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Pedro Laurenz is born in Argentina, South America. Laurenz will become famed as one of the greatest composers in tango history. Among his most popular compositions are Mala Junta, Amurado, Risa Loca, La Revancha and Esquinero. He will also be acclaimed as a bandoneon player and musical director.
Internationally successful virtuoso guitarist, songwriter and recording artist Baden Powell de Aquina is born in Varre-e-Sai, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, South America. Xavier Cugat And His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra record Siboney and I Want My Mama for Victor Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jose Manzanares And His South Americans play at Billy Stearns' La Conga, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Xavier Cugat And His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra record Green Eyes for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra are playing at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Jose 'Chepito' Areas, percussionist of Santana, is born in Leon, Nicaragua, Central America.
Martha Vieira Figueiredo Cunha is born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America. She will find success as a sing and composer under the name Martinha.Xavier Cugat is playing during an 11-day engagement at California State Fair, Sacramento, California, USA.
Cacau de Queiroz is born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. He will find success as a popular jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer.
Filming begins on the Columbia Pictures movie musical Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! starring Perez Prado, Stephen Dunne, The Mary Kaye Trio, Helen Grayco, Luis Arcaraz And His Orchestra, Lucerto Bárcenas and Manny López And His Orchestra.
The No1 single in Mexico is Popotitos by Los Teen Tops on Columbia Records. The song is a Mexican interpretation of Move It, a UK hit for Cliff Richard And The Shadows.
Santo And Johnny are playing during a long engagement at The El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Jazz trombone virtuoso Kai Winding records Capricious, I'm Your Bunny Bossa Nova and Recardo for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
The Jazz Crusaders record Deacon Brown, Tough Talk, No name Samba, Lazy Canary and Brother Bernard in Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The tracks will appear on their album Tough Talk.
Elvis Presley records Do The Vega and Yellow Rose Of Texas/The Eyes Of Texas, for his upcoming movie Viva Las Vegas at Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Greatest Record Show Of 1963, starring Brook Benton, Dion, Trini Lopez, Timi Yuro, Lesley Gore and The Ken Thorne Orchestra plays at The Odeon, Lewisham, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz trombonist J.J.Johnson records Train Samba and A Winter's Waif in New York City, USA, for RCA Victor Records.J.J. Johnson And His Orchestra record Agua De Beber and Pense A Moi for RCA Records in New York City, USA.
During their Winter Concert Tour, Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass are playing in San Jose, California, USA.
Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass are playing during seven nights at The Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Pucho And His Latin Soul Brothers record Georgia On My Mind, I Can't Stop Loving You, Psychedelic Pucho and other tracks for Prestige Records, in New York City, USA.
Ten Years After play the second of two nights at The Cheetah Club, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Jose Feliciano.
Jose Feliciano enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with a radically re-interpreted version of The Doors' song Light My Fire. It will peak at No8.
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The second day of the three-day long Sky River Rock Festival, is held in fields near Sultan, Washington, USA. Acts playing over the three days include Santana, Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton, Country Joe And The Fish, Richard Pryor, Dino Valenti, Byron Pope, It's a Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Alice Stuart Thomas, The Youngbloods, New Lost City Ramblers, and local groups such as Juggernaut and Easy Chair. On the last day, The Grateful Dead arrive unscheduled.
The Herb Alpert-owned A+M Records begins a campaign to reposition itself as more than an MOR label with a double page spread advert in American music trade magazine Billboard, drawing attention to its hipper acts including The Flying Burrito Brothers, Fairport Convention, Procol Harum, Joe Cocker, Phil Ochs and Steve Young.
Mongo Santamaria and the Hugh Masekela Band play the first of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.Alicia Warrington is born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. She will find success as a rock drummer playing with Kate Nash, Kelly Osbourne, Hannah Montana, Uh Huh Her, Gore Gore Girls, The All-Girl Boys Choir, Tracy Chapman, Selena Gomez and others
Mink De Ville plays in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
Teen-pop boy band Menudo play the second of a ten-day series of shows at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.
La Bamba by Los Lobos reaches No1 in the UK singles chart, a position it will hold for two weeks.
A riot in Carandiru Penitentiary, Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
results in 111 prisoners killed - 102 from gunshots fired by military police and nine from stab wounds apparently inflicted by other prisoners before the arrival of police. Very little effort was made by the authorities to communicate with the prisoners before the jail was stormed. The Carandiru Massacre is considered a major human rights violation in the history of Brazil, and is recorded in the songs Haiti by Caetano Veloso with Gilberto Gil, October 2, 1992 by Sepultura, and 19 Rebellions by Asian Dub Foundation.
Singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist and, in later life, a member of the Italian ParliamentDomenico Modugno dies of a heart attack, aged 66, on the island of Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy, Europe. He is perhaps best-remembered as the co-composer, with Franco Migliacci, of the international hit song Volare.
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo play at The Lighthouse, Poole, England, UK, Europe.The Dave Matthews Band Caravan plays the second of three nights at Lakeside, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The lineup over the course of the three nights also includes Kid Cudi, The Flaming Lips performing Dark Side Of The Moon, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Amos Lee, Emmylou Harris, Ben Folds, G. Love And Special Sauce, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, Gomez, Drive-By Truckers, Michael Franti And Spearhead, Daniel Lanois' Black Dub, The Jayhawks, Soja, Soulive, The Wailers, Blind Pilot, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, TR3, Vieux Farka Toure, Alberta Cross, Mariachi El Bronx, Bobby Long, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Jeff Coffin's Mu'tet, Gary Clark Jr.,
Internationally successful bandleader, vocalist, songwriter and nightclub entrepreneur Edmundo Ros dies aged 100 in Javea, Alicante, Spain, Europe.Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo play at Colston Hall, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
A posting on the Twitter account of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin criticises the latest Eurovision Song Contest winner, bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst, on grounds of his sexuality. On the same day, Vitaly Milonov, a conservative deputy at St. Petersburg's legislative assembly, declares that that Russian singers should no longer compete at Eurovision alongside the likes of Wurst.
Mana are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Beyonce presents the award for Record Of The Year, Uptown Funk, to Mark Ronson at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Other winners include Kendrick Lamar - Best Rap Album for To Pimp a Butterfly. Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift perform live together. Adele, Stevie Wonder, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Beck, Lionel Richie and many others also take part.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays at The Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Canada, supported by DNCE and Bea Miller.On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays at The US Bank Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, supported by DNCE and Bea Miller.
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