This Day in Music

1981-05-28 Artist spotlight

Adam Green

Adam Green, American singer and songwriter was born

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1898-05-28 Artist spotlight

Andy Kirk

Andy Kirk, jazz musician was born

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1953-05-28 Artist spotlight

Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay, rocker/actor (Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan) was born

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1977-05-28 Artist spotlight

Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord

Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) was born

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1927-05-28 Artist spotlight

Bernhard Lewkovitch

Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer was born

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1944-05-28 Artist spotlight

Billy Vera

Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night) was born

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1965-05-28 Artist spotlight

Chris Ballew

Chris Ballew, American musician was born

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1985-05-28 Artist spotlight

Colbie Caillat

Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter was born

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1943-05-28 Artist spotlight

Dennis Riley

Dennis Riley, composer was born

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1943-05-28 Artist spotlight

Elena Souliotis

Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004) was born

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1831-05-28 Artist spotlight

Eliza Ann Gardner

Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor was born

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1931-05-28 Artist spotlight

Ervin Junger

Ervin Junger, composer was born

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1778-05-28 Artist spotlight

Friedrich Westenholz

Friedrich Westenholz, composer was born

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1945-05-28 Artist spotlight

Gary Stewart

Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single) was born

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1963-05-28 Artist spotlight

Gavin Harrison

Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree) was born

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1883-05-28 Artist spotlight

George Dyson

George Dyson, composer was born

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1841-05-28 Artist spotlight

Giovanni Sgambati

Giovanni Sgambati, composer was born

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1944-05-28 Artist spotlight

Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train) was born

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1927-05-28 Artist spotlight

Gyorgy Ligeti

Gyorgy Ligeti, Transylvania, Romania, composer of contemporary classical music was born

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1940-05-28 Artist spotlight

Hans Dulfer

Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso) was born

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1932-05-28 Artist spotlight

Henning Christiansen

Henning Christiansen, composer was born

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1907-05-28 Artist spotlight

Henry Ritz

Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer (Ritz Brothers) was born

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1928-05-28 Artist spotlight

Jacob R Druckman

Jacob R Druckman, composer was born

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1765-05-28 Artist spotlight

Jean Baptiste Cartier

Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer was born

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1798-05-28 Artist spotlight

Josef Dessauer

Josef Dessauer, composer was born

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1780-05-28 Artist spotlight

Joseph Frohlich

Joseph Frohlich, composer was born

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1777-05-28 Artist spotlight

Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees

Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer was born

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1930-05-28 Artist spotlight

Julian Penkivil Slade

Julian Penkivil Slade, composer was born

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1934-05-28 Artist spotlight

Julian Slade

Julian Slade, composer was born

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1830-05-28 Artist spotlight

Karoly Filtsch

Karoly Filtsch, composer was born

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1968-05-28 Artist spotlight

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion) was born

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1959-05-28 Artist spotlight

Leon "The Bop" Klaasse

Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red) was born

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1844-05-28 Artist spotlight

Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur

Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer was born

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1883-05-28 Artist spotlight

Luigi Perrachio

Luigi Perrachio, composer was born

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1936-05-28 Artist spotlight

Maki Ishii

Maki Ishii, composer was born

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1896-05-28 Artist spotlight

Marius Monnikendam

Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer was born

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1980-05-28 Artist spotlight

Mark Feehily

Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife) was born

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1886-05-28 Artist spotlight

Nicolai Sokoloff

Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph) was born

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1917-05-28 Artist spotlight

Papa John Creach

Papa John Creach, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane) was born

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1931-05-28 Artist spotlight

Peter Talbot Westergaard

Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer was born

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1906-05-28 Artist spotlight

Phil Regan

Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose) was born

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1964-05-28 Artist spotlight

Phil Vassar

Phil Vassar, American country music singer was born

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1938-05-28 Artist spotlight

Prince Buster

Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer (Madness) was born

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1948-05-28 Artist spotlight

Ray Laidlaw

Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad) was born

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1934-05-28 Artist spotlight

Rob du Bois

Rob du Bois, composer was born

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1961-05-28 Artist spotlight

Roland Gift

Roland Gift, UK, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy) was born

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1904-05-28 Artist spotlight

Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze

Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer was born

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1910-05-28 Artist spotlight

T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done) was born

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1900-05-28 Artist spotlight

Tommy Ladnier

Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939) was born

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1943-05-28 Artist spotlight

Tony Mansfield

Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer) was born

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1949-05-28 Artist spotlight

Wendy O. Williams

Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998) was born

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1915-05-28 Artist spotlight

Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist was born

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1954-05-28 Artist spotlight

Youri Egorov

Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988) was born

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1954-05-28 Artist spotlight

Achille Longo

Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54

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1914-05-28 Artist spotlight

Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld

Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76

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1836-05-28 Artist spotlight

Anton Reicha

Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66

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1883-05-28 Artist spotlight

August Freyer

August Freyer, composer, dies at 79

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1922-05-28 Artist spotlight

Carl Teike

Carl Teike, composer, dies at 58

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1650-05-28 Artist spotlight

Gilles Hayne

Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59

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1973-05-28 Artist spotlight

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73

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1995-05-28 Artist spotlight

Henning Kronstam

Henning Kronstam, dancer, dies at 60

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2002-05-28 Artist spotlight

Jean Berger

Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)

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1977-05-28 Artist spotlight

Jiri Reinberger

Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63

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1833-05-28 Artist spotlight

Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner

Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74

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1787-05-28 Artist spotlight

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67

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1964-05-28 Artist spotlight

John Finley Williamson

John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76

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1791-05-28 Artist spotlight

Joseph Schmitt

Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57

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1981-05-28 Artist spotlight

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC

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1958-05-28 Artist spotlight

Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky

Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77

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1805-05-28 Artist spotlight

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Ital composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62

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1940-05-28 Artist spotlight

Theodor Streicher

Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65

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1838-05-28 Artist spotlight

Thomas Busby

Thomas Busby, composer, dies

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1890-05-28 Artist spotlight

Viktor Ernst Nessler

Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49

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1963-05-28 Artist spotlight

Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin

Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60

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1940-05-28 Artist spotlight

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC

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1906-05-28 Artist spotlight

Julian Edwards

Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor", premieres in NYC

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1959-05-28 Artist spotlight

Lionel Bart

Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London

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1938-05-28 Artist spotlight

Paul Hindemith

Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich

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1974-05-28 Artist spotlight

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC

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