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Music History Events: Births

April 12, 1962 Alt rocker Art Alexakis (frontman of Everclear) is born in Los Angeles, California.

April 8, 1962 Guitarist Izzy Stradlin, a founding member of Guns N' Roses, is born Jeffrey Dean Isbell in Lafayette, Indiana.

April 4, 1962 Craig Adams (bass guitarist for The Cult) is born in Otley, West Yorkshire, England.

March 18, 1962 Irene Cara is born Irene Cara Escalera in The Bronx, New York.

March 15, 1962 Terence Trent D'Arby is born in Manhattan, New York. He lands a bit hit with "Wishing Well" in 1987, and in 2001 he changes his name to Sananda Maitreya.

March 7, 1962 Taylor Dayne is born Leslie Wunderman. She took her stage name when she released her hit single "Tell It To My Heart."

March 5, 1962 Craig Reid & Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers are born in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.

February 24, 1962 Alternative folk singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked is born Karen Michelle Johnston in Dallas, Texas. She borrows her stage name from the term "shell shocked."

February 23, 1962 Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton is born San Francisco.

February 7, 1962 David Bryan (keyboardist for Bon Jovi) is born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

February 4, 1962 Country star Clint Black is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but is raised in Katy, Texas. He releases his debut album, Killin' Time, in 1989 and emerges as one of the few modern country artists to write his own songs. His debut single, "A Better Man," is the first of four #1 singles from the album.

January 29, 1962 Marcus Vere (of Living In A Box) is born in the UK.

January 16, 1962 Paul Webb (bassist for Talk Talk) is born in Essex, England.

January 16, 1962 Maxine Jones (of En Vogue) is born in Paterson, New Jersey.

January 13, 1962 Country singer Trace Adkins is born in Sarepta, Louisiana. His many hits include "You're Gonna Miss This" and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk."

January 4, 1962 Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins is born in Grangemouth, Scotland.

December 28, 1961 Jazz singer-songwriter Christine Collister is born on the Isle of Man in the UK.

December 17, 1961 Sarah Dallin (of Bananarama) is born in Bristol, England.

December 6, 1961 David Lovering (drummer for the Pixies) is born in Burlington, Massachusetts.

December 6, 1961 Keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who is on tour with Smashing Pumpkins when he dies of a drug overdose in 1996, is born in Los Angeles. He is the brother of Wendy Melvoin of Wendy & Lisa.

November 8, 1961 Leif Garrett is born Leif Per Nervik in Hollywood, California.

November 5, 1961 Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson is born in California.

October 31, 1961 U2 drummer Larry Mullen is born in Artane, Dublin, Ireland.

October 29, 1961 Randy Jackson (of The Jackson 5) is born Steven Randall Jackson in Gary, Indiana. As the ninth child, he's both the youngest Jackson brother and youngest child in the family until baby sister Janet is born in 1966.

October 25, 1961 Chad Smith (drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers) is born Chadwick Gaylord Smith in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

October 18, 1961 Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter, composer and teacher, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Blood on the Fields, a three-and-a-half hour jazz oratorio telling the story of a couple finding freedom from slavery.

October 10, 1961 Martin Kemp (bassist for Spandau Ballet) is born in Islington, London, England. Also known for his role as Steve Owen on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

October 9, 1961 Kurt Neumann (singer, songwriter and guitarist for The BoDeans) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

October 4, 1961 Latin pop singer Jon Secada is born Juan Francisco Secada Ramirez in Havana, Cuba, but would be raised in Hialeah, Florida.

September 26, 1961 Cindy Herron (of En Vogue) is born in San Francisco, California.