Events in Music
Music Awards
Feb 10 50th Grammy Awards: Amy Winehouse wins 5 awards including song "Rehab", Herbie Hancock wins Album of the Year
Amy Winehouse
Herbie Hancock
Weddings in Music
- Feb 2 Singer-actress Katharine McPhee (23) weds producer Nick Cokas (42) at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California
Wedding of Interest
Feb 2 23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France
Nicolas Sarkozy
- Feb 14 Oasis singer Liam Gallagher (35) weds All Saints singer Nicole Appleton (33) at Westminster Register Office in London
Deaths in Music
- Feb 7 Leona Wood, American painter and dancer dies aged 86
- Feb 9 Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
- Feb 13 Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
- Feb 13 Henri Salvador, French Caribbean singer, dies at 90
- Feb 19 Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
- Feb 19 Natalia Bessmertnova, Soviet ballerina (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970), dies at 66
- Feb 24 Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?), dies at 60
- Feb 25 Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
- Feb 26 Buddy Miles, American rock drummer (The Electric Flag), dies of congestive heart disease at 60
- Feb 28 Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five), dies at 64