Pick a Day

Born on March 30

1986 Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold is born in Seattle, Washington.

1979 Norah Jones is born Geetali Norah Shankar in New York City. Her father is the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, but Norah never lives with him. Raised by her mom, the concert promoter Sue Jones, she grows up in Texas before venturing back to New York to pursue music in 1999.

1968 Celine Dion is born in Quebec.

1964 Tracy Chapman is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

1962 MC Hammer is born in Oakland, California. His birth name is Stanley Burrell, but he is dubbed "Hammer" when he becomes a batboy for the Oakland A's, since he looks like hall-of-famer "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron.

1955 Singer/songwriter Randy VanWarmer ("Just When I Needed You Most") is born in Indian Hills, Colorado.

1948 Black Oak Arkansas lead singer Jim "Dandy" Mangrum is born in Michigan.

1945 Eric Clapton is born in Ripley, England. He forms the bands Cream, Blind Faith and Derek & the Dominos. His birth name is often erroneously reported as "Eric Clapp," as Clapp is the surname of his grandparents who raised him.

1944 Ronnie Rice of The New Colony Six is born in Illinois.

1943 Love bass player Ken Forssi is born in Cleveland.

1941 Graeme Edge of The Moody Blues is born in Staffordshire, England.

1930 Rolf Harris ("Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport") is born in Perth, Australia.

1914 Harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson (not the blues singer/guitarist) is born in Jackson, Tennessee.

1913 Frankie Laine is born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio in Chicago.