No one can really predict exactly when a baby will be born. So when Willie Nelson came into the world at midnight on April 29, there wasn’t anything anyone could do. “I was born before midnight on the 29th, but it didn’t get registered in the county courthouse until the next day, the 30th,” Nelson once explained on a SiriusXM radio show. “So, it went out officially as the 30th. So I just do both days.”
Yet Southern Living notes that Nelson’s daughter Lana has expounded on her father’s simpler explanation. She says the country music star only had one birthday — April 29 — until he joined the Air Force and saw his birth certificate, which named his birthday April 30.
Read Related Also: Four bodies all from same family found dead in west London flat
He decided to celebrate for both days from then on. That’s a fair decision for someone like Nelson, who has had a lot of tragedy in his life. Regardless of the reason, we think it’s swell that Nelson gets to have his big day twice a year.
