What do Gladys Knight, John Fogerty, Gary Stewart, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Burgess, Kylie Minogue, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Billy Vera, Larry Gatlin, Roland Gift, Tony Mansfield, Arto Lindsay, John McGeoch, Steve Strange, and Chubb Rock have in common?
They were all born on May 28th.
I have written many blogs about various artists, each blog devoted to, mostly, one each blog. That makes for a blog with only one aspect of music. I thought it would be fun to have a variety of music styles; that is what this is all about. I'll do more in the future.
Here is the first installment.
In 1910, T-Bone Walker, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
In 1925, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Lieder by Franz Schubert, particularly Winterreise of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed half a century after their release.
In 1929, Sonny Burgess, an American rockabilly guitarist and singer.
In 1945, John Fogerty, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty, he founded the band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter. The group had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between 1968 and 1972, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
In 1948, Larry Gatlin, is an American country and Southern gospel
singer and songwriter. As part of a trio with his younger brothers
Steve and Rudy, he achieved considerable success within the country
music genre, performing on 33 top-40 singles (combining his solo
recordings and those with his brothers). As their fame grew, the band
became known as Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers.
In 1953, Arto Lindsay, is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer of No wave, noise, avant-garde jazz.
He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques. His song Seu Pai, sung in Portuguese, is right out of Brazilian Carnival and reminiscent of Black Orpheus.
Black Orpheus movie poster
In 1955, John McGeoch, was a Scottish guitarist who played with several bands of the post-punk era, including Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, and Public Image Ltd.
and Tony Mansfield,
In 1959, Steve Strange, was a Welsh pop singer. He became famous as the leader of the new wave synth-pop group Visage, best known for their single Fade to Grey, and was one of the most influential figures behind the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s.
In 1962, Roland Gift, is a British singer, songwriter and actor. He is the former singer/frontman of the pop band Fine Young Cannibals.
In 1968, Chubb Rock, a New York-based rapper who released several commercially successful hip hop albums in the early 1990s and Kylie Minogue,
Sonny Burgess - We Wanna Boogie
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~ Der Lindenbaum Die Winterreise
John Fogerty ~ The Old Man Down the Road
Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers ~ Houston
Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals) ~ Good Thing
John McGeoch (Magazine) ~ Rhythm of Cruelty
Chubb Rock ~ Rock 'n Roll Dude Gary Stewart ~ She's Acting Single
Steve Strange (Visage) ~ Fade To Grey
Billy Vera ~ Let You Get Away
T-Bone Walker ~ Goin' to Chicago
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