This Day in Music

1977-02-24 Artist spotlight

Alexis Jose Grullon

Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball) was born

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1980-02-24 Artist spotlight

Anton Gustafsson

Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003) was born

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1890-02-24 Artist spotlight

Antonio Massana

Antonio Massana, composer was born

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1858-02-24 Artist spotlight

Arnold Dolmetsch

Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician was born

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1842-02-24 Artist spotlight

Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito, composer was born

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1717-02-24 Artist spotlight

Bernhard Hupfeld

Bernhard Hupfeld, composer was born

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1955-02-24 Artist spotlight

Bob Abrams

Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams) was born

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1974-02-24 Artist spotlight

Bonnie Somerville

Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer was born

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1974-02-24 Artist spotlight

Chad Hugo

Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes) was born

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1987-02-24 Artist spotlight

Chieko Kawabe

Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress was born

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1923-02-24 Artist spotlight

David Soyer

David Soyer, American cellist was born

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1679-02-24 Artist spotlight

Domenico Natale Sarro

Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer was born

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1976-02-24 Artist spotlight

Eric Griffin

Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist was born

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1950-02-24 Artist spotlight

George Thorogood

George Thorogood, Wilmington, Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone) was born

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1905-02-24 Artist spotlight

Guillaume Landre

Guillaume Landre, composer was born

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1704-02-24 Artist spotlight

Hubert Renotte

Hubert Renotte, composer was born

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1921-02-24 Artist spotlight

Ingvar Lidholm

Ingvar Lidholm, composer was born

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1973-02-24 Artist spotlight

James Michael Kennedy

James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) was born

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1876-02-24 Artist spotlight

Jean Poveigh

Jean Poveigh, composer was born

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1941-02-24 Artist spotlight

Joanie Sommers

Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress was born

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1771-02-24 Artist spotlight

Johann Baptist Cramer

Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher was born

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1978-02-24 Artist spotlight

John Nolan

John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run) was born

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1912-02-24 Artist spotlight

Julius Kowalski

Julius Kowalski, composer was born

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1911-02-24 Artist spotlight

Konrad Lechner

Konrad Lechner, composer was born

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1957-02-24 Artist spotlight

Lan Burden

Lan Burden, rocker was born

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1924-02-24 Artist spotlight

Lionel Dakers

Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music) was born

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1947-02-24 Artist spotlight

Lonnie Turner

Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra) was born

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1846-02-24 Artist spotlight

Luigi Denza

Luigi Denza, composer was born

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1976-02-24 Artist spotlight

Matt Skiba

Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio,Heavens) was born

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1932-02-24 Artist spotlight

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind) was born

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1962-02-24 Artist spotlight

Michelle Shocked

Michelle Shocked, singer/musician was born

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1944-02-24 Artist spotlight

Nicky Hopkins

Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver) was born

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1943-02-24 Artist spotlight

Pablo Milanés

Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician was born

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1942-02-24 Artist spotlight

Paul Jones

Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn) was born

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1961-02-24 Artist spotlight

Persijn "Dakota" Joling

Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red) was born

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1958-02-24 Artist spotlight

Plastic Bertrand

Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer was born

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1934-02-24 Artist spotlight

Renata Scotto

Renata Scotto, Savona, Italy, soprano and opera director (Violetta-La Traviata) was born

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1877-02-24 Artist spotlight

Rudolf Ganz

Rudolf Ganz, composer was born

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1947-02-24 Artist spotlight

Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes, English musician was born

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1958-02-24 Artist spotlight

Sammy Kershaw

Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style) was born

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1797-02-24 Artist spotlight

Samuel Lover

Samuel Lover, composer was born

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1766-02-24 Artist spotlight

Samuel Wesley

Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo) was born

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1978-02-24 Artist spotlight

Shinya

Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) was born

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1934-02-24 Artist spotlight

Shuko Mizuno

Shuko Mizuno, composer was born

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1948-02-24 Artist spotlight

Tim Staffell

Tim Staffell, English singer was born

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1908-02-24 Artist spotlight

Anatol' Vakhnyanyn

Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66

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1929-02-24 Artist spotlight

Andre Messager

Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75

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1874-02-24 Artist spotlight

Anselmo Clave

Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49

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1692-02-24 Artist spotlight

Antimo Liberati

Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74

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1784-02-24 Artist spotlight

Anton Laube

Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65

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2002-02-24 Artist spotlight

Arthur Lyman

Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)

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1976-02-24 Artist spotlight

Charles Wilfred Orr

Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82

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1994-02-24 Artist spotlight

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76

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1922-02-24 Artist spotlight

Dmitri B Shostakovitch

Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies

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1994-02-24 Artist spotlight

Donald Phillips

Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80

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1967-02-24 Artist spotlight

Franz Waxman

Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60

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1735-02-24 Artist spotlight

Georg Friedrich Kauffman

Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56

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1983-02-24 Artist spotlight

Herbert Norman Howells

Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90

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1895-02-24 Artist spotlight

Ignaz Lachner

Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87

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1997-02-24 Artist spotlight

Isabelle Harriet Lucas

Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69

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2012-02-24 Artist spotlight

Istvan Anhalt

Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer, dies at 92

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1960-02-24 Artist spotlight

Jean Binet

Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66

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1990-02-24 Artist spotlight

Johnnie Ray

Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61

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1919-02-24 Artist spotlight

Josephine McGill

Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41

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2008-02-24 Artist spotlight

Larry Norman

Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)

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1996-02-24 Artist spotlight

Laurence Richard Deniz

Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71

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2002-02-24 Artist spotlight

Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)

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2007-02-24 Artist spotlight

Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)

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1704-02-24 Artist spotlight

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies

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1642-02-24 Artist spotlight

Marco da Gagliano

Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66

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1674-02-24 Artist spotlight

Matthias Weckmann

Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)

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1666-02-24 Artist spotlight

Nicholas Lanier

Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77

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1907-02-24 Artist spotlight

Otto Goldschmidt

Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77

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1995-02-24 Artist spotlight

Richard Nicholson

Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89

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1982-02-24 Artist spotlight

Virginia Bruce

Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71

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1991-02-24 Artist spotlight

Webb Pierce

Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64

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1982-02-24 Artist spotlight

Betty Davis

24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins

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1987-02-24 Artist spotlight

Bruce Hornsby

29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins

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1607-02-24 Artist spotlight

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua

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1993-02-24 Artist spotlight

Eric Clapton

35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins

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1711-02-24 Artist spotlight

George Frideric Handel

Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres at Haymarket theatre in London

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1999-02-24 Artist spotlight

Lauryn Hill

41st Grammy Awards: My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic), Lauryn Hill wins

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1965-02-24 Artist spotlight

The Beatles

The Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas

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