Werly Fairburn born 27 November 1924
Werly Fairburn (November 27, 1924 – January 18, 1985) was an American rockabilly musician. Fairburn was born in 1924 near Folsom, LA, the son of a farmer of Cherokee, Scots, Irish, and English...
View ArticleGato Barbieri born 28 November 1932
Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (28 November 1932 – 2 April 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings...
View ArticleBilly Strayhorn born 29 November 1913
Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades....
View ArticlePete Pike born 30 November 1929
Pete Pike (30 November 1929 -Â 27 August 2006) had a long & interesting career in both country & Bluegrass music, recording for such early post-war labels as 4-Star, Coral and Rebel. With the...
View ArticleBilly Paul born 1 December 1934
Paul Williams (December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016)  known professionally as Billy Paul, was a Grammy Award-winning American soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as...
View ArticleMilton Delugg born 2 November 1918
Milton Delugg (December 2, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, composer and arranger. Milton Delugg was born in Los Angeles, California. He said, “There aren't any Deluggs. It's not a real...
View ArticleDana Suesse born 3 November 1909
Nadine Dana Suesse  (December 3, 1909 – October 16, 1987) was an American musician, composer and lyricist. Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese) enjoyed considerable celebrity as a composer in the 1930s and...
View ArticleKarina born 5 December 1946
MarÃa Isabel Llaudes Santiago (4 December 1946), better known by her stage name Karina, is a Spanish singer who had her biggest success in the late 1960s until the mid-1970s. She is the undisputed...
View ArticleTotti Bergh born 5 December 1931
Theodor Christian Frølich Bergh known as Totti Bergh (5 December 1935 – 4 January 2012) was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone) and bandleader, the younger brother of the jazz journalist Johannes...
View ArticleWillie Hutch born 6 December 1944
William McKinley Hutchison (December 6, 1944 – September 19, 2005), better known as Willie Hutch, was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown...
View ArticleDawn Sears born 7 November 1961
Dawn Sears (December 7, 1961 – December 11, 2014) was one of America’s country music’s finest singers. Gifted with perfect pitch, technique and vocal control, she remains a criminally underappreciated...
View ArticleToots Hibbert born 8 December 1942
Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, OJ (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae...
View ArticleDan Hicks born 9 December 1941
Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter known for an idiosyncratic style that combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop,...
View ArticleArthur Lee Maye born 11 December 1934
Arthur Lee Maye (December 11, 1934 – July 17, 2002) was one of the top 20 doo-wop leads of the '50s, possessor of a beautiful tenor voice with just the right amount of pleading thrown in. As well as...
View ArticleGrover Washington Jr. born 12 December 1943
Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with Wes Montgomery and George Benson, he is considered by many to be one of the...
View ArticleLucky Peterson born 13 December 1964
Judge Kenneth Peterson (December 13, 1964 – May 17, 2020), known professionally as Lucky Peterson, was an American musician who played contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and...
View ArticleCharlie Rich born 14 December 1932
Charles Allan Rich (December 14, 1932 – July 25, 1995) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. His eclectic style of music was often difficult to classify, encompassing the...
View ArticleRitchie Adams born 15 December 1938
Richard Adam Ziegler (December 15, 1938 – March 6, 2017), known professionally as Ritchie Adams, was an American singer and songwriter. Born in New York City, by 1959 he joined The Fireflies, and sang...
View ArticleNoel Coward born 16 December 1899
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was among the most innovative and influential figures to emerge from the theatrical world during the 20th century; a playwright, director and...
View ArticleArt Neville born 17 December 1937
Arthur Lanon Neville Jr. (December 17, 1937 – July 22, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter and keyboardist from New Orleans. Neville was a staple of the New Orleans music scene for over five...
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