1950 in music

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Births

• January 1 - Morgan Fisher, Mott the Hoople
• January 1 - Steve Ripley, The Tractors
• January 5 - Chris Stein, Blondie
• January 9 - David Johansen, New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter & His Banshees of Blue
• January 21 - Billy Ocean
• January 23 - Pat Simmons, The Doobie Brothers
• January 23 - Danny Federici, E Street Band
• January 26 - Paul Pena
• February 2 - Ross Valory, Santana
• February 6 - Natalie Cole
• February 8 - Danny Seals
• February 11 - Rochelle Fleming, soul music vocalist
• February 12 - Steve Hackett, Genesis
• February 13 - Peter Gabriel
• February 19 - Andy Powell, Wishbone Ash
• February 20 - Walter Becker, Steely Dan
• February 23 - Steven Priest, Sweet
• February 26 - Jonathan Cain, Journey
• March 2 - Karen Carpenter, Carpenters
• March 4 - Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
• March 13 - Danny Kirwan, Fleetwood Mac
• March 21 - Roger Hodgson, Supertramp
• March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass
• March 27 - Tony Banks, Genesis
• April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA
• April 12 - David Cassidy
• April 15 - Tonio K, singer
• April 22 - Peter Frampton
• April 25 - Steve Ferrone, Average White Band
• May 2 - Lou Gramm, Foreigner
• May 3 - Mary Hopkin
• May 9 - Tom Petersson, Cheap Trick
• May 12 - Jocko Marcellino, Sha Na Na
• May 12 - Billy Squier
• May 13 - Stevie Wonder
• May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo
• May 22 - Bernie Taupin
• May 29 - Rebbie Jackson
• May 24 - Terry Scott Taylor, record producer, The Lost Dogs, Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies
• June 1 - Graham Russell, Air Supply
• June 2 - Antone Tavares
• June 3 - Suzi Quatro
• June 5 - Laurie Anderson
• June 5 - Ronnie Dyson
• June 5 - Michael Monarch, Steppenwolf
• June 8 - Alex Van Halen, Van Halen
• June 19 - Ann Wilson, Heart
• June 21 - Joey Kramer, Aerosmith
• July 10 - Greg Kihn
• July 12 - Eric Carr, Kiss (+1991)
• July 14 - Gwen Guthrie (+1999)
• July 18 - Glenn Hughes, The Village People
• July 23 - Blair Thornton, Bachman Turner Overdrive
• August 1 - Jim Carroll
• August 11 - Eric Braunn, Iron Butterfly
• August 12 - Kid Creole
• August 15 - Tom Aldrich, Black Oak Arkansas
• August 18 - Dennis Elliott, Foreigner
• August 25 - Willy DeVille
• September 4 - Ronald LaPread, The Commodores
• September 10 - Joe Perry, Aerosmith
• September 14 - Paul Kossoff, Free
• September 17 - Fee Waybill, Tubes
• October 2 - Michael Rutherford, Genesis
• October 8 - Robert Kool Bell, Kool and The Gang
• October 11 - Andrew Woolfolk, Earth Wind and Fire
• November 1 - Dan Peek, America
• November 11 - Jim Peterik, Ides of March, Survivor
• November 18 - Graham Parker
• November 21 - Livingston Taylor
• November 22 - Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads
• November 22 - Steven Van Zandt (aka "Little Steven", "Miami Steve"), E Street Band
• December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux, drummer and actor ("Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy)
• December 5 - Camarón de la Isla, flamenco singer
• December 9 - Joan Armatrading
• December 28 - Alex Chilton, Box Tops, Big Star