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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies. Synthesizers create electrical signals, rather than direct acoustic sounds, which are then played through a loudspeaker or set of...
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), aka Aphex Twin, is a British electronic musician described by The Guardian newspaper as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex...
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- Aug 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born in Stockholm, Sweden on 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!....
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- Dec 16, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as simply Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one...
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- May 15, 1948 (age 61 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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Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a two-time Ivor Novello Award recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader of...
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- Dec 30, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born March 29, 1943; Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου IPA: [evˈaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsiu]), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis (a...
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- Mar 29, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos's fame originated in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time; most...
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- Nov 14, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million...
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- May 26, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist and composer. He is regarded not only as one of the greatest living jazz musicians, but also as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. His music...
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- Apr 12, 1940 (age 69 years)
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a multi-BRIT Award-winning English singer, songwriter and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. Robbie left the group in...
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- Feb 13, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Brian May
Doctor Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947 in London, England) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has...
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- Jul 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Jean Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is regarded as a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and New Age genres, as well as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music which...
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- Aug 24, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949 in Perivale, London) is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use...
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- May 18, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist and actress. Born in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, she attended...
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- Jan 25, 1980 (age 29 years)
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- 2001
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series,...
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- May 18, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is a Grammy award-winning American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the rock group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also...
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- Jun 20, 1942 (age 67 years)
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David Byrne
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952) is a British musician and artist best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own...
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- May 14, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000 he relocated to New York City and currently resides in Tokyo.
He has released albums of...
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- Jan 18, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn (pronounced /ˈdeɪmən ˈɔːlbɑːn/; born 23 March 1968 in Whitechapel, London), is a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his...
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- Mar 23, 1968 (age 41 years)
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George Clinton
George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter,band-leader and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and began his...
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- Jul 22, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on...
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- Mar 13, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails, he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds,...
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- May 17, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the...
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- Apr 2, 1939
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- Apr 1, 1984 (age 45 years)
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Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English musician and singer–songwriter, now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001. He is best known for the 1979 hit...
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- Aug 11, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian (born August 21, 1967) is an Armenian-American singer–songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasionally live rhythm...
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- Aug 21, 1967 (age 42 years)
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
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- May 26, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani was born in October 3, 1969 in Fullerton, California. She is a singer, actress, songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani was part of the group "No Doubt", a group that she joined in 1986, but the group split and she began her...
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- Oct 3, 1969 (age 40 years)
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- 1986
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Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963; Mile End Hospital, London, UK) is a British record producer and a trance DJ.
Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom...
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- Aug 30, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson; 14 October 1958) is an English musician and producer. Best known for his his 1982 hit single "She Blinded Me With Science," he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.
Contrary...
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- Oct 14, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician. He is best known as the bass player, co-lead singer, principal lyricist, founding member, and one of the main songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd....
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- Sep 6, 1943 (age 66 years)
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John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956, according to his father), also known as Johnny Rotten, is a British rock musician and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock group Sex Pistols during the 1970s and 2000s, and also as the...
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- Jan 31, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Roger Meddows-Taylor
Roger Taylor (born 26 July 1949 in Dersingham, Norfolk, England) is an English musician best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is...
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- Jul 26, 1949 (age 60 years)
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John Frusciante
John Anthony Frusciante (pronounced [fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ] (help·info)) (born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the ex-guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he...
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- Mar 5, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Sean O'Hagan
Sean O'Hagan was a founder-member of the Irish indie band, Microdisney. In the 1990s he formed The High Llamas and released a number of highly acclaimed albums showing influences as diverse as The Beach Boys, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim...
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Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio (Hansjoerg) Moroder (on record sleeves often only Giorgio) (born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi (Ortisei), Italy) is a three-time Oscar-winning and three-time Grammy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work...
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- Apr 26, 1940 (age 69 years)
Mick Ronson
Michael "Mick" Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is most well known for his work with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973, Bowie's glam rock period, including being...
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- May 26, 1946
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- Apr 29, 1993 (age 46 years)
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Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin, 3 July 1960, South Woodford, London) is an English pop musician and songwriter, who has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure.
