Musicians Born in 1950

Natalie Cole

Feb 6 Natalie Cole, American vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2015)

Feb 6 Punky Meadows, American rock guitarist (Angel), born in Washington, D.C.
Feb 8 Michael Goodroe, American rock bassist (Motels - "Only the Lonely"), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Feb 12 Steve Hackett, British progressive rock guitarist, and composer (Genesis, 1971-77; GTR), born in Pimilco, London, England

Peter Gabriel

Feb 13 Peter Gabriel, English rock vocalist (Genesis, 1967-75; "In Your Eyes"), born in Surrey, England

Feb 14 Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist & actor (Brussels by Night)
Feb 14 Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
Feb 16 Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer
Feb 16 Roman Tam, Hong Kong famous singer (d. 2002)

Feb 17 Rick Medlocke, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Blackfoot), born in Jackson, Florida
Feb 19 Andy Powell, British rock guitarist and songwriter (Wishbone Ash - Argus), born in London, England

Walter Becker

Feb 20 Walter Becker, American rock bassist, guitarist, songwriter and record producer (Steely Dan - "Deacon Blues"; "Peg"), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)

Feb 22 Ellen Greene, American vocalist & actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors), born in Brooklyn, New York
Feb 22 Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands
Feb 22 Genesis P-Orridge [Neil Megson], British avant-garde rock singer-songwriter, and performance artist (Throbbing Gristle; Psychic TV), born in Manchester, England (d. 2020)

George Thorogood

Feb 24 George Thorogood, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone), born in Wilmington, Delaware

Feb 25 Emitt Rhodes, American rock singer-songwriter, musician (Merry-Go-Round), sound engineer, and record producer, born in Decatur, Illinois (d. 2020)
Feb 26 Jonathan Cain, American rock guitarist & keyboardist (Journey, Babys), born in Chicago, Illinois
Feb 28 Stephen Chatman, American-Canadian composer (Choir Practice), and educator (University of British Columbia, 1976-present), born in Faribault, Minnesota
Mar 2 Karen Carpenter, American pop vocalist and drummer ("We've Only Just Begun"; "Rainy Days And Mondays"; "Top Of The World"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1983)
Mar 3 Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
Mar 4 Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American musician and producer (Miami Sound Machine), born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Mar 5 Eugene Fodor, American classical violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2011)
Mar 7 Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
Mar 10 Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
Mar 11 Bobby McFerrin, American vocalist and conductor (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989), born in New York, New York
Mar 13 Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
Mar 15 Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
Mar 17 Michael Been, American musician (The Call), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 2010)
Mar 18 James Conlon, American conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979), born in NYC, New York
Mar 18 John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
Mar 21 Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
Mar 25 Ronald "Ronnie" McDowell, American country singer (The King is Gone), born in Portland, Tennessee
Mar 25 Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)

Mar 26 Theodore "Teddy" Pendergrass, American singer (Turn Off the Lights), born in Kingstree, South Carolina (d. 2010)
Mar 26 Alan Silvestri, American film score composer (Back To The Future, Forrest Gump), born in NYC, New York
Mar 27 Maria Ewing, American opera singer, born in Detroit, Michigan
Mar 27 Tony Banks, English musician and rock keyboardist (Genesis), born in East Hoathly, Sussex
Mar 29 Mory Kanté, Guinean singer and kora harp player (Yé ké yé ké), born in Albadaria, Guinea (d. 2020)
Mar 30 Dave Ball, English guitarist (Procul Harum), born in Birmingham (d. 2015)
Mar 30 Eugene Bowen, composer (Wonder's Edge)
Mar 30 Rupert Greenall, rock keyboardist (Fixx)
Mar 31 Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
Apr 1 Billy Currie, English rock keyboardist and violinist (Ultravox), born in Huddersfield
Apr 3 Curtis Stone, American singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry), born in Hollywood, California

Agnetha Fältskog

Apr 5 Agnetha Fältskog [Anna Ulvaeus], Swedish singer (ABBA), born in Jönköping, Sweden

