Events in Music
- Jun 3 Jay-Z named the world's first billionaire rapper by Forbes magazine
- Jun 5 53rd CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, and Kane Brown win
Event of Interest
Jun 9 73rd Tony Awards: "Hadestown" best musical, "The Ferryman" best play, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May win
Bryan Cranston
- Jun 9 Ali Stroker becomes the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony award for musical "Oklahoma!"
Event of Interest
Jun 11 "The New York Times" reveals an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, lost in 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Chuck Berry
Music Concert
Jun 30 The Killers headline the Gastonbury Music festival with Kylie Minogue playing the Pyramid stage 14 years after cancer forced her to cancel
Kylie Minogue
Deaths in Music
- Jun 6 Dr. John [Malcolm John Rebennack], American singer and piano player ("Right Place, Wrong Time"), dies at 77
- Jun 8 Arthur Frackenpohl, American composer, arranger, and pedagogue (Natural Superiority of Music), dies at 95
- Jun 10 Chuck Glaser, American country singer (Tompall & the Glaser Brothers), dies at 83
- Jun 10 Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer (Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy), dies of cancer at 76
- Jun 13 Charles M. Wilson, Canadian organist and composer (The Angels Of The Earth), dies at 88
- Jun 15 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director (Romeo & Juliet), dies at 96
- Jun 23 Dave Bartholomew, American jazz artist & songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies at 100
- Jun 29 Gary Duncan [Grubb], American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) dies of cardiac arrest at 72
