Freitag, 13. Okt 2006, 9:45
By Joséli Costa Jantsch
As everybody knows today is Friday the 13th, a very unusual day, especially for my american friends and for some of my fellows of Europe who believe that today is an unluck day.
So, as I took 13 as my number, hehehe, I decided to write about some interesting facts that took place at a friday 13th…related, of course, to Music!!!
Musicians who were born:
1.kathleen battle - 13.08.1948 - American Soprano.
2.carlo bergonzi- 13.07.1924 - Italian tenor
3.peabo bryson- 13.04.1951 - American R&B and soul singer.beauty and the beast; a whole new world
4. morris day- 13.12.1957 - American musician and composer, gifted drummer and lead singer of the time
5.Ilse Delange- 13.05.1977 - Dutch singer
6. casey donovan- 13.05.1988 - Australian singer and songwriter. Winner of the 2nd Australian Idol Season.
7. Eillen Farrel - 13.02.1920 - American soprano.
8. lowell george- 13.04.1945 - american musician (harmonica,flute,saxophone,sitar), singer and oustanding slide guitarist of little feat,the factory, the standells and Mothers of Invention.
9.nicolai Ghiaurov- 13.09.1929 - Bulgarian opera singer, one of the famous bass singers of the post war period.
10.dick haymes-13.09.1918 - one of the most popular american vocalists of the 30's and 40's.
11. John Paul Larkin - scatman John - 13.03.1942 - famous stuttering jazz musician who invented the fusion of seat singing and disco
12. Karoline krügger - 13.02.1970 - Norwegian singer, pianist and songwriter.
13. Robert William Lamm - 13.10.1944 - American keyboardist, singer and songwriter of chicago
14.george lewis-13.07.1900 - American jazz clarinetist.
15.Nicholas Augustine McCarthy - 13.12.1974 - Lead guitarist, bachup singer and keyboardist of the Glaswegian band franz ferdinand
16. Graham McPherson - 13.01.1961 - also known as "Suggs", english singer and vocalist of the second wave skaband madness
17.darius rucker- 13.05.1966 - lead singer of hootie & the blowfish
18.Hillel Slovak - 13.04.1962 - original guitarist of red hot chili peppers, "Anthym" and "What is this".
19.peter tork- 13.02.1942 - american musician 9piano, banjo, bass guitar player of the monkees[/artist, "The Peter Tork Project" and shoe suede blues
20.rhonda vincent- 13.07.1962 - bluegrass singer and accomplished mandolin guitar and fiddle player.
21. max weinberg- 13.04.1951 - american drummer of "Bruce Springsteen's Street Band"
Musicians who died:
1.benny godman- 13.06.1986 - american jazz musician, also known as "king of swing", "Patriarch of the clarinet", "the professor" and "swing's senior statesman".
2.Ralph Kiekpatrick - 13.04.1984 - Musician and harpschordist.
3.Gerald Moore - 13.03.1987 - english pianist
4.lily pons- 13.02.1976 - American-french soprano
5.Tupac shakur- 13.09.1996 - american rapper and the guinness best-selling rap/hip-hop artist ever.
Bands for today:
ac/dc
anthrax
alice cooper
black sabbath
carcass
helloween
iron maiden
judas priest
kiss
marilin mason
megadeath
mothörhead
ozzy osbourne
pantera
ramones
rammstein
sepultura
slayer
type o negative
white zombie
bluegrass
country
dance
disney soundtracks
disco
funk
funk rock
funk metal
hip hop
Jazz
new wave
opera
pop
rithm and blues
rock
sacred music
ska
soft-rock ballads
soul