Black Francis, o líder e vocalista dos Pixies, faz hoje 58 anos

   

Charles Thompson IV (Boston, Massachusetts, April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with record label 4AD and one with American Recordings, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He re-adopted the name Black Francis in 2007.

His vocal style has varied from a screaming, yowling delivery as lead vocalist of the Pixies to a more measured and melodic style in his solo career. His cryptic lyrics mostly explore unconventional subjects, such as surrealism, incest, and biblical violence, along with science fiction and surf culture. His use of atypical meter signatures, loud–quiet dynamics, and distinct preference for live-to-two-track recording during his time with the Catholics, give him a distinct style within alternative rock.

Thompson regrouped the Pixies in early 2004, but continued to release solo records and tour as a solo artist until 2013, when he declared his solo career to be over.

   

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Alex Kapranos, o vocalista dos Franz Ferdinand, faz hoje cinquenta e um anos

       

Alex Kapranos (nascido Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, 20 de março de 1972, Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, Inglaterra) é um músico britânico, mais conhecido pelo trabalho como vocalista e guitarrista da banda Franz Ferdinand. 

Alex Kapranos, filho de pai grego e mãe inglesa, passou a infância em Sunderland e South Shields, Reino Unido, cidade natal de sua mãe e passava as férias de verão na Grécia, terra de seu pai. Huntley é o nome de solteira de sua mãe, ele passou a usar este nome temendo sofrer discriminação devido ao seu sobrenome grego enquanto ainda andava na escola e acabara de se mudar para a Escócia. A sua mãe insistiu em colocar o nome "Paul" como seu nome do meio pois ela era fã de Paul McCartney.

Em 1980 ele mudou-se junto com a sua família para Edimburgo seguindo depois para Glasgow, em 1984. Quando tinha 17 anos, Alex foi a Universidade de Aberdeen para estudar Teologia. Ele continuou seus estudos em diferentes universidades, como a de Strathclyde em Glasgow. No início dos anos 90, ele era ativo na cena musical da cidade, organizando noites com música ao vivo no 13th Note, um importante clube de Glasgow.

Tendo trabalhado como chefe de cozinha, bartender, professor no Instituto de Tecnologia do Anniesland College, entregador de comida indiana e em vários outros empregos, Alex também se juntou à populares bandas de Glasgow, como o The Amphetameanies, The Yummy Fur (Alex entrou na banda em 1998, e não participou de nenhum álbum), e o The Karelia.

Alex depois resolveu tirar o "Huntley" de seu nome, e formou, em 2001 a banda Franz Ferdinand, junto com Bob Hardy que havia sido garçon junto com ele, Nick McCarthy que acabara de conhecer em uma festa e Paul Thomson ex-baterista do The Yummy Fur. Franz Ferdinand começou a receber atenção internacional com o lançamento do single Take Me Out. A banda recebeu prémios importantes como o Ivor Novello, Mercury Music Prize, Brit Awards.

 

   

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Hozier faz hoje 33 anos

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Bray, County Wicklow, 17 de março de 1990), ou apenas Hozier, é um músico e cantor irlandês. Em 2013 lançou o seu primeiro EP, incluindo o single "Take Me to Church", e o seu segundo EP From Eden em 2014. O seu primeiro álbum de estúdio, Hozier, foi lançado na Irlanda em setembro de 2014 e no resto do mundo em outubro de 2014.
 

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Russell Lissack, dos Bloc Party, faz hoje quarenta e dois anos

 

Russell Lissack (Chingford, Waltham Forest, 11 de março de 1981) é um guitarrista britânico atualmente na banda Bloc Party. 

 

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Jake Bugg faz hoje vinte e nove anos

     
Jake Edwin Kennedy (Nottingham, Inglaterra, 28 de fevereiro de 1994), mais conhecido pelo nome artístico Jake Bugg, é um cantor e compositor inglês. Após assinar contrato com a gravadora Mercury Records, lançou o seu álbum de estreia intitulado Jake Bugg (2012).

       

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Luísa LoveFoxxx, a vocalista das Cansei de Ser Sexy, nasceu há 39 anos

  

LoveFoxxx ou Luísa LoveFoxxx, nomes artísticos de Luísa Hanaê Matsushita, (Campinas, 25 de fevereiro de 1984) é uma cantora brasileira, líder do grupo brasileiro de S. Paulo de rock Cansei de Ser Sexy.
     

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Ian Brown faz hoje sessenta anos...!

