HARRY STYLES = British singer of the band One Direction
8 February:NIKKI YANOFSKY = Canadian singer
14 February:PAUL BUTCHER = American actor and singer
17 February:ANGIE MILLER = American singer-songwriter and pianist
24 February:EARL SWEATSHIRT = American rapper
1 March:JUSTIN BIEBER = Canadian singer
12 March:CHRISTINA GRIMMIE = American singer = [died: 2016]
4 April:RISAKO SUGAYA = Japanese singer
12 April:AIRI SUZUKI = Japanese singer
7 July:ASHTON IRWIN = Australian drummer and singer of the band 5 seconds of summer
18 August:BOBBY ANDONOV = Australian singer-songwriter and actor
1 September:BIANCA RYAN = American singer
17 September:
TAYLOR WARE = American singer and yodeller
CHEN YIHAN = Chinese pianist and composer
Timeline of Musical Events
25 January: Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so.
29 January: The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California, USA. Wilson's 14-year old son is killed in the accident.
1 February: Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival. Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification.
7 February: Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.
11 February: The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, "Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching #2 in the UK and #6 in the United States.
14 February: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.
23 February: Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
1 March:
Nirvana play their final concert in Munich.
Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
3 March: In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.
5 March: Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California home.
18 March:
Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and twenty-five boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones.
22 March: Selena releases her final Spanish album, entitled Amor Prohibido, a year before she is gunned down by her friend/employee.
30 March: Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000.
31 March: Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines for her foul-mouthed, profanity-laced interview. Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
8 April:
The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
The Offspring release their third album, Smash, which helps bring the 1990s punk scene into the mainstream and has been credited as the highest selling independent album of all time.
25 April:
Blur releases Parklife, its first album reaching #1 in UK, where it was certified "quadruple platinum".
Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November 1993
26 April:
The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco, California.
Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
6 May:
Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper releases a three-part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation.
9 to 13 May: 1994 International Rostrum of Composers
10 May: Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
7 June: Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
July: The Verbier Festival is launched.
30 July: Suede announce that guitarist Bernard Butler has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album Dog Man Star
August: Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogota, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
9 August: Machine Head release their first album Burn My Eyes, which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records' best selling debut album.
12 to 14 August: Woodstock '94
23 August: Jeff Buckley releases his single, critically-acclaimed, full-length studio album Grace.
30 August: Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe, it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom at the time until 2006 when it was beaten by the Arctic Monkeys' debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
31 August: Luis Miguel release Segundo Romance, the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist. Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached #1 on the Top Latin Songs. It received a Grammy Award and a Billboard Latin Music Award.
September: José Cura wins the 'Operalia - International Plácido Domingo Opera Singer Competition'.
6 September: Bad Religion release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) Stranger than Fiction. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion.
8 September: Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fey", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
4 October: Dream Theater release their third studio album Awake.
11 October: Korn releases their debut album Korn.
Also in 1994:
Christian Olde Wolbers replaces Andrew Shives in Fear Factory.
Jeff Burrows signs a Cymbal deal with Sabian.
ALL part ways with their original home Cruz Records, and sign a recording contract with Interscope (though they shortly leave that label after releasing an album in the following year).
The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel form the label Nitro Records, an incubator for successful punk artists such as AFI. The label later releases albums from classic punk bands, including The Damned and TSOL, and also reissues the first Offspring album.
Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
Moldova adopts Limba noastra as its new national anthem.
Classical Music
THOMAS BEVERIDGE
Yizkor Requiem
GEORGE CRUMB
Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
RICHARD DANIELPOUR
Cello Concerto
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
DAVID DIAMOND
Trio for violin, clarinet and piano
LORENZO FERRERO
Portrait for string quartet
Paesaggio con figura for small orchestra
Five Easy Pieces for piano
VAGN HOLMBOE
Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993)
KARL JENKINS
Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
OLIVER KNUSSEN
Horn Concerto
GYÖRGY KURTÁG
Stele
TRISTAN MURAIL
L'esprit des dunes
MICHAEL NYMAN
Concerto for Trombone
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
STEVE REICH
City Life; Nagoya Marimbas
ROBERT SIMPSON
String Quintet No. 2 (1991-4)
BORIS TISHCHENKO
Symphony No. 7
Opera
GIOVANNI BERTOLANI (orchestrated by Francesco Germini)
Matilde
VIVIAN FINE
Memoirs of Uliana Rooney
ADAM GUETTEL
Floyd Collins
NICHOLAS LENS
The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Flamma Flamma - The Fire Requiem
Musical Theatre
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Broadway production
CAROUSEL
(Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Broadway revival
DAMN YANKEES
(Richard Adler and Jerry Ross)
Broadway revival
GREASE
Broadway revival
SHOW BOAT
(Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II)
Broadway revival
SUNSET BOULEVARD
(Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Broadway production
Awards
The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
Ruth Brown
Cream
Creedance Clearwater Revival
The Doors
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Etta James
Van Morrison
Sly and the Family Stone
Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 22nd January 2011
Last edited: 27th April 2017
