Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/September 5
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- Al Stewart, British singer-songwriter, member of Time Passages, turns 79.
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- Loudon Wainwright III, American folk singer, turns 78.
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- Dean Ford, (nee Thomas MacAleese) Scottish lead vocalist for Marmalade, turns 78.
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- Jamie Oldaker, American country musician with The Tractors and Eric Clapton Band alum, turns 73.
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- Sal Solo, Brit vocalist with Classix Nouveaux, turns 70.
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- Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, turns 66.
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- Terry Ellis, American R&B singer of En Vogue fame, turns 58.
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- Brad Wilk, American drummer with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, turns 56.
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- Dweezil Zappa, American heavy metal guitarist, turns 55.
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- Sondre Lerche, Norwegian singer, songwriter, turns 42.
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- Charles Bobo Shaw (September 5, 1947 –January 16, 2017), American drummer and co-founder of the Black Artists Group, a musical collective, would have turned 77 this year.
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- Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 –November 24, 1991), Brit pianist and frontman for seminal rock act, Queen, would have turned 78 this year.
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- Buddy Miles (September 5, 1946 –February 26, 2008), American drummer, would have turned 78 this year.
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- John Stewart (September 5, 1939–January 19, 2008), American folk singer and songwriter with The Kingston Trio, would have turned 85 this year.
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- Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 –July 25, 2005), German bandleader and trombonist, would have turned 96 this year.
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- Joki Freund (September 5, 1926 –February 15, 2012), German aerophone multi-instrumentalist, would have turned 98 this year.
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- Hans Sachs (September 5, 1494 –January 19, 1576), German meistersinger, would have turned 530 this year.