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Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed). It is descended from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which...
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Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend and...
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- Aug 27, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became...
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- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
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George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison...
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- Feb 25, 1943
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- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
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- Jul 14, 1912
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- Oct 3, 1967 (age 55 years)
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Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, U.S.) is a musician, best known as the bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's funky, creative playing style on the electric bass mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like...
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- Sep 29, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky....
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- Sep 13, 1911
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- Sep 9, 1996 (age 85 years)
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- 1930
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- 1996
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs....
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- Feb 17, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist...
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- Jul 13, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn, OBE (born 27 May 1958, in Te Awamutu, New Zealand) is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealand's foremost popular musicians. He was the co-frontman, along with his brother Tim Finn, for Split Enz and is now frontman for...
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- May 27, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early '50s as a...
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- May 3, 1919 (age 90 years)
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (pronounced /ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His...
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- May 19, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 in Ardwick, Manchester) is an English songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player, and singer. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, where he formed a prolific...
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- Oct 31, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Martie Maguire
Martie Maguire (born Martha Elenor Erwin on October 12, 1969, in York, Pennsylvania ) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the female alternative country band, Dixie Chicks. She won...
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- Oct 12, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and later artists such as Richard Thompson since...
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- May 21, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Robert Hunter
Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.
He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California. An early friend...
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- Jun 23, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Steve Earle
Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle (pronounced /ˈɜrl/) (born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and...
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- Jan 17, 1955 (age 55 years)
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Ry Cooder
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer and composer.
He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in blues-rock, roots music from his native North America, and, more recently...
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- Mar 15, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Joe Brown
Joe Brown, MBE (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.
Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television...
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- May 13, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Tom Morello
The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine, ex-Audioslave and Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, which he created in 2003 as an outlet for his political views while playing non-political music with...
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- May 30, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007), and for his numerous solo works and...
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- Jul 20, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Ian Anderson
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE (born 10 August 1947 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the head of British rock band Jethro Tull.
Ian Anderson's father, James Anderson, ran...
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- Aug 10, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is best known as a member of Bruce...
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- Nov 22, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Daron Malakian
Daron Vartan Malakian (born July 18, 1975) is an Armenian-American singer–songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down...
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- Jul 18, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Adam Leonard
Adam Leonard is an English singer-songwriter working mainly in the folk, rock and roll and electronic music fields. Since his debut album 'How Music Sounds' in 2003, he has released many EPs, albums and mini albums on various small labels. Live...
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Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo...
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- Nov 20, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper, as well as singles such as "Everywhere," "All You Wanted," "Goodbye To...
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- Jul 2, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher born William Rory Gallagher (2 March, 1948 - 14 June, 1995 pronounced /ˈrɔri ˈɡæləhər/) was an Irish blues-rock musician who rose to fame as a talented songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal,...
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- Mar 2, 1948
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1995 (age 47 years)
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Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits. Johnny Winter is known for his southern...
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- Feb 23, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Coldplay. He is the husband of Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he has fathered...
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- Mar 2, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz (pronounced /məˈræz/; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, and hip hop.
Mraz released his debut album,...
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- Jun 23, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Matt Freeman
Matthew "McCall" Freeman (born Roger Matthew Freeman on June 14, 1966) is an American musician. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy and Rancid.
He met Tim Armstrong when they were only five years old....
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- 1966 (age 44 years)
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Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957, San Fernando Valley, California) is an American Grammy Award-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with...
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- Oct 21, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the...
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- Apr 12, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and...
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- Nov 24, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Lloyd Maines
Lloyd Maines (born June 28, 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter and who was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Austin, Texas.
Arguably best known as a pedal steel player...
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- Jun 28, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Timo Rautiainen
Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus was a metal music band from Finland, formed in 1997. A very dynamic band, they were led by Timo Rautiainen, leading member of Finnish metallers Lyijykomppania, a band which still has an underground cult following...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1963 (age 46 years)
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Mike Campbell
Michael (Mike) Wayne Campbell (born February 1, 1950, Panama City, Florida, United States) is an American guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Noted mostly for his longtime work as Tom Petty's...
