December 2010 in Music History

Weddings in Music

Dec 11 "Good Charlotte" lead vocalist Joel Madden (31) weds fashion designer and actress Nicole Richie (30) at Beverly Hills, California

Dec 19 Guitar legend Carlos Santana (63) weds rock drummer Cindy Blackman (51) in Maui, Hawaii

Dec 8 "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage
Dec 28 Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage

Dec 1 Alojz Srebotnjak, Slovenian composer, dies at 79
Dec 6 Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and musical educator, dies at 108
Dec 9 James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
Dec 13 Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1942)
Dec 13 Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme, British keyboardist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), commits suicide at 63
Dec 17 Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
Dec 19 Trudy Pitts, American jazz organist, pianist, and vocalist (b. 1932)
Dec 20 Jean-Louis Martinet, French composer, dies at 98
Dec 24 Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (Joanna tentata), dies at 80
Dec 26 Teena Marie, American singer and composer (b. 1956)
Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)
Dec 28 Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer (oldest von Trapp child), dies at 97
Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American jazz pianist (Birdland), orchestra leader (David Frost Show) and broadcaster (NPR), dies after a heart attack at 89
Dec 30 Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)