Events in Music
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 24 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
Birthdays in Music
Kesha (36 years old)
Mar 1 American pop singer (Tik Tok), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 1 Sammie Bush, American R&B singer ("I Like It"), born in Boynton Beach, Florida
- Mar 8 Tobe Nwigwe, American singer, rapper and actor (I'm Dope), born in Houston, Texas
- Mar 9 Lil' Bow Wow [Shad Gregory Moss], American rapper and actor (Beware of Dogs), born in Columbus, Ohio
- Mar 10 Emeli Sandé, British singer-songwriter ("Next To Me"), born in Sunderland, England
- Mar 11 Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)
- Mar 15 Tatiana Shmailyuk, Ukrainian heavy metal vocalist (Jinjer -"Pisces"), born in Donetsk, Ukraine
- Mar 26 Yui [Yoshioka], Japanese pop-rock singer-songwriter, and musician ("Good-bye Days"; Flower Power) and actress (A Song to the Sun), born in Koga, Japan
Deaths in Music
- Mar 4 Siro Cisilino, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 83
- Mar 6 Eddie Durham, American pioneering jazz electric guitarist, trombonist (Count Basie; Jimmie Luceford), composer ("Topsy"; "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"), and bandleader (All-Star Girl Orchestra), dies at 80
- Mar 13 Fela Sowande, Nigerian musician and composer, dies at 81
- Mar 13 Finn Videro, Danish organist and composer, dies at 80
- Mar 13 Gerald Moore, English pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Norman Harris, American soul, R&B, and disco session guitarist (Philadelphia International; O'Jays; Salsoul Orchestra), dies of cardiovascular disease at 39
- Mar 20 Rita Streich, Russian-German soprano, dies at 66
- Mar 21 Dean Paul Martin, Jr, American singer (Dino, Desi & Billy), and actor (Misfits of Science), dies in a military aircraft crash at 35
- Mar 21 Robert Preston [Meservey], American stage and screen actor and singer (The Music Man; Mame; The Last Starfighter), dies of lung cancer at 68
- Mar 26 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra), dies at 84
- Mar 27 Bruno Kiefer, German-born Brazilian composer, dies at 63
- Mar 28 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austrian singer who inspired the "Sound of Music" (Trapp Family Singers), dies of heart failure at 82
