Events in Music
Music Single
Mar 17 Sia releases her single "Chandelier" with a music video featuring Maddie Ziegler
Weddings in Music
Andrea Bocelli
Mar 21 Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (55) weds 2nd wife, his Italian manager Veronica Berti (29) at the Sanctuary of Madonna di Montenero in Livorno, Italy
Deaths in Music
- Mar 7 Pentti Raitio, Finnish composer (‘Lemminkainen Gatecrashes at Pohjola’), dies at 83
- Mar 10 Shirley Scott, American swing and blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine), dies of heart failure at 67
- Mar 14 Werner Rackwitz, German opera director and musicologist (Handel-Renaissance), dies at 84
- Mar 16 Mitch Leigh, American musical composer (Man of La Mancha), dies at 86
- Mar 17 Joseph Kerman, American educator and musicologist (Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology), dies at 89
- Mar 18 Joe Lala, American drummer, percussionist, singer ("Blues Image"), and actor, dies from complications of lung cancer at 66
- Mar 29 Billy Mundi [also Tony Schnasse, born Antonio Salas], American session musician and drummer (The Mothers of Invention; Rhinoceros), dies of complications from diabetes at 71
- Mar 31 Frankie Knuckles {Francis Warren Nicholls, Jr.], American DJ and record producer who popularized house music in Chicago during the 1980s, dies of diabetes at 59
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