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Music History Events: Births

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.

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 16, 1968 Producer, songwriter and musician Atticus Ross is born in London, England. In the early 2000s, Ross begins a long-running collaboration with Nine Inch Nails and the band's frontman, Trent Reznor. He becomes an official member of the group in 2016.

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.