Events in Music
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May 13 "Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
- May 19 Alan Janes' jukebox musical "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story", starring Paul Hipp, closes at Shubert Theatre, NYC, after 225 performances
- May 25 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
- May 28 "Forever My Lady" debut studio album by Jodeci is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1992)
- May 29 Musical adaptation of "Les Miserables" opens at Aotea Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand
Birthdays in Music
- May 10 Kenny Beats [Blume], American hip-hop record producer and songwriter, born in Greenwich, Connecticut
- May 19 Jordan Pruitt, American singer (The Voice), born in Loganville, Georgia
- May 19 Moses Sumney, American singer-songwriter (Græ), born in San Bernadino, California
- May 23 Sarah Jarosz, American singer-songwriter (World on the Ground), born in Austin, Texas
- May 24 Erika Umeda, Japanese singer (ZYX), born in Minami-ku, Yokohama, Japan
- May 31 Azealia Banks, American rapper (212), born in New York City
Weddings in Music
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May 3 American singer Andy Williams (63) weds 2nd wife Debbie Hass (35), until his death in 2012
Deaths in Music
- May 3 Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
- May 8 Jean Langlais, French organist, and composer (Missa Salve Regina), dies at 84
- May 9 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian-American concert pianist (noted for Beethoven interpretations), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute; Marlboro School of Music), dies of cancer at 88
- May 15 Lawrence "Bud" Freeman, American jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and composer ("The Eel"; "Zen Is When"), dies of cancer at 84
- May 20 Julian Orbon De Soto, Cuban composer, dies at 65
- May 23 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (Unter dem Zimbelstern), dies at 95
- May 23 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
- May 24 (Harold Eugene) Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"), dies from natural causes brought on by bleeding ulcer at 46
- May 27 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), dies at 86
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