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Lorraine Ellison born 17 March 1931
Lorraine Ellison (17 March 1931 – 31 January 1983) was an American soul singer, best known for her recording of the song "Stay with Me" (sometimes known as "Stay With Me Baby") in 1966. With an...
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Wilson Pickett born 18 March 1941
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B, soul and rock and roll singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over...
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Michael Cox born 19 March 1940
Michael James Cox (born 19 March 1940) is a British-born former pop singer and actor. As Michael Cox, he had a top ten hit on the UK singles chart in 1960 with "Angela Jones", produced by Joe Meek. He...
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Vic Schoen born 26 March 1916
Victor "Vic" Schoen (March 26, 1916 – January 5, 2000) was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer whose career spanned from the 1930s until his death in 2000. He furnished music for some of...
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Maurice Winnick born 28 March 1902
Maurice Winnick (28 March 1902 – 26 May 1962) was an English musician and dance band leader. b. 28 March 1902, Manchester, Lancashire, England, d. 26 May 1962, England. A child prodigy, Winnick...
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Camille Howard born 29 March 1914
Camille Howard (March 29, 1914 – March 10, 1993) was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer, who first came to prominence in Roy Milton's Solid Senders in the 1940s. Her most successful...
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Jay Traynor born 30 March 1943
John "Jay" Traynor (March 30, 1943 – January 2, 2014) was an American singer.Traynor was a star-struck youth who wanted to break into the music business the first time he saw a rock & roll group...
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Red Norvo born 31 March 1908
Red Norvo (March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments....
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Janice Harper born 1 April 1933
Janice Harper (April 1st, 1931 and died May 21st, 2016 in Arvene, NY (Far Rockaway) was an American singer who made a very modest impact on the music world through the '50s and into the '60s. For...
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Warner Mack born 2 April 1938
Warner H McPherson, (born 2 April 1935, Nashville, Tennessee) known professionally as Warner Mack, is an American country music singer-songwriter. Mack had 19 number 1 hits on the country charts from...
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Cecil Gant born 4 April 1913
Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 – February 4, 1951) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, whose recordings of both ballads and "fiery piano rockers" were successful in the mid- and late...
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Jacques Brel born 8 April 1929
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French. Brel was born in Brussels, Belgium, and...
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Kay Adams born 9 April 1941
Kay Adams (born Princetta Kay Adams; April 9, 1941) is an American country singer. Kay Adams was born Princetta Kay Adams in Knox City, Texas, the fourth of five children to Charley Alva Adams...
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Marilyn Maye born 10 April 1928
Marilyn Maye (born April 10, 1928) is an American cabaret singer and musical theatre actress. She began her career as a young child performing in Kansas in both live concerts and on the radio. After...
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John Lee Granderson born 11 April 1913
John Lee Granderson (11 April 1913, Ellendale, Tennessee, - 22 August 1979, Chicago, Illinois, was a blues guitarist and singer.Granderson’s style was established in west Tennessee blues before World...
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Bud Freeman born 13 April 1906
Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a...
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Gloria Jean born 14 April 1926
Gloria Jean (born April 14, 1926) is an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959, as well as making numerous radio, television, stage, and...
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Bessie Smith born 15 April 1895
Bessie Smith (15 April, 1894* – September 26, 1937) was the most popular American female blues singer of the 1920s and '30s,. Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and...
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Judy Lynn born 16 April 1936
Judy Lynn Kelly (April 16, 1936 – May 26, 2010), who performed as Judy Lynn and was born Judy Lynn Voiten, was an American country music singer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Idaho in 1955. Ms....
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Chris Barber born 17 April 1930
Donald Christopher "Chris" Barber (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonistBarber was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, the son of a...
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