musical birthdays

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Axl Rose
Born: February 06, 1962
American singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. He is the lead
vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and has also been the band's
sole constant member since its inception in 1985.

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Garth Brooks
Born: February 07, 1962
Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country singer and songwriter. His inte-
gration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him
his immense popularity, particularly in the United States with success on
the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and
record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over into the main-
stream pop arena. Brooks is the only artist in music history to have released
nine albums that were certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Associa-
tion of America (surpassing The Beatles' former record of six)...Brooks is one
of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold more than 170 million
records. Billboard ranked Brooks as the greatest male solo artist on the Bill-
board 200 chart of all time. As of 2020, according to the RIAA, he is the best-
selling solo albums artist in the United States with 156 million domestic units
sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to the Beatles in total album
sales overall. Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on
October 21, 2012, having been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
the year before.

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Vince Neil
Born: February 08, 1961
American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal band
Mötley Crüe which he co-founded in 1981, but he has also released three albums
as a solo artist. He is known for his turbulent personal life which has led to multiple
arrests and convictions, including one for vehicular manslaughter.

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Carole King
Born: February 09, 1942
American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one
of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is
the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century
in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Roberta Flack
Born: February 10, 1937
American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and
for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets
with Donny Hathaway. Flack is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award
for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
at the 1974 Grammys.

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Sheryl Crow
Born: February 11, 1962
American musician, singer, songwriter,
and actress. Her music incorporates
elements of pop, rock, country, jazz,
and blues. She has released ten studio
albums, four compilations, two live
albums, and has contributed to a num-
ber of film soundtracks...She has sold
more than 50 million albums worldwide.
Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards
(out of 32 nominations) from the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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Michael McDonald
Born: February 12, 1952
Michael McDonald is an American singer, keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive,
soulful voice and as a member of the bands the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present)
and Steely Dan...McDonald is the recipient of five Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Doobie Brothers in 2020.

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Peter Gabriel
Born: February 13, 1950
English singer, songwriter, record producer
and activist who rose to fame as the ori-
ginal lead singer and frontman of the pro-
gressive rock band Genesis. After leaving
Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a success-
ful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his
first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-
selling release and is certified triple platinum
in the UK and five times platinum in the US.
The album's most successful single,
"Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV
Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards
and, according to a report in 2011, it was
MTV's most played music video of all time.

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Brian Holland
Born: February 15, 1941
American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of
Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was
responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by
artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,
and The Isley Brothers. Holland, along with Lamont Dozier, served as the
team's musical arranger and producer. He has written or co-written 145
hits in US and 78 in the UK.

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Ice-T
Born: February 16, 1958
American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer, and author.
He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed
to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays; the
second hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker after Slick Rick's
La Di Da Di.

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Billie Joe Armstrong
Born: February 17, 1972
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,
and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter,
and lead guitarist of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike
Dirnt in 1985.

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Yoko Ono
Born: February 18, 1933
Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist. Her
work also encompasses performance art, which she performs in both
English and Japanese, and filmmaking. She was married to John Lennon
of the Beatles from 1969 until his murder in 1980.

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Smokey Robinson
Born: February 19, 1940
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B
and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.
He was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the
Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer. He led the
group from its 1955 origins, when they were called The Five Chimes, until
1972, when he announced his retirement from the group to focus on his role
as Motown Records vice president. Robinson returned to the music industry
as a solo artist the following year. He left Motown in 1999. Robinson was in-
ducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and awarded the 2016
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for his lifetime contributions to popular
music. He is a double Hollywood Walk of Fame Inductee, as a solo artist and
as a member of The Miracles. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music
& Entertainment Walk of Fame.

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Rihanna
Born: February 20, 1988
A Barbadian singer, businesswoman, fashion designer, actress, and philan-
thropist. She is known for embracing various musical styles and reinventing
her image throughout her career.

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Larry Campbell
Born: February 21, 1955
American multi-instrumentalist, who plays
many stringed instruments (including guitar,
mandolin, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, and
violin) in genres including country, folk, blues,
and rock. He is perhaps most widely known for
his time as part of Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour
band from 1997 to 2004. Campbell also has ext-
ensive experience as a studio musician. Over the
past years, Larry has recorded with such artists as
Levon Helm, Judy Collins, Lucy Kaplansky, Richard
Shindell, Linda Thompson, Sheryl Crow, Chris Castle,
Paul Simon, B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Eric Andersen,
Buddy and Julie Miller, Kinky Friedman, Little Feat,
Hot Tuna, Cyndi Lauper, k.d. lang, Anastasia Barzee,
Rosanne Cash and Ayọ, among others.

