2006 in music explained
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.
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Events
January
- January 10 – Eric Burdon releases the album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band.
- January 11–15 – MahlerFest XIX, honoring Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, is held in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- January 13 – Mylène Farmer launches her Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy tour at Paris-Bercy, France.
- January 14 – Eminem remarries ex-wife Kim after five years of separation.[1]
- January 16 – Transplants frontman, Rob Aston, announces that the band has disbanded shortly after their fall tour was cancelled.
- January 17 – Aaron Carter released his second compilation album .
- January 20 – February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by The White Stripes, Iggy and the Stooges and Franz Ferdinand. AFI withdraw due to a delay in recording their then-untitled seventh studio album, with Mylo and Jean Grae also withdrawing from the lineup.
- January 24 – British girl band All Saints announce they will regroup for a tour and album later in the year.
- January 31 – American hardcore punk band Champion announced their impending breakup, with a final show scheduled for May.[2]
February
- February 1
- February 8 – The 48th annual Grammy Awards are handed out at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA. Madonna opens the awards for a third time. U2 is the night's big winner, with five awards, becoming the only rock act currently to win two Album of the Year awards with their win for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, following their 1988 win for The Joshua Tree. They also win Song of the Year for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", while Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" wins Record of the Year. John Legend wins Best New Artist. Mariah Carey won three of her eight nominations, her first Grammys since 1991. Kelly Clarkson is the first American Idol contestant ever to win a Grammy.
- February 10 – White Lion/Black Label Society bassist James Lorenzo joins Megadeth as the replacement for James MacDonough (who was previously in Iced Earth).
- February 18 – The Rolling Stones give a free concert with about 1,3 million people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- February 22 – The one billionth song is downloaded on iTunes; the song is "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay.
- February 24 – Premiere of The Scarecrow by Joseph Turrin at University of Texas at Austin Performing Arts Center.
- February 25 – The fourth annual Total Request Live awards are held in New York City, USA. Madonna wins the Lifetime Achievement Award and Bono wins the Most Inspired Artist/Humanitarian Award. Other winners include Fall Out Boy, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Ashlee Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Amanda Bynes, and My Chemical Romance. Performers included Ashlee Simpson and Chris Brown.
- February 26 – Ne-Yo comes into the music industry with his debut album In My Own Words.
- February 28 - Aaron Carter released his third and final compilation album 2 Good 2 B True.
March
April
- April 1–2 – The Festival Imperial is held in the Autódromo La Guácima, in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
- April 3 – Killing Joke release their 13th studio album, Hosannas from the Basements of Hell. This was Killing Joke's last album to include the original four members of the band.
- April 4 – Hawk Nelson released their second album, Smile, It's the End of the World.
- April 5 – Eminem files for divorce from wife Kim, less than three months after they were married for the second time.[3]
- April 11 – Rapper Proof is shot and killed by a nightclub bouncer at 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan, after allegedly shooting a third man, Keith Bender, Jr, who later dies of his injuries.
- April 15 – Mary J. Blige's single "Be Without You" ends its 15th week at number one on the US Billboard R&B chart, making it the most successful R&B song in history.
- April 20 – Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins confirms that the band are in the studio recording their first album since 2000's Machina/The Machines of God.
- April 21–23 – The Terrastock 6 festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
- April 25 – American rock band, the Goo Goo Dolls, celebrate 20 successful years in the music industry with the release of Let Love In.
- April 29–30 – The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in Indio, California, USA. Performers include Madonna, James Blunt, Kanye West, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, and Paul Oakenfold.
May
- May 1 – 1,951 guitarists simultaneously play Jimi Hendrix's song "Hey Joe" in the town square of Wrocław, Poland, breaking a Guinness world record.[4]
- May 2 – Pearl Jam release their self-titled album Pearl Jam, their eighth studio album. It was also their first released album after their departure from Sony
- May 8 – Mor ve Otesi, a Turkish alternative rock band, release Büyük Düşler, their fifth studio album.
- May 9 – Beirut release their debut album, Gulag Orkestar.
- May 10 – Roy Mayorga joins Stone Sour.
- May 11 – Dave Baksh announces that he left Sum 41 to pursue his career with his second band Brown Brigade.