Raised in...
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- Jul 3, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Dhani Harrison
Dhani Harrison (born 1 August 1978) is an English musician and the son of George Harrison of The Beatles. Harrison debuted as a professional musician when completing his father's final album Brainwashed after George Harrison's death in November 2001...
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- Aug 1, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Irving Lorenzo
Irv Gotti (born Irving Lorenzo on June 26, 1970) was a prominent hip hop and R&B; record producer and is the head and founder of The Inc record label. He is known for producing many hit rap songs such as Jay-Z's "Can I Get A...", DMX's "What's My...
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- Jun 26, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Tony Banks
Anthony George "Tony" Banks (born 27 March 1950) is an English composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist. He is one of the founding members of progressive rock group Genesis and one of only two members (the...
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- Mar 27, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Alec Empire
Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on May 2, 1972 in Charlottenburg, West Berlin) is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he...
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- May 2, 1972
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- May 2, 1972
Colin Greenwood
Colin Charles Greenwood (born 26 June 1969), also known as Coz, is a member of English rock band Radiohead. He is best known as their bass player, although he does play other instruments (see below). He is the older brother of fellow band member,...
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- Jun 26, 1969 (age 40 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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Scott Shriner
Scott Shriner (born July 11, 1965 in Toledo, Ohio) is the bass guitar player for the alternative rock band Weezer.
Shriner took up bass in high school. After joining the Marines for two years following high school, he decided that he wanted to play...
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- Jul 11, 1965 (age 44 years)
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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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Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈvarɡ ˈviːkeɳes]; born 11 February 1973 near Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian black metal musician, convicted murderer and arsonist, and former far-right political activist. In 1991 Vikernes conceived the one...
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- Feb 11, 1973 (age 36 years)
Peter Christopherson
Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy (born February 27, 1955) is a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis.
He was one of the original members of the infamous Industrial...
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- Feb 27, 1955 (age 54 years)
Jimmy Cauty
James Francis Cauty (commonly known as Jimmy or Jimi Cauty, also known as Rockman Rock) (born December 19, 1956) is a British artist and musician born in Liverpool, England in 1956. Cauty is best known as one half of the hitmaking duo The KLF; as co...
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- Dec 19, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk (born January 11, 1975).
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures (mostly 7/4). He is an...
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- Jan 11, 1975 (age 35 years)
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The Neptunes
The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for some successful Hip hop, R&B; and Pop artists in the late-90s and 2000s.
The Neptunes' sound is a distinctive...
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Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland (born Scott Richard Kline on October 27, 1967) is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots, and also for his five-year career with supergroup...
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- Oct 27, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Ned Lagin
Ned Lagin (born June 11, 1949) is an American avant-garde keyboardist.
Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers in real-time stage and studio performance. This included running analogue to digital converters and...
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Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan (born July 2, 1949) is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers.
Bittan...
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- Jul 2, 1949 (age 60 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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Roger Glover
Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945 in Brecon) is a Welsh bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and songwriter for rock band Deep Purple.
Born near Brecon, Wales, Glover moved with his...
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- Nov 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Justin Hawkins
Justin David Hawkins (born 17 March 1975 in Chertsey, Surrey, England) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the former lead singer and lead guitarist of The Darkness, alongside his brother, guitarist Dan Hawkins....
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- Mar 17, 1975 (age 34 years)
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- Mar 17, 1975
Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays (born November 27, 1953) is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Along with Metheny, Mays has been a co-composer and...
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- Nov 27, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's...
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- Jun 8, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard (born May 1, 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as the producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, which went platinum sixteen times in the U.S. and 30 million sold worldwide....
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- May 1, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Jade Puget
Jade Errol Puget (born November 28, 1973 in Santa Rosa, California) is the guitarist for alternative-rock band AFI (joined in 1998), and the keyboardist/synthesizer operator for the electronic duo Blaqk Audio. He takes his stepfather's surname....
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- Nov 28, 1973 (age 36 years)
