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Sunday, 4 December 2016

Robbie Robertson (Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, author)

* Robbie Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the Band, and for his career as a solo recording artist. His work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. Robertson has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and has been inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame both with the Band and on his own.

As a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is best known for his numerous collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. Robertson's working relationship with Scorsese began with the influential rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978), and continued through numerous dramatic films such as Raging Bull (1980) and Casino (1995). More at Wikipedia.

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BIRTH DATA: Jaime Royal Robertson, 5 July 1943, 22:25 (10:25 PM) EWT (+4), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (43n39, 79w23). ASC: 9 Aquarius. RR: B. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Testimony" by Robbie Robertson (Random House, 2016): "On July 5, 1943, at 10:25 p.m., Dolly gave birth to a healthy baby boy, nine pounds, eleven ounces, at Toronto General Hospital. She named me Jaime Royal Robertson, partially after her cousin Royal, Aunt Beatrice's son."

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Richard Hell (American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, writer)

* Richard Hell, known as an innovator of punk music and fashion, was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.

Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album Blank Generation influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time Top 10 punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.

Since the late 1980s, Hell has devoted himself primarily to writing, publishing two novels and several other books. He was the film critic for BlackBook magazine from 2004 to 2006.

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BIRTH DATA: Richard Lester Meyers, 2 October 1949, 02:51 (2:51 AM) CST (+6), Lexington, Kentucky, USA (38n03, 84w30). ASC: 4 Virgo. RR: A (From memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from birth certificate in hand (long form, no time), born at Good Samaritan Hospital. On 3 May 2016 Hell replied to Scholfield's email request giving his birth time: "It's 2:51 AM."

Monday, 29 February 2016

Hank Williams Jr., AKA Bocephus (American singer-songwriter and musician)

* Hank Williams Jr.'s musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country. He is the son of legendary country music singer Hank Williams and the father of Hank Williams III, Holly Williams, Hilary Williams, Samuel Williams, and Katie Williams.

Williams began his career by following in his famed father's footsteps, singing his father's songs and imitating his father's style. Williams's own style slowly evolved as he struggled to find his own voice and place within the country music industry. This trend was interrupted by a near-fatal fall off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana on 8 August 1975. After an extended recovery, he challenged the country music establishment with a blend of country, rock, and blues. Williams enjoyed much success in the 1980s, from which he earned considerable recognition and popularity both inside and outside the country music industry.

As a multi-instrumentalist, Williams's repertoire of skills include guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, piano, keyboards, harmonica, fiddle, and drums.

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BIRTH DATA: Randall Hank Williams, 26 May 1949, 01:45 (1:45 AM) CST (+6), Shreveport, Louisiana, USA (32n31, 93w45). ASC: 24 Pisces. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from I Saw The Light: The Story of Hank Williams by Colin Escott (Hachette UK, 2015): "Audrey gave birth to Randall Hank on May 26, 1949. ... At 3:51 a.m., Hank excitedly telegrammed Fred and Lorene Rose: '10 lb boy borned this morning at 145. Both doeing fine.'"

Monday, 1 February 2016

Paul Kantner, 1941–2016 (American guitarist, singer and songwriter)

* Paul Kantner is known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship. Kantner led Jefferson Airplane through its highly successful late 1960s period.

Kantner had the longest continuous membership with Jefferson Airplane; at times he was the only founding member still in the band from the original lineup, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with other band members in 1996.

Kantner had three children; sons Gareth (a film producer), and Alexander (a musician who sometimes played with Jefferson Starship), and daughter China (a former MTV VJ and actress; his child with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship singer Grace Slick).

Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 on 28 January 2016 due to multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier.

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BIRTH DATA: Paul Lorin Kantner, 17 March 1941, circa 20:00 (8pm) PST (+8), San Francisco, California, USA (37n46, 122w25). ASC: Libra. RR: C (rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes Sun and Ascendant Signs ("Paul is Pisces, Libra rising") from "Paul Kantner interview by Patricia Kennealy/Morrison, Jazz & Pop, February 1971" [online version here]. Other data from California Birth Index. A speculative time of 8pm gives Libra rising.

