Famous musicians birthdays april songfacts calendar

Born on April 21

1959 Robert Smith of The Cure is born in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK.

1959 Alt rocker Michael Timmins (guitarist for Cowboy Junkies) is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1958 Mike Barson (keyboardist for Madness) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1951 Nickey Barclay (keyboardist for Fanny) is born.

1948 Singer-songwriter Paul Davis is born in Meridian, Mississippi.

1947 Alan Warner (lead guitarist for The Foundations) is born in Paddington, West London, England.

1947 Rock musician John Weider (guitarist for The Animals, bassist for Family) is born in Shepherd's Bush, London, England.

1947 Iggy Pop is born James Newell Osterberg Jr. in Muskegon, Michigan.

1931 Country singer-songwriter Carl Belew, known for '50s hits like "Am I That Easy To Forget" and "Lonely Street" (made popular by Andy Williams), is born in Salina, Oklahoma.

1924 Gospel singer Clara Ward (leader of The Famous Ward Singers) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1919 '50s pop singer Don Cornell ("It Isn't Fair," "Hold My Hand") is born Luigi Varlaro in The Bronx, New York City.

American singer and songwriter (born 1939)

Musical artist

Neil Sedaka (; born March 13, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody.

After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens, Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961) and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962). His popularity declined by the mid-1960s, but was revived in the mid-1970s, solidified by the 1975 US Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Laughter in the Rain" and "Bad Blood". Sedaka maintained a successful career as a songwriter, penning hits for other artists including "Stupid Cupid" (Connie Francis), "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" (Tony Christie) and "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Captain & Tennille). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983 and continues to perform, mounting mini-concerts on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Early life: Juilliard and the Brill Building

Sedaka was born in Brooklyn. His father, Mordechai "Mac" Sedaka, was a taxi driver of Lebanese Jewish descent. Sedaka's paternal grandparents came to the United States from Istanbul in 1910. Sedaka's mother, Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish and Russian descent. He grew up in Brighton Beach. His father's cousin, Rachel Gorman (née Cohen), daughter of Isaac Cohen and Calo Cohen (née Sedaca or Sedaka), was married to Morris Gorman (né Garmezano; paternal uncle to singer Eydie Gormé). Gormé's mother was of Lebanese Jewish descent.

Sedaka demonstr

Canadian rock band

April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Myles Goodwyn until his death in 2023. April Wine first experienced success with their second album, On Record (1972), which reached the top 40 in Canada and yielded two hit singles: a cover of Elton John's "Bad Side of the Moon", a top 20 hit in Canada; and a cover of Hot Chocolate's "You Could Have Been a Lady", a number 2 song in Canada.

They have experienced only moderate international success, but great popularity in their home country of Canada. Their greatest response internationally throughout the 1970s and early '80s came with songs such as, "You Could Have Been a Lady" (1972), "Tonite Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love" (1975), "Roller" (1979), "I Like to Rock" (1980), "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" (1981), and "Just Between You and Me" (1981). They have released 16 studio albums.

History

Early years

Although April Wine officially began in late 1969 in Waverley, Nova Scotia, their roots can be traced to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1967/68, where brothers David and Ritchie Henman grew up playing music together before moving to Nova Scotia.

Three of the founding members - David Henman (guitar), Ritchie Henman (drums), and their cou

Born on April 2

1967 Guitarist and songwriter Greg Camp (of Smash Mouth) is born in West Covina, California.

1962 Bass player and songwriter Tony Franklin is born Anthony James Franklin.

1961 Keren Jane Woodward (of Bananarama) is born in Bristol, England.

1952 Dave Bronze (bass guitarist for Procol Harum) is born in Billericay, Essex, England.

1952 Leon Wilkeson (bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born in Newport, Rhode Island.

1949 David Robinson (drummer for The Cars) is born in Malden, Massachusetts.

1947 Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

1946 Kurt Winter (guitarist for The Guess Who) is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1943 Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell is born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III in Galveston, Texas.

1942 Leon Russell is born Claude Russell Bridges in Lawton, Oklahoma.

1939 Marvin Gaye is born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. in Washington, DC.More

1938 Country singer Warner Mack, known for a string of chart-toppers including "Is It Wrong (For Loving You)," is born Warner Hensley McPherson Jr. in Nashville, Tennessee.

1928 Singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France.

1917 Italian American singer Lou Monte is born in Manhattan, New York.

1912 Jazz singer Herbert Mills (of The Mills Brothers) is born in Piqua, Ohio.

1805 Hans Christian Andersen is born in Odense, Denmark. The author is later the subject of a song by Danny Kaye.