Apr 5 Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
Apr 5 Paul Oscher, American blues musician (Muddy Waters Blues Band), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 10 Eddie Hazel, American pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1992)
Apr 12 David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
Apr 13 Riff West, American rock bassist (Molly Hatchet), born in Corpus Christi, Texas (d. 2014)
Apr 19 Earl Gardner, American jazz trumpeter (Saturday Night Live), born in NYC, New York
Apr 22 Peter Frampton, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive), born in Kent, England
Apr 22 [Jesse Willard] Pete Carr, American guitarist and session musician (LeBlanc and Carr), born in Daytona Beach, Florida
Apr 25 Steve Ferrone, English rock drummer (Average White Band), born in Brighton, England
Apr 26 Peter Schaufuss, Danish dancer and director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 26 L. Shankar [Lakshminarayana Shankar], Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer, born in Madras, Tamil Nadu
May 2 Lou Gramm, American rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is), born in Rochester, New York
May 3 Mary Hopkin, Welsh folk singer (Those Were the Days), born in Pontardawe, Wales
May 4 Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
May 5 Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star), born in Tilburg, Netherlands
May 5 Googoosh [Faegheh Atashin (فائقه آتشین)], Persian singer and actress, born in Sarcheshmeh Street, Tehran
May 6 Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band), born in Dundee (d. 1974)
May 7 Prairie Prince, American rocker (Tubes), born in Charlotte, North Carolina

May 9 Tom Petersson, rock bassist (Cheap Trick), born in Rockford, Illinois
May 12 Billy Squier, American rocker (Don't Say No), born in Wellesley, Massachusetts
May 12 Jocko Marcellino, American rocker (Sha Na Na), born in Quincy, Massachusetts
May 13 Danny Kirwan, British musician, singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac- "Albatross"), born in London, England (d. 2018)

Stevie Wonder

May 13 Stevie Wonder [Stevland Hardaway Morris], American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Life), born in Saginaw, Michigan

May 16 Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
May 16 Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
May 17 Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1991)
May 22 Bernie Taupin, British singer and lyricist (writes with Elton John), born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire
May 25 Robert "Robby" Steinhardt, American rock violinist and singer (Kansas), born in Lawrence, Kansas
May 29 Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, singer (R U Tuff Enuff), born in Gary, Indiana
Jun 1 Charlene [D'Angelo], singer (I've Never Been To Me)
Jun 3 Suzi Quatro[cchio], singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days), born in Detroit, Michigan
Jun 3 Deniece Williams [Chandler], American singer (Love Won't Let Me Wait, Let's Hear it for the Boy,), born in Gary, Indiana
Jun 4 Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears), born in Hamburg, Germany
Jun 5 Ronnie Dyson, American singer (Hair, All over your face)
Jun 8 Elmar Oliveira, American violinist (Naumburg 1978), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
Jun 9 Trevor Bolder, British rock musician and record producer (Uriah Heep, The Spiders from Mars), born in Kingston upon Hull, England (d. 2013)
Jun 11 Graham Russell, Australian rock vocalist (Air Supply), born in Melbourne, Victoria
Jun 14 Bart van Lier, Dutch trombonist, born in Haarlem
Jun 16 James Smith, American singer (Stylistics), born in NYC, New York
Jun 19 Ann Wilson, American musician (Heart-What About Love), born in San Diego, California
Jun 21 Joey Kramer, American hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic), born in NYC, New York
Jun 24 Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, rocker (Black Uhuru), born in Kingston, Jamaica
Jun 30 Leonard Whiting, English actor and singer (Romeo and Juliet), born in London, England
Jul 3 Damon Harris, African-American soul singer (The Temptations-My Girl), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2013)
Jul 5 Huey Lewis [Hugh Anthony Cregg III], American musician (Huey Lewis and the News), born in NYC, New York
Jul 5 Michael Monarch, American rock guitarist (Steppenwolf), born in Los Angeles, California
Jul 6 Phyllis Hyman, American jazz singer (Prime of My Life), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
Jul 9 Gwen Guthrie, American singer ("Ain't Nothin' Goin' on but the Rent"), born in Okemah, Oklahoma (d. 1999)