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- Feb 1, 1950 (age 59 years)
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U. Srinivas
Uppalapu Srinivas (Telugu: ఉప్పలపు శ్రీనివాస్), (born February 28, 1969) is a Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. Srinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin and Michael Nyman...
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- Feb 28, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Nancy Wilson
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954 in San Francisco, California) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle/(Vancouver) band Heart.
Nancy and her sister grew up in Southern...
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- Mar 16, 1954 (age 55 years)
Amy Ray
Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.
On March 6, 2001, she released her first solo album, Stag, a southern and punk rock album. The Butchies...
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- Apr 12, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers (born July 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments.
Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut...
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- Jul 22, 1963 (age 46 years)
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James Fox
James Fox, real name James Richard Mullett, (born 6 April 1976 in Cardiff, Wales) is a pop music singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist. He represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul. In 2008 he wrote and...
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- Apr 6, 1976 (age 33 years)
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David Grisman
David Grisman (born March 23, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or...
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- Mar 23, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Jon Schaffer
Jon Ryan Schaffer (born March 15, 1968 in Franklin, Indiana) is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter. He is the founder of the heavy metal band Iced Earth.
At the age of 14 Jon got his first guitar and began writing music. At the age of 16 he...
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- Mar 15, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Martin Barre
Martin Lancelot Barre (born 17 November 1946, in Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is an English rock musician.
Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except This...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Marty Stuart
John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country music singer, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music. In the early 1990s, he had a successful string of...
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- Sep 30, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Brad Paisley
Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and pop-rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop...
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- Oct 28, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Jon Fishman
Jon Fishman (born February 19, 1965) is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 18 Phish originals, 7 of them as a solo credit .
Fishman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was then...
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- Feb 19, 1965 (age 44 years)
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- 1983
Chris Hillman
Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944, Los Angeles, California) was one of the original members of The Byrds in 1965 with Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke.
Along with frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman...
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- Dec 4, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Tommy Ramone
Tommy Ramone, also known as Thomas Erdelyi (born Erdélyi Tamás; January 29, 1949), is a Hungarian American record producer and musician. He is the last surviving original member of the pioneering punk rock band The Ramones.
Erdélyi was born to a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1949 (age 60 years)
Steve Perry
Steve Perry (born Stephen Ray Perry'; January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey from 1978–1987 and 1995–1998. Perry had a successful solo career (currently on hold) throughout the...
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- Jan 22, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Mick Mars
Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal, May 4, 1951 in Terre Haute, Indiana is the lead guitarist for North American hard rock band Mötley Crüe.
After his family relocated from Indiana, to California, Robert Deal dropped out of high school and began...
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- 1951 (age 59 years)
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Andy Irvine
Andrew Kennedy 'Andy' Irvine (born 14 June 1942) is a folk musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the popular band Planxty. He is an accomplished player of the mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, guitar-bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy...
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- Jun 14, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Lucille Starr
Lucille Starr (born May 13, 1938) is a Franco-Manitoban / British Columbian singer, songwriter, and yodeler best known for her 1964 hit single, "Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes" ("The French Song.")
Born Lucille Marie Raymonde Savoie in St...
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- May 13, 1938 (age 71 years)
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Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is an American bluegrass, country and classical fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his...
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- Aug 5, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Koshi Inaba
Koshi Inaba (稲葉浩志, Inaba Kōshi, born on September 23, 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese vocalist. His real name is Hiroshi Inaba (稲葉浩志, Inaba Hiroshi). He graduated from the Faculty of Education at the Yokohama National University,...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician and composer, who is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Muse.
Bellamy's father, George, was the rhythm guitarist in the 1960s...
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- Jun 9, 1978 (age 31 years)
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- 1992
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. He is also known for starring in the film Once and co-writing its Academy-Award-winning song, "Falling Slowly."...
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- Apr 21, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960, Hilversum) is a composer and musician from the Netherlands and is most widely known for his albums released under the name Ayreon. Lucassen plays a wide variety of instruments, chiefly guitars and...
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- Apr 3, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Al Jourgensen
Al Jourgensen (born October 9, 1958, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa (his alias as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 9, 1958 (age 51 years)
