Music History Events: Births
May 28, 1971 Duncan Zowie Haywood Bowie is born to David Bowie and his wife Angela. Duncan will go on to become the successful film director behind Moon (2009) and Source Code (2011).
May 8, 1971 Candice Night, who forms Blackmore's Night with her husband, Ritchie Blackmore, is born Candice Lauren Isralow at Hauppage, New York.
March 2, 1971 Rapper Method Man is born Clifford Smith in Long Island, New York.
November 9, 1970 Blues musician Susan Tedeschi is born in Boston.
October 15, 1970 Music video director Chris Cunningham is born in Reading, Berkshire, England. Before working with artists like Björk ("All Is Full Of Love"), Madonna ("Frozen"), and Aphex Twin ("Windowlicker"), Cunningham starts his film career in model-making and prosthetic make-up. Hand-picked by renowned director Stanley Kubrick, he does animatronic work on what becomes the Stephen Spielberg film AI: Artificial Intelligence.More
August 2, 1970 Zelma Davis (of C and C Music Factory) is born in Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa.
July 10, 1970 Rascal Flatts lead singer Gary LeVox is born Gary Wayne Vernon Jr. in Powell, Ohio. His stage name comes from a Vox amplifier that was labelled "L" for "lead singer."
May 7, 1970 Cold lead singer Scooter Ward is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 16, 1969 Elastica frontwoman Justine Frischmann is born in London. With the hit single "Connection," hers is one of the few female voices heard during the Britpop movement.
July 5, 1969 Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, the future RZA, is born in Brownsville, New York. He will become leader of Wu-Tang Clan .
June 19, 1969 The singer Gabrielle, who scores UK #1 hits with "Dreams" and "Rise," is born Louise Gabrielle Bobb in Hackney, East London. Her date of birth is often erroneously stated as April 16, 1970.
November 15, 1968 Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is born Russell Jones in Brooklyn, New York.
October 19, 1968 Comedian/country singer (and sometimes both) Rodney Carrington is born.
March 8, 1968 Rob Dukes (of Exodus) is born in Florida.
February 22, 1968 Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell is born in Long Beach, California. He dies of a drug overdose in 1996 at 28, just months before the band break through with a string of hits that includes "Doin' Time" and "Santeria." Sublime return to action with Brad's son Jakob at the helm in 2023.
December 22, 1967 Richey Edwards (lyricist, rhythm guitarist for Manic Street Preachers) is born in Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales.
October 31, 1967 Adam Schlesinger (bassist for Fountains of Wayne) is born in New York City.
October 3, 1967 Chris Collingwood (lead vocalist for Fountains of Wayne) is born in Britain, but would be raised in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
October 2, 1967 Bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is born in New York City. She grows up in Los Angeles, where her adoptive parents, Ken and Mitzie Welch, write music for The Carol Burnett Show.
August 25, 1967 Jeff Tweedy (frontman for Wilco) is born in Belleville, Illinois.
August 22, 1967 Layne Staley of Alice In Chains is born in Washington State.
August 21, 1967 System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian is born in Beirut, Lebanon.
July 12, 1967 John Petrucci, guitarist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater, is born in Long Island, New York.
June 20, 1967 Jerome Earl Fontamillas (keyboards, backing vocals for Switchfoot) is born in Pasay City, Philippines.
April 20, 1967 Drummer Mike Portnoy is born in Long Beach, New York. A founding member of Dream Theater, he also writes many of the band's lyrics.
March 16, 1967 Tracy Bonham is born in Boston. After studying classical violin, she enters the world of pop music, using the instrument on her hit song "Mother Mother."
September 2, 1966 Fear Factory guitarist and co-founder Dino Cazares is born in El Centro, California.
August 22, 1966 Wu-Tang Clan rapper GZA (aka The Genius) is born Gary Grice.
August 20, 1966 Pantera guitarist Darrell Abbott, aka Dimebag Darrell, is born in Ennis, Texas.
May 13, 1966 Metal guitarist Lee Altus is born in Odessa, Soviet Ukraine.
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