Monday, 21 December 2015

Cassandra Wilson (American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter)

* Cassandra Wilson incorporates blues, country, and folk music into her work. Her ancestry includes Fon, Yoruba, Irish and Welsh. Between her mother’s love for Motown and her father’s dedication to jazz, Wilson’s parents sparked her early interest in music.

Wilson has won two Grammy Awards: her 1996 album New Moon Daughter won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, and in 2009 she earned the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Loverly.

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BIRTH DATA: Cassandra Wilson, 4 December 1955, 08:30 (8:30 am) CST (+6), Jackson, Mississippi, USA (32n17, 90w11). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her in an interview: "I was born at 8:30 a.m." ("Cassandra Wilson revives 'Blue Light 'Til Dawn'" by Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News, 6 May 2014 [online]). Date, year and place from Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians by Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse (Indiana University Press, 2004), p. 339.

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Siouxsie Sioux (English singer, songwriter, musician, producer)

* Siouxsie Sioux (photographed at the Edinburgh Tiffany's, 1980; at left) is best known as the lead singer of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996) and its side project The Creatures (1981–2005). Siouxsie and the Banshees released 11 studio albums and several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House", "Peek-a-Boo" plus a Billboard Top 25 hit "Kiss Them for Me". With The Creatures, Siouxsie recorded four studio albums and the hit single "Right Now". She has also sung with artists such as Morrissey and John Cale. In the mid-2000s, she began a solo career and released Mantaray in 2007.

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BIRTH DATA: Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957, 21:12 (9:12 PM) BST (-1), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 9 Sagittarius. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her friend Budgie in an online interview giving Siouxsie Sioux's and his own data: "Siouxsie: 27.05.57 - 21.12 hrs - London UK. Budgie: 21.08.57 - 11.00 hrs - St Helens UK."

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Budgie (English drummer)

* Budgie (photographed in 1986, at left) made his first recording with The Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979–1996) and its side project The Creatures (1981–2004). Budgie has also collaborated with other musicians including John Cale and Leonard Eto (formerly of the Kodo Drummers).

In 2013, Spin rated him at No. 28 in their list of "The 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music," writing: "Post-punk introduced a lot of amazing drummers, but none more influential than Budgie. With the Banshees, Budgie didn't just play rhythms—he played hooks and leads, brilliant parts that set the songs on fire. His tom-tom-intensive approach, [was] enlightened by his awareness of world music."

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BIRTH DATA: Peter Edward Clarke, 21 August 1957, 11:00 (11 AM) BST (-1), St Helens, Lancashire, England (53n28, 2w44). ASC: 18 Libra. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an online interview giving Siouxsie Sioux's and his own data: "Siouxsie: 27.05.57 - 21.12 hrs - London UK. Budgie: 21.08.57 - 11.00 hrs - St Helens UK."

Steven Severin (English musician, songwriter, composer, bass guitarist)

* Steven Severin (photographed in 1986, at left) was a co-founding member of English rock band, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976-1996), along with vocalist Siouxsie Sioux.

Known as 'Steve Havoc' when he joined the Banshees, he took the name 'Severin' from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character that is the subject of the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs."

After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin began a solo career and created his own label RE.

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BIRTH DATA: Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, 04:00 (4 AM) BST (-1), Highgate, London, England (51n34, 0w08). ASC: 00 Virgo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in an onlne interview: "25-9-1955 4.00 a.m. LONDON (Highgate) - Sun sign Libra, Virgo rising, Moon in Capricorn."

Monday, 3 August 2015

Buck Clayton, 1911–1991 (American jazz trumpet player)

* Buck Clayton was a leading member of Count Basie’s "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong. The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that he “synthesi[zed] much of the history of jazz trumpet up to his own time, with a bright brassy tone and an apparently limitless facility for melodic improvisation”. Clayton worked closely with Li Jinhui, father of Chinese popular music in Shanghai. His contributions helped change musical history in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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BIRTH DATA: Wilbur Dorsey Clayton, 12 November 1911, 10:00 (10 AM) CST (+6), Parsons, Kansas, USA (37n20, 95w15). ASC: 26 Sagittarius. RR: B (Autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him in Buck Clayton's Jazz World by Buck Clayton (Bloomsbury, 1995), p. 11: "It was swinging one morning in Parsons, Kansas, around ten o'clock on November 12th 1911, when I was born."

