January 1996 in Music

Events in Music

Jan 29 23rd American Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins

Jan 29 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
Jan 29 La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire

Jan 27 "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith, Delaware

Jan 1 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55
Jan 4 Ramon Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor, dies at 83
Jan 5 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84
Jan 5 Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63
Jan 6 Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, American musician, dies at 80
Jan 8 William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52
Jan 8 Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic, dies at 88
Jan 11 Ike Isaacs, Burnese-born jazz guitarist, dies at 76
Jan 14 Pamelo Mounk'a, musician, dies at 50
Jan 15 Les Baxter, American exotica musician, orchestra leader and composer (Ritual Of The Savage, Born Again), dies at 73
Jan 16 Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
Jan 16 Richard Kermode, American rocker (Kozmic Blues Band), dies at 49
Jan 17 Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
Jan 17 Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
Jan 18 Jos Kunst, Dutch composer, dies at 60
Jan 20 Buster Benton, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 63
Jan 20 Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
Jan 20 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
Jan 25 Jonathan Larson, American composer (Rent), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 35
Jan 26 Henry Jay Lewis, conductor, dies at 63
Jan 26 Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
Jan 30 Bob Thiele, American record producer, dies at 73