July 2013 in Music History

Events in Music

Music History

Jul 17 U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Album Release

Jul 19 Selena Gomez releases her debut solo studio album "Stars Dance"

Weddings in Music

Avril Lavigne

Jul 1 Canadian singer Avril Lavigne (28) weds Canadian singer Chad Kroeger (38) at the Château de La Napoule, a reconstructed medieval castle on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France.

Tina Turner

Jul 4 American singer Tina Turner (73) weds German music executive Erwin Bach (57) in Kusnacht, Switzerland

Jul 8 American model Amber Rose (29) weds American rapper Wiz Khalifa (25) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; divorce in 2016

Deaths in Music

Jul 2 Bengt Hallberg, Swedish jazz pianist and composer, dies at 80
Jul 9 Andrea Veneracion, Filipina singer, choral conductor (Philippine Madrigal Singers), composer, arranger, and educator, dies from stroke complications at 84

Cory Monteith (1982-2013)

Jul 13 Canadian actor and singer (Glee; Monte Carlo), dies of heroin and alcohol overdose at 31

Jul 13 Laurie Ann Frink, American big band jazz trumpeter and educator, dies of cancer at 61 [1]
Jul 17 Peter Appleyard, British-Canadian jazz vibraphonist, dies from natural causes at 84
Jul 24 Nikos Mamangakis, Greek classical and electronic music composer, dies at 84
Jul 25 Mike Shipley, Australian audio engineer, and record producer of rock and country music (Paper Airplane), dies of an apparent suicide at 56
Jul 26 J. J. Cale, American rock guitarist and songwriter ("After Midnight": "Call Me The Breeze"; "Cocaine"), dies of a heart attack at 74
Jul 28 Rita Reys [Maria Reijs], Dutch jazz singer, dies from a intracranial hemorrhage at 88