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Gabe Saporta (Uruguayan American musician)

* Gabe Saporta is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the synthpop band Cobra Starship which he formed in 2005 after taking a trip to the deserts of Arizona.

He was previously the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the pop punk band Midtown.

Saporta is a vegetarian and an active member of PETA.

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BIRTH DATA: Gabriel Eduardo Saporta, 11 October 1979, about 10:15 (10:15 AM) BZ2D (+2), Montevideo, Uruguay (34s53, 56w11). ASC: Sagittarius. RR: C (Accuracy in question). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes "Libra, Sag Rising, Cancer Moon" handwritten by him as his "Zodiac sign" and "Montevideo, Uruguay" as his place of birth in a questionionnaire published online on 12 September 2014. A speculative time of 10:15am gives mid Sagittarius (15 degrees) rising.

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Beccy Cole (Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist)

* Beccy Cole has released eight albums, with three reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40: Little Victories (20 January 2003), Preloved (3 September 2010) and Songs & Pictures (10 October 2011). Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia.

In July 2012 Cole revealed that she is a lesbian on ABC-TV series, Australian Story. In October 2013 she was the inaugural ambassador for the Adelaide-based Feast Festival and in the following month she presented her show, The Queer of Country.

Cole reveals in her autobiography that she was born at 11:05 pm at Glenelg Hospital in Adelaide. She thus has the first degree of Cancer on her Ascendant ruled by the Moon in Cancer on her South Node in the first house.

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BIRTH DATA: Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972, 23:05 (11:05 pm) ACST (-9:30), Glenelg Hospital, Adelaide, Australia (34s59, 138e31). ASC: 00 Cancer. RR: B (from autobiography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Poster Girl" by Beccy Cole (Hachette: 2015), p. 9: "Mum soon went back to singing but in 1972 she took more time away from the stage to have baby Rebecca on October the twenty-seventh - and I was bang on time for the last time in my life at 11:05 p.m. ... [at] Glenelg Hospital." Extract available online here.

Friday, 7 November 2014

Renato Russo, 1960-1996 (Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician)

* Renato Russo was born right on an Aries New Moon with both luminaries aspected by Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. His first band, the punk rock group with the Plutonic name "Aborto Elétrico" (Electric Abortion) eventually split into two different bands: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana". Under Russo's leadership and the good fortune of his Jupiter and Neptune, Legião Urbana sold around 20 million albums during Russo's lifetime.

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BIRTH DATA: Renato Manfredini, Jr., 27 March 1960, 04:00 (4 AM) BZT (-3), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (22s53, 43w0613). ASC: 8 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Renato Russo: O filho da Revolução" by Carlos Marcelo (Rio de Janeiro, Agir, 2012): "Nove meses depois daquela noite de junho de 1959, no dia 27 de março, Renato Manfredini Júnior nasceu às quatro da manhã na Clínica Santa Lúcia, bairro do Humaitá."

Translation: Nine months after that night in June 1959, Renato Manfredini Jr. was born on 27 March [1960] at four o'clock in the morning at the Santa Lucia Clinic in the neighborhood of Humaita.

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Conrad O. Johnson, 1915–2008 (American music educator)

* Conrad O. Johnson, who was long associated with the city of Houston, was inducted into the Texas Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 2000. Johnson was a proficient musician in his own right and, at one point, played with Count Basie. He made his lasting contribution to music by forming the Kashmere Stage Band, a renowned school orchestra that won a number of awards during its decade-long run. The Conrad O. Johnson School of Fine Arts at Kashmere High School is named after him.

