Months in 1989: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 24 of 24
Jan 18th - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
Jan 30th - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
Feb 22nd - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
Feb 22nd - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
Mar 2nd - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial
Mar 19th - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
Apr 10th - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
Apr 12th - 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
Apr 13th - "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs
Apr 22nd - "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs
May 31st - 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
Jun 5th - 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
Jun 14th - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
Jul 28th - NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
Sep 6th - 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
Sep 20th - Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
Oct 9th - 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
Oct 12th - Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
Oct 19th - Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC
Pop Star Madonna
Nov 5th - "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs
Nov 12th - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
Nov 15th - "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
Dec 7th - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
Dec 31st - "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 36 of 36
Jan 13th - Triinu Kivilaan,
Estonian singer
Jan 30th - Khleo Thomas,
American actor and rapper
Feb 1st - Hurricane Chris,
American rapper
Feb 9th - Gia Farrell,
American singer
Feb 21st - Corbin Bleu,
American actor and singer
Feb 23rd - Evan Bates,
American ice dancer
Feb 27th - Kelly Breeding,
American singer from B5
Feb 28th - Zhang Liyin,
Chinese R&B singer
Mar 1st - Sonya Kitchell,
American singer
Mar 25th - Alyson Michalka,
American actress/singer
Mar 28th - Afrikan Boy,
a Nigerian rapper
Apr 8th - Hitomi Takahashi,
Japanese singer
Apr 19th - Fiona MacGillivray,
Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
May 5th - Chris Brown,
American singer
May 30th - Kevin Covais,
American singer
Jun 8th - Gary Wilson,
Scottish Musician
Jun 18th - Renee Olstead,
American singer and actress
Jul 5th - Joseph King,
American musician (Canvas)
Jul 13th - Sayumi Michishige,
Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Aug 4th - Jessica Mauboy,
Australian singer (Young Divas)
Aug 15th - Belinda [Belinda Peregrín Schüll],
Madrid, Spain, Mexican singer, songwriter and actress
Aug 15th - Tiffanie Anderson, American singer, dancer
Aug 15th - Joe Jonas, American singer (Jonas Brothers)
Sep 2nd - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi,
Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)
Sep 15th - Chetan Ramlu,
New Zealand musician
Oct 4th - Lil Mama,
American rapper
Nov 2nd - Katelyn Tarver,
American singer
Nov 3rd - Paula DeAnda,
American singer
Nov 11th - Reina Tanaka,
Japanese pop singer
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (Dec 13th)
Dec 13th - Taylor Swift,
Reading, Pennsylvania, American singer/songwriter (Our Song)
Dec 22nd - Jordin Sparks,
American singer and American Idol winner
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 45 of 45
Jan 8th - Johnny Jordaan,
[Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
Jan 21st - Billy Tipton,
American musician (b. 1914)
Jan 27th - Bayani Casimiro,
Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
Jan 31st - Yasushi Akutagawa,
composer, dies at 63
Feb 4th - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns,
country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
Feb 5th - Joe Raposa,
composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
Feb 6th - Osbourne Ruddock,
Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
Feb 26th - Roy Eldridge,
American musician (b. 1911)
Mar 4th - Tiny Grimes,
American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
May 9th - Keith Whitley,
country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33
May 10th - Woody Shaw,
American jazz musician (b. 1944)
May 12th - Marcelle de Manziarly,
composer, dies at 89
May 15th - John Waldo Green,
composer, dies at 80
May 15th - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
May 22nd - Steven DeGroote,
South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
May 29th - John Cipollina,
American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
May 30th - Zinka Milanov,
Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
Jun 4th - Vaclav Kaslik,
Czech opera composer/conductor, dies at 71
Jun 9th - Rashid Behbudov,
Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
Jun 12th - Peter Conrad Baden,
composer, dies at 80
Jun 12th - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
Jun 14th - Pete de Freitas,
drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman), dies
Jun 22nd - Bengt Viktor Johansson,
composer, dies at 74
Jul 5th - Ernesto Halffter,
composer, dies at 84
Jul 16th - Herbert von Karajan,
Austrian conductor, dies at 81
Aug 1st - John Ogdon,
English pianist/composer, dies at 52
Aug 21st - Raul Seixas,
Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
Aug 23rd - Helen le Clerq,
Dutch dancer, dies
Aug 25th - Gunnar Johnsen Berg,
composer, dies at 80
Sep 14th - Dámaso Pérez Prado,
Cuban musician (b. 1916)
Sep 22nd - Irving Berlin,
composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
Sep 30th - Virgil Thomson,
US composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92
Oct 12th - Franco,
[Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
Oct 31st - Conrad Beck,
composer, dies at 88
Nov 5th - Barry Sadler,
singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
Nov 5th - Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
Nov 17th - Emerson Buckley,
composer, dies at 73
Nov 28th - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent,
Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91
Nov 29th - Ann Burton,
[Anna Rafalowicz], singer, dies at 56
Dec 1st - Alvin Ailey,
US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58
Dec 5th - John M Pritchard,
British conductor, dies at 68
Dec 6th - Sammy Fain,
composer, dies at 87
Dec 21st - Jan Cikker,
composer, dies at 78
Dec 23rd - Josef Alexander,
composer, dies at 82
Dec 26th - Lennox Berkeley,
composer, dies at 86
