Events in Music
Music Concert
Jan 11 During a concert in Maui, Mick Fleetwood announces that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac
Christine McVie
Mick Fleetwood
Grammy Awards
Jan 26 56th Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, and Daft Punk win
Lorde
Weddings in Music
- Jan 4 Actress and singer Alexa Vega (25) weds Big Time Rush singer Carlos Pena Jr (24) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Deaths in Music
- Jan 2 Jay Traynor, American singer (Jay and the Americans), dies of liver cancer at 70
Phil Everly
Jan 3 Phil Everly, American singer & half of the rock and roll duo "The Everly Brothers" (Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 74
Phil Everly
- Jan 6 H. Owen Reed, American composer, dies at 103
- Jan 14 Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 91
- Jan 18 Dennis Frederiksen, American rock singer, dies from liver cancer at 62
- Jan 19 Udo Kasemets, Etonian-born Canadian composer, dies at 94
- Jan 20 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (La Scala, 1969-86; London Symphony, 1979-87; Berlin Philharmonic, 1989-2002), dies of stomach cancer at 80
- Jan 27 Pete Seeger, American folk singer (The Weavers - Goodnight Irene) and activist, helped create the modern American folk music movement, dies at 94
- Jan 31 Alexander Ivashkin, Russian cellist, conductor, and sitar player, dies at 65