Sep 28 2025
Born on September 28, 1934, in Paris, Brigitte Bardot became one of the defining faces of postwar European cinema and one of the first French stars to become a truly global pop-culture phenomenon. With her tousled blonde hair, ballet-trained movement, unmistakable pout, casual clothes, bare feet, bikinis, and apparent indifference to convention, Bardot represented something …
Sep 26 2025
Born on September 26, 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, Marty Robbins became one of the most versatile stars in country music history, moving with remarkable ease between cowboy ballads, country-pop, rockabilly, Hawaiian music, gospel, romantic ballads, television, movies, and even NASCAR racing. His smooth baritone could sound intimate on a love song, dramatic on a Western …
Aug 06 2025
Born on August 6, 1940, in Oslo, Egil Kapstad became one of the most respected figures in Norwegian jazz, building a career that reached far beyond the traditional boundaries of the genre. He was a pianist, composer, arranger, accompanist, educator, and musical collaborator whose work connected jazz with poetry, theater, contemporary composition, radio, television, and …
Aug 02 2025
Born on August 2, 1914, in La Tuque, Quebec, Félix Leclerc became one of the defining voices of French-language music in Canada and one of the artists who transformed the modern tradition of the singer-songwriter. With little more than a guitar, a deep expressive voice, and lyrics shaped by poetry, nature, humor, solitude, love, work, …
Jul 16 2025
Before Bob Marley became an international symbol of Jamaican music, Desmond Dekker was already helping audiences around the world discover the irresistible rhythms coming out of Kingston. With his distinctive high tenor, memorable melodies, sharp stage presence, and songs that drew on the language and everyday experiences of Jamaican life, Dekker became one of the …
Jul 15 2025
With her long blonde hair, dramatic eye makeup, striking clothes, and haunting teenage songs, Twinkle looked as though she had stepped directly out of the world of Swinging London. Yet there was something unusual about the young singer behind the image. While many teenage pop stars were handed carefully selected songs by professional writers, Twinkle …
Jul 14 2025
Woody Guthrie carried an America of dusty highways, freight trains, migrant camps, union halls, radio stations, city streets, and ordinary working people into his songs. With little more than a guitar, harmonica, plainspoken voice, and seemingly endless supply of words, he helped shape the image of the American folk singer as a wandering storyteller who …
Jul 09 2025
Born on July 9, 1929, in Mannford, Oklahoma, Lee Hazlewood spent much of his career somewhere between country music, pop, rock and roll, orchestral experimentation, and a wonderfully peculiar territory that was entirely his own. He wrote enormous hits for other singers, helped create the echo-heavy guitar sound that made Duane Eddy famous, transformed Nancy …
Jul 06 2025
Born on July 6, 1925, in Highland Park, Michigan, Bill Haley became one of the musicians who helped turn rock and roll from a collection of regional sounds into an international popular phenomenon. Long before rock music had settled into a recognizable formula, Haley was combining country, western swing, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, and jump …
Jun 15 2025
Born on June 15, 1910, in London, David Rose became one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, conductors, and orchestra leaders of mid-century American entertainment. His career moved effortlessly from big-band radio and lush orchestral recordings to Hollywood films, variety television, Westerns, family dramas, and one of the most unexpectedly famous instrumental records of the …
