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Mo Foster born 22 December 1944
Michael Ralph "Mo" Foster (22 December 1944 – 3 July 2023) was an English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker. Born in Woking, Surrey, to Ethel...
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Frank Morgan born 23 December 1933
Frank Morgan (December 23, 1933 – December 14, 2007) was a jazz saxophonist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He mainly played alto saxophone but also played soprano saxophone. He was known as...
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Cab Calloway born 25 December 1907
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of...
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Herb Johnson born 26 December 1935
Herb Johnson (December 26th, 1935 - January 19th, 2004) was an American rhythm & blues, soul and funk vocalist. Philadelphia soul legend Herb Johnson was born Herbert Earshell Johnson Jr. in...
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Peter Sinfield born 27 December 1943
Peter John Sinfield (27 December 1943 – 14 November 2024) was an English poet and songwriter. He was best known as a co-founder and lyricist of King Crimson. Their debut album In the Court of the...
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Nichelle Nichols born 28 December 1932
Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American...
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Joaquin Murphey born 30 December 1923
Earl James "Joaquin" Murphey (often spelled "Murphy) (30 December 1923 – 25 October 1999) was an American steel guitarist who was the cutting edge lap steel guitarist of his time due to his clean...
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Evelyn Knight born 31 December 1917
Evelyn Knight (December 31, 1917 – September 28, 2007) was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Born Evelyn Davis in Reedville, Virginia, her father was "head of a geodetic survey for the...
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Benny Barnes born 1 January 1936
Benny Barnes (January 1, 1936 – August 15, 1987) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his 1956 hit "Poor Man's Riches". Barnes also owned various...
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Doris Drew born circa 1925
Doris Drew (born c. 1925) was an American pop and jazz singer in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was born in San Antonio, Texas. Not much is known about her earlier life until 1949 when she was the...
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Victor Borge born 3 January 1909
Victor Borge (January 3, 1909 – December 23, 2000) was a Danish-American actor, comedian, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe. His blend...
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Tommy McClennan born 4 January 1905
Tommy McClennan (January 4, 1905 – May 9, 1961) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist. McClennan was born in Durant, Mississippi, and grew up in the town. He is shown with his mother Cassie...
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Wild Bill Davison born 5 January 1906
Wild Bill Davison (Jan. 5, 1906 —Nov. 14, 1989) was an American jazz cornet player who recorded some 800 songs and traveled extensively in his 70-year career. William Edward Davison was born in the...
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Buddy Weed born 6 January 1918
Buddy Weed (January 6, 1918- May 25, 1997) was a prominent American jazz pianist, singer and arranger. Born Harold Eugene Weed in Ossining, New York, Eugene Harold Weed’s natural dexterity of the...
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Bobo Jenkins born 7 January 1916
Bobo Jenkins (January 7, 1916 – August 14, 1984) was an American Detroit blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He also built and set up his own recording studio and record label in...
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Jackie Walker born 8 January 1939
Jackie Walker (born January 8, 1939) is an American rockabilly, doo-wop, West Coast teen rock & roll and pop singer. Jackie Walker discovered his musical talent at an early age. At four he was...
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Big Al Downing born 9 January 1940
Al Downing (January 9, 1940 – July 4, 2005), later known as Big Al Downing, was an American musician, and entertainer. Alexander Downing was born into a large sharecropping family of ten brothers and...
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Louis Killen born 10 January 1934
Louis Joseph Killen (10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013) later known as Louisa Jo Killen, was an English folk singer from Gateshead, Tyneside, who also played the English concertina. Louis was born in...
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Wilbur De Paris born 11 January 1900
Wilbur de Paris (January 11, 1900 – January 3, 1973) was a trombone player and band leader known for mixing Dixieland jazz with swing. Wilbur de Paris was born January 11, 1900, in Crawfordsville,...
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Lou Preager born 12 Januaary1906
Louis Preager (12 January 1906 – 14 November 1978), known as Lou Preager, was an English pianist, dance band leader, disc jockey and businessman. He was active from the 1930s to the 1950s; with his...
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Putney Dandridge born 13 January 1902
Louis "Putney" Dandridge (January 13, 1902 – February 15, 1946) was an American jazz pianist and singer, whose impact on the music industry resonates through the ages. Born on January 13, 1902, in...
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Grady Tate born 14 January 1932
Grady Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. In addition to his work as sideman, Tate released many albums as leader and lent his...
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Ivor Novello born 15 January 1893
Ivor Novello (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born David...
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Pete Franklin born 16 January 1928
Pete Franklin (January 16, 1928 – July 31, 1975), was an American blues singer, musician and songwriter also known as Guitar Pete Franklin. Edward Lamonte Franklin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana....
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Françoise Hardy born 17 January 1944
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter who was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a...
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