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May 1993 in Music History

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Events in Music

  • May 2 "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 445 performances
  • May 2 "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
  • May 2 "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
  • May 2 Lanford Wilson's play "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theatre NYC after 40 performances
  • May 3 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
  • May 4 "Angels in America - Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances
  • May 9 "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
  • May 9 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 performances

Academy of Country Music Awards

May 11 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Mary Chapin Carpenter win

Country Singer-Songwriter Garth Brooks
Country Singer Vince Gill
  • May 15 38th Eurovision Song Contest: Niamh Kavanagh for Ireland wins singing "In Your Eyes" in Millstreet
  • May 16 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
  • May 16 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Square, NYC after 30 performances

Chattahoochee

May 17 "Chattahoochee" single released by Alan Jackson (CMA Award Single of the Year & Billboard Song of the Year, 1993)

Country Singer Alan Jackson

Birthdays in Music

  • May 10 Jake Zyrus [Charice Pempengco], Filipino pop and R&B singer, born in Cabuyao, Philippines

Morgan Wallen (30 years old)

May 13 American country music singer-songwriter (Dangerous), born in Sneedville, Tennessee

Morgan Wallen
  • May 14 Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer (iCarly), born in Los Angeles, California

Deaths in Music

  • May 8 Kees Deenik, Dutch singer, bandleader, and broadcaster, dies at 78-ish
  • May 9 Iván Patachich, Hungarian contemporary classical and electro-acoustic composer, dies at 70
  • May 16 Marv Johnson, American R&B pianist, songwriter, and singer ("You Got What It Takes"; "(You've Got To) Move Two Mountains"), dies of a stroke at 54
  • May 22 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish-American pianist, dies at 100
  • May 26 Cor de Groot, Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
  • May 28 Charles "Doctor" Ross, American blues singer and guitarist (Doctor Ross the Harmonica Boss), dies at 67
  • May 30 Sun Ra [Herman Blount], American jazz pianist (The Arkestra), dies at 79

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