This Day in Music

1972-03-20 Artist spotlight

Alexander Kapranos

Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand) was born

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1966-03-20 Artist spotlight

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik, Indian singer was born

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1931-03-20 Artist spotlight

Antonio Tauriello

Antonio Tauriello, composer was born

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1680-03-20 Artist spotlight

Baron Emanuele d' Astorga

Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born

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1918-03-20 Artist spotlight

Bernd-Alois Zimmermann

Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Soldiers) was born

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1872-03-20 Artist spotlight

Bernhard Seklas

Bernhard Seklas, composer was born

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1947-03-20 Artist spotlight

Carl Palmer

Carl Palmer, drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer) was born

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1829-03-20 Artist spotlight

Charles Albert White

Charles Albert White, composer was born

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1976-03-20 Artist spotlight

Chester Bennington

Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park) was born

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1986-03-20 Artist spotlight

Dean Geyer

Dean Geyer, Australian singer/actor was born

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1739-03-20 Artist spotlight

Eligio Celestino

Eligio Celestino, composer was born

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1863-03-20 Artist spotlight

Ernesto Nazareth

Ernesto Nazareth, composer was born

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1951-03-20 Artist spotlight

Guy Perry

Guy Perry, rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely) was born

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1833-03-20 Artist spotlight

Henry Southwick Perkins

Henry Southwick Perkins, composer was born

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1933-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jacquez Guyonnet

Jacquez Guyonnet, composer was born

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1937-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed, Atlanta GA, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit) was born

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1954-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jim Seales

Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South) was born

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1951-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jimmie Vaughan

Jimmie Vaughan, guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds) was born

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1937-03-20 Artist spotlight

Joe Rivers

Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe) was born

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1774-03-20 Artist spotlight

John Braham

John Braham, composer was born

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1927-03-20 Artist spotlight

John Pierre Herman Joubert

John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet) was born

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1951-03-20 Artist spotlight

John Wetton

John Wetton, rocker (Asia) was born

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1883-03-20 Artist spotlight

Karl Hasse

Karl Hasse, composer was born

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1922-03-20 Artist spotlight

Larry Elgart

Larry Elgart, New Haven Ct, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orch) was born

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1936-03-20 Artist spotlight

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist was born

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1949-03-20 Artist spotlight

Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist was born

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1918-03-20 Artist spotlight

Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland), (d. 2013) was born

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1930-03-20 Artist spotlight

Michel Magne

Michel Magne, composer was born

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1979-03-20 Artist spotlight

Molly Jenson

Molly Jenson, American musician was born

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1964-03-20 Artist spotlight

Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer was born

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1982-03-20 Artist spotlight

Nick Wheeler

Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) was born

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1980-03-20 Artist spotlight

Ock Ju-Hyun

Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer was born

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1963-03-20 Artist spotlight

Paul Mirkovich

Paul Mirkovich, rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection) was born

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1921-03-20 Artist spotlight

Primoz Ramovs

Primoz Ramovs, composer was born

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1946-03-20 Artist spotlight

Ranger Doug

Ranger Doug, [Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way) was born

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1959-03-20 Artist spotlight

Richard Drummie

Richard Drummie, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down) was born

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1873-03-20 Artist spotlight

Sergei Rachmaninov

Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1] was born

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1961-03-20 Artist spotlight

Slim Jim Phantom

Slim Jim Phantom, [Jim Mcdonnell], rock drummer (Stray Cats) was born

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1957-03-20 Artist spotlight

Spike Lee

Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee], Atlanta, Florida, American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) was born

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1915-03-20 Artist spotlight

Sviatosiav Richter

Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945) was born

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1932-03-20 Artist spotlight

Tod Dockstader

Tod Dockstader, composer was born

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1917-03-20 Artist spotlight

Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn, singer (Anniversary Waltz) was born

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1984-03-20 Artist spotlight

Winta

Winta, Norwegian musician was born

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1873-03-20 Artist spotlight

Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis

Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52

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1996-03-20 Artist spotlight

Alan Ridout

Alan Ridout, composer, dies at 61

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1871-03-20 Artist spotlight

Antonio Buzzolla

Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56

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1892-03-20 Artist spotlight

Arthor Goring Thomas

Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41

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1913-03-20 Artist spotlight

Christian Barnekow

Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75

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1991-03-20 Artist spotlight

Eric Clapton

Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5

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1944-03-20 Artist spotlight

Felix Woyrsch

Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83

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1992-03-20 Artist spotlight

Frank Westbrook

Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82

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2000-03-20 Artist spotlight

Gene Eugene

Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)

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1998-03-20 Artist spotlight

George Howard

George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician

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1992-03-20 Artist spotlight

Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67

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1988-03-20 Artist spotlight

Gil Evans

Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75

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1874-03-20 Artist spotlight

Hans Christian Lumbye

Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63

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1804-03-20 Artist spotlight

Ignaz Malzat

Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47

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1951-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jan Ingenhoven

Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74

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1812-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jan Ladislav Dussek

Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52

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1964-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jean Rogister

Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84

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1911-03-20 Artist spotlight

Jean-Theodore Radoux

Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75

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1757-03-20 Artist spotlight

Johann Paul Kunzen

Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60

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2011-03-20 Artist spotlight

Johnny Pearson

Johnny Pearson, British Composer (b. 1925)

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1951-03-20 Artist spotlight

Kathleen Lockhart Manning

Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60

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2008-03-20 Artist spotlight

Klaus Dinger

Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)

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1970-03-20 Artist spotlight

Manolis Chiotis

Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)

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2009-03-20 Artist spotlight

Mel Brown

Mel Brown, American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)

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1987-03-20 Artist spotlight

Norman Harris

Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure

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1866-03-20 Artist spotlight

Rikard Nordraak

Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23

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1942-03-20 Artist spotlight

Theodoro Valcarcel

Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41

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1994-03-20 Artist spotlight

Ad van Dijk

"Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs

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1948-03-20 Artist spotlight

Arturo Toscanini

20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement", L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscanini on NBC

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1948-03-20 Artist spotlight

Eugene Ormandy

1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90

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1990-03-20 Artist spotlight

Gloria Estefan

Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident

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1991-03-20 Artist spotlight

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records

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1995-03-20 Artist spotlight

The Beatles

The Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

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