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Phil Guy born 28 April 1940
Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Phil and Buddy Guy were frequent collaborators and contribute both...
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Tammi Terrell born 29 April 1945
Tammi Terrell (April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin...
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Mimi Farina born 30 April 1945
Mimi Farina (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was an American singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a white mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the...
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Floyd "Candy" Johnson born 1 May 1922
Floyd "Candy" Johnson (May 1, 1922 – June 28, 1981) was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist. Johnson, who was born in Madison, Illinois, started being a drummer at age 13, but quickly switched...
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Randy Cain born 2 May 1945
Randy Cain (May 2, 1945 – April 9, 2009) was a Philadelphia soul singer with The Delfonics (early 1960s to 1971). He also helped set up the group Blue Magic. Herbert Randal Cain III was born in...
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Freddie Roulette born 3 May 1939
Freddie Roulette (May 3, 1939 – December 24, 2022) was an American electric blues lap steel guitarist and singer. He was best known as an exponent of the lap steel guitar. He was a member of the band...
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Nick Ashford born 4 May 1941
Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946) were an American husband-and-wife songwriting, production and recording duo. The son of a construction...
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Joyce Collins born 5 May 1930
Joyce Collins (born 5 May 1930, Battle Mountain, Nevada - died January 3, 2010) was a jazz pianist, singer and educator. Collins began playing piano professionally at the age of 15 while still...
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Emme Kemp born 6 May 1935
Emme Kemp (born 6 May 1935) is an American pianist, vocalist, bandleader, Broadway composer, lecturer, and music researcher. Born Emmelyne Kemp, as a child prodigy, she was reared in the musical...
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Bumble Bee Slim born 7 May 1906
Admirl Amos Easton (May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968), better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist. Easton was born in Brunswick. Several original...
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Keith Jarrett born 8 May 1945
 Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer and one of the most prolific, innovative, and iconoclastic musicians to emerge from the late 20th century. Jarrett was born in...
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H-Bomb Ferguson born 9 May 1929
Robert Percell Ferguson (May 9, 1929 – November 26, 2006), who performed as H-Bomb Ferguson, was an American jump blues singer. He was an early pioneer of the rock and roll style of the mid-1950s,...
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Maybelle Carter born 10 May 1909
"Mother" Maybelle Carter (May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978) was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead...
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Marino Marini born 11 May 1924
Marino Marini (11 May 1924 – 20 March 1997) was an Italian musician who achieved international success in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born into a family of musicians in Seggiano in the province of...
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Ruud de Wolff born 12 May 1941
The Blue Diamonds were an Indonesian and Dutch 1960s rock and roll duo who sang in English, German, French and Spanish and sold 14 million records throughout their career. They were best known for...
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Rab Noakes born 13 May 1947
Robert Ogilvie Noakes (13 May 1947 – 11 November 2022) better known as Rab Noakes, was a Scottish singer-songwriter. He was at the forefront of Scottish folk music for over 50 years and recorded over...
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Al Porcino born 14 May 1925
Al Porcino (May 14, 1925 – December 31, 2013) was a well-respected American lead trumpeter able to hit high notes during his prime with a strong tone and has the distinction of having played first...
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Lee Emerson born 15 May 1927
 Lee Emerson (May 15, 1927 – December 2, 1978) was an American music singer and songwriter. A native of St. Paul, Virginia, young Lee Emerson Bellamy joined the Marines at age seventeen and returned...
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Big George Brock born 16 May 1932
George Brock (May 16, 1932 – April 10, 2020), billed as Big George Brock, was an American blues musician. A native of Mississippi, he moved to Missouri in the 1950s and operated a series of nightclubs....
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Vernon Nesbeth born c.1933
Vernon Nesbeth (born circa 1933* – 7 March 2017) was lead singer and founder member of The Jamaican and British vocal group The Southlanders who were the longest lasting vocal group in British pop...
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