1953 in Music - Births

Births

• January 6 – Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
• January 10 – Pat Benatar, singer
• January 23 – Robin Zander (Cheap Trick)
• January 26 – Lucinda Williams, singer
• January 29
  • Louie Perez (Los Lobos)
  • Teresa Teng, singer
• February 3 – Joëlle, singer (d. 1982)
• February 18 – Robin Bachman, drummer (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• February 20 – Riccardo Chailly, conductor
• February 26 – Michael Bolton, American singer
• March 3 – Robyn Hitchcock, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• March 12 – Ryan Paris, singer
• March 19 – Ricky Wilson (The B-52s)
• March 23 – Chaka Khan, singer
• March 31
  • Sean Hopper (Huey Lewis and the News)
  • Greg Martin (The Kentucky Headhunters)
• April 28 - Pat Donohue, guitarist for The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on A Prairie Home Companion)
• May 4 – Oleta Adams, American soul and jazz singer
• May 8
  • Billy Burnette (Fleetwood Mac)
  • Alex Van Halen (Van Halen)
• May 9 – Kojo, singer
• May 15 – Mike Oldfield, composer & musician
• May 16 – Richard Page (Mr. Mister)
• May 17 – George Johnson (The Brothers Johnson)
• June 12 – Rocky Burnette, rock singer
• June 19 – Larry Dunn (Earth Wind & Fire)
• June 20
  • Alan Longmuir (The Bay City Rollers)
  • Dušan Rapoš, composer
• June 22 – Cyndi Lauper, singer-songwriter
• June 29 – Colin Hay (Men at Work)
• July 6 – Nanci Griffith, singer
• July 21 – Eric Bazilian (The Hooters)
• July 29 – Geddy Lee (Rush)
• July 31 – Hugh MacDowell (Electric Light Orchestra)
• August 1 – Robert Cray, blues guitarist and singer
• August 12 – Peter Ostroushko, mandolinist, fiddler
• August 16 – James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang)
• August 17 – Kevin Rowland, vocalist (Dexys Midnight Runners)
• August 24 – Ron Holloway, tenor saxophonist
• August 27 – Alex Lifeson (Rush)
• August 29 – Rick Downey (Blue Öyster Cult)
• September 2 – John Zorn, composer
• September 7 – Benmont Tench, keyboardist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and others
• September 11 – Tommy Shaw, Styx
• September 27 – Greg Ham, Men at Work
• October 7 – Tico Torres, Bon Jovi
• October 10- Midge Ure, singer and songwriter
• October 14 – Kazumi Watanabe, jazz performer
• October 15 – Tito Jackson (The Jackson 5)
• October 16- Tony Carey (Rainbow)
• October 21 – Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's)
• October 26 – Keith Strickland (The B-52s)
• October 31 – Johnny Clegg, singer and instrumentalist
• November 11 – Andy Partridge (XTC)
• November 13
  • Andrew Ranken, The Pogues
  • Keith Green, gospel singer/songwriter (d. 1982)
• November 22 – Urmas Alender, singer (Ruja, Propeller)