Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
6 October 1948
Born on the same birth date (6 October 1948): Gerry Adams
Born on the same birth day (6 October): David Hidalgo • Edwin Fischer • Jan Keizer (referee) • Joe Rafferty • Joseph Lowery • Kennet Andersson • Mark Field • Vladimir Manchev
Born in the same month (October 1948): Alison Chitty • Diane Ackerman • Garry McDonald • Gerry Adams • Kweisi Mfume • Melih Gökçek • Ntozake Shange • Peter Turkson • Steve Rucker (composer) • Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough • Trevor Brooking