Curated category
20th-century American male singers
- Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans on the 4th of August 1901. He grew up in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield on Rampart Street.
- Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson entered the world on the 29th of August 1958 inside a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana.
- Bob DylanOn the 24th of May 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman entered the world at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. His parents ran a furniture and appliance…
- Elvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was born on the 8th of January 1935, in a small two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi. His twin brother Jesse Garon had been stillborn…
- Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra entered the world on the 12th of December 1915 inside a tenement building at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- Jimi HendrixJohnny Allen Hendrix arrived in Seattle on the 27th of November 1942. His father Al Hendrix was stationed in Alabama during the birth and could not visit due…
- Kanye WestKanye Omari West was born on the 8th of June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved with his mother to…
- Buddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley was born on the 7th of September 1936 in Lubbock, Texas. He grew up during the Great Depression with three siblings who all played…
- Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson entered the world at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 7th of June 1958. His father John Lewis Nelson was a pianist…
- Marvin GayeMarvin Pentz Gaye Jr. entered the world on the 2nd of April 1939 at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C. His first home sat within the Fairfax Apartments…
- Little RichardRichard Wayne Penniman was born on the 5th of December 1932 in Macon, Georgia. He grew up as the third child among twelve siblings in a household where his…
- Sam CookeSamuel Cook arrived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on the 22nd of January 1931. He was the fifth child born to Reverend Charles Cook and Annie Mae Carroll.
- Chuck BerryCharles Edward Anderson Berry was born on the 18th of October 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up in a neighborhood called the Ville where many…
- George Clinton (funk musician)George Edward Clinton was born on the 22nd of July 1941 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey during his teen years.
- Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
- Johnny CashJohnny Cash was born J. R. Cash on the 26th of February 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. His family moved to Dyess, Arkansas, in March 1935 when he was three…
- Will SmithWillard Carroll Smith II arrived in the world on the 25th of September 1968. He grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia with his mother…
- Hank WilliamsHiram Williams arrived in the rural community of Mount Olive, Alabama, on the 17th of September 1923. He was the third child born to Jessie Lillybelle…
- Jerry Lee LewisJerry Lee Lewis was born on the 29th of September 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. He grew up in an impoverished farming family where his parents mortgaged…
- Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. arrived in Long Beach, California on the 20th of October 1971. His biological father left the family three months after his…
- Gene VincentGene Vincent was born on the 11th of February 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia. His family ran a country store at Munden Point near the North Carolina line.
- Roy OrbisonRoy Kelton Orbison was born on the 23rd of April 1936, in Vernon, Texas. His father worked as an oil-field driller who struggled to find steady work after…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the…
- Bo DiddleyEllas Bates McDaniel arrived in the world on the 30th of December 1928, inside a small town called McComb, Mississippi. He was the only child of Ethel…
- Billy PrestonWilliam Everett Preston entered the world on the 2nd of September 1946, in Houston. He moved to Los Angeles as a child with his mother Robbie Lee Williams.
- Carl PerkinsCarl Lee Perkins was born on the 9th of April 1932, in Tiptonville, Tennessee. He grew up as the son of poor sharecroppers named Louise and Buck Perkins.
- Sean LennonSean Taro Ono Lennon entered the world at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on the 9th of October 1975. This date marked his father John Lennon's…