Happy Birthday to actress Maria Menounos (1978), rapper Kanye West (1977), "Andromeda" actress Lexa Doig (1972), "Gilmore Girls" actor David Sutcliffe (1869),

Soul deep Brit James Hunter - who possesses a "tight, slithery soul groove" and a "sweet growl" (NY Times) - will make his Hear Music debut with the June 10 release of 'The Hard Way.'

Happy Birthday to actress Maria Menounos (1978), rapper Kanye West (1977), "Andromeda" actress Lexa Doig (1972), "Gilmore Girls" actor David Sutcliffe (1869), "ER" actress Julianna Margulies (1966), Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus (1965; d. 1998), Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes (1962), Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall (1960), actor/comedian Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958), actor Griffin Dunne (1955), bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice (1951), singer Bonnie Tyler (1951), Brazilian actress Sonia Braga (1950), singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs (1944), singer Nancy Sinatra (1940), English actress Millicent Martin (1933), gossip queen Joan Rivers (1933), German born actress Dana Wynter (1931), comedic actor Jerry Stiller (1929), American artist LeRoy Neiman (1927), Canadian actress Alexis Smith (1921; d. 1993), actor Robert Preston (1918; d. 1987), architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867; d. 1959), and German composer Robert Schumann (1810; d. 1856).

Tragic disco star June Pointer's final months were miserable, according to sister and former bandmate Bonnie Pointer. June was paralysed and unable to speak. The Pointer Sisters star lost her fight with breast, liver, colon and bone cancer on April 11 after a decade-long battle with drug and alcohol abuse. Bonnie says, "My baby sister had a stroke at the end of February. Then they found she had cancer."