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1994 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.

Events
January–FebruaryJanuary 19Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. • January 21February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland, New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk. • January 25Alice in Chains release Jar of Flies which makes its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first EP to do so. • January 29The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles. Her 14-year-old son was killed in the accident. • February 1Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival. It later achieves diamond certification. • February 7Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for disruptive behavior. He was later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone. • February 11 – The three surviving members of The Beatles reunite to begin recording additional music for unfinished John Lennon's demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, "Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. • February 14Grateful Dead guitarist and frontman Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons. • February 23Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. • February 26 – The Sanremo Music Festival ends with Aleandro Baldi winning the "Big Artists" category for the song "Passerà". March–AprilMarch 1Selena becomes the first Tejano music singer to win a Grammy Award. • Nirvana play their final concert, in Munich. • The 36th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Garry Shandling. The soundtrack from the 1992 film The Bodyguard wins Album of the Year, while its lead single, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You", wins Record of the Year. The single version of "A Whole New World", performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, wins Song of the Year. Toni Braxton wins Best New Artist. • Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Legend Award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short. Other artists criticize the producer's decision during the show, and Billy Joel takes extra time to perform his song, "The River of Dreams", noting that he is wasting valuable air time. • March 3 – In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne. • March 5Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California, home. • March 7 – The United States Supreme Court decision Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. rules that parody can qualify as fair use. The case was spurred by 2 Live Crew releasing a parody of the Roy Orbison hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" without a license from the publishing firm Acuff-Rose Music. • March 8Nine Inch Nails release their second studio album The Downward Spiral. It would go on to sell over 3 million copies and be credited with helping bring industrial rock music into the mainstream. • March 13Selena releases her final Spanish album Amor Prohibido. Its production had been delayed because of the launch of Selena's fashion clothing line and boutiques, and her "Selena Live!" tour in support of Live!. • March 18Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and 25 boxes of ammunition from Cobain's home. • Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones. • March 30Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000 (US$186,952,500). • March 31Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman: Madonna appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines with her profanity-laced interview. Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman." • April 8 – The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death, three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot. • The Offspring release Smash, which goes on to become the best selling independent album of all time and one of the most influential albums of the 90s. • April 25Blur releases Parklife, their first album to reach No. 1 in UK, where it was certified quadruple platinum. • Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November 1993. • April 26Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5. • April 27 – The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco with a concert headlined by The Smashing Pumpkins. • April 30 – The 39th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Dublin, Ireland, which becomes the first-ever country to win three consecutive contests. Its winners are Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan with "Rock 'N' Roll Kids", written by Brendan Graham. The interval features the first-ever public performance of Riverdance, featuring Michael Flatley and Jean Butler, which developed into the world-famous stage show. May–JuneMay 2 – A Los Angeles jury finds Michael Bolton, along with co-writer Andy Goldmark and Sony Music Entertainment, guilty of copyright infringement over the song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing". The song is ruled to be too similar to a song of the same name by The Isley Brothers. • May 3The Rolling Stones arrive by yacht to a press conference in New York City to announce the Voodoo Lounge Tour kicking off in the summer. • May 6Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business. • To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper releases a three-part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation. • May 9–13 – 1994 International Rostrum of ComposersMay 10Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot. • Weezer are introduced to the world with their self-titled debut, often referred to as the Blue Album. It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spawning