2003 in Music

• Jan 7 "In Da Club" single is released by 50 Cent (MTV Video Music Award Best Rap Video and Best New Artist 2003, Billboard Song of the Year 2003)

• Feb 2 Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All The Things She Said'
• Feb 6 50 Cent releases his album “Get Rich or Die Trying’” (2003 Billboard Album of the Year)

• Mar 10 "My Front Porch Looking In" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 2003)
• Apr 7 37th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith & Martina McBride win
• May 21 38th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney win
• May 24 48th Eurovision Song Contest: Sertab Erener for Turkey wins singing "Everyway That I Can" in Riga

• Oct 30 "Wicked" premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth
• Nov 4 "Shock'n Y'all" 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
• Nov 5 37th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins

• Jan 11 "The Sixth Sense" actress-singer Toni Collette (30) weds musician Dave Galafassi in a Buddhist ceremony near Sydney, Australia

• May 10 "Broadway" singer-actress Carol Channing (82) weds Harry Kullijian at Big Valley Grace Community Church in Modesto, California
• Jul 19 "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas

• Aug 9 Former "New Kids on the Block" singer Joey McIntyre (30) weds real estate agent Barrett Williams (25) in New York City's Plaza Hotel
• Nov 17 Singer Blake Shelton (27) weds Kaynette Williams in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

• Nov 22 Singer Wynonna Judd (39) weds D. R. Roach (39) in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

Deaths 1 - 100 of 110

• Jan 2 Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
• Jan 4 Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
• Jan 5 Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
• Jan 8 Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• Jan 11 Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
• Jan 11 William Joseph Russo, American composer, dies at 74

• Jan 15 Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter, dies at 87
• Jan 16 Henryk Czyz, Polish composer and musician, dies at 79
• Jan 17 Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
• Jan 26 John Browning, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1956), dies at 69
• Feb 1 Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
• Feb 2 Lou Harrison, American composer (La Koro Sutro), dies of a heart attack at 85
• Feb 4 Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
• Feb 19 Johnny PayCheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
• Feb 20 Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
• Feb 23 Howard "Howie" Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), dies from an overdose at 47
• Feb 24 Walter Scharf, American film composer, dies at 92
• Feb 27 John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
• Mar 2 Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
• Mar 2 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (b. 1931)
• Mar 3 Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (Beatitudines), dies at 98
• Mar 8 Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
• Mar 28 Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
• Mar 31 Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
• Apr 1 Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor, singer and composer (Farewell My Concubine), commits suicide at 46
• Apr 2 Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
• Apr 3 Homer Banks, American singer and songwriter (Be What You Are), dies at 61
• Apr 6 Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)

• Apr 17 Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)

• Apr 22 Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
• May 5 David Lewin, American composer, dies at 69
• May 11 Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)

• May 23 Csaba Szabo. Hungarian composer, dies at 67
• May 25 Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
• May 27 Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
• May 30 Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
• Jun 5 Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• Jun 6 Dave Rowberry, English rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun), dies at 62
• Jun 11 William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 78
• Jul 1 Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (Just Wallin'), dies at 73

• Jul 4 André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
• Jul 6 Skip Battin, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds), dies at 69
• Jul 7 Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
• Jul 8 Kunio Toda, Japanese composer, dies at 87
• Jul 12 Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
• Jul 13 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
• Jul 16 Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
• Jul 17 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist (Bach & Rock), dies at 88
• Jul 25 Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
• Jul 30 Sam Phillips, American record producer and founder of Sun Records and Sun Studios, dies at 80
• Aug 2 Don Estelle [Ronald Edwards], British actor and singer (It Ain't Half Hot Mum), dies at 70
• Aug 3 Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
• Aug 8 Maki Ishii, Japanese composer, dies at 66
• Aug 9 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer, dies of liver cancer at 57
• Aug 9 Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
• Aug 10 Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
• Aug 13 Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• Aug 15 Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
• Aug 21 Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
• Aug 22 Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• Aug 31 Jaap Geraedts, Dutch composer, dies at 79
• Sep 4 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader (Ripley's Game), dies at 82
• Sep 4 Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
• Sep 5 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
• Sep 6 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
• Sep 7 Warren Zevon, American rock singer-songwriter and musician (Werewolves of London, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Excitable Boy), dies of pleural mesothelioma at 56

• Sep 14 John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
• Sep 15 Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
• Sep 16 Sheb Wooley, American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), dies at 82
• Sep 19 Slim Dusty [David Kirkpatrick], Australian country music singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 76
• Sep 19 Anatoly Bogatyrev, Belarusian composer, dies at 90
• Sep 23 Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
• Sep 24 Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
• Sep 26 Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
• Sep 26 Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
• Sep 27 Donald O'Connor, American dancer and actor (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 78
• Sep 27 Paul Burlison, American rockabilly musician (The Rock N Roll Trio), dies at 74
• Oct 7 Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
• Oct 10 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• Oct 21 Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
• Oct 23 Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
• Oct 25 Robert Strassburg, American composer, dies at 88
• Oct 29 Franco Corelli, Italian tenor, dies after suffering a stroke at 82
• Oct 30 Abel Ehrlich, Israeli composer, dies at 88
• Oct 31 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian Carnatic vocalist, dies at 95
• Nov 1 Kent Kennan, American composer, dies at 90
• Nov 5 Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
• Nov 8 Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
• Nov 12 Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
• Nov 14 Gene Anthony Ray, American dancer and actor (Leroy-Fame), dies at 41
• Nov 15 Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
• Nov 15 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
• Nov 17 Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
• Nov 17 Don Gibson, American country musician (Sweet Dreams), dies at 75

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