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Dennis Weaver born 4 June 1924
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Adolphus Bell born 5 June 1944
Adolphus Bell (June 5, 1944 – October 28, 2013) was an American electric blues musician, best known as a one-man band. He performed in a professional capacity for five decades and released two albums...
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Billie Jean Horton born 6 June 1933
Billie Jean Horton (born June 6, 1933) is an American former country-music singer-songwriter and music promoter. She had high-profile marriages, briefly, until his death, to country musician and...
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Anthony Ortega born 7 June 1928
Anthony Robert "Tony" Ortega (June 7, 1928 – October 30, 2022) was a jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist who is one of only a handful of Mexican-Americans who became prominent jazz musicians....
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Vernon Oxford born 8 June 1941
Vernon Oxford (June 8, 1941 – August 18, 2023) was an American country music singer and guitarist with unlucky timing, coming up during an era when traditional country simply wasn't counting for much...
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Skip James born 9 June 1902
"Skip" James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. Nehemiah Curtis James was born on June 9, 1902, in a segregated hospital near...
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Arelean Brown born 1924
Arelean Brown (10 June 1924 – 27 April 1981) was a blues singer and songwriter who who started her career in Detroit in the late 1940s. She enjoyed local hit with her witty I'm a streaker in 1974. I...
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Shelly Manne born 11 June 1920
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Geri Allen born 12 June 1957
Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator who was dedicated to the advancement of women in jazz. She taught at the University of...
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Bob McGrath born 13 June 1932
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Junior Walker born 14 June 1931
Junior Walker (June 14, 1931 – November 23, 1995), was an American multi-instrumentalist (primarily saxophonist) and vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a session...
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Tex Owens born 15 June 1892
Tex Owens (June 15, 1892 – September 9, 1962) was an American country music singer and songwriter, best remembered today for writing the Eddy Arnold hit Cattle Call. Tex Owens was born Doie Hensley...
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Sing Miller born 17 June 1914
James Edward "Sing" Miller (June 17, 1914* – May 18, 1990) was an American jazz pianist and a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, however, as Miller’s childhood nickname indicates, it would be...
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Sara Martin born 18 June 1884
Sara Martin (June 18, 1884 – May 24, 1955) was an American blues singer, in her time one of the most popular of the classic blues singers. She was billed as "The Famous Moanin' Mama" and "The Colored...
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Dave Lambert born 19 June 1917
David Alden Lambert (June 19, 1917 – October 3, 1966) was an American jazz lyricist, singer, and an originator of vocalese. He was best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross....
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Kid Thomas born 20 June 1934
Louis Thomas Watts, commonly known as Kid Thomas (20 June 1934 – 5 April 1970) was and is one of the great unsung heroes of the music that skirts the fine line between blues and straight-out rock &...
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Vince Everett born 21 June 1941
Vince Everett (born 21 June 1941) is an American rock and roll musician whose vocal style is similar to that of Elvis Presley. Of all the Elvis Presley soundalikes, two stand head and shoulders above...
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George Russell born 23 June 1923
George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist and a hugely influential, innovative figure in the evolution of modern jazz, the music's only major theorist, one of...
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Manny Albam born 24 June 1922
Manny Albam (June 24, 1922 – October 2, 2001) was an American jazz arranger, composer, record producer, saxophonist, and educator. During a career that spanned seven decades, he collaborated with a...
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David T. Walker born 25 June
David T. Walker (born June 25, 1941) is an American soul/R&B, and jazz guitarist. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own...
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