hits "Undone – The Sweater Song", "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So". • May 26Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are married in the Dominican Republic. • May 27The Eagles launch the Hell Freezes Over tour in Burbank, California. The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $100 per ticket for arena shows. • June 7Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three months' worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers. • June 9Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC, in a domestic dispute with partner Andre Rison, sets fire to his shoes; the fire ultimately spreads to the mansion they share and destroys it; she is subsequently charged with arson. • June 21George Michael loses his legal bid in a London court to be released from his contract with Sony Records. • June 27Aerosmith becomes the first major band to premiere a new song on the Internet. Over 10,000 CompuServe subscribers download the free track "Head First" within its first eight days of availability. July–August July 12–16 – The Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington. • July 30 • The Verbier Festival is launched by Martin Engstrom. • In keeping with the country's new constitution and the promotion of its native language, Moldova adopts Limba noastră as its new national anthem, replacing the anthem of Romania which was previously in use. • Suede announce that guitarist Bernard Butler has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album Dog Man Star. • August 9Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the first performance of his fifth symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, as part of The Proms. • Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia, with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour. • Decca releases a recording of the 1949 première of Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony for the first time. • Machine Head release their first album Burn My Eyes, which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records' best selling debut album. • August 11 – A compact disc copy of Sting's album ''Ten Summoner's Tales'', released the previous year, becomes the first item securely purchased over the internet; the CD is sold for $12.48 plus shipping and handling fees. • August 12–14 – Woodstock '94 is held in Saugerties, New York. As with the original 1969 festival, attendance is swelled by a high number of gatecrashers, while heavy rains turn the festival grounds into a sea of mud. Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peter Gabriel, and Green Day are among the many performers. • August 23Jeff Buckley releases his single, critically acclaimed, full-length studio album Grace. • August 30Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe; it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom until 1996, when Spice by the Spice Girls would be released. • Luis Miguel release Segundo Romance, the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist. Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Songs. It received a Grammy Award and a Billboard Latin Music Award. September–October September 6José Cura wins the Operalia – International Plácido Domingo Opera Singer Competition. • Bad Religion release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) Stranger than Fiction. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former Minor Threat / Dag Nasty / Junkyard guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion. • September 8Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities. • September 15 – A 1957 audio tape of John Lennon performing with The Quarrymen on the same night he met Paul McCartney fetches £78,500 at Sotheby's, London. • October 12Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: No Quarter (Unledded) premieres on MTV. The "unplugged" concert special featuring the two former Led Zeppelin bandmates was filmed to accompany the release of the album of the same name. • October 15 – The 23rd OTI Festival, held at the Teatro Principal in Valencia, Spain, is won by the song "", written by Bibi Albert, and performed by Claudia Carenzio representing Argentina. November–December November 20David Crosby undergoes a seven-hour liver transplant operation in Los Angeles. • November 30The Breeders guitarist Kelley Deal is arrested at her Ohio home after accepting a private-courier package containing four grams of heroin. • December 2Warner Music Group acquires a 49 percent share of Seattle record label Sub Pop in a deal believed to be worth over $30 million. • December 18Paul Oakenfold's legendary Goa Mix is first broadcast in the early hours of this day as a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. • December 19Aerosmith opens the 250-seat Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston, co-owned by the group, with a performance. • December 31 – The twenty-third annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Melissa Etheridge, The O'Jays, Salt-N-Pepa, Hootie & the Blowfish and Jon Secada. Also in 1994 Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog. • April – Jo Dee Messina sign to RCA Records. • Summer – Tony Wilson attempts to revive Factory Records, in collaboration with London Records, as "Factory Too". == Bands formed ==
Bands formed
• See Musical groups established in 1994 == Bands disbanded ==
Bands disbanded
• See Musical groups disestablished in 1994 == Bands reformed ==
Bands reformed
• See Musical groups reestablished in 1994 ==Albums released==
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions. in the charts of 1994. ==Top 40 Chart hit singles==
