Events in Music
- Apr 6 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California; line-up includes Earth, Wind & Fire; Black Sabbath; Deep Purple; and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Band on the Run
Apr 8 Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run" in the US
- Apr 16 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
Julie and Dick In Covent Garden
Apr 21 "Julie and Dick In Covent Garden", music and comedy special starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with Carl Reiner, premieres on ABC-TV
- Apr 21 28th Tony Awards: "The River Niger" (play) & "Raisin" (musical) win
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 1 Richard Christy, American heavy metal drummer (Charred Walls of the Damned), and radio personality (The Howard Stern Show), born in Fort Scott, Kansas, U.S.
- Apr 2 Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician (Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
- Apr 5 Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
- Apr 8 Chino XL [Derek Keith Barbosa], American rapper and actor, born in The Bronx, New York
- Apr 10 Helen Jane Long, British pianist and contemporary classical and film score composer (Embers; Vessel of Light), born in Hampshire, England
- Apr 14 Shawntae Harris, American rapper, born in Joliet, Illinois
- Apr 16 Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
- Apr 16 Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director, born in Beijing, China
- Apr 17 Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth), born in Stockholm, Sweden
Victoria Beckham (49 years old)
Apr 17 English singer and fashion designer (Posh of The Spice Girls), born in Harlow, Essex
- Apr 18 Madeleine Peyroux, American French jazz and blues singer-songwriter, born in Athens, Georgia
- Apr 18 Mark Tremonti, American rock guitarist (Creed - "With Arms Wide Open"; Alter Bridge -"Isolation"), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Apr 18 Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer (De Hoy en Adelante), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Apr 21 Michael Leonhart, American jazz and session trumpeter (Steely Dan; Yoko Ono; Rufus Wainwright), born in New York City
- Apr 22 Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-American heavy metal bassist (System of a Down), born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
- Apr 23 Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol), born in Queens, New York
- Apr 24 Brian Marshall, American rock bassist (Creed - "With Arms Wide Open"), born in Jackson, Mississippi
- Apr 29 Anggun [Sasmi], Indonesian-French pop, rock, and world music singer-songwriter (Snow in the Sahara; In Your Mind), television personality, and U.N. global ambassador, born in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Apr 29 Jasper Wood, Canadian concert violinist, born in Moncton, New Brunswick
Deaths in Music
- Apr 1 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, dies at 86
- Apr 13 Stanley Smith, American actor and singer (King of Jazz; Soup to Nuts; Good News), dies at 71
- Apr 14 Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), dies at 65
- Apr 15 Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter ("Malinconia d'amore"), dies at 68
- Apr 17 Herbert Elwell, American composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
- Apr 17 Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
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