Events in Music
Grammy Awards
Feb 23 42nd Grammy Awards: Smooth, Christina Aguilera wins
Christina Aguilera
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.
Donald Fagen
Deaths in Music
- Feb 2 Todor Popov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 79
- Feb 4 Doris Coley, American singer (The Shirelles), dies at 58
- Feb 5 Barbara Pentland, Canadian concert pianist and composer, dies at 88
- Feb 7 Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
- 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 22 Louis Alfred Mennini, American composer, dies at 79
- Feb 23 Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)