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Joe Tex, 1933-1982 (American musician)

* Joe Tex gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of country, gospel and rhythm and blues. He recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got", in 1964, and went on to have three million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967) and "I Gotcha" (1972). Tex's style of speaking over the background of his music helped to make him one of the predecessors of the modern style of rap music.

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Bill Hughes (American jazz trombonist and bandleader)

* Bill Hughes was born in Dallas, Texas, and his family moved to Washington, D.C., when he was nine years old. Hughes has spent most of his career with the Count Basie Orchestra and was the director of that ensemble from 2003 until September 2010.

Hughes has Neptune in the 12th House, conjunct his Ascendant and ruling his Mars and Moon in Pisces.

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Jack Huddle,1928–1973 (American rockabilly musician and songwriter)

* Jack Huddle performed and recorded with Buddy Holly early in Holly's career. In 1953 Huddle gave a young Buddy Holly a break when he let him perform with his friend Jack Neal as the Buddy & Jack duo on the talentshow "Around Lubbock." On April 28, 1957, Huddle made the trip to Clovis, New Mexico, together with his friend and writing partner Jim Robinson. Buddy Holly was also there or was asked by Jack to go with him. Buddy played lead guitar on the recordings made that day: "Starlight" and "Believe Me". The instrumental break on "Starlight" was often considered as one of the most catchy guitar breaks by Buddy on a non-Buddy or non-Crickets record. The session was kicked off by Jim Robinson (Jimmie Zed Robinson) singing "Whole Lot of Lovin'" and "It's a Wonderful Feeling." After that it was Huddle's turn. Jack and Jim recorded two other songs in Clovis in 1959. "Midnight Monsters Hop" and "Tarzan and Jane". Buddy didn't play on them. Jack and Jim also wrote "Frankie Frankenstein" that was recorded in Clovis and sung by Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly's drummer.

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Bess Lomax Hawes, 1921–2009 (American folk musician, folklorist, researcher)

* In the early 1940s she moved to New York City, where she was active on the folk scene. She was an on-and-off member of the Almanac Singers. The legendary Woody Guthrie taught her mandolin.
In the 1950s she moved to California, where she taught guitar, banjo, mandolin and folk singing. In 1968 she became Associate Professor of Anthropology at San Fernando Valley State College. At California State University Northridge Hawes compiled an extensive archive of folk songs.
In 1975, Hawes accepted a position in administration at the Smithsonian Institution, where she was instrumental in organizing the Smithsonian's 1976 Bicentennial Festival of Traditional Folk Arts on the National Mall. In 1977, she was named first director of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and created the National Heritage Fellowships, which recognize traditional artists and performers.
She retired in 1992. Her memoir, Sing It Pretty, was published by Illinois University Press in 2008. She died on November 27, 2009.

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John Handy (American jazz musician, singer, composer)

* John Handy is most commonly associated with the alto saxophone, although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, oboe, and sings. He first came to prominence while working for Charles Mingus in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Handy led several groups, among them a quintet with Michael White, violin, Jerry Hahn, guitar, Don Thompson, bass, and Terry Clarke, drums. This group's performance at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival was recorded and released as an album; Handy received Grammy nominations for "Spanish Lady" (jazz performance) and "If Only We Knew" (jazz composition).

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Gerre Hancock, 1934–2012 (American organist, improviser, composer)

* Gerre Hancock's compositions are published by Oxford University Press (OUP). His textbook, Improvising: How to Master the Art, also published by OUP, is studied by organists throughout the USA. In 1981 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and in 1995 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. In May 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree (Honoris causa) from The General Theological Seminary in New York. He is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” and his biography appears in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In June 2010, Dr. Hancock was presented the International Performer of the Year Award by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. This is viewed by many as the most distinguished award that the American Guild of Organists bestows upon its colleagues.

Hancock has a stellium of Pisces planets ruled by Neptune in the 1st House.

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Jimmy Giuffre, 1921-2008 (American musician)

* Jimmy Giuffre was a jazz clarinet and saxophone player, composer and arranger. He is notable for his development of forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.

Free improvisation? How about Uranus on the Part of Fortune, and Moon in Sagittarius ruling a Cancerian Ascendant?!

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