Jul 10 Willie Ford, American R&B singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones), born in LaGrange, Georgia
Jul 11 Bonnie Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited), born in Oakland, California (d. 2020)
Jul 12 Eric Carr [Paul Charles Caravello], American rock drummer (Kiss), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
Jul 16 Tom Terrell, American musicologist, deejay and NPR reviewer, born in Summit, New Jersey (d. 2007)
Jul 17 Phoebe Snow [Laub], American singer-songwriter (Poetry Man), born in New York City (d. 2011)

Richard Branson

Jul 18 Richard Branson, British music entrepreneur (Virgin Group), born in London, England

Jul 18 Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
Jul 19 Freddy Moore, American rock musician and songwriter, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 21 Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
Jul 23 Blair Thornton, Canadian rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Jul 23 Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter (Painted Ladies), born in Hamilton, Ontario
Jul 25 Mark Clarke, English bassist (Colosseum; Tempest; Uriah Heep), born in Liverpool, England
Jul 26 Duncan Mackay, British composer and keyboard player, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Jul 27 Michael Vaughn, English rocker (Paper Lace - "The Night Chicago Died"), born in Sheffield, Yorkshire
Jul 30 Wime de Craene, Flemish singer and composer, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1990)
Aug 2 Ted Turner, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Wishbone Ash), born in Birmingham, England
Aug 7 Rodney Crowell, American country singer (She's Crazy for Leavin'), born in Houston, Texas
Aug 8 Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Aug 8 Liberatori "Liberty" DeVitto, American rock drummer (Billy Joel, 1976-2006), born in New York City
Aug 11 Erik Brann, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 12 Kid Creole [August Darnell], musician and actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear), born in The Bronx, New York
Aug 15 Billy Griffin, American singer (Miracles - "Love Machine"), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 15 Tommy Aldridge, American heavy metal and hard rock drummer (Black Oak Arkansas; Ozzy Osbourne; Whitesnake), born in Pearl, Mississippi
Aug 18 Dennis Elliott, English rock drummer (Foreigner), born in London, England
Aug 21 Patrick Juvet, Swiss pop singer, born in Montreux, Switzerland
Aug 25 Willy Deville [William Paul Borsey Jr.], American rock vocalist and guitarist (Mink Deville), born in Stamford, Connecticut (d. 2009)
Aug 25 Charles Fambrough, American jazz bassist (Jazz Messengers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2011)
Aug 30 Micky Moody, English guitarist (Whitesnake, Juicy Lucy), born in Middleborough, England
Aug 31 Wilton Felder, American saxophonist and bassist (The Crusaders), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2015)
Sep 2 Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster), born in Hamburg, West Germany

