Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African popular music in the West. Christgau spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and was a visiting arts teacher at New York University. CNN senior writer Jamie Allen has called Christgau "the E. F. Hutton of the music world – when he talks, people listen."

18 April 1942

Born on the same birth date (18 April 1942): Jochen Rindt • Michael Beloff

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Ahmed I • Al Lewis (lyricist) • Aminé • Bill Miles • Conan O'Brien • Divock Origi • Hayley Mills • Jane Leeves • Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg • Miguel Cabrera • Roger Graef • Samuel P. Huntington • Vanessa Kirby

Born in the same month (April 1942): Allan Clarke (singer) • Barry Levinson • Billy Joe Royal • Bobby Rydell • Dick Chrysler • Douglas Trumbull • Elizabeth Levy • Frank Williams (Formula One) • Jadwiga Staniszkis • Kenneth Lay • Leon Russell • Michael Kergin • Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie • Ruth Glick • Samuel R. Delany • Stuart Dybek • Svyatoslav Belza • Valeriy Brumel