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Consuelo Velazquez born 21 August 1916
Consuelo Velázquez Torres ( August 21, 1916 - January 22, 2005) (popularly also known as Consuelito Velázquez) was a Mexican concert pianist and songwriter. Although a prolific recording artist and...
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Rocky Roberts born 23 August 1940
Rocky Roberts (August 23, 1940 – January 13, 2005) was an American-born Italian rhythm and blues singer. He was known for always wearing dark sunglasses. He is said to have introduced soul music to...
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Willie Winfield born 24 August 1929
Willie Winfield (24 August 1929 - July 27, 2021) was the lead vocalist with the 1950s doo-wop group the Harptones. Willie Lee Elijah Winfield was born on August 24, 1929 in Surry, Virginia. He sang in...
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Buell Kazee born 29 August 1900
Buell Kazee (August 29, 1900 - August 31, 1976) was an American country and folk singer. He is considered one of the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during...
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Milton Brown born 8 September 1903
Milton Brown (September 8, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop...
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Ted Herold born 9 September 1942
Ted Herold (born September 9, 1942) is a German Schlager singer. Besides an extensive discography he also acted in several films in the 1960s.Born in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany as Harald Walter...
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Rosie Flores born 10 September 1950
Rosie Flores (born September 10, 1950) is an American rockabilly and country music artist. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her...
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Ben Hewitt born 11 September 1935
Ben "Smokey" Hewitt (September 11, 1935 - December 8, 1996) was an American rockabilly musician. Pop music history tends to revolve around chart placings, which means that Ben Hewitt doesn't exist....
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Barry White born 12 September 1944
Barry Eugene Carter (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003), better known by his stage name Barry White, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, composer and a two-time Grammy...
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Joe "Mr. Google Eyes" August born 13 September 1931
Joe August (September 13, 1931 – August 9, 1992) was an American blues and R&B singer and songwriter who performed and recorded as "Mr. Google Eyes" or sometimes "Mr. G". Although little known to...
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Israel "Cachao" Lopez born 14 September 1918
Israel "Cachao" López (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the...
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Snooky Pryor born 15 September 1921
James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. Only recently has Snooky Pryor finally begun to receive full credit for the mammoth...
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Jack Hammer born 16 September 1925
Earl Solomon Burroughs (September 16, 1925 – April 8, 2016), known professionally as Jack Hammer, was an American pianist, dancer, singer, and songwriter, credited as the co-writer of "Great Balls of...
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Blind James Campbell born 17 September 1906
Blind James Campbell (September 17, 1906 – January 22, 1981) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He is mostly remembered for his 1962–63 recording for the Arhoolie label with his Nashville...
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P.F. Sloan born 18 September 1945
Philip Gary "Flip" Sloan (born Philip Gary Schlein; September 18, 1945 – November 15, 2015), known professionally as P. F. Sloan, was an American singer and songwriter. A seminal figure in the...
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Sonny Burns born 19 September 1930
Sonny Burns (September 19, 1930 – October21, 1992) was an unsung hero of honky tonk, a country singer who recorded a handful of outstanding sides but whose personal and professional peccadilloes...
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Helen Grayco born 20 September 1924
Helen Grayco (born Helen Greco; September 20, 1924) is an American singer and actress active from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was most famous for appearances with her husband Spike Jones on The Spike...
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Leonard Cohen born 21 September 1934
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss,...
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Yvette Horner born 22 September 1922
Yvette Horner (22 September 1922 – 11 June 2018) was a French accordionist, pianist and composer known for performing with the Tour de France during the 1950s and 1960s. During her 70-year long career,...
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