October Soul Music Birthdays

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    October 1

    Herb Fame of Peaches and Herb (1942)
    Donny Hathaway (1945) (d.1979)
    Howard Hewett (1955) 

    October 2

    Lolly Vegas of Redbone (1939)
    Sting (1951)
    Vanessa Bell Armstrong (1953)
    Freddie Jackson (1956)

    October 3

     Chubby Checker (1941)
    Ronnie Laws (1950)
    India Arie (1975)
    Chuck Cissel (1948)

    October 4

    October 1

    Herb Fame of Peaches and Herb (1942)
    Donny Hathaway (1945) (d.1979)
    Howard Hewett (1955) 

    October 2

    Lolly Vegas of Redbone (1939)
    Sting (1951)
    Vanessa Bell Armstrong (1953)
    Freddie Jackson (1956)

    October 3

     Chubby Checker (1941)
    Ronnie Laws (1950)
    India Arie (1975)
    Chuck Cissel (1948)

    October 4

    Jon Secada (1961) 
    Robert Wilson (of the Gap Band) (1941)

    October 5

     Richard Street of the Temptations (1942)
    Lucius Ross of Funkadelic (1948)
    Heather Headley (1974)

    October 6

    Thomas McClary of the Commodores (1949)
    Melinda Doolittle (1977)


      October 7

     Tony Silvester of the Main Ingredient (1941)
    Simon Cowell (1959)
    Toni Braxton (1967)
    Taylor Hicks (1976)

     October 8

     Fred Cash of the Impressions (1940)
    Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate (1947)
    Hamish Stuart of AWB (1949)
    Harry Bowens of Was Not Was (1949) 
    Airrion Love (of the Stylistics) (1949) 
    Teddy Riley (1967)
    Bruno Mars (1985)
    CeCe Winans (1964)

     October 9

     Pat Burke of the Foundations (1937)
    O.V. Wright (1939) (d. 1980)

     October 10

    Jonathan Butler (1961) 

      October 11

    Daryl Hall (1949)
    Andrew Woolfolk of Earth Wind & Fire (1950)
    MC Lyte (1971)
    Tramaine Hawkins (1951)

    October 12

     Sam Moore of Sam & Dave (1935)
    Melvin Franklin of the Temptations (1942) (d.1995)
    Gordon Chambers

    October 13

    Robert Lamb of Chicago (1944) 
    Dorothy Moore (1946)

    October 14

    Cliff Richard (1940)
    Ivory Tilmon of the Detroit Emeralds (1948)
    Marcia Barrett of Boney M (1948) 
    Karyn White (1965)
    Usher (1978)

    October 15

    Marv Johnson (1938)
    Tito Jackson of the Jackson 5 (1953) 
    Ginuwine (1975)
    Rod Temperton (1947)
    Eric Benet (1970)

    October 16

     Simon Bartholomew of the Brand New Heavies (1965)
    John Mayer (1977)

    October 17

     Ziggy Marley (1968)
    Eminem (1972)
    Wyclef Jean (1972)

    October 18

     Chuck Berry (1926)
    Ronnie Bright of the Coasters (1938)
    Ne-Yo (1982)

    October 19

    Peter Tosh (1944)
    Wilbert Hart of the Delfonics (1947)
    Jennifer Holliday (1960)
    George McCrae (1944)

    October 20

     Mark King of Level 42 (1958)
    Snoop Dogg (1971)

    October 21

     Steve Cropper (1941)
    Elvin Bishop (1942)
    Steve Lukather of Toto (1957)

    October 22

     Shaggy (1968)

    October 23

    Dianne Reeves (1956)

     October 24

    Weird Al Yankovic (1959) 
    Monica (1980)

    October 25

    Speech of Arrested Development (1968)
    Ciara (1985) 

    October 26

     Bootsy Collins (1951)
    David Was of Was Not Was (1952)

    October 27

    Keri Hilson (1982) 

    October 28

     Cleo Laine (1927)

    Telma Hopkins of Dawn (1948)

    October 29

    Toby Smith of Jamioquai (1969)
    Melba Moore (1945) 

    October 30

    Eddie Holland (1939)
    Otis Williams of the Temptations (1939)

    October 31

    Smokie Norful (1975)
     Bernard Edwards of Chic (1952) (d. 1996)

     

     
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