Musical Birthday Notes – September 20th
- Bobby Nunn – R&B singer – The Coasters – The Robins – (9/20/1925 – 11/5/1986)
- Eric Gale – jazz –funk – session guitarist – (9/20/1938 – 5/25/1994)
- John Panozzo – drummer – Styx – group hits include – Come Sail Away – Blue Collar Man – (9/20/1948 – 7/16/1996)
- Chuck Panozzo – bassist/vocals – Styx – Group Hits include – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) – Renegade – Babe – 1948
- Jeff Jones – bassist/songwriter/vocals – associated acts include – Red Rider – Ocean – 1953
- Harvey James – guitarist – Mississippi – Ariel – Sherbet – The Party Boys – (9/20/1952 – 1/15/2011)
- Peter White – jazz guitarist/accordion/piano – 1954
- Alannah Currie – New Zealand pop-rock singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist – best known with – The Thompson Twins – group hits include – Doctor! Doctor! – Hold Me Now – 1957
- Keith “Keef Cowboy” Wiggins – hip-hop/rap artist – associated acts include – Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five – (9/20/1960 – 9/8/1989)
- Randy Bradbury – bassist – best known with punk rock group – Pennywise – 1964
- Nuno Bettencourt – guitar/keyboards/piano/lead and backing vocals for – Extreme – More Than Words – Hole Hearted – solo artist – 1966
- Matthew and Gunnar Nelson – twin sons of country-rock singer/songwriter/musician Rick Nelson – singers/songwriters/ musicians – rock group – Nelson – 1967
- Ben Shepherd – bass/drums/mandolin/vocals – Soundgarden – group hits include – Black Hole Sun – Spoonman – Rusty Cage – Burden In My Hand – By Crooked Steps – solo artist – 1968
- Tim Rogers – singer/songwriter/musician – You Am I – solo artist – 1968
- Joel Kosche – guitarist/vocals – associated acts include – Collective Soul – solo artist – 1969
- Patrick Pentland – guitar/bass/keyboards/drums/vocals – best known with Canadian group – Sloan – 1969
- Rick Woolstenhulme Jr. – drummer – alt-rock band – Lifehouse – group hits include – Hanging By A Moment – You and Me – Whatever It Takes – 1979
- Nico Moon – (Nicholas Cowan) country pop singer/songwriter/musician – songs include – Good Time – Paradise To Me – has written a number of songs for other acts – including – Zac Brown Band – Rascal Flatts – Dierks Bentley – Morgan Wallen – 1982
- Jack Lawless – drummer – The Jonas Brothers – Ocean Grove – 1987
- Joshua Moore – guitarist/backing vocals – metal group – We Came As Romans – 1989
- Phillip Phillips – singer/songwriter/guitarist/actor – winner of American Idol season 11 – hits include – Home – Gone, Gone, Gone – Raging Fire – 1990
- Grant Landis – alt-pop singer/songwriter/guitarist – 1999