Events in Music
Music Concert
Jul 24 Ringo Starr's eighth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Colin Hay, Paul Carrack, John Waite, Sheila E., and Mark Rivera
Birthdays in Music
- Jul 1 Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer (You Broke Me First), born in Calgary, Alberta
Weddings in Music
- Jul 19 "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas
Melissa Joan Hart
Jul 19 "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds "Course of Nature" lead singer-guitarist Mark Wilkerson (26) in Florence, Italy
Deaths in Music
Barry White (1944-2003)
Jul 4 American singer ("Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"; "You're The First, The Last, My Everything"), dies at 58
- 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 (Bennett) "Benny" Carter, American Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, arranger, composer ("Harlem Renaissance Suite"), and bandleader, dies at 93
- Jul 13 Compay Segundo [Máximo Muñoz-Telles], Cuban trova guitarist, singer, and composer (Buena Vista Social Club), dies at 95
- Jul 15 Elisabeth Welch, American born British-based singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 99
- Jul 16 Celia Cruz, Cuban-American Grammy Award-winning guaracha, salsa, and bolero singer (La Sonora Matancera, 1950-65), known as 'the Queen of Salsa', dies of cancer at 77
- Jul 17 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist (Bach & Rock), dies at 88
- Jul 25 Erik Brann [Braunn], American violin prodigy and rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"), dies of congenital heart disease at 52
- Jul 27 Artie Anton, American jazz drummer, conguero, and timbalero (Stan Kenton, Jimmy Guiffre), dies at 79
- Jul 30 Sam Phillips, American record producer and founder of Sun Records and Sun Studios, dies at 80
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