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Glenys Lynne born 5 May 1945
Glenys Lynne (born 5 May 1945) is a very poular South African singer, later part of Four Jacks and a Jill, who is known for hits such as Ramaja, Haai Casinova and One, Two, Three. Glenys Lynne Mynott...
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Oliver Morgan born 6 May 1933
Oliver Morgan (May 6, 1933 – July 31, 2007) was an American R&B singer. A Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inductee, he is best known for his 1964 hit, "Who Shot the La La". Morgan was born and raised...
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Barbara Ruskin born 1948
Barbara Ruskin (born 1948) is a singer-songwriter who released a series of singles between 1965 and 1972, none of which charted in Britain and America although she charted in Europe, especially in...
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Charles Caldwell born 8 May 1943
Charles Caldwell (May 8, 1943* – September 3, 2003) was a tall (six foot eight) and charismatic American guitar player from Mississippi, who unfortunately was dealt a cruel hand by the music fates....
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Happy Traum born 9 May 1938
Harry Peter "Happy" Traum (May 9, 1938 – July 17, 2024) was an American folk musician who was a linchpin of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the post-Woodstock artistic movement of...
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Al Hendrickson born 10 May 1920
Alton Reynolds Hendrickson (May 10, 1920 – July 19, 2007) was an American jazz guitarist and occasional vocalist.He estimated that he played on over 5,000 film scores from 1939 to 1980, as well as...
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Kansas Joe McCoy born 11 May 1905
Wilbur Joe "Kansas Joe" McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950) was an American Delta blues singer, musician and songwriter. McCoy is best known as Kansas Joe McCoy but performed under various stage...
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Harold "Scrappy" Lambert born 12 May 1901
Harold Rodman "Scrappy" Lambert (May 12, 1901 – November 30, 1987) was an American dance-band vocalist. From the late 1920’s and through to the 1940’s, he was one of the most prolific vocalists of the...
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Angela Maria born 13 May 1929
Angela Maria (13 May 1929 – 29 September 2018), was a Brazilian singer and actress. She was elected "Queen of the Radio" in 1954 and was considered the most popular singer of that decade in Brazil. She...
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Jack Bruce born 14 May 1943
John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and bassist of rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he...
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Ellis Larkins born 15 May 1923
Ellis Larkins (May 15, 1923 – September 29, 2002) was an American jazz pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, known for his two recordings with Ella Fitzgerald: the albums Ella Sings Gershwin (1950) and...
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Redd Holt born 16 May1932
Isaac "Redd" Holt (May 16, 1932 – May 23, 2023) was an American jazz and soul music drummer. He was the drummer on the album The In Crowd which earned the Ramsey Lewis Trio critical praise and the 1965...
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Bob Merrill born 17 May 1921
Henry Robert Merrill Levan (May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Merrill was one of the most successful songwriters of the...
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Monette Rose born 19 May 1902
Monette Moore (May 19, 1902 – October 21, 1962) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer who was always a bit obscure, even when recording prolifically in the 1920s, but she was a...
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Louis Smith born 20 May 1931
Edward Louis Smith (May 20, 1931 – August 20, 2016) was a talented but under-recorded straight-ahead bop trumpeter who led two dates in the '50s before retiring to teach at the University of Michigan...
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Glen Tomasetti born 21 May 1929
Glen Tomasetti (May 21, 1929 - June 25, 2003) was a songwriter, singer, novelist and political activist. Born Glenys Ann Tomasetti, she inherited an adventurous spirit from her parents Jack and Muriel...
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Sun Ra born 22 May 1914
Le Sony'r Ra (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic"...
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Bea Booze born 23 May 1920
Bea Booze (March 23, 1912 – November 11, 1986), often credited as Wee Bea Booze, was an American R&B and jazz singer most popular in the 1940s. She was one of the few female blues guitarists of...
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Terry Callier born 24 May 1945
Terrence Orlando "Terry" Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American soul, folk and jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter. Callier was born in the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and was...
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Beverly Sills born 25 May 1929
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose career peak was between the 1950s and 1970s. She was also one of the few American opera singers of her time to make...
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Mamie Smith born 26 May 1891
Mamie Smith (May 26, 1891 – October 23, 1946) was an American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first...
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Midge Williams born 27 May 1915
Virginia Louise "Midge" Williams (May 27, 1915 – January 9, 1952) was an African-American swing and jazz vocalist during the 1930s and 1940s. Largely forgotten today, and although not as famous as...
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Claudio Roditi born 28 May 1946
Claudio Roditi (May 28, 1946 – January 17, 2020) was a Brazilian jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer. In 1966 Claudio was named a trumpet finalist at the International Jazz Competition in...
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Beatrice Lillie born 29 May 1894
Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1989) was a Canadian-born actress, singer, comedy performer and star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical...
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Andy Tielman born 30 May 1936
Andy Tielman (30 May 1936 – 10 November 2011) was an influential Indo (Eurasian) artist, recognised as the "godfather" of Indorock, the style of rock and roll played by Indo artists in the 1950s and...
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