 In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.Robert Anthony Plant was born on 20 August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, to Robert C. Plant, a qualified civil engineer who worked in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and Annie Celia Plant (née Cain), a Romanichal woman.He grew up in Halesowen, Worcestershire.