- May 13
- May 20 – Finnish monster rock band Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah", the first hard rock and heavy metal song to win.
- May 21 – Madonna begins her Confessions Tour in Los Angeles, USA. Tickets were sold out within minutes in North America, Europe, and Asia, resulting in new dates to be announced in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London. The tour grossed more than US$260 million – the highest-grossing tour in history by a female artist.
- May 23 – Ex-Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge released the album We Don't Need To Whisper with new band Angels and Airwaves.
- May 24 – Taylor Hicks wins the US television talent contest, American Idol, season 5. Katharine McPhee is the runner-up.
June
- June 1 – YoungbloodZ and their entourage are arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.[5]
- June 6 – Ice Cube's first album in six years, Laugh Now, Cry Later, is released on his independently owned record label Lench Mob Records. The album debuted in the top five selling 144,000 copies in the first week.
- June 7 – World premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Freude, for two harps, in the Milan Cathedral by Esther Kooi and Marianne Smit.[6]
- June 8 – Shakira's single "Hips Don't Lie" sells 266,500 downloads in its first week of availability, overtaking D4L's record of 175,000. "Hips Don't Lie" also breaks another record, gaining the greatest airplay in a single week with 9,657 plays, breaking Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" record of 9,582.
- June 9
- Nelly Furtado's new album, Loose is released and debuts at No. 1 with 219,000 copies sold, making it her first number-one album.
- Igor Cavalera leaves Sepultura because of artistic differences – the third official member and the second Cavalera to leave.
- June 9–11 – The annual Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. Tool, Metallica and Guns N' Roses headlined the main stage, the Snickers stage by The All-American Rejects, Alter Bridge and The Prodigy, the Gibson/Myspace stage by Ginger & The Sonic Circus, Killing Joke and Sick of It All, and the Snickers Bowl stage by Gay for Johnny Depp, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and Viking Skull.
- June 14 – Shakira launches her Oral Fixation Tour in Zaragoza, Spain.
- June 16–18 – Bonnaroo Music Festival takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, USA. Performers include Radiohead, Tom Petty, Phil Lesh and Friends, Beck, and Sasha.
- June 19 – Taylor Swift released her first single, "Tim McGraw", at 16 years old.
- June 23 – Backstreet Boys band member Kevin Richardson leaves the group to pursue other interests. However, he would return to the group permanently on April 29, 2012.
July
- July 1 – Glue Gun performed their first reunion concert at Harpers in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA. It was the band's first performance since breaking up in 1996.
- July 4 – Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith perform with the Boston Pops Orchestra in an event televised nationally in the USA.
- July 5 – The US television talent show, American Idol, begins its tour.
- July 7 – Justin Timberlake released his single SexyBack. The song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 7 weeks.
- July 9 – Scooter releases the live CD and DVD Excess All Areas, with recordings taken from the Who's Got The Last Laugh Now? tour.
- July 11 – Jean Dolabella replaces Igor Cavalera in Sepultura.
- July 12 – Rivers Cuomo confirms that Weezer is now on hiatus again. Commenting on the band's future he said, "I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."
- July 17 – Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne marries Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley in a private ceremony.
- July 22 – Mariah starts her tour for The Emancipation of Mimi [The Adventures of Mimi].
- July 29
- Stephanie McIntosh, former star of the Australian television soap opera, Neighbours, releases her debut single, "Mistake", in Australia, where it became a top three hit.
- Family Values Tour 2006, featuring Korn, Deftones and Stone Sour, begins. This was the first Family Values Tour since 2001.
- July 30 – The last ever weekly edition of the British television chart show, Top of the Pops, is broadcast after 42 years on the air.[7]
- July 31 – Chicago rock band OK Go release their video for their single "Here It Goes Again", and the video quickly becomes an internet phenomenon on YouTube.
August
September
- September 3 – Beyoncé Knowles releases her second consecutive No.1 solo album B'Day, selling 541,000 copies in its first week. And spawning two UK No.1 singles.
- September 5 – The Mercury Music Prize is held in the UK, with Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not winning ahead of entries from acts such as Muse and Thom Yorke. Audioslave's third and final album, Revelations, is released.
