Singers/Musicians Celebrating Birthdays On This Day + BOTB Results

Today’s post is part of the Monday’s Music Moves Me blog hop, hosted by X-Mas Dolly, and co-hosted by Callie of JAmerican Spice, Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and Cathy from Curious as a Cathy. 
Before we get started with today's music, let's go over the Battle of the Bands Results.

The song was 'I Ain't Got Nobody', and our contenders were Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong.  The votes went back and forth, and it was a very good battle, in my opinion.
with new songs and new contenders.
The final results:

Fats Waller with 7 votes

Louis Armstrong with 14 votes

Thank you everyone for stopping by to cast your vote! We'll have a new round of battles on May 15, Now on to today's regular post:

Today’s theme is ‘Singers/Musicians Who Are Celebrating Birthdays Today’

Everyone loves a good party when it’s your birthday, so let’s get this place a rockin’!

There are several musicians that have birthdays today, but I selected only 5 to highlight today. My apologies if I have omitted one of your favorites.

As the saying goes ‘Age Before Beauty’... so we’ll start with the oldest.


Philip Bailey, turning 66 today

Philip is best known as an original member, and one of the two lead singers (along with group founder Maurice White) of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. Bailey has won seven Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as a member of Earth, Wind & Fire. Bailey was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for his work with the band. Bailey has also released several solo albums. His album, Chinese Wall, included a duet with Phil Collins, “Easy Lover”.

Bailey is currently married to singer/ songwriter, Valerie Bailey (formerly known as Valerie Davis), who has worked with superstars Whitney Houston, Celine Dion etc. Bailey is the father of seven children; One of his children, Pili Bailey, is the daughter of Jeanette Hutchinson of the R&B hit group the "Emotions".





Eric Brittingham, turning 57 today.

Eric is best known as the bassist and does backup vocals for the band, Cinderella. In addition to Cinderella, he was in a side-band with Cinderella bandmate Jeff LaBar simultaneously, called Naked Beggars, of which his wife, Inga Brittingham, is the lead vocalist. In 2009, Brittingham temporarily filled-in for Poison bassist Bobby Dall on Poison's Summer 2009 tour with Def Leppard when Dall became sick on tour.  Currently, Eric plays bass in the Bret Michaels Band.




Dave Rowntree, turning 53 today

Dave is best known as the drummer for the band Blur.  Dave is also a computer animator, and owns an animation company called Nanomation. He directed two series of the animated show Empire Square, which made its TV debut on 18 February 2005. He is also interested in computer graphics and has contributed to three research papers on topics related to non-photorealistic rendering.  In 2006, when Blur when on hiatus, he studied to become a lawyer. He is currently employed in the criminal department of Kingsley Napley, a law firm in London.





Enrique Iglesias, turning 42 today

Iglesias started his career in the mid-1990s on an American Spanish-language record label Fonovisa Records under the name Enrique Martinez, before switching to the stage name Enrique Iglesias and becoming one of the biggest stars in Latin America and the Hispanic market in the United States. By the turn of the millennium, he had made a successful crossover into the mainstream market.

Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain, and is the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. His mother’s aunt is Nelle Adams, the first wife of American actor Steve McQueen and grandmother of actor Steven R. McQueen.

Joe Bonamassa, turning 40 today

When he was only 12 years old, Bonamassa opened for B.B. King. In the last 13 years Bonamassa has put out 15 solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which 11 have reached #1 on the Billboard Blues charts. Bonamassa has played alongside such artists as Stephen Stills, Eric Clapton, Blondie Chaplin, Foreigner, Buddy Guy, Steve Winwood, Warren Haynes, and Derek Trucks among others. In addition to his music career, Joe Bonamassa runs a nonprofit organization called the Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation, whose mission it is to further music education by funding scholarships and providing music education resources to schools in need.

Be sure to stop by the hostesses and the other participants in today's blog hop!