Music History Events: Births
April 30, 1991 Rapper Travis Scott (real name: Jacques Bermon Webster II) is born in Houston, Texas.
March 17, 1990 Indie rocker Hozier is born Andrew Hozier-Byrne in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.
September 8, 1989 The DJ/producer Avicii is born Tim Bergling in Stockholm. His hits include the electronic-music landmark "Levels" and the Aloe Blacc collaboration "Wake Me Up."
July 13, 1989 Leon Bridges is born Todd Michael Bridges in Atlanta, Georgia, but grows up in Fort Worth, Texas. He releases his debut album, Coming Home, in 2015 and is hailed as "the second coming of Sam Cooke."
June 17, 1989 Pop singer Simone Battle (of G.R.L.) is born in Los Angeles, California.
May 10, 1989 On his 29th birthday, U2 frontman Bono welcomes his first child when wife Ali gives birth to a daughter named Jordan.
January 30, 1989 Singer Samantha Fish is born in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 1, 1988 Newlyweds Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet welcome a baby girl, Zoe. She grows up to be a model and actress like her mom, who found fame on The Cosby Show, and a singer like her dad, who wrote "Flowers For Zoe" for her. More
December 1, 1988 Tyler Joseph (frontman for Twenty One Pilots) is born in Columbus, Ohio.
June 18, 1988 Josh Dun (drummer for Twenty One Pilots) is born in Columbus, Ohio.
March 25, 1988 DJ/producer Ryan Lewis (of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis) is born in Spokane, Washington.
March 17, 1988 Grimes is born Claire Elise Boucher in Vancouver.
January 15, 1988 DJ/producer Skrillex is born Sonny Moore in Los Angeles.
October 28, 1987 Singer/songwriter/rapper Frank Ocean is born Christopher Edwin Breaux in Long Beach, California, raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He takes his stage name from the 1960 classic film Ocean's 11 and its star, Frank Sinatra.
September 27, 1987 Austin Carlile is born in Pensacola, Florida. He fronts the metal groups Attack! Attack!, and later, Of Mice & Men, leaving in 2016 when his genetic condition called Marfan syndrome becomes too much to bear.
June 17, 1987 Kendrick Lamar is born in Compton, California. At 8 years old, he watches Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre film their "California Love" video in his neighborhood and decides he wants to be a rapper.
May 6, 1987 Rapper Meek Mill is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
March 1, 1987 Kesha Sebert is born in Los Angeles. Using the stage name "Ke$ha" (she drops the $ in 2014), she becomes a pop superstar when her first album Animal tops the US chart in 2010.
November 20, 1986 Bring Me the Horizon lead singer Oli Sykes is born in Ashford, Kent, England.
November 14, 1986 Bette Midler's first and only child is born, a daughter named Sophie von Haselberg. Midler's husband is artist Martin von Haselberg.
August 28, 1986 Florence Welch, who forms Florence + the Machine with keyboard player Isabella "Machine" Summers, is born in London. Their first album, Lungs, is released in 2009 and makes a big impact, going to #1 in the UK.
June 2, 1986 Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.
April 29, 1986 Amy Heidemann of Karmin is born in Seward, Nebraska. She becomes Amy Noonan when she marries her Karmin partner, Nick. When Karmin is retired in 2017, she becomes the rapper Qveen Herby.
April 1, 1986 Hillary Scott of Lady A is born in Nashville. Her mother is the singer Linda Davis.
March 30, 1986 Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold is born in Seattle, Washington.
February 8, 1986 Anderson Paak is born in Oxnard, California.
December 29, 1985 Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley have a daughter, Alexa Ray, her name a tribute to Ray Charles. She becomes a singer like her dad.
December 1, 1985 Sci-fi soul singer Janelle Monáe is born in Kansas City, Kansas.
October 23, 1985 R&B singer Miguel is born Miguel Jontel Pimentel in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.
June 21, 1985 Lana Del Rey is born Elizabeth Grant in New York City.
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