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English expatriate musicians in the United States
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
- M.I.A. (rapper)Mathangi Arulpragasam was born on the 18th of July 1975 in Hounslow, London. Her family moved to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka when she was six months old.
- Bee GeesThe Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man in the late 1940s. They moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, in 1955.
- Ringo StarrRichard Starkey arrived at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, Liverpool on the 7th of July 1940. His early years were defined by poverty and severe health crises…
- Mick FleetwoodMichael John Kells Fleetwood arrived in the world on the 24th of June 1947 within the red clay hills of Redruth, Cornwall.
- Idris ElbaIdrissa Akuna Elba was born on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney. He grew up as the only child to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man…
- Jeff LynneJeffrey Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham. His father bought him an acoustic guitar for just £2, a instrument he still…
- Pete BestRandolph Peter Best arrived in the world on the 24th of November 1941 within Madras, then part of British India. His mother Mona Best was a…
- Keith MoonKeith John Moon was born on the 23rd of August 1946 at Central Middlesex Hospital in northwest London. He grew up in Wembley with a restless imagination and…