8 January:VICTORIA DUFFIELD = Canadian singer, actress and dancer
20 January:JO-VAUGHN VIRGINIE SCOTT bka JOEY BADA$$ = American hip hop recording artist and actor
27 January:RASQUIZ ALFRED JOHNSON bka RAZ FRESCO = Canadian rapper and producer
4 May:SHAMEIK MOORE = American actor, singer, and dancer
10 May:YOAN GARNEAU = Canadian singer-songwriter
26 June:REEMA MAJOR = Sudanese-Canadian rapper
11 July:TYLER MEDEIROS = Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
8 August:MALIN REITAN = Norwegian singer
24 August:WENWEN HAN = Chinese child actress and violinist
Timeline of Musical Events
1 January: Mo Ostin steps down as chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group.
8 January: Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder hosts "Self-Pollution Radio", a four-and-a-half hour radio broadcast with live performances by Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and others. Any station with a satellite receiver could pick up and carry the program.
14 January: Perry Farrell is arrested for cocaine possession, being under the influence and possession of a syringe at a Los Angeles hotel.
18 January: Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident.
27 January: Live from the House of Blues premieres on TBS.
1 February: Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers band member Richey James Edwards goes missing after leaving the London Embassy Hotel, UK at 7 am.
7 February: Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison on a sexual abuse charge. He was later released on appeal.
12 February: Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer disappeared from Highway 101, USA as he tried to get back home from the Los Angeles International Airport. He tried calling his family and 911 for help, but received none.
14 February: Richey Edwards' Vauxhall Cavalier is found abandoned in a service station on the Bristol side of the Severn Bridge in the UK, with evidence that he had been living in it. Although he was near a notorious suicide spot, there is still no evidence to suggest he committed suicide.
19 February: Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancún, Mexico.
25 February: Lyle Lovett suffers a broken collarbone in an accident while riding his motorcycle in Mexico. The accident prevented Lovett from attending the Grammy Awards (he ended up winning two awards).
1 March: R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a concert in Switzerland after suffering a brain aneurysm. He undergoes successful brain surgery two days later in Switzerland.
8 March: Former Helloween drummer, Ingo Schwichtenberg, commits suicide by jumping under a subway train.
14 March: With the release of Me Against the World, Tupac Shakur became the first male solo artist to have a number one album on the American Billboard 200 chart while in prison. The album remained at the top of the charts for four weeks.
26 March: Rapper Eric Lynn Wright, better known as Eazy-E, dies of complications from AIDS.
28 March: Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announce their separation after 21 months of marriage.
31 March:
Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, her former personal assistant and former fan club president, who had recently been fired for embezzling money from the fan club.
During a performance in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, Jimmy Page narrowly escapes being stabbed by a man who rushes the stage with a knife. The man was tackled by security guards who were injured in the brawl.
17 April: Ed Rosenblatt replaces David Geffen as chairman and CEO of Geffen Records.
29 April: Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility, New York, USA. Shakur was serving a four-and-a-half year jail term on sexual assault charges. They would later divorce.
5 May: Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler is arraigned on a felony count of possession of heroin, in addition to two misdemeanor drug charges.
15 May: Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland is arrested outside a motel in Pasadena, California for possession of heroin and cocaine.
19 May: Sam Phillips makes her motion picture debut in the Bruce Willis action film, Die Hard with a Vengeance. Phillips played one of the main terrorists in the film.
1 June: Alan Wilder leaves Depeche Mode.
16 June: Michael Jackson released his first double-album HIStory, which became the best-selling multiple-album of all-time, with 35 millions copies (70 million copies) sold worldwide.
3 July: The members of TLC file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring debts of over $3.5 million.
9 July: The Grateful Dead performs its final show with Jerry Garcia at Soldier Field in Chicago.
14 July: George Michael and Sony Music complete their acrimonious split. In 1994 Michael lost a lawsuit seeking to be released from his Sony contract, but he vowed to never sing for the company again. Michael will now record for the new label DreamWorks Records.
17 July: Robbie Williams announces he is quitting Take That.
9 August:
Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead passes away of a heart attack at age 53. In cities all over the United States, deadheads spontaneously gather to mourn his death and celebrate his life.
Kiss performs on MTV Unplugged. The band's current lineup is joined by original members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, setting the stage for the band's reunion tour the following year.
12 August: The Offspring's Dexter Holland marries hairstylist Kristine Luna, who co-wrote one of the band's songs "Session".
22 August: Rancid release their third studio album ...And Out Come the Wolves. Along with Green Day's Dookie and The Offspring's Smash (both released a year before), this album helped revive mainstream popular interest in punk rock in the mid-1990s, and becomes one of the best-selling independent records of all time. ...And Out Come the Wolves eventually goes platinum.
28 August:
Oingo Boingo announce that they will break up following a series of Halloween shows in Los Angeles, California, USA. Lead singer Danny Elfman has established a career scoring motion pictures.
