MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

MUSIC

MUSICIANS

Amos, Tori [Myra Ellen Amos]

Born in Newton, North Carolina, August 22, 1963.
Lived in Baltimore, Maryland

Barrueco, Manuel (1952-)

Born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, December 16, 1952

Bernstein, Andrew

Street musicians near Baltimore Farmers' Market, Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland, September 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Blake, Eubie [James Hubert] (1887*-1983)
  *(government records show that Blake's birthdate was 1887, though he later listed 1883)
  
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1887
  Died in Brooklyn, New York, February 12, 1983
  

  Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cultural Center
  847 North Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201

Street musician, Baltimore Farmers' Market, near Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland, August 2012. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Bowie, Lester (1941-1999)

Born in Frederick, Maryland, October 11, 1941

Died in Brooklyn, New York, November 8, 1999

Brothers Osborne (John & T. J. Osborne)

Born in Deale, Maryland

Brown, Anne Wiggins (1912-2009)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 9, 1912

Died in Oslo, Norway, March 13, 2009

Byrne, David (1952-)

Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, May 14, 1952.

Moved to Arbutus, Maryland at age seven.

Street musician, East Pleasant St. near Fallsway, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2007. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Cassidy, Eva (1963-1996)
  Born in Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 2, 1963
  Died in Bowie, Maryland, November 2, 1996
• Chasez, JC [Joshua Scott] (1976-)
  
  Born in Bowie, Maryland, August 8, 1976
• Coyne, Joshua (1993-)
  
  Born in Kansas City, Missouri, March 5, 1993
• Ennis, Ethel (1932-2019)
  
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 28, 1932
  Died in Baltimore, Maryland, February 17, 2019
• Fahey, John (1939-2001)
  
  Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, February 28, 1939
  Died in Salem, Oregon, February 22, 2001

High school musicians, Annapolis, Maryland, April 2017. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Fleisher, Leon (1928-2020)

Born in San Francisco, California, July 23, 1928.

Died in Baltimore, Maryland, August 2, 2020.

Hahn, Hilary (1979-)

Born in Lexington, Virginia, November 27, 1979.

Moved to Baltimore, Maryland at age three.

Violinist Hilary Hahn at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, February 2005. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Hines, Brendan P. (1976-)
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 28, 1976
• Holiday, Billie [Eleanora Fagan] (1915-1959)
  
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, April 7, 1915
  Died in New York, New York, July 17, 1959
• Jett, Joan [Larkin, Joan Marie] (1958-)
  
  Born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1958
  Lived in Rockville, Maryland
• Lin, Jenny (1973-)
  
  Born in Taiwan, 1973
  Studied at The Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Institute
• Malphurs, Tammy Rivera (1986-)
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 30, 1986

Pianist Jenny Lin, Community Concerts at 2nd Presbyterian Church, 4200 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Milian, Christina (1981-)
  Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 26, 1981
  Lived in Waldorf, Maryland
• Ocasek, Ric (Richard) (1944*-2019)
  
  *(some records list his birthday as 1949)
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 23, 1944
  Died in Manhattan, New York, September 15, 2019

Ponselle, Rosa (1897-1981)

Born in Meriden, Connecticut, January 22, 1897
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 25, 1981

Rogers, Maggie (1994-)

Born in Easton, Maryland, April 25, 1994

Snowden, Elmer (1900-1973)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 9, 1900
Died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1973

Webb, Chick [William Henry] (1909-1939)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 10, 1909
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, June 16, 1939>

Willis, Larry (1942-2019)

Born in New York, New York, 1942
Died in Baltimore, Maryland, September 29, 2019

Pianist, Baltimore School for the Arts, 712 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland, October 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Zappa, Frank (1940-1993)
  
  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 21, 1940
  Died in Los Angeles, California, December 4, 1993

Frank Zappa "Born in Baltimore" bust at Southeast Anchor Library, Eastern Ave. & South Conkling St., Baltimore, Maryland, February 2011. Photo by Diane F. Evartt. The bust was a gift in 2009 to City of Baltimore from Lithuanian nonprofit organization ZAPPART. It is a replica. The original, the work of sculptor Konstantinas Bogdanas, stands in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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