Musicians Born in April 1932

Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016)

Apr 1 American actress and singer (Singin' In The Rain -"Kathy Selden"; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in El Paso, Texas

Apr 4 American actor (Psycho; Friendly Persuasion;, Fear Strikes Out; Pretty Poison), and singer, born in New York City

Apr 4 Clive Davis, American record producer and music industry executive (Columbia, Arista, Sony), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 5 Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter, born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 2017)
Apr 7 Mr. Bo [Louis Collins], American electric blues guitarist and singer, born in Indianola, Mississippi (d. 1995)
Apr 9 Abdul Mati [Matias Klarwein], French artist known for his works used on music album covers (Santana's Abraxus; Miles Davis' Bitches Brew; Osibisa's Heads; Jon Hassel's Dream Theory), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 2002)
Apr 9 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, born in Luzern, Switzerland (d. 2006)

Apr 9 American rockabilly singer and songwriter ("Blue Suede Shoes"; "Honey Don't"), born in Tiptonville, Tennessee [1]

Apr 10 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (d. 2000)
Apr 10 Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical Hindustani singer, born in Bombay, British India (d. 2017)
Apr 10 Nate Nelson, American pop and doo-wop singer (Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes for You"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1984)

Apr 11 American Tony, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning actor and singer (Cabaret; Remo Williams; 7% Solution), born in Cleveland, Ohio

Apr 11 Max Schubel, American composer (Opus One Records), born in New York (d. 2010)
Apr 12 Henri Lazarof, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2013)

Apr 12 American singer and ukulele player ("Tiptoe Through The Tulips"), born in Manhattan, New York

Apr 14 American country singer-songwriter ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"), born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky

Apr 16 Vince Hill, English pop singer ("Roses of Picardy"; "La Vie en Rose"; "Edelweiss"), born in Holbrooks, Coventry, England (d. 2023)
Apr 17 Art Ellefson, Canadian jazz saxophonist, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (d. 2018)
Apr 20 Gerry Granahan, American rockabilly singer-songwriter (Dickey Doo & The Dont's - "Click-Clack"), record producer, and label executive, born in Pittston, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
Apr 21 Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, born in Jeanette, Pennsylvania (d. 2021)
Apr 22 Michael Colgrass, American-Canadian composer ("Déjà vu" - Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1978), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2019)
Apr 26 Francis Lai, French film music composer (Love Story), born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France (d. 2018)
Apr 27 François Bayle, French electronic music composer, born in Toamasina, Madagascar
Apr 27 Petar Ozgijan, Yugoslav composer, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia (d. 1979)
Apr 28 Marek Kopelent, Czech contemporary classical composer, artistic director (Musica Viva Pragensis, 1965-73), and educator, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2023)
Apr 30 Antón Larrauri, Spanish composer, born in Bilbao, Spain