Events in Music
- Apr 2 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
Music History
Apr 4 "Always & Forever" second studio album by Randy Travis (Billboard Album of the Year 1988)
Academy of Country Music Awards
Apr 6 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Randy Travis, and Reba McEntire win
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 3 Julie Sokolow, American film director and musician, born in Holmdel, New Jersey
- Apr 3 Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and singer-songwriter (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), born in Los Angeles county, California
- Apr 9 Jazmine Sullivan, American R&B singer-songwriter (Pick Up Your Feelings), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Apr 9 Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer, born in Ardsley, New York
- Apr 10 Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano and UNICEF ambassador, born in Christchurch, New Zealand
Joss Stone (36 years old)
Apr 11 English singer-songwriter (The Soul Sessions), born in Dover, Kent
- Apr 12 Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic! at the Disco), born in St. George, Utah
- Apr 15 Iyaz [Keidran Jones], British singer, songwriter, and dancer ("Replay"), born in Tortola, British Virgin Islands
- Apr 16 Neil Haskell, American contemporary dancer (SYTYCD season 3 finalist), born in Clarence Center, New York
- Apr 18 Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer (Play My Drum), born in Mosjøen, Norway
Deaths in Music
Buddy Rich (1917-1987)
Apr 2 American jazz drummer and bandleader (Buddy Rich Band - "Away We Go"), dies at 69
- Apr 3 Hans Gál, Austrian-British composer (Die heilige Ente (The Sacred Duck)), dies at 97
- Apr 7 Maxine Sullivan [Marietta Williams], American jazz vocalist and performer ("Going Places"), dies following a seizure at 75
- Apr 14 Karl Höller, German composer, dies at 79
- Apr 17 Carlton "Carly" Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (The Upsetters; Bob Marley & Wailers), murdered at 36
- Apr 19 Hugh Brannum, American actor and singer (Captain Kangaroo - "Mr. Green Jeans"; The Fred Waring Show - "Lumpy"), dies of cancer at 77
- Apr 20 Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer (American Ballet Theater), dies at 78
- Apr 22 Irving Ashby, American jazz and session guitarist (Lionel Hampton - "Flying Home"; Nat King Cole Trio; Oscar Peterson Trio), dies at 66
- Apr 28 Åke Olof Sebastian Uddén, Swedish violist, composer and educator (Royal College Of Music, 1934-70), dies at 84
