Events in Music
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
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