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Today is the birthday of Eddie Durham. He would be 120 today. Eddie Durham heard electricity in a guitar string before almost anyone else did. He grew up in San Marcos, Texas, in a family bursting with musicians. Eddie Durham's San Marcos, Texas childhood turned into a workshop of homemade instruments and constant practice. He […] 
Today is the birthday of Laura Canales. She would be 72 today. Laura Canales of Kingsville, Texas, ruled Tejano music before most fans had heard of Selena. From 1983 to 1986, she swept the Tejano Music Awards for Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year. No one broke that streak for years. Then a teenager […] |
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Today is the birthday of Dimebag Darrell. He would be 60 today. Darrell Lance Abbott was born in Arlington, Texas on August 20, 1966. He and his brother Vinnie Paul grew up in a musical household — their father Jerry Abbott was a country music producer. Darrell picked up guitar early and immediately went somewhere […] |
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Today is the birthday of Kenny Rogers. He would be 88 today. Kenneth Donald Rogers was born in Houston, Texas on August 21, 1938, in the Third Ward. His family was large and poor. He grew up singing in school choirs and started playing local clubs as a teenager. He joined the New Christy Minstrels […] 
Today is the birthday of Kacey Musgraves. She is 38 today. Kacey Musgraves grew up in Golden, Texas, a Wood County hamlet with more cows than people. Sulphur Springs, the nearest real town, still isn't exactly a metropolis. She learned yodeling and songwriting before she learned to drive. That small-town start shaped her sharp, plainspoken […] |
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1 event,Today is the birthday of Buster Smith. He would be 122 today. Buster Smith taught bebop's future star before bebop even had a name. He grew up in Ellis County, Texas, then later settled in Dallas as a young man. Buster Smith's Dallas, Texas career built the sound that Kansas City jazz would later claim […] |
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Today is the birthday of Chelo Silva. She would be 104 today. Chelo Silva of Brownsville, Texas, sang heartbreak like she had personally invented it. Her voice carried the ache of bolero, Mexico's slow-burning love-song tradition, into Texas radio. Critics later crowned her "La Reina de los Boleros," the queen of boleros. Before Chelo Silva, […] |
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Kenny Dorham was born in 1924 in Fairfield — the bebop trumpet giant who co-founded the Jazz Messengers and wrote the standard "Blue Bossa." |
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Today is the birthday of Freddie King. He would be 92 today. If you've spent any time in a Texas blues club, you've heard Freddie King — whether you knew it or not. Fred Christian King was born in Gilmer, Texas on September 3, 1934, in Upshur County, the same pine country that produced Don […] 
Today is the birthday of Hank Thompson. He would be 101 today. Hank Thompson turned honky-tonk into a business empire, and he ran it like a general. He grew up in Waco, Texas, tinkering with radios before he ever sang. Hank Thompson's Waco, Texas beginnings gave him both showmanship and a sharp business mind. He […] |
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Today is the birthday of Beyoncé. She is 45 today. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas on September 4, 1981. She grew up in the Third Ward and enrolled at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the same school that produced Donald Harrison, Robert Glasper, and Jazmine Sullivan. She was […] |
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