Events in Music
- Feb 2 "Molière Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge and sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison
Tupac Shakur
Album Release
Feb 7 Bluegrass and country musician Alison Krauss releases her compilation album "Now that I've Found You"
Alison Krauss
Album Release
Feb 7 "The Woman in Me" 2nd studio album by Shania Twain is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1996)
Shania Twain
- Feb 9 "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Irish music and dance show "Riverdance" first opens in Dublin, Ireland with lead dancer Michael Flatley
Michael Flatley
- Feb 23 "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 15 Megan The Stallion [Megan Jovon Ruth Pete], American rapper and singer-songwriter (Savage), born in Bexar County, Texas
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Feb 6 "The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model Melinda Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes in Peninsula, California
Brian Wilson
- Feb 19 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds rocker Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico
Deaths in Music
- Feb 3 Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
- Feb 4 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
- Feb 6 Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65
- Feb 12 Earring George Mayweather, American blues harmonica player, dies of liver cancer at 66
- Feb 12 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82
- Feb 12 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
- Feb 13 Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
- Feb 17 Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50
- Feb 17 Uta Graf, singer/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 (Melos Ensemble), dies at 73
- Feb 26 Willie Johnson, American electric blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years"), dies at 71
- Feb 28 Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
- Feb 28 Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92