY Smithsonian as the first Native American rock/Cajun group to have a No.1 single in the United States and internationally. He died on December 25, 2009 of liver failure.

1931
US country singer George Jones who had a string of number one songs between the 1950s and 1990s is born in Saratoga, Texas. Nicknamed Possum, his signature song was He Stopped Loving Her Today, a track about love and death. He was married to Tammy Wynette between 1969 and 1975 and the pair recorded several songs together in the 1970s. Jones died on 26th April 2013 aged 81.

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