Months in 1994: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 24 of 24
Jan 25th - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
Jan 31st - Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
Feb 7th - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
Feb 8th - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
Mar 1st - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
Mar 5th - Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
Mar 7th - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
Mar 15th - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
Mar 20th - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs
Mar 27th - Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
Apr 7th - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
May 3rd - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
May 24th - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
Jun 1st - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
Jun 6th - 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
Jul 23rd - Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
Aug 1st - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
Aug 5th - Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
Sep 6th - 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win
Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley
Sep 8th - MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley
Sep 12th - Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
Oct 5th - 28th Country Music Association Award
Nov 30th - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC," is released in Britain
Dec 7th - 5th Billboard Music Awards
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 7 of 7
Mar 1st - Justin Bieber,
London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)
Mar 16th - Sierra McClain,
American actress and singer
Apr 4th - Risako Sugaya,
Japanese singer
Jul 16th - Mark Indelicato,
American singer and actor
Sep 1st - Bianca Ryan,
American singer
Dec 17th - Nat Wolff,
American actor, and singer-songwriter
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 100 of 185
Jan 4th - RD Burman,
Indian musician (b. 1939)
Jan 5th - Victor van Os,
Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
Jan 7th - Bobby Pratt,
jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67
Jan 7th - Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
Jan 8th - Jay Blackton,
US conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
Jan 9th - Silas Hogan,
blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
Jan 11th - Roger "Ram" Ramirez,
jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80
Jan 13th - Frederick William Sternfield,
musicologist, dies at 79
Jan 15th - Gyorgy Cziffra,
Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
Jan 15th - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
Jan 15th - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
Jan 16th - Harry Nilsson,
singer/Songwriter, dies at 52
Jan 17th - Noel Chiboust,
trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
Jan 18th - Arthur Altman,
songwriter, dies at 83
Jan 22nd - Rhett Forrester,
American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
Jan 27th - Eddie Calhoun,
jazz Bassist, dies at 72
Jan 27th - Stanley Adams, songwriter, dies at 86
Jan 30th - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson,
blues Singer, dies at 64
Jan 30th - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86
Feb 2nd - John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn,
blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
Feb 2nd - Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89
Feb 2nd - Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95
Feb 5th - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott,
blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
Feb 6th - Ignace Strasfogel,
Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84
Feb 6th - Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
Feb 7th - Witold Lutosławski,
Polish composer (b. 1913)
Feb 8th - Raymond Scott,
composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
Feb 9th - Jarmila Novotna,
Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
Feb 9th - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
Feb 14th - Gary "BB" Coleman,
blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
Feb 22nd - "Papa" John Creach,
US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
Feb 24th - Dinah Shore,
singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
Feb 24th - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
Mar 1st - Timothy Andrew James Souster,
composer Musician, dies at 51
Mar 1st - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
Mar 3rd - Karel Kryl,
folk singer, dies at 49
Mar 5th - Joe Daley,
jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
Mar 6th - Leighton Noble,
singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
Mar 6th - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77
Mar 9th - Louis Freeman,
band leader, dies at 100
Mar 9th - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer, dies at 77
Mar 13th - Danny Barker,
US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
Mar 22nd - Dan Hartman,
US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
Mar 24th - Tommy Benford,
jazz drummer, dies at 88
Mar 26th - Jan Bor,
Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
Mar 28th - Eugene Ionesco,
playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
Mar 30th - Sid Weiss,
bassist, dies at 79
Apr 4th - Virginia "Ginny" Simms,
actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
Apr 5th - Roy Smeck,
guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
Rocker Kurt Cobain (Apr 5th)
Apr 5th - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 in Seattle, Washington
Apr 6th - Dick Cary,
jazz musician, dies at 77
Apr 7th - Lee Brilleaux,
British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
Apr 8th - Irene Eisinger,
singer, dies at 91
Apr 10th - James L Lyons,
jazz promoter, dies at 77
Apr 12th - Q T Macon,
blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
Apr 19th - Larry Davis,
blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
Apr 22nd - Jack Alexander Bently,
trombonist, dies at 80
May 3rd - Milford Dolliole,
pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
May 6th - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler,
blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
May 11th - Danny Overbea,
blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
May 11th - Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63
May 15th - Frederik baron van Pallandt,
Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
May 15th - Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
May 17th - Donald Keith Falkner,
singer, dies at 94
May 23rd - Joe Pass,
US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
May 24th - Sandor Lakatos,
Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69
May 25th - Eric Gale,
guitarist, dies at 55
May 26th - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock,
American jazz Guitarist, dies at 53
May 27th - Red Rodney,
[Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66
May 29th - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson,
drummer, dies at 61
May 31st - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein,
trumpeter, dies at 86
May 31st - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85
Jun 3rd - Hub Matthijsen,
violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
Jun 4th - Derek Lek Leckenby,
rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48
Jun 6th - John Morey Downs,
actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
Jun 6th - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
Jun 13th - Igor Youskevitch,
dancer, dies at 82
Jun 14th - Harry "Little" Caesar,
blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66
Jun 14th - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70
Jun 14th - Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52
Jun 15th - Kristen Pfaff,
US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
Jun 15th - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
Jun 16th - Boris Alexandrov,
conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
Jun 23rd - Alan Frank,
music publisher, dies at 83
Jun 26th - Thomas henry Wait Armstrong,
organist, dies at 96
Jun 29th - Kurt Eichhorn,
conductor, dies at 85
Jun 29th - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
Jul 2nd - Marion Williams,
gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
Jul 8th - Dominic Lucero,
dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
Jul 9th - Cornelius Boyson,
bassist, dies at 57
Jul 9th - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79
Jul 11th - Charles "Lefty" Edwards,
saxophonist, dies at 67
Jul 11th - Lex P Humphries, drummer, dies at 57
Jul 13th - Eddie Boyd,
blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79
Jul 14th - Patrick Crommelynck,
Belgian pianist, commits suicide
Jul 14th - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
Jul 21st - Dorothy Collins,
singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
Jul 21st - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
Jul 23rd - Hans J Salter,
Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
Jul 25th - John M Dengler,
jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