- September 8 – Eddie Van Halen announces that the lineup for his next album will include his son Wolfgang on bass and not the longtime Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, whom Eddie says he is on the outs with.[8]
- September 12 – Justin Timberlake releases his second album FutureSex/LoveSounds after 4 years. The album debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving Justin his first number one album as a solo artist, selling 648,000 copies in its first week. Its first three singles were consecutive number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, making Timberlake the first male artist to have three or more consecutive number-one hits from one album since Usher achieved it in 2004
- September 18 – Elton John released his 29th studio album The Captain & the Kid.
- September 19
- September 22 – A Tempestade, (score and libretto: Ronaldo Miranda), based on Shakespeare's play The Tempest, is premiered at Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo, Brazil.
- September 27 – Boy band, Five, announce they are to reunite, minus original bandmate Sean Conlon.
October
- October 2 – Violinist and opera singer Logan Simpson is arrested for refusing to stop his car when a traffic light turns red.
- October 3 – Evanescence releases his second studio album The Open Door. The album debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
- October 7 – Liquidation of the bankrupt music store chain Tower Records begins after its assets are purchased by Great American Group.[9] The last store closes its doors permanently on December 22.
- October 10 – Justin Hawkins, lead singer of the band The Darkness announces he is leaving the band.
- October 11 – After 25 years as an artist, "Weird Al" Yankovic finally gets his first top 10 hit, with "White & Nerdy".
- October 15 – New York City music club CBGB closes after a lengthy rent dispute. Patti Smith performs the final show at the club that night.
- October 17 – French singer Manu Chao performs in Colombia to an audience of 80,000 people.
- October 23
- October 24 – Taylor Swift releases her debut self-titled album at the age of 16, which sold 39,000 in its first week.
- October 25 – Guitarist Brian May announces on his website that Queen is returning to the studio for recording sessions. The new lineup, Queen + Paul Rodgers, features May, Paul Rodgers (the former lead vocalist of Free) and former Queen drummer Roger Taylor.
- October 26 – Duran Duran lead guitarist Andy Taylor once again leaves the band after a series of disagreements surrounding their latest album, which was still incomplete by the year's end. Reasons given are his disapproval of the usage of both Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the creation of the band's album. The band hires an interim guitarist to supplant Taylor, with no real replacement being announced.
- October 30
November–December
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- November 11
- Justin Timberlake's single "My Love" reaches number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
- Kylie Minogue resumes Showgirl – The Homecoming Tour in Sydney, Australia after a break of a year and a half resulting from undergoing treatment for breast cancer.[12]
- November 14 – Microsoft releases the first Zune media player.[13]
- November 16
- November 21 – American rock band Daughtry released their debut album, which sold 306,000 copies in the opening week becoming the fastest selling rock album in soundscan history.
- November 24 – The American Music Awards are broadcast. Winners include Kelly Clarkson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shakira, Jamie Foxx, Nickelback, Sean Paul, The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Faith Hill, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw and Mary J. Blige, Nelly Furtado, John Mayer, Fall Out Boy and Beyoncé performed at the event.
- November 26 – Damien Leith wins the Australian television talent show, Australian Idol 2006, becoming the oldest winner of any Idol show in the world. and defeating 16-year-old Jessica Mauboy.
- November 27 – The Offspring announce that they were back in the studio recording their first album since 2003's Splinter.[15]
- December 5 – Actor and Pop rock singer and musician Drake Bell releases his major record label debut It's Only Time, under Universal Motown Records.
- December 6
- Beyoncé achieves her fourth number one single in the U.S. with "Irreplaceable", which went on to become the best selling single of 2007.
- December 6 is declared Dia de Shakira (Day of Shakira) by the mayor of Miami, USA.
- December 13 – David Silveria leaves Korn to manage his restaurant.
- December 16
- December 25 – Funk singer James Brown dies from a heart attack at the age of 73.
