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Music Industry Personalities

These music industry personalities are frequently associated with Michigan, but were not born here.

Name Michigan Connection Birthplace Date
Anita Baker R&B Grammy winning vocalist; raised in Detroit Toledo, OH 1958
Carrie Jacobs Bond Composer, lived in Iron River 1888-1895 Janesville, WI 1862-1946
Thomas "Beans" Bowles Jazz and Motown musician; played saxophone and flute; helped create Motown Revue touring show South Bend, IN 1926?-2000
Eminen (Marshall Mathers III) Rapper; moved to Detroit with his mother at age 12; star of film 8 Mile, made in Detroit about his life St. Joseph, MO 1972
Aretha Franklin Singer, grew up in Detroit Memphis, TN 1942
Tommy James (Thomas Gregory Jackson) Grew up in Niles, Mich., which he considers his hometown Dayton, OH 1947
Jewel (Jewel Kilcher) Attended Interlochen Arts Academy, 1990-1992 Payson, UT 1974
Noel Paul Stookey Paul, of the folk trio "Peter, Paul, and Mary," moved to Birmingham, MI, with his family in 1949. He attended Michigan State University. Baltimore, MD 1937

Contact the Michigan Historical Center.

Updated 05/05/2010

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