From childhood acting in iconic Aussie TV shows like The Hendersons, Skyways and The Sullivans, through landing her breakthrough role as Charlene in Neighbours as a 16 year-old, to her international career as a musician and her recent return to Australia to appear on The Voice, it seems Kylie has been around forever.
On the way she has picked up a
Growing up in the North Island New Zealand town of Te Awamutu, Neil Finn's family instilled him with an "...inspiring admiration of music...". Neil idolised his big brother Tim, imitating everything he did, including learning to play piano and guitar from a very early age.
Tim formed Split Enz in London in 1977 and invited little brother Neil to
At just three years old, when Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz was growing up in Manhattan, he used to bang the pots and pans in his mother's kitchen, pretending they were a drum set.
By age 5 he knew he wanted to be a musician - by age 38 he'd broken the record for most consecutive Grammys for Best Male Vocal Performance (Four - 1999 Fly Away, 2000 A
American pioneer of electronic music and inventor of the eponymous synthesizer, Robert Moog was born on this day in 1934.
Armed with degrees in physics, electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics, Moog designed and built revolutionary musical instruments that would shape the sound of many influential artists, including Pink Floyd, Th
Davies studied oboe and music composition at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, and formed Flowers in 1979 with bass player Keith Welsh.
Flowers won the 1980 TV Week/Countdown "Johnny O'Keefe New Talent Award (ahead of INXS!) then changed their name to Icehouse to avoid confusion with Scottish band Flowers.
Icehouse would go on to produce eight Top