Friday the 13th - Musical Curiosities
By Joséli Costa Jantsch
As everybody knows today is Friday the 13th, a very unusual day, especially for my american friends and for some of my fellows of Europe who believe that today is an unluck day.
So, as I took 13 as my number, hehehe, I decided to write about some interesting facts that took place at a friday 13th...related, of course, to Music!!!
Musicians who were born:
1. Kathleen Battle - 13.08.1948 - American Soprano
2.Peabo Bryson - 13.04.1951 - American R&B and soul singer.Whole New World, A (Aladdin's Theme) on Music From The Movies
3. Morris Day - 13.12.1957 - American musician and composer, gifted drummer and lead singer of The Time
4.Ilse Delange - 13.05.1977 - Dutch singer
5. -Casey Donovan - 13.05.1988 - Australian singer and songwriter. Winner of the 2nd Australian Idol Season
6. Lowell George - 13.04.1945 - american musician (harmonica,flute,saxophone,sitar), singer and oustanding slide guitarist of Little Feat,The Factory, The Standells and The Mothers Of Invention.
7.Dick Haymes -13.09.1918 - one of the most popular american vocalists of the 30's and 40's
8. John Paul Larkin - Scatman John - 13.03.1942 - famous stuttering jazz musician who invented the fusion of seat singing and disco
9. Robert William Lamm - 13.10.1944 - American keyboardist, singer and songwriter of Chicago
10.George Lewis (Clarinet) -13.07.1900 - American jazz musician
11.Nicholas Augustine McCarthy - 13.12.1974 - Lead guitarist, backup singer and keyboardist of the Glaswegian band Franz Ferdinand
12. Graham McPherson - 13.01.1961 - also known as "Suggs", english singer and vocalist of the second wave skaband Madness
17.Darius Rucker - 13.05.1966 - lead singer of Hootie & The Blowfish
13.Hillel Slovak - 13.04.1962 - original guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers
14.Peter Tork - 13.02.1942 - american musician, piano, banjo, bass guitar player of The Monkees;The Peter Tork Project and shoe suede blues
15.Rhonda Vincent - 13.07.1962 - bluegrass singer and accomplished mandolin guitar and fiddle player
16. Max Weinberg- 13.04.1951 - american drummer of "Bruce Springsteen's Street Band"
Musicians who died:
1.Benny Godman- 13.06.1986 - american jazz musician, also known as "king of swing", "Patriarch of the clarinet", "the professor" and "swing's senior statesman".
2.Ralph Kiekpatrick - 13.04.1984 - Musician and harpschordist.
3.Gerald Moore - 13.03.1987 - english pianist
4.Lily Pons- 13.02.1976 - American-french soprano
5.2Pac - 13.09.1996 - american rapper and the guinness best-selling rap/hip-hop artist ever
Bands for today:
AC/DC
Anthrax
Alice Cooper
Black Sabbath
Carcass
Helloween
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Kiss
Marilin Mason
Megadeth
Mothörhead
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
The Ramones
Rammstein
Sepultura
Slayer
Type O Negative
White Zombie
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