1959 in Music - Births

Births

• January 3 – Curt Bisquera, drummer
• January 6 – Kathy Sledge, vocalist (Sister Sledge)
• January 7 – Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's)
• January 8 – Paul Hester, drummer (Crowded House) (died 2005)
• January 10 – Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
• January 12
  • Per Gessle (Roxette)
  • Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• January 14
  • Chas Smash (Madness)
  • Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche)
• January 16 – Sade, singer
• January 17 – Susanna Hoffs, singer (The Bangles)
• January 28 – Dave Sharp (The Alarm)
• January 30 – Jody Watley, singer
• February 3 – Lol Tolhurst, The Cure
• February 14 – Renée Fleming, operatic soprano
• February 15 – Ali Campbell, ska musician (UB40)
• February 25 – Mike Peters, singer and songwriter (The Alarm)
• March 7 – Andy Diagram, trumpet player
• March 16 – Flavor Flav (Public Enemy)
• March 17 – Mike Lindup, keyboard player and vocalist (Level 42)
• March 27 – Andrew Farriss (INXS)
• March 29 – Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction)
• April 10
  • Babyface, musician and record producer
  • Brian Setzer, guitarist and singer (The Stray Cats)
• April 21
  • Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)
  • Robert Smith, singer (The Cure)
• April 27
  • Marco Pirroni, guitarist (Adam and the Ants, Siouxsie and the Banshees (founder member), The Models, The Wolfmen)
  • Sheena Easton, singer
• May 3 – David Ball, Soft Cell
• May 4 – Randy Travis, country singer
• May 5 – Ian McCulloch, singer (Echo & the Bunnymen)
• May 20 – Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills, Continental Drifters)
• May 22 – Morrissey, singer-songwriter
• June 1 – Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode)
• June 11 – Kathinka Pasveer, flautist
• June 12 – John Linnell (They Might Be Giants)
• June 18 – Sean Terrington Wright, English singer-songwriter
• June 19 – Mark DeBarge (DeBarge)
• June 22 – Alan Anton (Cowboy Junkies)
• June 24 – Andy McCluskey (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
• July 3 – Stephen Pearcy (Ratt)
• July 5 – Marc Cohn, singer-songwriter
• July 9
  • Jim Kerr, singer (Simple Minds)
  • Marc Almond, singer
• July 11
  • Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi)
  • Suzanne Vega, singer-songwriter
• July 16 – James MacMillan, composer and conductor
• August 1 – Joe Elliott (Def Leppard)
• August 9 – Kurtis Blow, rapper
• August 31 – Tony DeFranco, singer (The DeFranco Family)
• September 8 – Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer, singer, and actor
• September 14 – Morten Harket, singer (a-ha)
• October 1 – Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
• October 4 – Chris Lowe, keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys)
• October 10 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
• October 13 – Marie Osmond, singer
• October 16 –
  • Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
  • Erkki-Sven Tüür, composer
• October 23 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, parodist
• October 25 – Christina Amphlett, Australian rock singer
• November 1 – Eddie MacDonald (The Alarm)
• November 5 – Bryan Adams, singer/guitarist
• November 27 – Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds)
• November 29 – Steve Hindalong, record producer
• December 4 – Bob Griffin (The BoDeans)
• December 30 – Tracey Ullman, comedienne and singer
• December 31
  • Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician and composer
  • Paul Westerberg, singer, guitarist and songwriter (The Replacements)