If you are having a birthday today, you share it with some incredibly talented and influential musicians! Happy Birthday to:
- French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, b. 1862, wrote “Claire de lune”
- American guitarist Chuck Brown, b. 1936, known as the “Godfather of Go-go”
- American songwriter David Marks, b. 1948, original member of The Beach Boys
- Cuban-American Juan Croucier b. 1959, bass guitarist for Dokken and Ratt
- American pianist and singer Tori Amos, b. 1963, known for pushing the boundaries
We’d like to honor these musicians on the anniversary of their births with Claude Debussy’s most beloved movement from his most famous piano suite,
“Suite Bergamasque”:
