Music History Events: Births
October 18, 1975 Rapper Baby Bash is born Ronnie Ray Bryant in Vallejo, California. Known for songs like "Cyclone," featuring T-Pain, and "What Is It," featuring Sean Kingston.
October 14, 1975 R&B singer Shaznay Lewis (of All Saints) is born in Islington, London, England.
October 9, 1975 On father John Lennon's 35th birthday, Yoko Ono gives birth to Sean Ono Taro Lennon (Sean Lennon), who becomes a musician, playing a number of instruments and also producing tracks for Lana Del Rey and Soulfly.
October 3, 1975 Soul singer India.Arie is born in Denver, Colorado.
September 11, 1975 Brad Fischetti (of LFO) is born in New York City, New York.
September 2, 1975 Soul/R&B singer Tony Thompson (lead singer for Hi-Five) is born Waco, Texas. He would be raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
August 29, 1975 Kyle Cook (lead guitarist for Matchbox Twenty) is born in Frankfort, Indiana.
July 18, 1975 Singer-rapper M.I.A. is born Mathangi Arulpragasam in London. She has a groundbreaking hit in 2007 with "Paper Planes," a song inspired by her efforts to enter America on a visa, a bureaucratic nightmare.
July 18, 1975 Daron Malakian (guitarist, vocalist for System Of A Down) is born in Los Angeles, California.
July 14, 1975 Rapper Taboo (of Black Eyed Peas) is born Jaime Luis Gomez in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.
July 14, 1975 R&B singer Tameka "Tiny" Cottle (of Xscape) is born in Jonesboro, Georgia. She receives a Grammy Award as a co-writer on TLC's hit "No Scrubs."
July 11, 1975 Lil' Kim is born Kimberly Denise Jones in New York City. In 1995 she joins The Notorious B.I.G. in the group Junior M.A.F.I.A., establishing herself as a hard-core rapper who can go toe-to-toe with the guys. Her debut album, Hard Core, is released in 1996 on Atlantic Records; in 2001 she becomes the first female rapper to appear on a #1 hit when "Lady Marmalade" tops the chart.
June 21, 1975 Justin Cary (bassist for Sixpence None the Richer) is born in New York's Catskill Mountains.
June 18, 1975 Rapper Silkk The Shocker, brother of Master P, is born Vyshonne King Miller in New Orleans, Louisiana.
May 29, 1975 Melanie Brown is born in Leeds, England. With Spice Girls, she is known as Mel B or "Scary Spice."
May 27, 1975 Rapper Andre 3000 (of OutKast) is born André Lauren Benjamin in Atlanta, Georgia.
May 26, 1975 Lauryn Hill is born in East Orange, New Jersey. She can both sing and rap at the highest levels, as evident on the 1996 album The Score with her group Fugees, and on her landmark solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, released in 1998.
May 8, 1975 Enrique Iglesias is born in Madrid, Spain, to Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and journalist Isabel Preysler.
April 26, 1975 Nathan "Joey" Jordison, Slipknot's drummer from 1995-2013, is born in Des Moines, Iowa. He dies in 2021 at 46; the cause of death is not disclosed.
April 13, 1975 Latin-pop singer Lou Bega is born David Lubega to a Ugandan father and a Sicilian mother in Munich, Germany.
April 10, 1975 Alt rock singer-songwriter Chris "Ender" Carrabba (of Dashboard Confessional) is born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
April 8, 1975 Dutch singer-songwriter Anouk is born Anouk Teeuwe in The Hague, Netherlands.
March 27, 1975 Fergie (Stacy Ferguson) of Black Eyed Peas is born in Hacienda Heights, California.
March 25, 1975 Melanie Blatt (of All Saints) is born in Camden, London, England.
March 25, 1975 The rapper Juvenile is born Terius Gray in New Orleans, Louisiana. With his producer Mannie Fresh, he creates a "bounce" sound best heard on his 1998 tail shaker "Back That Azz Up."
March 17, 1975 Justin Hawkins, lead singer/guitarist for the glam-pop band The Darkness, is born in Chertsey, Surrey, England. His musical philosophy: "If something's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
March 15, 1975 will.i.am (of Black Eyed Peas) is born William Adams in Los Angeles.
March 10, 1975 Jerry Horton (lead guitarist for Papa Roach) is born in Charleston, South Carolina.
February 20, 1975 Brian Littrell of Backstreet Boys is born in Lexington, Kentucky. His cousin is bandmate Kevin Richardson.
February 4, 1975 Natalie Imbruglia is born in Sydney, Australia. Before embarking on a singing career, she stars on the soap opera Neighbours.
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