Undated
Returning performers
- Bob Seger (first studio album since 1995)
- DMX (first studio album since 2003)
- Evanescence (first studio album since 2003)
- Jay-Z (first studio album since 2003)
- Jurassic 5 (first studio album since 2002)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (first studio album since 2002)
- Rob Zombie (first studio album since 2001)
- Stone Sour (first studio album since 2002)
- Tenacious D (first studio album since 2001)
- The Coup (first studio album since 2001)
Bands reformed
- Take That (4 out of 5 original members reunited after the group disbanded in 1996)
Top 10 best-selling albums of 2006
| No. | Artist | Album | Copies sold |
|---|
| 1. | | | 8,500,000 |
| 2. | | FutureSex/LoveSounds | 8,350,000 |
| 3. | | Loose | 8,200,000 |
| 4. | | Stadium Arcadium | 7,900,000 |
| 5. | | Some Hearts | 6,900,000 |
| 6. | | I'm Not Dead | 6,500,000 |
| 7. | | B'Day | 8,700,000 |
| 8. | | Love | 5,650,000 |
| 9. | | Daughtry | 4,900,000 |
| 10. | | Taylor Swift | 4,500,000 | |
Songs released in 2006
Top hits on record in the world
United States
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hits
See also: Hot 100 number-one hits of 2006 (USA).
- Billboard Hot 100 Hits – Singles which have ranked within Top 20
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2006
United Kingdom
- The Official UK No. 1 Singles
- The Official UK Hit Singles – Singles which have ranked within Top 20
Australia
See also: List of number-one singles in Australia of 2006.
Australian ARIA Hit Singles – Singles which have ranked within Top 20
Classical music
- Christopher Adler – Music for a Royal Palace
- Leonardo Balada – Concerto for Three Cellos and Orchestra
- Ioseb Bardanashvili – Symphony No. 3 Bameh Madlikin
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- DEsCH, for oboe, bassoon, piano and orchestra
- Mozart a Recanati, for one actress, one voice, string trio, clarinet and piano
- La conquista, suite for choir and orchestra
- Haring at the Exhibition, ambient piece
- Philip Glass – The Passion of Ramakrishna, for chorus and orchestra
- Wojciech Kilar –
- Magnificat for 3 solo voices, choir and orchestra
- Three Mazurkas
- Krzysztof Meyer
- Double Concerto for violin, violoncello and orchestra
- Sonata No. 6 for Piano
- Alla Pavlova – Symphony No. 5
- Steve Reich – Daniel Variations
- Behzad Ranjbaran – Persian Trilogy
- Marijn Simons – Symphony No. 2, Op. 33
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Natürliche Dauern (Natural Durations), for piano
- Harmonien (Harmonies), three versions: for solo bass clarinet, for solo flute, for solo trumpet
- Schönheit (Beauty), for flute, trumpet, and bass clarinet
- Türin, for Tür (door), rin, and speaker (versions in German and English), with electronics,
Opera
Jazz
See main article: 2006 in jazz.
Musical theater
Musical film
- Adaikalam, with music by Sabesh–Murali, released on December 29.
- American Hardcore, documentary of early hardcore punk rock, released on September 22.
- Antônia, the story of an Afro-Brazilian hip-hop girl group, released on September 8.[17]
- Bolletjes Blues, a Dutch film starring Negativ, released on March 23.
- The Cheetah Girls 2, a Disney Channel Original Movie watched by 8.1 million viewers in its premiere broadcast on August 25.
- , documentary on the Dixie Chicks, released on September 12.
- Dreamgirls starring Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover and Jennifer Hudson, released on December 15
- Hannah Montana, a Disney Channel original series about a pop star, premiered on March 24.
- Happy Feet, a film with the voices of Nicole Kidman, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams and Anthony LaPaglia, released on November 17.
- High School Musical, a Disney Channel Original Movie watched by 7.7 million viewers in its premiere broadcast on January 20.
- Love @ First Note, with music by Mark Lui.
- , a film directed by Jonathan Demme, released on February 10.
- Opera Jawa, directed by Garin Nugroho and featuring traditional Javanese classical music and dance, released August 7.[18]
- Peter & the Wolf, short Polish-British-Norwegian-Mexican-Swiss stop-motion animated film, released on September 23.
- PollyWorld, direct-to-video animated film, released on November 14.
- Rani Kuthir Baki Itihash, directed by Samia Zaman,[19] released on June 6.
