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Born in Malta in 1953 when the island still belonged to the British crown, his family then moved to Swindon in the southwest of England where he still lives today...

Charlotte Cardin was born in Montreal in 1994. Winter was approaching, Canadian temperatures were dropping and little Charlotte arrived in a family where music had its place. They sang during family meals. 

The 1959 native of Nancy, France, loves nothing more than offbeat humor, with a hint of English second degree if you please. Right down to his stage name.

It was in 1967 that the charismatic singer was born in Glasgow. And for the Spiteri family, music is a family affair

Doug Sahm was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1941 and passed away in 1999 from a heart attack at the age of 58.

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill was born in 1948 in Ealing, West London. He was the creative driving force behind Van Der Graaf Generator from the late 1960s onwards.

Born in Forest Hills in 1941, a neighborhood in Queens, New York, where the family of his future friend Paul Simon also settled

Born in 1980 in Beirut, Ibrahim Maalouf grew up surrounded by music, with a trumpeter father and a pianist mother. The family, who fled the war, settled in France.

Bryan Adams was born in Kingston in 1959. Mind you, not under the Jamaican sun, but rather on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada.

The rambunctious kid born in Macon, Georgia, in 1932, whose real name was Richard Wayne Penniman, paved the way for black artists in the world of rock.

Chris Difford was born in 1954 in Greenwich, just outside London. For more than half a century, he has left his discreet mark on the history of English pop music.

He was born in the Marylebone district of London and his legal name is still Stuart Leslie Goddard. It's certainly less evocative than Adam Ant!