August 2000 in Music

Events in Music

  • Aug 16 "Hanging by a Moment" single released by Lifehouse (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)

Birthdays in Music

  • Aug 5 Maya Bond, American singer and musician

Person of interestLil Pump

Aug 17 Lil Pump [Gazzy Garcia], American rapper (Gucci Gang), born in Miami, Florida

Rapper Lil Pump
Rapper
Lil Pump

Weddings in Music


HeartWedding of Interest

Aug 10 Lead vocalist Dave Matthews (33) weds Jennifer Ashley Harper

Musician Dave Matthews
Musician
Dave Matthews

Deaths in Music

  • Aug 11 Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
  • Aug 12 Patrick Peter Sacco, American composer, dies at 71
  • Aug 13 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, dies of lung cancer at 35
  • Aug 16 Alan Caddy, English musician (The Tornados), dies at 60
  • Aug 25 Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
  • Aug 25 Nils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
  • Aug 26 [Douglas] Allen Woody, American bassist (Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule), dies at 44