February 1994 in Music History

Events in Music

Feb 7 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins

Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant

Feb 8 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is charged with possession of a loaded firearm

Feb 12 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
Feb 22 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
Feb 27 Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas' percussion revue "Stomp" opens at the Orpheum Theatre, NYC; runs for 11,475 performances

Feb 1 British pop singer (One Direction - "What Makes You Beautiful"; solo - "Sign of the Times"), born in Redditch, England

Feb 8 (Nicole) "Nikki" Yanofsky, Canadian jazz-pop singer ("I Believe"), born in Montreal, Quebec.
Feb 14 Becky Hill, English singer (Remember), born in Bewdley, England

Feb 16 American singer-songwriter (Sweet But Psycho), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Feb 18 J-Hope [Jung Ho-seok] South Korean rapper (BTS), born in Gwangju, South Korea,
Feb 23 Little Simz [Simbiatu Ajikawo], English rapper and actress (Sometimes I might be Introvert), born in London, England
Feb 28 Jake Bugg [Kennedy], British blues-rock singer-songwriter, and musician, born in Nottingham, England

Feb 14 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons (40) in Tiburon, California

Feb 1 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
Feb 2 John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
Feb 2 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith (née Ford), American gospel singer, evangelist, and folk artist, dies at 89
Feb 2 Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, dies at 95
Feb 5 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
Feb 6 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84
Feb 6 Norman Del Mar, British conductor and writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
Feb 7 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), dies of cancer at 81
Feb 8 Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
Feb 9 Jarmila Novotná, Czech-American soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-56), and actress (The Search), dies at 86
Feb 9 Louis Kaufman, American violinist and conductor (Gone With The Wind), dies at 88
Feb 14 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
Feb 19 Vittorio Rieti, Jewish Italian-American composer, dies at 96
Feb 22 "Papa" John Creach, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), dies of heart failure at 76

Feb 24 American singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet), actress and TV personality (Dinah Shore Show; Nabisco DS Championship), dies of ovarian cancer at 76

Feb 24 Donald Phillips, pianist and composer, dies at 80
Feb 24 Jean Sablon, French pop singer-songwriter, dies at 87
Feb 27 Roosevelt Holts, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 89
Feb 28 (Elbert) "Skippy" Williams, American jazz tenor saxophonist and musical arranger, dies at 77