Events in Music
Album Release
Feb 8 Reprise Records releases "Both Sides Now", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 17th studio album, a collection of torch songs, including re-worked versions of two of her own, backed by an orchestra
Grammy Awards
Feb 23 42nd Grammy Awards: "Smooth", Christina Aguilera win
Album Release
Feb 29 American rock band Steely Dan releases "Two Against Nature", their eighth studio album, and first in 20 years; it wins four Grammy Awards.
Deaths in Music
- Feb 2 Todor Popov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 79
- Feb 4 Doris Coley, American pop singer (The Shirelles - "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"; "Baby It's You"), dies of breast cancer at 58
- Feb 5 Barbara Pentland, Canadian concert pianist and composer, dies at 88
- Feb 7 Big Pun [Christopher Rios], Puerto Rican-American rapper ("I'm Not A Player"), dies of a heart attack at 28
- Feb 7 "Lonesome Dave" Peverett, British rock singer and musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown), dies of complications from cancer at 56
- Feb 12 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American R&B musician (I Put a Spell on You), dies at 70
- Feb 12 Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
- Feb 12 Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
- Feb 19 Marin Goleminov, Bulgarian violinist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 91
- Feb 21 Violet Archer [Balestreri], Canadian percussionist, composer, teacher, and organist, and percussionist, dies at 86
- Feb 22 Louis Alfred Mennini, American composer, dies at 79
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