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Births

1 February: LAURA MARLING = British folk-pop singer-songwriter
3 February: KISEAN ANDERSON pka SEAN KINGSTON = Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer
22 March: CLAIRE HUANGCI = American classical pianist
24 July: BEN McKENZIE = Australian singer, competitor on season 5 of Australian Idol
28 July: SOULJA BOY = American rapper
23 October: STAN WALKER = Australian singer
7 November: MATT CORBY = Australian singer
20 December: JOJO = American singer, songwriter, and actress

date unknown:

ELDBJØRG HEMSING = Norwegian violinist

Timeline of Musical Events

21 January: MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze
6 February: Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident, resulting in several broken bones. Idol had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver Stone's film The Doors, but due to his injuries, the role was reduced almost to a bit part.
14 February: 50,000 fans watch The Rolling Stones play the first of 10 concerts at Tokyo's Korakuen Dome, the beginning of the Stones' first ever tour of Japan.
16 February: Ike Turner is sentenced to 4 years in prison for possession of cocaine.
24 February: The Byrds (Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby) reunite, for the first time in 25 years, to perform at a Los Angeles tribute to Roy Orbison. The three are joined unexpectedly on stage by Bob Dylan, who sings "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the band.
20 March: Gloria Estefan's tour bus is involved in an accident. Estefan suffers several broken bones in her back.
25 March: Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee is arrested for allegedly exposing his backside during a performance in Augusta, Georgia
4 April: Gloria Estefan returns to Miami, Florida after undergoing back surgery in March following a tour bus accident.
6 April: Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee suffers a mild concussion after falling off of scaffolding above his elevated drum kit during a performance in New Haven, Connecticut.
7 April: Neil Young, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Guns N' Roses and Jackson Browne perform at Farm Aid IV in Indiana. John dedicates "Candle in the Wind" to AIDS patient Ryan White during his performance. White dies later that evening.
16 April: A massive tribute concert is held at Wembley Stadium for recently freed anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, who makes a 45-minute speech at the event. Performers include Anita Baker, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, The Neville Brothers and Neil Young. The event is broadcast to 61 countries around the world.
24 April: Janet Jackson is honoured with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
25 April: Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster that he used to perform his famous version of the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, is auctioned off in London for $295,000
6 May: Valery Leontiev show "It seems to me that I have not lived" in the Olympic Stadium.
18 May: The Rolling Stones open their Urban Jungle European tour in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
27 May: The Stone Roses stage a legendary concert at Spike Island, Cheshire
29 May:

In Canada, Toronto police threaten to arrest Madonna if she performs her simulated masturbation scene during her performance of "Like a Virgin" on her Blond Ambition Tour. Madonna refuses to change her show, and the police decide not to press charges, later denying that they had ever threatened to do so (a claim refuted by footage captured during the filming of Madonna's 1991 documentary Truth or Dare).
At the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition 1990 finals, held at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, pianist Nick van Oosterum of the Netherlands takes first place.

10 June: members of rap group 2 Live Crew are arrested and charged with obscenity after a performance in a Hollywood, Florida nightclub.
7 July: The Three Tenors give their first concert, at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
14 July: Jean Michel Jarre's concert Paris la Defense attracts 2.5 million spectators.
5 August: Madonna ends her controversial Blond Ambition Tour in Nice, France.
19 August: Leonard Bernstein conducts his final performance at Tanglewood; he suffers a coughing fit in the middle of one piece which almost brings the concert to a premature end.
24 August: A judge rules that heavy metal band Judas Priest is not responsible for the suicide and attempted suicide of two Nevada youths who shot themselves after listening to the band's music.
11 September After a decade of performing in the Francophone world, Céline Dion makes her formal English-language debut in the United States with the release of her album Unison.
22 October: Pearl Jam, then named "Mookie Blaylock", play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, Washington.
(Autumn): For the first time, Amy Grant and Gary Chapman hold a night of music at their Franklin, Tennessee Riverstone Farm, for local teenagers. Performers included Rich Mullins, Rick Elias, Charlie Peacock, Wes King and Michael W. Smith. The event becomes known as "The Loft".
27 November: "Vocal" group Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know It's True." They later have their Grammy award revoked.

Also in 1990:

Studio Fredman is Built.
Madonna's "Justify My Love" music video is banned by MTV. The singer appears on Nightline to defend the video.
The poorly received Cop Rock premieres on television, TV's first (and last) musical police drama.
Sons of Kyuss change their name to Kyuss, add new members except guitarist Josh Homme.
After a hiatus of 7 years, rock group Styx reform to record a new album and tour without long time guitarist Tommy Shaw who was committed to Damn Yankees at the time.
Tapes of the original William Walton score for the 1969 film Battle of Britain are rediscovered, having been lost since the score was abandoned in favour of one by Ron Goodwin.