Friday the 13th - Musical Curiosities

Por Joséli Costa Jantsch em 13/10/2006

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

Publicado/Mencionado em:
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Kathleen+Battle
http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Dick+Haymes/+journal?setlang=fr
http://www.lastfm.jp/music/Peter+Tork
http://www.lastfm.it/music/Carlo+Bergonzi
http://www.lastfm.de/music/George+Lewis