Pick a Day

Born on March 23

1968 Blur frontman Damon Albarn is born in London. The group helps define Britpop in the '90s with songs like "Parklife" and "Song 2," but in the '00s he becomes better known as the main voice and musical architect of Gorillaz, the most popular virtual band ever assembled.

1965 Marti Pellow (lead singer of Wet Wet Wet) is born Mark McLachlan in Clydebank, Scotland.

1959 Kevin Godfrey is born in Surrey, England. Taking the name "Epic Soundtracks," he forms the group Swell Maps and plays drums in Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls.

1953 Chaka Khan (of Rufus) is born Yvette Marie Stevens in Chicago, Illinois.

1951 Contemporary Christian musician Phil Keaggy is born in Youngstown, Ohio.

1950 Phil Lanzon (keyboardist for Uriah Heep) is born in England.

1944 Ric Ocasek of The Cars is born in Baltimore, Maryland. His date of birth is often reported at March 23, 1949 because that's what he often claimed, but records show he was actually born five years earlier.