Events in Music
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reaches number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart
Nicki Minaj
- Feb 13 53rd Grammy Awards: Need You Now, Esperanza Spalding wins
Film Awards
Feb 27 83rd Academy Awards: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win Best Original Score for 'The Social Network'
Trent Reznor
Weddings in Music
- Feb 26 Musician Cisco Adler (32) weds model Barbara Stoyanoff (30) at Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes
Deaths in Music
- Feb 6 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman), dies at 58
- Feb 12 Elizabeth "Betty" Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
- Feb 14 George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), dies at 91
- Feb 23 Jack Gottlieb, American composer, writer and editor, dies at 80
- Feb 26 Eugene Fodor, American classical violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award), dies from cirrhosis at 60