Music History Events: Births
February 12, 1968 John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas welcome daughter Chynna, their only child. She forms Wilson Phillips with Brian Wilson's daughters Carnie and Wendy.
February 5, 1968 Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron is born Christopher Barron Gross in Hawaii. He moves with his family to Australia at age 8, then to Princeton, New Jersey at 12, where he goes to high school with John Popper of Blues Traveler.
February 1, 1968 Lisa Marie Presley is born in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the first and only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley.
January 28, 1968 Rakim, of the hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, is born William Michael Griffin Jr. in Wyandanch, Long Island, New York.
January 28, 1968 DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill is born Lawrence Muggerud in Queens, New York. He also produces House Of Pain, including their hit "Jump Around."
January 27, 1968 Mike Patton (lead singer of Faith No More) is born in Eureka, California.
January 14, 1968 LL Cool J is born James Todd Smith in Bay, New York. His stage name stands for Ladies Love Cool James.
January 9, 1968 Carl Bell of Fuel is born in Kenton, Tennessee.
December 12, 1967 Nick Dimichino (bass guitarist for Nine Days) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
November 25, 1967 Rodney Sheppard (guitarist for Sugar Ray) is born in Trinidad, but is raised in Newport Beach, California.
November 21, 1967 Margret Ornolfsdottir (keyboardist for The Sugarcubes) is born in Iceland.
November 17, 1967 Ronnie DeVoe (of New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe) is born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
November 17, 1967 Ben Wilson (keyboardist for Blues Traveler) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
October 31, 1967 Vanilla Ice is born Robert Matthew Van Winkle in Dallas, Texas.
October 26, 1967 Keith Urban is born in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, but moves with his family to Queensland, Australia when he's 2. He conquers America in the '00s with a string of hits that includes "Somebody Like You" and "You'll Think Of Me." In 2012 he's inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
October 17, 1967 Rene Dif (of Aqua) is born in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
October 10, 1967 Mike Malinin (drummer for The Goo Goo Dolls) is born in Washington, DC.
October 7, 1967 R&B singer Toni Braxton is born in Severn, Maryland.
October 2, 1967 Drummer Bud Gaugh is born Floyd I. Gaugh IV in Long Beach, California. With lead singer Brad Nowell and bass player Eric Wilson, he forms Sublime in 1988. After Nowell's death in 1996, he and Wilson keep making music together but can't use the Sublime name until Nowell's son Jakob joins them in 2023.
September 28, 1967 Frank Zappa and wife Gail have their first child, daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Thus begins a tradition of oddball names for the Zappa children.
September 21, 1967 Faith Hill is born Audrey Faith Perry in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
September 21, 1967 Tyler Stewart (drummer for Barenaked Ladies) is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
September 20, 1967 Identical twins Matthew and Gunnar Nelson (of Nelson) are born to teen idol Ricky Nelson and actress Kristin Harmon in Santa Monica, California.
September 18, 1967 Ricky Bell (of Bell Biv DeVoe) is born in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
September 13, 1967 Jane's Addiction drummer Steve Perkins is born in Los Angeles.
September 11, 1967 Crooner Harry Connick, Jr. is born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana.
August 19, 1967 Ringo Starr and his wife, the former Maureen Cox, welcome their second son, Jason.
August 10, 1967 Guitarist Todd Nichols (of Toad the Wet Sprocket) is born in Los Angeles, California.
July 29, 1967 Chris Gorman (drummer for Belly) is born in Buffalo, New York.
July 27, 1967 Juliana Hatfield is born in Wiscasset, Maine.
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