Top 40 Chart hit singles
Other chart hit singles ==Notable singles==
Notable singles
Other Notable singles ==Top ten best albums of the year==
Top ten best albums of the year
All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts. • TLCCrazySexyCoolOasisDefinitely MaybeWeezerWeezerPortisheadDummyNirvanaMTV Unplugged In New YorkGreen DayDookieNasIllmaticBlurParklifeSoundgardenSuperunknownNine Inch NailsThe Downward Spiral == Classical music ==
Classical music
Thomas BeveridgeYizkor RequiemGeorge CrumbQuest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players) • Richard Danielpour – Cello Concerto • Mario DavidovskyFestino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass • Peter Maxwell DaviesSymphony No. 5David Diamond – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano • Lorenzo FerreroPaesaggio con figura for small orchestra • Portrait for string quartet • Osvaldo GolijovThe Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the BlindVagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993) • Guus JanssenKlotz, for violin, hi-hat and small ensemble • Karl JenkinsAdiemus: Songs of SanctuaryWojciech KilarReign Over Us, Christ, for voice and piano • Oliver Knussen – Horn Concerto • György KurtágSteleMorten LauridsenO magnum mysteriumFrederik Magle – Concerto for organ and orchestra The Infinite SecondThea MusgraveJourney through a Japanese Landscape, for marimba and wind • Tristan Murail – ''L'esprit des dunes'' • Michael Nyman – Concerto for Trombone • Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 7 Angel of LightSteve ReichCity LifeBagoya MarimbasRobert Simpson – String Quintet No. 2 (1991–94) • Karlheinz StockhausenWeltraum (electronic music from Freitag aus Licht) • Boris Tishchenko – Symphony No. 7 • Charles WuorinenLightenings VIII, for soprano and piano • Piano Quintet • Christes Crosse, for soprano and piano • Percussion Quartet • Guitar VariationsWindfall, for wind ensemble == Opera ==
Opera
Peter Maxwell DaviesThe Doctor of MyddfaiJonathan DoveSiren SongVivian FineMemoirs of Uliana RooneyAdam GuettelFloyd CollinsNicholas LensThe Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Flamma Flamma – The Fire RequiemTobias PickerEmmeline, libretto by JD McClatchyAlice ShieldsApocalypseKarlheinz StockhausenFreitag aus Licht (completed; not staged until 1996) == Jazz ==
Musical theater
Beauty and the Beast – Broadway production opened at the Palace Theatre and ran for 5461 performances • Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) – Broadway revival • Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) – Broadway revival • Grease – Broadway revival • Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway revival • Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – Broadway production opened at the Minskoff Theatre and ran for 977 performances == Musical films ==
Musical films
Aag Aur ChingariAndaz, with music by Bappi LahiriAirheadsBackbeatChaand Kaa Tukdaa, starring SrideviFear of a Black HatGandugali, with music by Sadhu Kokila. • Hated: GG Allin and the Murder JunkiesHum Aapke Hain Koun..!, with music by RaamlaxmanImmortal Beloved, biopic of Ludwig van BeethovenThe Lion King – animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim RiceMin fynske barndom, biopic of composer Carl NielsenSukham Sukhakaram, with music by Ravindra Jain. • The Swan Princess – animated feature film • ''That's Entertainment! III'' • Thumbelina – animated feature film. == Births ==
Births
January 6Catriona Gray, Australian model, presenter, singer and beauty queen • January 8Tanika Anderson, Australian actress, singer and performer (Hi-5) • January 13Asta, Australian singer-songwriter • January 14Kai, Korean singer and dancer (EXO) • January 18Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer • Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress • January 23Vera Blue, Australian indie singer-songwriter • January 28Maluma, Colombian singer and rapper • February 1Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter • Harry Styles, British musician, singer-songwriter, activist, (pop singer of boy band One Direction) (worked with Taylor Swift, Mabel, Stevie Nicks, Kacey Musgraves) • February 3Orla Gartland, Irish singer, songwriter and YouTuber (member of band Fizz) • February 8Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer • February 10Seulgi, Korean singer and dancer (Red Velvet) • February 14Paul Butcher, American actor and singer • Becky Hill, English singer and songwriter • February 16Ava Max, American singer-songwriter • Shae, Indonesian actress and singer • February 17Angie Miller, American singer-songwriter and pianist • February 18J-Hope, South Korean rapper, songwriter, dancer and record producer, member of BTSFebruary 21Wendy, Korean singer (Red Velvet) • February 22Rachael Leahcar, (Italian) Australian multi lingual singer-songwriter, musician, performer, writer, runner, composer, and runner composer (The Voice (Australia)) (team and toured with Delta Goodrem) • February 23Little Simz, English rapper, singer and actress • February 24Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper • February 28Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and musician • March 1Justin Bieber, Canadian singer • March 3 - Sam Asghari, Iranian-American actor, dancer, fitness guru, businessman, business owner and model (Formerly married & muse to Britney Spears) • March 10Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer. • March 11Jace Chan, Hong Kong singer and actress • March 12Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, actress and YouTuber (d. 2016) • March 14Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer and DJ • March 15 – Lynn Gunn, American