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Frank Strazzeri born 24 April 1930
Frank Strazzeri (April 24, 1930 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz pianist who was in demand for straight-ahead sessions for decades. Frank (John) Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at...
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Vin Bruce born 25 April 1932
Vin Bruce (April 25, 1932 – June 8, 2018) was one of the first Cajun musicians to appear on the Louisiana Hayride and Grand Ole Opry. Born Ervin Bruce in Cut Off, Louisiana, on April 25, 1932, Cajun...
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Maurice Williams born 26 April 1938
Maurice Williams (April 26, 1938 - August 6, 2024) was one of the most extraordinarily durable figures in the history of classic R&B and rock & roll, despite the fact that, as a performer, he...
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Sal Mosca born 27 April 1927
Sal Mosca (April 27, 1927 – July 28, 2007) was an American jazz pianist who was a student of Lennie Tristano and reigns among the most gifted improvisers of his generation. Salvatore Joseph Mosca...
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Jean Redpath born 28 April 1937
Jean Redpath MBE (28 April 1937 – 21 August 2014) was a Scottish folk singer, best known in her native country through her recordings, especially of the songs of Robert Burns. It was in the US,...
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Carl Gardner born 29 April 1928
Carl Gardner (April 29, 1928 – June 12, 2011) was an American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters. Known for the 1958 song "Yakety Yak", which spent a week as number...
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Max Merritt born 30 April 1941
Max Merrit (30 April 1941 – 24 September 2020) was a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who was renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B. As leader of Max Merritt & The...
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Titus Turner born 1 May 1933
Titus Lee Turner (May 1, 1933 – September 13, 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter. His best-remembered recordings are "We Told You Not to Marry" and "Sound-Off". He...
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Dick Two Ton Baker born 2 May 1916
Richard Evans "Two Ton" Baker (May 2, 1916 – May 4, 1975) was an American singer and entertainer who was a prominent Chicago radio and television personality for three decades; the 1940s to the 1960s....
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Virgil Fox born 3 May 1912
Virgil Fox (May 3, 1912 - October 25, 1980) was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy...
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Arizona Drains born 4 May 1891
Juanita "Arizona" Dranes (May 4, 1891* – July 27, 1963) was an American blind female gospel singer and pianist. Dranes was one of the first gospel artists to bring the musical styles of Holiness...
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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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