   

Ian George Brown (Warrington, 20 February 1963) is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album, an 11-disc box set titled Collection, and 19 singles. He has performed solo shows in 45 countries. He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours, releasing First World Problems through Virgin/EMI Records on 25 October 2018. 

   

Early life

Brown was born in Warrington in 1963 and grew up on Forster Street, Orford until the age of about six. His father, George, was a joiner, and his mother, Jeane, worked as a receptionist in a paper factory. He then moved with his family, including a brother (Graham) and sister (Sharon) to Sylvan Avenue in Timperley, Altrincham. He attended Park Road County Primary Infant and Junior School and then Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, leaving aged 16. In 2015 and 2017, he testified against a former teacher at Altrincham Grammar, Fred Talbot, who was found guilty of sexually abusing pupils in the 1970s.

Brown's interest in music was inspired by the punk movement, specifically the bands Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Manchester-based Slaughter & the Dogs. Brown and original Stone Roses bassist Pete Garner attended the recording of the Clash single "Bankrobber" in Manchester.

 

Music career  

The Stone Roses

Brown's music career began in 1980, playing bass guitar in a band with John Squire and Simon Wolstencroft. They eventually became the Patrol, with Andy Couzens on vocals. The band soon split up, with Brown selling his bass to buy a scooter. Brown moved to Hulme and attended Northern soul "all-nighters" across Northern England in the early 1980s as the scene faded. Around this time, Brown met soul legend Geno Washington, who told him, "You should be a star." In 1983, Brown joined the Waterfront, the band that would evolve into the Stone Roses, as co-vocalist.

The Stone Roses rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their debut album voted the best British album of all time in 2004. The band's second album, Second Coming, received a mixed reaction, and after several changes of line-up, the band split up in October 1996.

On 17 October 2011, Brown alluded to a Stone Roses reunion via text message, saying, "We are going to rule the world again. It's happening." On the following day, a reunion was announced for the band with performances planned for June 2012 in Manchester. In a press conference interview, the members of the Stone Roses have said that a new album is planned.

On 2 December 2011, Ian Brown and John Squire performed together live for the first time since 1995. They joined Mick Jones from The Clash, The Farm, and Pete Wylie at the Manchester Ritz in a concert in aid of the Justice for Hillsborough campaign. They performed "Elizabeth My Dear" as a duo before being joined by Mick Jones and The Farm for renditions of the Clash's "Bankrobber" and "Armagideon Time", with Ian Brown taking on lead vocals for the three songs.

The Stone Roses reunited in 2011 and went on a reunion tour in 2012. They continued to tour until 2017 when the band disbanded for a second time. 

   

Solo career

After a break from music in Morocco, Brown established his solo career with the debut solo single "My Star", which was released in the UK on 12 January 1998. The debut album Unfinished Monkey Business followed on 2 February 1998. The album was produced and financed by Brown and featured ex-Roses members Mani, Nigel Ipinson, Aziz Ibrahim, and Robbie Maddix. The album sold over 300,000 copies.

Brown toured in summer 1998 with a band that included Aziz Ibrahim (guitar), Inder "Goldfinger" Matharu (tabla/percussion), Simon Moore (drums), and Sylvan Richardson (bass), including performances at the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival. Brown was arrested after a flight back from his live show in Paris and later sentenced to four months in prison for using threatening behaviour towards an airline stewardess and captain, a charge he denied, causing his tour to be rescheduled. His bandmate Aziz Ibrahim condemned the sentence, saying that Brown was "just being cheeky". He had threatened to cut off the hands of the stewardess and hammered on the cockpit door, as the plane came in to land. A few weeks before, he had threatened a magazine critic, who had given his album a one-star review, to a "good kicking".

While in Strangeways Prison, Brown wrote the lyrics for "Free My Way", "So Many Soldiers", and "Set My Baby Free". He was released on parole after two months.

His second album, Golden Greats, was released by Polydor Records in 1999. It featured more electronic instrumentation and earned critical acclaim. For his third studio album, Music of the Spheres, Brown sought outside production help for the first time, hiring the services of songwriter and producer Dave McCracken, who would go on to become a regular collaborator. He toured the US for the first time as a solo artist in support of the album.

Brown's fourth solo album, Solarized, was released in the UK on 13 September 2004 and was the first to be released under the revived Polydor imprint Fiction Records. When his new Fiction A&R Jim Chancellor was asked in HitQuarters what contribution he makes to Brown's records, he said, "There's not as much to do. Ian is very much the master of his own records."