musician (PVRIS) • March 16Connie Glynn, English author, YouTuber, former influencer, and member of snaggletooth, a "Very haunted" band. (Former name of blog: Noodlerella, worked with Evan Edinger & Dodie) • Camilo, Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. (Married to Evaluna Montaner) • March 17Amber Holcomb, American singer • March 19Fletcher, American actress, singer, and songwriter. • March 20R'Bonney Gabriel, American model, fashion designer and beauty pageant • March 22Dax, Canadian rapper • March 28Dreezy, American hip hop recording artist, rapper, musician • Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas, twin English country-pop musicians • Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper • March 29Sulli, singer and actress (d. 2019) • April 1Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter • April 4Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer • April 9Bladee, Swedish rapper, singer, songwriter, fashion designer and member of the musical group Drain Gang. • April 11Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer-songwriter, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2019April 12Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer • Sehun, Korean singer, rapper and actor (EXO) • April 18Aminé, American rapper, singer and songwriter • April 24Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer and actor • April 25Sam Fender, English actor, singer-songwriter, musician and activist • Maggie Rogers, American singer-songwriter and record producer • April 26 - Michael Pollack, American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer • May 1 - Kacy Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer and former model • May 5Celeste, American-born British singer • May 7 - Laurel (musician). British musician • May 11 - Howard Lawrence of EDM House garage band, DisclosureMay 17Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina actress, singer, television personality • May 24Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist • May 25 - • Royal & the Serpent, American singer and songwriter • Nathan Dawe, English DJ and producer (Annie-Marie, Little Mix, Ella Henderson) • May 28Alec Benjamin, American musician • May 30 - Madeon, French musician, DJ, songwriter, singer and music producer • May 31 - Lil Aaron, American rapper, singer and songwriter • June 4Olivia Somerlyn, known as LIVVIA, American pop singer-songwriter • June 14Scarlxrd, British rapper and songwriter • June 18Takeoff, American rapper (Migos) (d. 2022) • June 22 - Louta (musician), Argentine performing musician, producer, songwriter, and disc-jockey • June 25 - Egor Kreed, Russian rapper • June 27 - Malinda Kathleen Reese, American stage actress, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, comedian, YouTuber, and activist • July 4Era Istrefi, Kosovar singer • Amaarae, A Ghanaian-American pop, afrobeat, alte, R&B singer • July 5Sơn Tùng M-TP, Vietnamese singer-songwriter • July 7Ashton Irwin, Australian drummer and singer-songwriter (5 Seconds of Summer) • July 9 - SG Lewis, English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (Tove Lo) • July 10Angel Haze, American rapper and singer • July 11Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter, model, and musician • July 14 - Bibi Bourelly, German-American singer-songwriter • July 17Kali Uchis, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer • July 31Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper, singer, songwriter • August 2Jacob Collier, British musician, singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist • August 8Lauv (Ari Leff), American singer-songwriter and record producer • August 9King Von, American rapper (d. 2020) • August 11Alejandro Aranda, American singer • August 16Áine Cahill, Irish singer-songwriter • August 17Phoebe Bridgers, American indie rock singer-songwriter, musician and artist • August 18Bobby Andonov, Australian singer-songwriter and actor • August 22Jimilian, Danish singer • August 28Felix Jaehn, German/Dutch DJ and record producer • August 29 - Courtney Stodden, American media personality, model and singer • August 30Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer • August 31 - MoStack British Rapper and Singer (worked with: Anne-Marie) • September 1Bianca Ryan, American singer • September 12RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer, member of BTSSeptember 17Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler • Chen Yihan, Chinese pianist and composer • September 22Emily Burns, English musician and singer-songwriter • G Flip, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, musician, drummer and activist • September 23Zolita, American singer-songwriter, director, photographer and activist • September 28Trevor Daniel, American singer-songwriter • September 29Halsey, American singer-songwriter, artist and activist • October 1Alfredo Olivas, Mexican singer • October 2Shekhinah, South African singer-songwriter • October 4Sarah Aarons, Australian singer, songwriter, musician • October 15Sebastián Yatra, Colombian singer • October 24Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer (member of Boygenius) • October 15Lil' Kleine, Dutch musician • October 30 - Maro (Portuguese singer), Portuguese singer and songwriter • November 3Ella Mai, English singer and songwriter • November 4keshi, American singer • November 6Speaker Knockerz, American rapper and record producer (d. 2014) • November 7Haruna Iikubo, Japanese actress and singer (Morning Musume) • November 8Lauren Alaina, American country music singer, songwriter and actress • November 9MNEK, British singer-songwriter and record producer • November 24Reece Mastin, winner of The X Factor (Australia), rock-soul-blues singer-songwriter, and musician (English born, Australian) • November 26Emma Portner, American dancer and choreographer • November 28Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter • December 2Laura Les, American music producer and singer-songwriter (100 gecs) • December 13Ibeyi (Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz), twin French singer-songwriters • December 18Slowthai, British rapper • December 19Michele Bravi, Italian singer • Nathan Evans, Scottish musician • December 21Thelma Plum, Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician • unknown dateNy Oh, British-born New Zealand folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist == Deaths ==
