This Day in Music

1858-04-20 Artist spotlight

Auguste Chapuis

Auguste Chapuis, composer was born

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1705-04-20 Artist spotlight

Balthasar Schmid

Balthasar Schmid, composer was born

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1947-04-20 Artist spotlight

Björn Skifs

Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede) was born

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1929-04-20 Artist spotlight

Bob Braun

Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show) was born

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1963-04-20 Artist spotlight

Brett Edward Garsed

Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson) was born

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1948-04-20 Artist spotlight

Craig Frost

Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful) was born

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1895-04-20 Artist spotlight

Emile Christian

Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973) was born

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1900-04-20 Artist spotlight

Fred Raymond

Fred Raymond, composer was born

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1748-04-20 Artist spotlight

Georg Michael Telemann

Georg Michael Telemann, composer was born

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1924-04-20 Artist spotlight

Gerhard Samuel

Gerhard Samuel, composer was born

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1748-04-20 Artist spotlight

Guillaume Albert Teniers

Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer was born

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1980-04-20 Artist spotlight

Jasmin Wagner

Jasmin Wagner, German singer was born

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1945-04-20 Artist spotlight

Jimmy Winston

Jimmy Winston, London, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park) was born

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1725-04-20 Artist spotlight

Johann Friedrich Kloffler

Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer was born

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1761-04-20 Artist spotlight

Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier

Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer was born

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1943-04-20 Artist spotlight

John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor was born

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1938-04-20 Artist spotlight

Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion) was born

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1963-04-20 Artist spotlight

Kal Swan

Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker was born

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1908-04-20 Artist spotlight

Lionel Hampton

Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below) was born

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1951-04-20 Artist spotlight

Luther Vandross

Luther Vandross, NYC, rock vocalist (Dance with my Father), (d. 2005) was born

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1594-04-20 Artist spotlight

Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern

Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer was born

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1949-04-20 Artist spotlight

Michal

Michal, rocker was born

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1967-04-20 Artist spotlight

Mike Portnoy

Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater) was born

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1881-04-20 Artist spotlight

Nikolai Miaskovsky

Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us) was born

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1925-04-20 Artist spotlight

Richard Hoffmann

Richard Hoffmann, composer was born

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1957-04-20 Artist spotlight

Richenel

Richenel, [Hubertus R Baars], singer/performer (Turn My Page) was born

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1881-04-20 Artist spotlight

Sem Dresden

Sem Dresden, composer/conductor was born

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1870-04-20 Artist spotlight

Simeon Roncal

Simeon Roncal, composer was born

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1972-04-20 Artist spotlight

Stephen Marley

Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician was born

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1971-04-20 Artist spotlight

Tina Cousins

Tina Cousins, English singer was born

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1923-04-20 Artist spotlight

Tito Puente

Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania) was born

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1902-04-20 Artist spotlight

Vesselin Stoyanov

Vesselin Stoyanov, composer was born

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1866-04-20 Artist spotlight

Victor Hollaender

Victor Hollaender, composer was born

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1907-04-20 Artist spotlight

William Dollar

William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer was born

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2002-04-20 Artist spotlight

Alan Dale

Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)

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2007-04-20 Artist spotlight

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)

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1987-04-20 Artist spotlight

Antony Tudor

Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78

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1962-04-20 Artist spotlight

Arthur Harmat

Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 76

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1643-04-20 Artist spotlight

Christoph Demantius

Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75

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1695-04-20 Artist spotlight

Georg Caspar Weckler

Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63

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1839-04-20 Artist spotlight

Gioachino Rossini

Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies

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2001-04-20 Artist spotlight

Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)

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1956-04-20 Artist spotlight

Jaap Vranken

Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies

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1869-04-20 Artist spotlight

Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe

Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72

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1992-04-20 Artist spotlight

Johnny Shines

Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76

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1956-04-20 Artist spotlight

Lieven Duvosel

Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78

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1984-04-20 Artist spotlight

Mabel Mercer

Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84

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1968-04-20 Artist spotlight

Marion Weeks

Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81

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1900-04-20 Artist spotlight

Mebel Mercer

Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies

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1869-04-20 Artist spotlight

Piotr Studzinski

Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42

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1991-04-20 Artist spotlight

Steve Marriott

Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44

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2008-04-20 Artist spotlight

VL Mike

VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)

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1981-04-20 Artist spotlight

John Phillips

Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession

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1992-04-20 Artist spotlight

Madonna

Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner

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