The official end of Sarah Records is marked with a farewell party featuring live sets by many of the label's acts. It was the last live appearance by The Orchids before they split up.
29 August: Al Jourgensen and Mike Scaccia of Ministry are arrested for heroin possession in two separate incidents in Texas.
1 September: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
5 September: The LuminisVilla, George Enescu Memorial House, becomes an official memorial to the composer.
8 September: For Squirrels vocalist Jack Vigliatura, bassist Bill White and manager Tim Bender are all killed in a van accident near Savannah, Georgia.
27 September: Time Warner agrees to sell back its 50 percent share of Interscope Records. The media giant had come under intense fire for the explicit lyrics of rap artists on the label.
October: The first International Guitar Festival is held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2 October: Oasis release their second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The album spawns several number one singles around the world and eventually becomes the third best-selling album in the UK ever.
11 October: Tupac Shakur is released from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York, USA, on US$1.4 million bail which was posted by Suge Knight. In return Tupac signed a three-album deal with Knight's Death Row Records.
21 October: Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon is found dead of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28.
23 October: Def Leppard enters the Guinness Book of World Records by performing three shows in three continents in the same day, playing Tangier, Morocco, London, England and Vancouver, Canada.
6 November:
Cher releases her first album in four years, It's A Man's World, her first original recording for Warner Music. The album would get its U.S. debut in June 1996.
Queen releases their final studio album that includes contributions from all original members. It goes on to be a huge success, selling 20 million copies worldwide.
21 November:
The Offspring release their self-titled debut album (which originally six years earlier) on CD for the first time. This proves to be the band's final release on Epitaph Records, as they left Epitaph and signed with Columbia Records the next year.
Enrique Iglesias releases his debut album recorded in Spanish. The record tops the Latin album charts and would go on to win a Grammy and produce five No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart.
4 December: The Beatles release "Free As A Bird" as their first new single in over 20 years.
21 December: Madonna is subpoenaed to testify on January 3, 1996 against her stalker, Robert Hoskins, at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, California, USA. Hoskins was shot by a security guard outside her estate in Los Angeles in May 1995 for trespassing on her property and threatening to marry or kill her.
31 December: The twenty-fourth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Brandy Norwood, Goo Goo Dolls, Kool & The Gang, Martin Page and The Rembrandts.
Also in 1995:
In Flames hires Björn Gelotte & Anders Fridén.
Sam Phillips makes her motion picture debut in the Bruce Willis action film, Die Hard with a Vengeance. Phillips played one of the main terrorists in the film.
Three members of R.E.M., Bill Berry, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, fall ill while on the band's "Monster Tour". Berry suffers an aneurysm which required immediate surgery, Stipe suffers a hiatus hernia and Mills undergoes an appendectomy.
Paul D'Amour leaves Tool.
John Denver – The Wildlife Concert (US single: "For You")
Classical Music
OSVALDAS BALAKAUSKAS
Requiem
SALLY BEAMISH
Viola Concerto
LUCIANO BERIO
Sequenza XII
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Panic (premiered at Last Night of the Proms)
ELLIOTT CARTER
String Quartet No.5
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Violin Concertino
Flashbacks for flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Chatrang Overture
LORENZO FERRERO
Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra
Palm Beach Ouverture
Seven Seconds
Shadow Lines
ANDREW GLOVER
Fractured Vistas
ULRICH LEYENDECKER
Violin Concerto
THEO LOEVENDIE
Piano Concerto
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Violin Concerto No. 2 Metamorphosen
JOHN SERRY Sr.
Concerto For Free Bass Accordion (For Piano)
STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI
Passacaglia Immaginaria
MICHAEL TIPPETT
The Rose Lake
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
A Year of Birds
Opera
ROGER AMES
Hearts on Fire
MICHAEL EASTON
The Selfish Giant (for children)
STEWART WALLACE
Harvey Milk
Musical Theatre
Opening: 2 March 1995 @ Virginia Theatre, New York, NY
Music by: Jerry Herman; Book by: Michael Stewart; Lyrics by: Jerry Herman
Based on: The Matchmaker
Closing: 28 January 1996 Performance Count: 116
Opening: 22 October 1995 @ Music Box Theatre, New York, NY
SWINGING ON A STAR [Original production]
(Musical, Revue)
Music by: Johnny Burke, Joe Bushkin, Erroll Garner, Bob Haggart, Arthur Johnston, Jimmy Monaco, Harold Spina, James Van Heusen; Book by: Michael Leeds; Lyrics by: Johnny Burke
Closing: 13 January 1996 Performance Count: 96
Opening: 25 October 1995 @ Marquis Theatre, New York, NY
VICTOR / VICTORIA [Original production]
(Musical, Comedy)
Music by: Henry Mancini; Book by: Blake Edwards; Lyrics by: Leslie Bricusse
Closing: 27 July 1997 Performance Count: 734
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc
Page created: April 1999
Last edited: 14th May 2017
