Music History Events: Births
May 31, 1980 Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley is born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
April 14, 1980 Win Butler (lead vocalist, songwriter for Arcade Fire) is born Edwin Farnham Butler III in Truckee, California.
January 3, 1980 Mellow rocker Kurt Vile is born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.
November 14, 1979 Tobin Esperance (bassist for Papa Roach) is born in Vacaville, California.
June 30, 1979 Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu is born Matthew Paul Miller in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
June 8, 1979 Guitarist Derek Trucks is born in Jacksonville, Florida. After forming The Derek Trucks Band, he serves in The Allman Brothers Band from 1999-2014 alongside his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks.
June 5, 1979 Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is born in Wilmette, Illinois.
June 1, 1979 Jimmy Buffett and his wife Jane welcome their first child, daughter Savannah Jane.
March 18, 1979 Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine is born in Los Angeles. He becomes a standalone celebrity in 2011 when he's a judge on the first panel of The Voice, a position he holds until 2019.
February 22, 1979 Plain White T's frontman Tom Higgenson is born in Villa Park, Illinois.
February 1, 1979 Jason Isbell is born in Green Hill, Alabama. He joins Drive-By Truckers in 2001, then leaves to start a solo career in 2007.
January 16, 1979 Aaliyah is born Aaliyah Haughton in Brooklyn, New York.
December 22, 1978 Steven Tyler and Cyrinda Foxe have a baby girl named Mia.
November 23, 1978 Alison Mosshart (The Kills/The Dead Weather singer), is born in Vero Beach, Florida.
November 11, 1978 Awolnation lead singer Aaron Bruno is born outside of Los Angeles.
August 23, 1978 The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is born in New York City. His parents are business mogul John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management, and Jeanette Christiansen, a Danish model who was crowned Miss Denmark of 1965. In 2001, Julian's band reinvents guitar rock with their debut album, Is This It.
August 15, 1978 Tim Foreman (bassist for Switchfoot) is born in Lake Arrowhead, California.
June 9, 1978 Muse frontman Matt Bellamy is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
May 12, 1978 Alex Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is born in Los Angeles. His mother is the actress Lisa Richards, who had a regular role on the soap opera Dark Shadows and appeared on episodes of Fantasy Island and Chips.
July 1, 1977 Liv Tyler is born. Her mother is the notorious groupie/muse Bebe Buell, and her father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. By the time Liv is born, Bebe has gone back to her previous boyfriend, Todd Rundgren, and Rundgren raises her as his own. Liv is 11 years old when she finds out Tyler is her real dad.
May 13, 1977 Rapper Pusha T is born Terrence Thornton in New York City. He forms the group Clipse before emerging as a solo artist.
May 8, 1977 Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa is born in New Hartford, New York, where he'll start playing the guitar at age 4.
May 3, 1977 Country singer Eric Church is born in Granite Falls, North Carolina. After forming a band called the Mountain Boys as a student at Appalachian State University, he moves to Nashville and releases his debut album, Sinners Like Me, in 2006. His star turn comes in 2011 with his album Chief, which includes two of his most enduring songs, "Drink In My Hand" and "Springsteen."
April 25, 1977 Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West is born in Downers Grove, Illinois.
February 28, 1977 Country singer Jason Aldean is born Jason Aldine Williams in Macon, Georgia.
January 22, 1977 Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carly Simon celebrate the birth of their second child, son Ben Taylor. Ben later becomes a singer-songwriter, and sometimes has both his mother and father tour with him, and on occasions, his older sister, Sally.
January 18, 1977 Michael Tierney is born in Sydney, Australia. He and his brother, Andrew, along with next-door neighbor schoolmates Phil Burton and Toby Allen form the Australian boy band Human Nature while they are students at Hurlstone Agricultural High School in Sydney.
October 22, 1976 Jon Foreman (frontman for Switchfoot) is born in San Bernardino, California, raised in Massachusetts and Virginia Beach.
August 19, 1976 Multi-instrumentalist and Arcade Fire co-founder Régine Alexandra Chassagne is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
July 28, 1976 Jacoby Shaddix (lead singer of Papa Roach) is born in Mariposa, California.
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