Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.

17 May 1942

Born on the same birth day (17 May): Andrew Farrar • B. S. Chandrasekhar • Ben Nelson • Beñat Albizuri • Bob Merrill • Danny Manning • Eddie Lewis (American soccer) • Frederick McKinley Jones • Hazel R. O'Leary • Janez Drnovšek • Jien • Mark Connors • Reiko Nakamura • Stephen Platten • Udo Lindenberg

Born in the same month (May 1942): Ali Bacher • Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green • Byron Dorgan • Carole Stone • Frew McMillan • Gary Kildall • Hannu Mikkola • Ichirō Ozawa • Jusuf Kalla • Kevin Conway (actor) • Lois Johnson • Pierre Bourque (politician) • Raymond Chrétien • Robert Kilroy-Silk • Robin Widdows • Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942) • Ted Kaczynski • Valeriy Brumel