Sep 3 Aaron "A-Train" Smith, American drummer (The Temptations; Romeo Void), born in Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 3 Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X), born in Braidwood, Illinois
Sep 7 Mark "Moogy" Klingman, American rock musician and songwriter (Utopia), born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York (d. 2011)
Sep 8 Will Lee, American bassist (Late Show with David Letterman), born in San Antonio, Texas
Sep 8 Zachary Richard, American Cajun and zydeco singer-songwriter, guitarist, and accordion player, born in Scott, Louisiana
Sep 9 John McFee, American rock and pedal steel guitarist (Van Morrison; Doobie Brothers), born in Santa Cruz California
Sep 10 Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade), born in Bilston, England
Sep 10 Joe Perry, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith - "Walk This Way"), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Sep 14 Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free - "All Right Now"), born in London, England (d. 1976)
Sep 16 David Bellamy, American singer (The Bellamy Brothers-Let Your Love Flow), born in Darby, Florida
Sep 17 [John] Fee Waybill, American rock snger and songwriter (The Tubes - "Talk To Ya Later"), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Sep 18 Carl Verbraeken, Belgian composer, born in Wilrijk, Belgium
Sep 19 Stanley Sheldon, American bass guitar player (Peter Frampton), born in 1950 in Ottawa, Kansas
Sep 20 Loredana Bertè, Italian singer and 2nd ex-wife of Bjorn Borg, born in Milan, Italy
Sep 22 Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
Sep 28 Paul Burgess, British drummer (10cc-Not Alone)
Sep 28 Laurie Lewis, American musician
Sep 30 Renato Zero [Fiacchini], Italian pop, rock and soul singer (Madame), born in Rome
Oct 1 Jeane Manson, American singer and actress,, born in Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 2 Michael Rutherford, British rock bassist and guitar player (Genesis; Mike & the Mechanics - "Living Years"), born in Chertsey, Surrey, England
Oct 3 Ronnie Laws, American saxophonist/guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire), born in Houston, Texas
Oct 3 John Curulewski, American rock guitarist and singer (Styx), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1988)
Oct 5 Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (Taxi - "Bobby"; Grease - "Kenickie"; Babylon 5 - "Zack"), born in NYC, New York (d. 2011)
Oct 5 "Fast" Eddie Clarke, British guitarist (Fastway, Motörhead), born in Twickenham, London (d. 2018)
Oct 6 Thomas McClary, American soul guitarist and singer (The Commodores), born in Eustis, Florida
Oct 8 Robert "Kool" Bell, American funk rock bassist (Kool & the Gang - "Joanna"), born in Youngstown, Ohio
Oct 11 Andrew Woolfolk, American pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star), born in Texas
Oct 15 Chris De Burgh, British-Irish rock vocalist (The Lady in Red), born in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
Oct 17 Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (As Love Goes)
Oct 20 Tom Petty, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), born in Gainesville, Florida (d. 2017)

Oct 20 Elodie Lauten [Genevieve Schecroun], French-American composer (The Death of Don Juan), born in Paris (d. 2014)
Oct 23 Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
Oct 24 Steven Greenberg, American composer and musician (Lipps Inc.), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Oct 25 Chris Norman, British singer (Smokie), born in Redcar, England
Nov 1 Dan Peek, American rock vocalist and guitarist (America), born in Panama City, Florida (d. 2011)
Nov 11 Jim Peterik, American rock musician and songwriter (Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger"), born in Berwyn, Illinois
Nov 12 James Pugh, American session and touring trombonist, composer, and educator (Thundering Herd; Chick Corea; Steely Dan), born in Camden, New Jersey
Nov 18 Graham Parker, British singer-songwriter (Squeezing Out Sparks - "Local Girls"; "Mercury Poisoning"), born in Hackney, London, England
Nov 18 Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-American bass guitarist (Quiet Riot; Ozzy Osbourne), born in Havana, Cuba
Nov 19 James Adler, American concert pianist and composer ( Memento mori - An AIDS Requiem), born in Chicago, Illinois
Nov 20 Gary Green, British guitarist (Gentle Giant), born in London, England
Nov 21 Livingston Taylor, American singer-songwriter (I Will Be In Love With You), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 21 Stephen Geyer, American film & television songwriter (Greatest American Hero), born in Lima, Peru
Nov 21 Gary Pihl, American guitarist (Sammy Hagar), born in Chicago, Illinois
Nov 22 "Little" Steven Van Zandt, American guitarist, songwriter, producer (E-Street Band; Asbury Jukes), and actor (The Sopranos), born in Winthrop, Massachusetts
Nov 22 [Ma]Tina Weymouth, rock bassist (Talking Heads-& She Was), born in Coronado, California
Nov 22 Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
Nov 23 Cecil Hooker, American country and rockabilly violinist (Snuff - "Bad, Bad, Billy")
Nov 24 Bob [Robert Lewis] Burns, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2015)

About 1950

How Old? 70 or 71 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer

Chinese Zodiac: Ox (Jan 1 - Feb 16), Tiger (Feb 17 - Dec 31)

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