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Jazz guitarist Joe Puma dies after a lengthy battle with cancer, in New York City, USA. pursuing a successful solo career but also working with Sammy Kaye, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and others. With Chuck Wayne he formed an outstanding duo in New York City during the early 1970s.
A new reality tv series, Survivor, makes its debut on CBS in the USA. In the show, a group of strangers must fend for themselves on a desert island and, each
week, one of the contestants is voted off. Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child will write the song Survivor, after being struck by how closely the show mirrored the changing line-up of the group.
Tito Puente, bandleader, vibraphonist and percussionist known as the King Of The Mambo, dies aged 77 in New York City, USA. He had suffered a massive heart attack requiring surgery to repair a heart valve, but complications developed and he died.