Events in Music
Album Release
Feb 7 Bluegrass and country musician Alison Krauss releases her compilation album "Now that I've Found You"
Album Release
Feb 7 Mercury Nashville Records releases "The Woman in Me", the 2nd studio album by Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 1996)
- Feb 9 Augustus and Ruth Goetz' stage drama "The Heiress" opens at Cort Theater, NYC; runs for 340 performances
Riverdance Premieres
Feb 9 Irish music and dance show "Riverdance" first opens in Dublin, Ireland with lead dancer Michael Flatley
Sinatra's Last Performance
Feb 25 Singer Frank Sinatra performs for final time before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom, in Palm Desert, California, on the closing night of his charity golf tournament
Birthdays in Music
Megan Thee Stallion (28 years old)
Feb 15 American rapper, singer, and songwriter ("Savage"; Good News), born in San Antonio, Texas
Weddings in Music
Brian Wilson
Feb 6 "The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model and car saleswoman Melinda Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California
Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee
Feb 19 American "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds Greek-American "Mötley Crüe" drummer Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico; divorce in 1998
Deaths in Music
- Feb 3 Turner Fodrell, American blues and folk singer, and guitarist, dies at 66
- Feb 4 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
- Feb 6 Art Taylor, American jazz drummer (Bud Powell, Red Garland, John Coltrane, Donald Byrd), bandleader (Taylor's Wailers), and writer (Notes and Tones), dies at 65
- Feb 7 William Harry "Billy" Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), dies of self-inflicted gunshot at 45
- Feb 12 Earring George Mayweather, American blues harmonica player, dies of liver cancer at 66
- Feb 12 Terence Beckles, English pianist and teacher, dies at 82
- Feb 12 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
- Feb 13 Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, Jamaican jazz saxophonist, dies at 68
- Feb 17 Uta Graf, German born American singer and teacher, dies at 80
- Feb 18 Dennis "Denny" Cordell, British rock music and record producer (The Moody Blues, Leon Russell), dies of lymphoma at 51
- Feb 18 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, American jazz trumpeter (Dogtown Blues, Stormy Weather), dies of a heart attack at 84
- Feb 18 Robert "Bob" Stinson, American rock guitarist (The Replacements), dies of organ failure at 35
- Feb 23 Melvin Franklin, American musician (The Temptations), dies at 52
- Feb 24 Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
- Feb 25 Terence Weil, British cellist (English Chamber Orchestra; Melos Ensemble), dies at 73
- Feb 26 Frank O’Keefe, American southern rock bassist (The Outlaws, 1968-76), dies of pain medication overdose at 44
- Feb 26 Willie Johnson, American electric blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years"), dies at 71
- Feb 28 (Herman) "Ace" Wallace, American St. Louis blues guitarist and singer, dies at 69
- Feb 28 Max Rudolf, German-American conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1958-70), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute, 1970-73 and 1980-95), dies at 92