1955 in Music - Births

Births

  • January 3 – Helen O'Hara, British musician
  • January 8 – Mike Reno, Loverboy
  • January 13
    • Fred White (Earth Wind & Fire)
    • Trevor Rabin (Yes)
  • January 17 – Steve Earle, folk singer
  • January 19 – Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
  • January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, musician
  • January 27 – Richard Young (Kentucky Headhunters)
  • February 18 – Riff Regan, lead singer of London.
  • February 23 – Howard Jones, singer-songwriter
  • March 2 – Jay Osmond, singer and songwriter (The Osmonds)
  • March 4 – Boon Gould, guitarist (Level 42)
  • March 10 – Bunny DeBarge (DeBarge)
  • March 15 – Dee Snider (Twisted Sister)
  • March 28 – Reba McEntire, country singer
  • March 31 – Angus Young (AC/DC)
  • April 13 – Louis Johnson, bassist (The Brothers Johnson)
  • April 17 – Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
  • May 9 – Anne Sofie von Otter, operatic mezzo-soprano
  • May 12 – Kix Brooks, country singer (Brooks & Dunn)
  • May 20
    • Steve George, keyboardist (Mr. Mister)
    • Zbigniew Preisner, composer
  • May 21 – Stan Lynch (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
  • May 28 – John McGeoch (Magazine, PiL, and Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
  • May 29 – Pascal Dusapin, French composer
  • May 30 – Topper Headon (The Clash)
  • June 7 – Joey Scarbury, singer
  • June 23 – Glenn Danzig, lead singer of Danzig
  • June 26 – Mick Jones (The Clash)
  • June 28 – Thomas Hampson, opera singer
  • July 4 – John Waite, singer
  • July 10 – Stan Munsey (Shenandoah)
  • July 18 – Terry Chambers (XTC)
  • July 21 – Howie Epstein (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
  • July 25 – Jem Finer (The Pogues)
  • August 6 – Eric Paulin, drummer (The Meetles)
  • August 17 – Colin Moulding (XTC)
  • August 28 – Beres Hammond, reggae singer
  • August 29 – Diamanda Galás, singer, composer, pianist and performance artist
  • September 3 – Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols)
  • September 9 – Ivan Smirnov, guitarist
  • September 13 – Andreas Staier, classical harpsichordist and fortepianist
  • October 2 – Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
  • October 7 – Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
  • October 16 – Leonid Desyatnikov, composer
  • October 21:
    • Fred Hersch, American jazz pianist
    • Rich Mullins, singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
  • October 25 – Matthias Jabs (Scorpions)
  • October 29 – Kevin Dubrow (Quiet Riot)
  • November 21 – Kyle Gann, composer, teacher and critic
  • November 23 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
  • November 30 – Billy Idol, singer
  • December 6 – Bright Sheng, composer
  • December 15 – Paul Simonon, The Clash
  • date unknown – Susan Addison, sackbut player

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