Since the break-up of the Stone Roses in 1996, Brown has released six solo albums and fourteen UK Top 40 singles. He has sold out seven UK tours and appeared three times at the Glastonbury Festival, including headlining the Other Stage in 2005. He has appeared five times at V Festival since 1998, along with regular appearances at T in the Park and Oxegen festivals, and played the Move festival in 2002 at Old Trafford Cricket Ground as well as two tours of Australia in 2006 and 2008. 

At the 2006 NME awards, Brown was presented with the "Godlike Genius" award and in 2007, was given the Q "Legend" Award.

In September 2007, Brown released his fifth studio album, The World Is Yours. The album represented a more political approach in his music, particularly the anti-war track "Illegal Attacks", which featured Sinéad O'Connor. The album also featured former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, Paul Ryder of Happy Mondays, and Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols.

My Way, his sixth solo album, was released in September 2009. It was recorded at London's Battery Studios with producer Dave McCracken; the first single, "Stellify", was released 21 September 2009. Brown played Manchester Arena for the 3rd time in December 2009 and in 2010, made his 3rd appearance in Moscow and 2nd in Beijing, China. Since turning solo in 1998, Brown has played shows in 45 countries.

Brown has collaborated several times with UNKLE, appearing on "Be There" in 1999 and on "Reign" on the 2003 album Never, Never, Land, which was also released as a single.

On 25 October 2018, he released his first solo material in nine years with the single "First World Problems". His seventh studio album, Ripples, was then released on 1 February 2019.

On 18 September 2020, Brown announced the release of new song "Little Seed, Big Tree" through his Twitter account. The song appears to refer to the COVID-19 pandemic, and express anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine sentiment. Brown later complained that it was taken off Spotify. A Spotify spokesman stated that the platform "prohibits content on the platform which promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19".

In September 2022 he made the first appearance of a UK tour, with a sold-out performance in Leeds. His use of a backing tracks in place of a live band was met with a negative reaction by some attendees.

 

Film and television

Brown had a cameo role in the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as a wizard magically stirring his drink while reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time at the Leaky Cauldron. In 2010, Brown had a cameo role as a police officer in Shane Meadow's series This is England '86 based on the film of This is England.

 

Personal life

Brown was married to Fabiola Quiroz, a model from Mexico. They divorced in 2011. He has three children, one with Quiroz, the other two from a previous relationship.

Brown is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United and is a season ticket holder. For the 2005–06 season, Brown was the shirt sponsor of London Commercial Division football team Chiswick Homefields, the players wearing an "IB – The Greatest" logo on their chests.  

  

Legal issues

In February 1998, Brown was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail for threatening a British Airways attendant on a flight to Manchester from Paris. He spent only two months in jail. In June 2005, Brown was arrested in San Francisco after an altercation with a fan who tackled Brown on stage. However, no charges were pressed against Brown. In 2011, Brown was given a driving ban following three speeding violations. He was fined over £1,900. 

 

Views

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Brown promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation about the pandemic, and criticised lockdowns, the use of masks and the COVID-19 vaccine. In July 2021, Brown received a 2-week Twitter ban for posting false claims that the vaccine was not effective. He pulled out of a festival headline slot as he disagreed with its vaccine passport for entry policy, calling it the "new nazi normal". His anti-lockdown song "Little Seed, Big Tree", which featured lyrics alluding to conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine, was taken down from Spotify.

      

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Beth Ditto, ex-vocalista dos Gossip, faz hoje 42 anos

   

Beth Ditto (Searcy, Arkansas, 19 de fevereiro de 1981) é uma cantora norte-americana, ex-vocalista da banda de indie rock Gossip. 

   

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Regina Spektor nasceu há 43 anos

      

Regina Spektor (Moscovo, 18 de fevereiro de 1980), é uma cantora, compositora e pianista russa radicada nos Estados Unidos. A sua música é associada ao cenário antifolk de Nova Iorque, localizado no East Village.

   

           

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Ronnie Vannucci, baterista dos The Killers, faz hoje 42 anos

   
Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (Las Vegas, Nevada, 15 de fevereiro de 1976) é o baterista da banda de rock norte-americana The Killers.

     

 

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Brandon Boyd, o vocalista dos Incubus, nasceu há 47 anos

 
Brandon Charles Boyd (Van Nuys, Califórnia, 15 de fevereiro de 1976) é o vocalista da banda de rock alternativo Incubus.

