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Born on April 25

1994 Maggie Rogers is born in Easton, Maryland.

1977 Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West is born in Downers Grove, Illinois.

1965 Jane's Addiction bass player Eric Avery is born in Los Angeles.

1964 Synthpop singer Andy Bell (of Erasure) is born in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

1960 Thrash metal singer Paul Baloff (of Exodus) is born in San Francisco, California.

1955 David Sikes (bass player for Boston, Giuffria) is born near Cambridge, England, but will be raised in California.

1950 Steve Ferrone (drummer for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Average White Band) is born in Brighton, England.

1949 Baroque pop keyboardist Michael Brown (of The Left Banke) is born Michael David Lookofsky in New York to jazz violinist Harry Lookofsky.

1946 Ronnie Gilbert (bass guitarist for Blues Magoos) is born.

1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) is born in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1945 Stu Cook (bass guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival) is born in Oakland, California.

1944 Michael Kogel (lead singer of Los Bravos) is born in Berlin, Germany.

1932 Jazz tenor saxophonist Willis "Gator" Jackson is born in Miami, Florida.

1923 Blues guitarist Albert King is born on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi.

1923 Lyricist Jerry Leiber, who will go on to pen several Elvis Presley hits with composing partner Mike Stoller, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

1917 Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia.