Events in Music
Soul Train Music Awards
Mar 1 17th Soul Train Music Awards: LL Cool J, Mariah Carey & Nelly win
- Mar 10 "My Front Porch Looking In" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 2003)
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 10 18th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: AC/DC; The Clash; Elvis Costello and the Attractions; The Police; The Righteous Brothers; Benny Benjamin; Floyd Cramer; Steve Douglas; and Mo Ostin
Album Release
Mar 25 Capitol/Nashville Records releases "Rules of Travel", the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash; produced by husband John Leventhal, it includes a duet with her father Johnny Cash
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 26 Bhad Bhabie [Danielle Bregoli], American rapper (These Heaux), born in Boynton Beach, Florida
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
- Mar 2 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], American rocker (The Midnighters - "The Twist" - pre-Chubber Checker), dies at 75
- Mar 2 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, dies at 71
- Mar 3 Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (Beatitudines), dies at 98
- Mar 5 Gerhard Rosenfeld, German opera and film score composer, dies at 72
- Mar 8 Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
- Mar 13 Enriko Josif, Serbian composer and pedagogue (Lyric Symphony), dies at 78
- Mar 13 Ian Samwell, British songwriter and record producer (Cliff Richard; Small Faces; America), dies at 66
- Mar 23 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-British classical flautist, broadcaster, composer, and wit, dies at 77
- Mar 24 Dave Dallwitz, South Australian jazz and classical pianist, bandleader, composer, and visual artist, dies at 88
- Mar 28 (Farrell) "Rusty" Draper, American country and pop singer ("The Shifting, Whispering Sands"; "Are You Satisfied?"), dies of pneumonia at 80
- Mar 31 Emmanuel Ghent, Canadian-American electronic music composer (Phosphones), dies at 77
- Mar 31 Tommy Seebach, Danish musician and singer (Sir Henry and his Butlers), dies at 53
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