   

 

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Marcelo Camelo faz hoje 45 anos

  

Marcelo de Souza Camelo (Rio de Janeiro, 4 de fevereiro de 1978) é um cantor, compositor, produtor e multi-instrumentista brasileiro. É vocalista e guitarrista da banda de rock alternativo Los Hermanos, que se encontra em hiato indeterminado. Atualmente, segue cantando e tocando em carreira a solo. Entre 2014 e 2015, Camelo foi membro da Banda do Mar, com Fred Ferreira e Mallu Magalhães, a sua atual esposa.

 

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Ricky Wilson, o vocalista dos Kaiser Chiefs, faz hoje 45 anos

   

Charles Richard Wilson (Leeds, 17 de janeiro de 1978) é o vocalista da banda britânica Kaiser Chiefs. 

 

     

Vida e Carreira

Charles Richard Wilson nasceu em Keighley, West Yorkshire, Inglaterra. Filho de um produtor de televisão da BBC, estudou na Leeds Boys Grammar School e Leeds College of Art and Design, formando-se em Artes Plásticas.

Antes da banda Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky também foi vocalista da banda rock de garagem Parva (ou Ruston Parva, nome inicial), formada em 1997, com os mesmos integrantes.

Atualmente, vive na cidade de Leeds, Inglaterra.

   

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Alex Turner, o vocalista dos Arctic Monkeys, nasceu há 37 anos

  

Alexander David "Alex" Turner (Sheffield, 6 de janeiro de 1986) é um músico britânico nascido na Inglaterra, conhecido como o vocalista, guitarrista e principal compositor da banda de indie rock Arctic Monkeys. Trabalhou também num projeto paralelo, chamado The Last Shadow Puppets, com o seu amigo Miles Kane. Turner tem uma voz classificável como de barítono.

  

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Alex Chilton nasceu há 72 anos

   

Alex Chilton (Memphis, Tennessee, 28 de dezembro de 1950 - Nova Orleans, Luisiana, 17 de março de 2010) foi um compositor, cantor, guitarrista e produtor musical dos Estados Unidos da América.

   

   

Biografia

Chilton estreou nos palcos em 1967 como o vocalista da banda The Box Tops, que alcançou o sucesso com a canção "The Letter". Sentindo-se cada vez menos importante dentro do grupo, que era essencialmente um projeto do produtor-compositor Dan Penn, ele deixou os Box Tops em 1969 para prosseguir carreira uma carreira a solo.

Após passar um período na cidade de Nova York, onde aperfeiçoou a sua técnica vocal e de guitarra, Chilton foi convidado em 1971 pela banda Big Star para ocupar a vaga de guitarrista.

Retomou a sua carreira a solo depois do fim do grupo em 1974. Foi quando voltou a morar em Nova York, passando a maior parte do tempo no clube CBGB durante o auge do punk rock. Nessa mesma época Chilton tornou-se produtor dos The Cramps, continuando a gravar e a fazer tours durante os anos 80.

Em 1993 Chilton reformulou os Big Star, gravando com a banda um novo álbum de estúdio, lançado em 2005.

Em 17 de março de 2010 Chilton faleceu, de causas não confirmadas (possivelmente de ataque cardíaco).

      

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J. Mascis, vocalista dos Dinosaur Jr., faz hoje 57 anos

    

J. Mascis, nome artístico de Joseph Mascis (Amherst, 10 de dezembro de 1965) é um músico norte-americano, provavelmente mais conhecido como vocalista, guitarrista, compositor e líder do grupo Dinosaur Jr. e que também é produtor e compositor de bandas sonoras. Foi considerado o 86º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

  

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Brian Molko, baixo e vocalista dos Placebo, faz hoje cinquenta anos

  

Brian Molko (Bruxelas, 10 de dezembro de 1972) é um músico nascido na Bélgica. Ele é o vocalista, baixista e guitarrista da banda de rock alternativo Placebo. Também escreve a maioria das letras do grupo.

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Nick Hodgson, ex-baterista dos Kaiser Chiefs, faz hoje quarenta e cinco anos

Nicholas David James Hodgson (Leeds, Inglaterra, 20 de outubro de 1977) é um baterista, vocalista e compositor britânico, que ficou conhecido por seu trabalho na banda Kaiser Chiefs. Compôs musicas como "Boxing Champ", "Remember You're a Girl", "If You Will Have Me", mas o seu maior sucesso como compositor foi "Man on Mars", canção lançada como single no álbum The Future Is Medieval. Em fevereiro de 2013, anunciou o seu primeiro projeto fora dos Kaiser Chiefs.

   

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