Curated category
American ballad musicians
- 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.
- Billie HolidayEleanora Fagan was born on the 7th of April 1915, in Philadelphia to an unwed teenage couple named Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan.
- Aretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin was born on the 25th of March 1942, at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald was born on the 25th of April 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her mother Temperance Fitzgerald and father William Ashland Fitzgerald…
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey was born on the 27th of March 1969, in Huntington, New York. Her name came from the song They Call the Wind Maria, which appeared in the 1951…
- 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…
- Diana RossDiana Ross was born on the 26th of March 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Her family lived at 635 Belmont Street in the North End section of the city before…