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2011 in American music The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. Events January *24 – Original Adema vocalist Mark Chavez leaves the band for the second time. *29 – Britney Spears's Hold It Agai ...

* 2011 in Asian music *

2011 in British music This is a summary of 2011 in music in the United Kingdom. Events * 1 January – Musicians honoured in the Queen's New Year Honours list include mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer (CBE) and composer Howard Goodall (CBE), Richard Thompson (OBE) an ...

* 2011 in Canadian music * 2011 in European music (

Continental Europe Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by ...

) * 2011 in Irish music * 2011 in Japanese music *

2011 in Norwegian music The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2011 in Norwegian music. Events January * 26 – The very first Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø (January 26–29). * 28 ** Nordlysfestivalen started in Tromsø (January 28 � ...

* 2011 in South Korean music * 2011 in Swedish music

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* 2011 in classical music * 2011 in country music * 2011 in heavy metal music * 2011 in hip hop music *

2011 in jazz This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2011. Events January * 20 – The 6th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 20 – 23). * 26 – The first Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 2 ...

* 2011 in Latin music *

2011 in opera Events *February – The Juilliard String Quartet receives the NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award for its outstanding contributions to recorded classical music. *May 12 – The Classical Brit Awards are presented by Myleene Klass at London's Royal ...

* 2011 in rock music

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Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music. Biography Babbitt was born in Philadelphia to Albert E ...

(94), American jazz composer, music theorist, and teacher. ; February * 3 –

Eline Nygaard Riisnæs Eline Nygaard Riisnæs (5 July 1913 – 3 February 2011) was a Norwegian pianist and musicologist at UiO, mother of the pianist and piano pedagog Anne Eline Riisnæs (1951-), and the saxophonists Knut Riisnæs (1945-) and Odd Riisnæs (1953 ...

(87), Norwegian pianist and musicologist. * 14 –

George Shearing Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 ...

(91), British jazz pianist. * 22 –

Beau Dollar William Hargis Bowman, Jr. (April 21, 1941 – February 22, 2011), better known by his stage name Beau Dollar, was an American soul vocalist and drummer for King Records. He performed on many studio albums for various artists under contract wit ...

(69), American soul-R&B singer and drummer. ;March * 29 – Ray Herr (63), American rock guitarist ( The Ides of March). ; April * 10 –

Børt-Erik Thoresen Børt-Erik Thoresen (5 May 1932 – 10 April 2011) was a Norwegian television host and folk singer. He hosted musical programmes for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1968 to the late 1980s. He also released several records. Thoresen w ...

(79), Norwegian television host and folk singer. * 22 –

Eyvind Solås Eyvind Stauri Solås (11 May 1937 – 22 April 2011) was a Norwegian musician, composer, actor and program host in NRK, both the Norwegian television and radio. Solås was instrumental in the establishment of the music and theater line subje ...

(74), Norwegian musician, composer, actor, and program host. * 24 – Dag Stokke (44), Norwegian keyboardist in the band TNT, church organist and mastering engineer (cancer). * 26 –

Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs " San Francisco Bay Blues", " Poetry Man", "Harpo's Blues", and her credited ...

(60), American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ; May * 14 – Don Wood (61), American rock drummer (

The Gants The Gants was an American garage rock band that formed in 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the cultural and geographic Deep South. History The Kingsmen – a different band from the Kingsmen that had a major hit with "Louie Louie" in the ...

) * 15 – Bob Flanigan (84), American jazz tenor vocalist and founding member of

The Four Freshmen The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, and The Mel-Tones, founded in the barbershop tradition. The singers accom ...

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Sølvi Wang Sølvi Valborg Wang (28 August 1929 – 31 May 2011) was a Norwegian singer, actress and comedian. She was born in Bærum, Akershus, to the jazz musician Yngvar Wang and the singer Marie Gulbrandsen. Already at an early age she sang with ...

(81), Norwegian singer and actress. ; June * 3 –

Andrew Gold Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold played on scores of reco ...

(59), American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger ; July * 23 –

Amy Winehouse Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues and jazz. A membe ...

(27), English rock, soul and jazz singer, and songwriter. * 24 –

Harald Johnsen Harald Gill Johnsen (19 March 1970 – 24 July 2011) was a Norwegian jazz double bassist, known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio, and a series of recordings with such as Sonny Simmons, Sigurd ...

(41), Norwegian bassist (heart attack). * 26 – Frank Foster (82), American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. ; August * 11 – Jani Lane (47), American metal singer and songwriter ( Warrant). ; September * 4 –

Hilde Heltberg Hilde Heltberg (30 September 1959 – 4 September 2011) was a Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oslo, Norway. Career Heltberg started her career in the late 70s when she entered a talent competition judged by Stein Ove Berg, wh ...

(51), singer songwriter (cancer). * 7 – Eddie Marshall (73), American drummer. * 19 – Johnny Răducanu (79), Romanian pianist. * 21 – John Larson (61), American trumpeter ( The Ides of March). ; October * 8 –

Roger Williams Roger Williams (21 September 1603between 27 January and 15 March 1683) was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantatio ...

(87), American pianist. ; November * 19 – Russell Garcia (95), American composer and music arranger. * 22 –

Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...

(80), American guitarist. ; December * 2 –

Bill Tapia William Tapia (January 1, 1908 – December 2, 2011), known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy", was an American musician, born to Portuguese parents. At age 8, Tapia was already a professional musician, playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" for World War ...

(103), American guitarist. * 17 –

Cesária Évora Cesária Évora GCIH (; 27 August 194117 December 2011), more commonly known as Cize, was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album ''Voz d'Amor''. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without ...

(70), Cape Verdean singer. * 20 –

Sean Bonniwell Thomas Harvey "Sean" Bonniwell (August 16, 1940 – December 20, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter/guitarist, who was known as the creative force behind the 1960s garage rock band, The Music Machine. Bonniwell was quoted in Richie Unterbe ...

(71), American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Music Machine).

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