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Brad Whitford
Born: February 23, 1952
American musician who is best known for serving as the rhythm and co-lead guitarist for the
hard rock band Aerosmith. He has also worked as a songwriter for the group, co-composing
well-received tracks such as 1976's "Last Child".

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George Thorogood
Born: February 24, 1950
American musician, singer and songwriter
from Wilmington, Delaware. His "high-
energy boogie-blues" sound became a
staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like
his original songs "Bad to the Bone" and
"I Drink Alone". He has also helped to
popularize older songs by American icons,
such as "Move It on Over", "Who Do You Love?",
and "House Rent Blues/One Bourbon, One
Scotch, One Beer".

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Frank Sampredo
Born: February 25, 1949
American guitarist and member of the rock band Crazy
Horse, known mainly for his longtime collaboration with
singer-songwriter Neil Young. Sampedro has played and
recorded with Young in many other configurations aside
from Crazy Horse and earned co-writing credits on several
Young songs. Out of all Young's musical collaborators (aside
from the late pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith), Sampedro has
proven perhaps the most adept at working with the mercurial
artist. "Most people turn a corner. Neil ricochets," says Sampedro.

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Jonathan Cain
Born: February 26, 1950
Jonathan Leonard Friga, known professionally as Jonathan Cain, is an American
musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter best known as the key-
boardist and rhythm guitarist for Journey. He has also worked with the Babys
and Bad English. Cain was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a
member of Journey on April 7, 2017. He also maintains a solo career as a con-
temporary Christian artist.

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Johnny Van Zant
Born: February 27, 1960
American musician/composer and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock
band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd
co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, and of the 38 Special
founder Donnie Van Zant.

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Cindy Wilson
Born: February 28, 1957
American singer, and is one of the vocalists, songwriters and
founding members of new wave rock band the B-52s.

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Saul Williams
Born: February 29, 1972
American rapper, singer, songwriter,
musician, poet, writer, and actor.
He is known for his blend of poetry
and alternative hip hop, and for his
lead roles in the 1998 independent
film Slam and the 2013 jukebox
musical Holler If Ya Hear Me.

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Roger Daltry
Born: March 01, 1944
English singer and actor. Daltrey is the founder and lead singer of the rock
band The Who, which released 14 singles that entered the Top 10 charts in
the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including "I Can't
Explain", "My Generation", "Substitute", "I'm a Boy", "Happy Jack", "Pictures
of Lily", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again", and "You Better You Bet".

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Jon Bon Jovi
Born: March 02, 1962
American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor. Bon
Jovi is best known as the founder and frontman of the Grammy Award-winning
rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983.

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Snowy White
Born: March 03, 1948
English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy (permanent member
from 1980 to 1982) and with Pink Floyd (as a backing guitarist; he was first in-
vited to tour with the band through Europe and the United States in 1977, and
during The Wall shows in 1980), and more recently, for Roger Waters' band. He
is also known for his 1983 solo offering "Bird of Paradise", which became a UK
Singles Chart Top 10 hit single.

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Jason Newsted
Born: March 04, 1963
American heavy metal musician, known for being the bassist of the band Metallica from October 1986
until January 2001. Before Metallica, he was a member of Flotsam and Jetsam. After Metallica, has
been involved with Echobrain, Ozzy Osbourne, Voivod, and led the band Newsted from 2012 to 2014.

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Alan Clark
Born: March 05, 1952
English musician who was the first permanent keyboardist
and co-producer of the rock band Dire Straits. In 2018, Clark
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a significant
member of Dire Straits. In 1983 he played on Bob Dylan's album
Infidels and also on the following Empire Burlesque album. Clark
also worked with Knopfler on some of his film soundtrack work,
most notably on the film Local Hero, in which he also makes a
brief appearance as a piano player.

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David Gilmour
Born: March 06, 1946
English songwriter, guitarist, and singer who was a member of rock band Pink
Floyd...one of the most acclaimed acts in music history; by 2012, they had
sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million in the
United States...As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Born: March 07, 1946
American musician best known as the lead vocalist of the J. Geils
Band from 1967 to 1983 and for a successful solo career with wri-
ting partner Will Jennings.

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Micky Dolenz
Born: March 08, 1945
American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater
director, best known as a vocalist and drummer of the 1960s pop/rock band
the Monkees.