Events in Music
Music Single
Feb 18 "A Better Man" single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
Grammy Awards
Feb 22 31st Grammy Awards: "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin; "Faith"by George Michael; and Tracy Chapman win
Music History
Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 634 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 1 Hurricane Chris [Dooley], American rapper, born in Shreveport, Louisiana
- Feb 9 Gia Farrell [Jeannie Bocchicchio], American pop singer-songwriter ("Hit Me Up"), born in Suffern, New York
- Feb 19 Robyn Adele Anderson, American singer (Postmodern Jukebox), born in Albany, New York
- Feb 21 Corbin Bleu [Reivers], American actor & singer (High School Musical - "Chad"), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Feb 22 Daniel D. [Davis], American jazz and hip hop violinist, born in Charleston, South Carolina
- Feb 27 Kelly Breeding, American singer (B5), born in Liberal, Kansas
- Feb 28 Remmi [Rachel Smith], American indie pop singer-songwriter, born in Alexandria, Louisiana
- Feb 28 Zhang Liyin, Chinese K-pop and R&B singer, born in Chengdu, China
Weddings in Music
Courtney Love
Feb 14 Singer-songwriter Courtney Love (24) weds vocalist James Moreland
- Feb 17 Whitesnake's singer David Coverdale (37) weds American actress Tawny Kitaen (27); divorced 1991
Deaths in Music
- Feb 4 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, American country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
- Feb 4 Trevor Lucas, Australian folk singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Fairport Convention), dies of a heart attack at 45
- Feb 5 Joe Raposa, American composer and songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
- Feb 6 King Tubby [Osbourne Ruddock], Jamaican sound engineer and record producer, shot to death outside his home at 48
- Feb 6 Nuno Oliveira, Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer, dressage instructor, and author, dies at 63
- Feb 14 Vincent Crane [Cheesman], British rock Hammond organist, and songwriter (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"), dies of deliberate painkiller overdose at 45
- Feb 21 Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili, Georgian composer, conductor, teacher, and musicologist, dies at 64
- Feb 26 Melvin Moore, American jazz trumpeter, and singer, dies at 65
- Feb 26 Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player, dies at 78
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