This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.
The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23,2000,at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Santana was the main recipient with eight Grammys,tying Michael Jackson's record for most awards won in a single night. Santana's album Supernatural was awarded a total of nine awards. American teen singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were both nominated for Best New Artist,ultimately won by Christina Aguilera.
Reunion Arena was an indoor arena located in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas,Texas. The arena served as the primary home of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars and the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks. The venue's capacity held accommodations for 17,000 for ice hockey spectators,and 18,190 for basketball spectators.
Kansas Coliseum was an entertainment complex in unincorporated Sedgwick County,Kansas,United States. It was located north of Wichita at the intersection of I-135 and 85th Street North.
Keri Kelli is an American hard rock guitarist who has played with artists and groups including Alice Cooper,Slash,Jani Lane,Vince Neil and John Waite. In March 2013 he formed Project Rock together with James Kottak from the Scorpions. Project Rock consisted of Keri Kelli,James Kottak,Tim 'Ripper' Owens,Rudy Sarzo &Teddy Zig-Zag. Kelli is currently in the band Night Ranger.
Holly Knight is an American songwriter,musician,and singer. She was a member of the 1980s pop rock groups Spider and Device,and wrote or co-wrote several hit singles for other artists,such as "Rag Doll","Obsession","Love Is a Battlefield","The Best","Invincible","Better Be Good to Me","The Warrior",and "Change".
The Antwerps Sportpaleis,also called Sportpaleis Antwerpen,Sportpaleis Merksem or simply the Sportpaleis,is an arena in Antwerp,Belgium. It is a multipurpose hall where concerts,sporting events,festivals and fairs are organized. The arena was built for sport,especially track cycling,but there is now little sport there,an exception being the Diamond Games tennis.
The Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood is a concert venue located in Atlanta,which opened in 1989. The amphitheatre seats 18,920. It was designed to offer a state-of-the-art musical experience for both music fans and artists. The venue was built specifically for popular music.
Roy Joel Cicala was an American producer,engineer,songwriter and musician. His body of work includes over 10 Platinum Records for producing,writing,engineering and management for talent from the 1970s through to 2014.
Gregory Raymond Quill was an Australian-born musician,singer-songwriter and journalist. He lived in Hamilton,Ontario,Canada,and was an entertainment columnist at the Toronto Star newspaper from the mid-1980s until his death in May 2013. In Australia he came to popular fame as a singer-songwriter for the country rock band Country Radio (1970–73). Their biggest hit,"Gypsy Queen",co-written by Quill with bandmate Kerryn Tolhurst,was released in August 1972 and peaked at No. 12 on the Go-Set National Top 40. After getting an arts grant,Quill travelled to Toronto in 1974 and by the mid-1980s had become a journalist with the Toronto Star. By 1983 he was married to Ellen Davidson,a public relations executive. Greg Quill died on 5 May 2013,at the age of 66,from "complications due to pneumonia".
The World Music Awards is an international award show founded in 1989 under the patronage of Albert II,Prince of Monaco and co-founder/executive producer John Martinotti. The event is based in Monte Carlo. Awards are presented to the world's best-selling artists in a number of categories and to the best-selling artists from each major territory. The most awarded artist in the history of the World Music Awards is Mariah Carey,with nineteen awards.
George Marino was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s. Marino mastered and remastered thousands of albums in over forty years. He started his career at Capitol Records and was there from 1967 to 1971,then became a partner in the Record Plant's Master Cutting Room from 1971 to 1973. Marino spent the vast majority of his career mastering at Sterling Sound from 1973 until his death in 2012.
Charlie Skarbek is a singer,record producer,composer and lyricist. He has worked with many celebrated musicians from both the classical and popular fields.
