November 2003 in Music History

Events in Music

Album Release

Nov 4 "Shock'n Y'all" 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)

Country Music Association Awards

Nov 5 37th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride win

#1 in the Charts

Nov 11 Josh Groban releases his second album "Closer"; it goes to #1 on US charts and becomes his biggest seller

American Music Awards

Nov 16 31st American Music Awards: Kid Rock, Jennifer Lopez & Luther Vandross win

Music History

Nov 17 Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Music Concert

Nov 29 The first of Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts held at Green Point Stadium, Capetown

Weddings in Music

Blake Shelton

Nov 17 American country singer Blake Shelton (27) weds Kaynette Williams in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; divorce in 2006

Carmen Electra

Nov 22 American actress Carmen Electra (31) weds American "Jane's Addiction" rocker Dave Navarro (36) at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 2007

Wynonna Judd

Nov 22 American country singer Wynonna Judd (39) weds American bodyguard D. R. Roach (39) in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee; divorce in 2007

Danny Elfman

Nov 29 Composer and former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman (50) weds actress Bridget Fonda (39) at First Congressional Church in Los Angeles

Deaths in Music

Nov 1 Joji "George" Kawaguchi Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, dies at 76
Nov 1 Kent Kennan, American composer, dies at 90
Nov 5 Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"), dies of acute cocaine toxicity at 63
Nov 8 Guy Speranza, American heavy metal singer (Riot, 1975-81), dies of pancreatic cancer at 47
Nov 12 Tony Thompson, American session and touring drummer (Chic; LaBelle; The Power Station), dies of renal cancer at 48
Nov 14 Gene Anthony Ray, American dancer and actor (Fame - "Leroy"), dies from complications of a stroke at 41
Nov 15 Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
Nov 15 Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
Nov 17 Arthur Conley, American singer ("Sweet Soul Music"), dies of intestinal cancer at 57
Nov 17 Don Gibson, American country musician ("Sweet Dreams"), dies at 75
Nov 17 Surjit Bindrakhia [Bains], Punjabi Bhangra singer ("Lakk Tunoo Tunoo"), dies of cardiac arrest at 41
Nov 18 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland's Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55
Nov 19 Greg Ridley, British rock bassist (Spooky Tooth; Humble Pie), dies of pneumonia at 56
Nov 21 Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I'm on the Outside Looking In), dies at 68
Nov 26 Soulja Slim [James Adarryl Tapp Jr.], American rapper (Slow Motion), shot to death by an assailant at 26
Nov 27 Riccardo Malipiero, Italian pianist, composer, critic, and educator, dies at 89