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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...

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Gato 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...

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Billy 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....

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Pete Pike born 30 November 1929

Pete Pike (30 November 1929 -  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...

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Billy 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...

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Milton 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...

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Dana 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...

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Karina born 5 December 1946

María 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...

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Totti 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...

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Willie 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...

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Dawn 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...

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Toots 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...

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Dan 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,...

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Arthur 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...

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Grover 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...

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Lucky 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...

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Charlie 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...

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Ritchie 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...

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Noel 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...

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Art 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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