Music History Events: Births
September 25, 1683 Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is born in Dijon, France.
March 4, 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, composer of "The Four Seasons," is born in Venice.
September 18, 1587 Francesca Caccini, composer and performer in the early Baroque era, is born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
December 30, 1536 Italian lutenist/composer Alessandro Piccinini is born in Bologna.
May 4, 2020 Grimes has a baby boy she names X Æ A-12. The father is entrepreneur Elon Musk.
August 22, 2018 Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig and his girlfriend, Rashida Jones, have a son, Isaiah. His grandfather is Quincy Jones, Rashida's dad.
June 13, 2017 Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z welcome twins, a girl named Rumi and a boy named Sir.
June 23, 2016 Alanis Morissette and husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway welcome their second child, a daughter named Onyx Solace.
February 20, 2016 Ne-Yo marries Crystal Renay Williams, who is pregnant with their son Shaffer.
August 12, 2015 66-year-old Billy Joel becomes a father for the second time when his fourth wife, Alexis, gives birth to a baby girl, Della Rose.
April 11, 2015 Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel welcome their first child, a son named Silas Randall.
January 29, 2015 Shakira gives birth to her second child, baby boy Sasha, with Spanish soccer player Gerard Pique.
December 27, 2014 Alicia Keys gives birth to a second son, Genesis Ali Dean, with husband Swizz Beatz.
February 28, 2014 Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have their third child: Apollo Bowie Flynn.
August 29, 2013 Fergie and her husband Josh Duhamel have their first child: a boy named Axl. She says the name came to her in a dream where she was watching Axl Rose perform.
January 22, 2013 Shakira and Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique welcome their first child, baby boy Milan.
August 21, 2011 Rod Stewart's becomes a grandfather for the first time when his daughter Kimberly gives birth to her own daughter, Delilah Genoveva del Toro (the result of a liaison with actor Benicio del Toro).
July 11, 2011 Jewel and her rodeo star husband Ty Murray welcome their first child: Kase Townes Murray.
July 9, 2011 Matt Bellamy of Muse and his fiancé Kate Hudson welcome a baby boy named Bingham. Hudson had a boy with Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson seven years earlier; she and Bellamy call off their engagement in 2014.
June 2, 2011 Pink and her husband, Carey Hart, welcome their first child, a daughter named Willow Sage.
April 30, 2011 Mariah Carey and her husband Nick Cannon welcome twins: daughter Monroe and son Moroccan.
April 22, 2011 At age 51, Bryan Adams becomes a father for the first time when his baby girl Mirabella Bunny is born.
February 2, 2011 Leonard Cohen's first grandchild is born to proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and "deputy dad" Jorn Weisbrodt. Little Viva Katherine, named after Wainwright's mother, the folk singer Kate McGarrigle, is born only a year after Cohen reportedly remarked on childhood to both Lorca and Rufus: "You know, it's pretty much the only amazing thing there is."
December 25, 2010 Alanis Morissette gives birth to her first child, a son named Ever Imre. Morissette married the baby's father, rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway, earlier in the year.
November 12, 2010 Ne-Yo welcomes his first child, baby girl Madilyn Grace, with girlfriend Monyetta Shaw.
October 14, 2010 Alicia Keys gives birth to a baby boy named Egypt, and is inspired to write the song "Speechless." The father is her producer husband Swizz Beatz.
February 26, 2010 Though they are separated, The-Dream and Christina Milian welcome a baby daughter, Violet.
September 4, 2009 The-Dream and Christina Milian elope in Las Vegas; they separate three months later, though the split is not made public until July 2010.
May 27, 2009 Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance) becomes a father when wife Lyn-Z (of Mindless Self Indulgence) gives birth to daughter Bandit Lee.
April 17, 2009 Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams, welcome their second child, Jasper. His song "Today" is about this event.
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