Deaths
January 4R. D. Burman, music director, 54 • January 6Harold Sumberg, violinist, 88 • January 15Harry Nilsson, singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack) • Georges Cziffra, pianist, 72 • January 22Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter, 37 (shot) • January 25Bertha Rawlinson, New Zealand opera singer, composer and music teacher, 83 • January 30Rudolf Schwarz, conductor, 88 • February 5Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano, 96 • February 7Witold Lutosławski, composer, 81 • February 8Raymond Scott, composer and bandleader, 85 • February 19Micho Russell, Irish tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79 • February 22Papa John Creach, blues violinist, 76 • February 24Jean Sablon, French singer, 87 • Dinah Shore, singer, actress, 77 • March 3Karel Kryl, Czech folk singer, 49 • March 6Yvonne Fair, African-American singer, 51 • March 13Danny Barker, jazz musician and composer, 85 • March 16Nicolas Flagello, composer, 66 • March 18Ephraim Lewis, soul and R&B singer, 26 • March 22Dan Hartman, singer, 42 (brain tumour) • March 23Donald Swann, pianist, composer and entertainer (Flanders and Swann), 70 • April 5Rowland Greenberg, Norwegian jazz trumpeter, 73 • Kurt Cobain, singer & guitarist (Nirvana), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound) • April 7Lee Brilleaux, British R&B singer (Dr. Feelgood), 41 (cancer) • April 19Larry Davis, blues singer and guitarist, 57 • May 23Joe Pass, jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer) • May 25Eric Gale, jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer) • May 26Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist, 53 • May 27Red Rodney, bop trumpeter, 66 • May 29Oliver Jackson, jazz drummer, 61 • May 31Uzay Heparı, Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor, 24 (motorcycle accident) • Herva Nelli, operatic soprano, 85 • June 4 • Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman's Hermits), 51 • Earle Warren, saxophonist, 79 • June 11Robert Beadell, composer, 68 • June 14Henry Mancini, composer, 70 • June 15Manos Hadjidakis, composer, 68 • June 16Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist (Hole), 27 (heroin overdose) • June 25Kin Vassy, songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of The First Edition 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50 • DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation) • June 29Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85 • July 2Marion Williams, gospel singer, 66 • July 31Anne Shelton, British singer, 70 • August 6Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter, 66 • September 2Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer) • September 3Major Lance, R&B singer, 55 • September 6Nicky Hopkins, session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery) • Max Kaminsky, jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85 • September 7Eric Crozier, librettist, 79 • September 13John Stevens, jazz musician • September 20Jule Styne, songwriter, 88 • September 24Urmas Alender, singer, 40 (drowned in MS Estonia sinking) • September 29Cheb Hasni, Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered) • October 4Danny Gatton, guitarist, 49 • October 19Martha Raye, singer and comedian, 88 • October 22Jimmy Miller, record producer, 52 • Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter • October 26Wilbert Harrison, R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65 • October 27Robert White, Motown session guitarist, 57 • October 31Lester Sill, record executive, 76 • Erling Stordahl, Norwegian singer, 71 • November 4Fred "Sonic" Smith, MC5 guitarist, 46 (heart attack) • November 7Shorty Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70 • November 11Elizabeth Maconchy, composer, 87 • November 18Cab Calloway, jazz and scat singer, 86 • November 21Juancho Rois, Colombian vallenato musician, accordionist, and composer, 35 (plane crash) • November 28Vic Legley, Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79 • December 8Antônio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova composer and songwriter, 67 • December 10Garnett Silk, reggae singer, 28 (house fire) • December 23 - Dan Hamilton, singer (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds), 48 == Awards ==
Awards
• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: John Lennon, Elton John, Grateful Dead, The Band, Bob Marley, Duane Eddy, Rod Stewart, and The Animals • Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford Filmfare Awards Kumar SanuFilmfare Best Male Playback AwardFilmfare Best Music Director AwardsRahul Dev Burman Grammy Awards 36th Annual Grammy Awards Country Music Association Awards 1994 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Mercury Music Prize Elegant SlummingM People wins. Juno Award RascalzJuno Award Best rap album ==Charts==
Charts
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