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Music History Events: Births

September 5, 1968 Brad Wilk (drummer for Rage Against The Machine) is born in Portland, Oregon.

August 18, 1968 MC Eric/Me One (of Technotronic) is born Eric Martin in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

August 11, 1968 Guitarist/singer/songwriter Charlie Sexton is born in San Antonio, Texas.

August 10, 1968 R&B singer Michael "Biv" Bivins (of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

June 25, 1968 Rapper Candell "Candyman" Manson is born in Los Angeles, California.

June 21, 1968 Sonique, known for the 1998 electronic hit "It Feels So Good," is born Sonia Marina Clarke in Crouch End, North London, England.

June 13, 1968 David Gray is born in Sale, Cheshire, England.

June 3, 1968 Saffron (lead singer of Republica) is born Samantha Marie Sprackling is born in Lagos, Nigeria.

June 1, 1968 Jason Donovan is born in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia. After finding fame on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, he'll hit the top of the UK charts in a duet with co-star Kylie Minogue: "Especially For You."

May 28, 1968 Kylie Minogue is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

May 17, 1968 Dave Abbruzzese, drummer for Pearl Jam on their albums Vs. and Vitalogy, is born in Stamford, Connecticut, raised in Mesquite, Texas.

May 16, 1968 Ralph Tresvant (lead singer of New Edition) is born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

May 7, 1968 Eagle-Eye Cherry (yes, that's his real name) is born in Skane, Sweden. Known for his hit "Save Tonight," he's the son of trumpet player Don Cherry and half-brother of Neneh Cherry.

May 1, 1968 D'Arcy Wretsky-Brown (bass guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins) is born in South Haven, Michigan.

April 29, 1968 Carnie Wilson (of Wilson Phillips) is born in Bel Air, California, to The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and his first wife, Marilyn Rovell.

April 28, 1968 Daisy Berkowitz (lead guitarist for Marilyn Manson) is born Scott Mitchell Putesky in Florida.

April 24, 1968 Spin Doctors drummer Aaron Comess is born in Phoenix, Arizona.

April 23, 1968 Stan Frazier (drummer for Sugar Ray) is born Charles Stanton Frazier in Orange County, California.

April 15, 1968 Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien is born in Oxford, England.

April 5, 1968 Singer-songwriter Paula Cole, known for the 1997 hit "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?," is born in Rockport, Massachusetts.

April 3, 1968 Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach is born Sebastian Philip Bierk is born in Freeport, Bahamas, raised in Canada.

March 26, 1968 Kenny Chesney is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is raised in nearby Luttrell.

March 26, 1968 Guitarist James Iha is born in Chicago. In 1988 he forms Smashing Pumpkins with Billy Corgan. The band breaks up in 2000 and reforms in 2006, but Iha doesn't rejoin until 2018.

March 23, 1968 Blur frontman Damon Albarn is born in London. The group helps define Britpop in the '90s with songs like "Parklife" and "Song 2," but in the '00s he becomes better known as the main voice and musical architect of Gorillaz, the most popular virtual band ever assembled.

March 21, 1968 Andrew Copeland (rhythm guitarist for Sister Hazel) is born in Gainesville, Florida.

March 15, 1968 Jon Schaffer (guitarist for Iced Earth) is born in Franklin, Indiana.

March 15, 1968 Mark McGrath (frontman for Sugar Ray) is born in Hartford, Connecticut.

March 11, 1968 Lisa Loeb is born in Bethesda, Maryland.

March 9, 1968 Robert Sledge, bass player for Ben Folds Five, is born.

March 8, 1968 Shawn Mullins is born in Atlanta, Georgia.