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He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950. Unlike Debbie Harry, his date of birth has never been subject of debate...

Michael Stipe of REM was born in Georgia in 1960. The son of a soldier, he followed his family’s nomadic life that exposed him to other cultures, notably musical.

His real name is Bernard Dicken, and he was born in 1956 in Salford, a suburb of Manchester in north-west England.

Now 81, this native of Dallas, Texas, has been a pioneer of American folk rock since the 60s.

Danielle Schoovaerts (real name) was born in Schaerbeek in 1953 and, like Toots Thielemans, grew up in the working-class Marolles district of Brussels.

This artistic pillar of the African continent was born in 1959 in Dimbokro (Ivory Coast), 240 kilometers north of the capital Abidjan.

Andy Summers, a former bandmate of Sting's in England's most popular trio The Police, was born in Blackpool in 1942.

Patricia Lee Smith was born in New Jersey in 1946 to an Irish family.

He was born in 1954 in Frimley, a small town in the south-east of England that hasn't deigned to add him to its list of celebrities. He currently lives in Brighton.

The only daughter of a boilermaker and a seamstress, little Annie escapes through music from a sometimes harsh daily life.

Don't get me wrong, the chief belcher of the English speed metal trio, born in 1945, had an almost commonplace surname: Ian Fraser Kilmister.

His real name is Edward Louis Severson, and he was born in 1974 in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. His parents divorced when he was barely a year old. What better way to start life!