Events in Music
Music Awards
May 21 38th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney win
Martina McBride
Toby Keith
- May 24 48th Eurovision Song Contest: Sertab Erener for Turkey wins singing "Everyway That I Can" in Riga
Music Concert
May 24 Paul McCartney performs in his first-ever concert in Russia, in Moscow's Red Square, to a crowd of over 100,000 people
Paul McCartney
Birthdays in Music
- May 19 JoJo Siwa, American dancer, singer and YouTube personality, born in Omaha, Nebraska
Weddings in Music
- May 10 "Broadway" singer-actress Carol Channing (82) weds Harry Kullijian at Big Valley Grace Community Church in Modesto, California
Deaths in Music
- May 2 George Wyle [Bernard Weissman], American composer ("The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"; "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), and orchestra leader (Flip Wilson Show), dies at 87
- May 5 David Lewin, American composer, dies at 69
- May 11 Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Purple Haze"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 57
June Carter Cash
May 15 June Carter Cash, American musician and singer dies aged 73
June Carter Cash
- May 23 Csaba Szabo. Hungarian composer, dies at 67
- May 23 Edward Boguslawski, Polish composer, dies at 62
- May 25 Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta), dies of a heroin overdose at 27
- May 27 Luciano Berio, Italian composer (Chemins), dies at 77
- May 28 Janet Collins, American ballerina, choreographer, and teacher, dies at 86
- May 30 Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
- May 30 Mickie Most [Michael Hayes], British record producer (Herman's Hermits, The Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu), dies of stomach cancer at 64