- Take the Lead, a film starring Antonio Banderas and Alfre Woodard, released on April 7.
Musical television
Births
- February 20 – Luh Tyler, American rapper
- May 14 – Bluebell Madonna Halliwell, daughter of Geri Halliwell and Sacha Gervasi
- May 26 – Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, son of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale June 25 - Mckenna Grace, American actress and singer
- July 18 - Daneliya Tuleshova, Kazakhstani singer
- September 12 – Jayden James Federline, son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
- October 23 - Victor Vernicos, Greek singer
- November 14 - tana, American rapper
- November 29 - DD Osama, American rapper
- November 16 - Mason Ramsey, American singer
- December 5 - Silia Kapsis, Australian-Cypriot singer, dancer
Deaths
January–February
- January 1 – Bryan Harvey, American singer-guitarist of House of Freaks, 49 (murdered)
- January 6
- January 11 – Markus Löffel, German disc jockey, 39
- January 19 – Wilson Pickett, American singer, 64[20]
- January 22 – Janette Carter, member of the Carter Family, 82
- January 27 – Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter and producer, 56
- January 30 – Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, American guitarist of Poison Idea, 47
- February 3 – Romano Mussolini, Italian jazz pianist, 78
- February 10 – J Dilla, American hip hop producer, 32
- February 11 – Jockey Shabalala, South African bass vocalist of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 62
- February 15 – Anna Marly, French singer-songwriter, 88[22]
- February 16 – Sid Feller, conductor and arranger, 89
- February 18 – Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cowsills), 58
- February 22 – Anthony Burger, American gospel music pianist, 44
March–April
- March 1 – Johnny Jackson, drummer of The Jackson 5, 54 (murdered)
- March 3 – Ivor Cutler, poet and songwriter, 83
- March 7 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer and guitarist, 66
- March 10 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano, 75
- March 17
- March 23
- March 25
- March 26 – Nikki Sudden, English singer-songwriter, 49
- March 30 – Jackie McLean, American jazz alto saxophonist, 74
- April 2 – Bernard Seigal, guitarist and critic, 48
- April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter, 66
- April 11
- June Pointer, American singer of Pointer Sisters, 52
- Proof (DeShaun Holton), American rapper of D12, 32
- April 23 – Phil Walden, co-founder of Capricorn Records, 66
- April 24
- April 28 – Ben-Zion Orgad, Israeli composer, 80
May–June
- May 1 – Naushad, Indian composer, 86
- May 6 – Grant McLennan, Australian guitarist and songwriter of The Go Betweens, 48
- May 7 – Steve Bender, Dschinghis Khan, The Poor Things, 60
- May 10
- May 13 – Johnnie Wilder, American singer of Heatwave, 56
- May 15 – Cheikha Rimitti, Algerian singer, 83
- May 18 – Andy Capps, American drummer of Built to Spill, 37
- May 19 – Freddie Garrity, English singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 69
- May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska and reggae performer, 64
- June 1 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress, 62
- June 2
- June 6
- Billy Preston, American soul keyboardist, 59
- Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist, 54
- June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer, 83
- June 20 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist of Kool and the Gang, 57
- June 26 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer, 74
- June 27 – Eileen Barton, American singer, 76
- June 29 – Joyce Hatto, British concert pianist and piano teacher, 77[23]
July–August
- July 3
- July 7
- July 8 – June Allyson, American actress, singer and dancer, 88
- July 9 – Milan Williams, American keyboardist of The Commodores, 58
- July 11 – Bill Miller, American jazz pianist, 91
- July 16 – Malachi Thompson, American jazz trumpeter, 56
- July 21 – Herbie Kalin, American singer, 72
- July 22 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter, 82
- July 23 – Bobby Paterson, Scottish pop rock bass guitarist of Love and Money
- July 30 – Anthony Galla-Rini, accordionist, composer, and conductor, 102
- July 31 – Rufus Harley, American jazz bagpiper, 70
- August 2 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German operatic soprano, 90
- August 3 – Arthur Lee, American guitarist and vocalist of Love, 61
- August 11 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host, 86
- August 16 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer of Dissection, 31
- August 17 – Walter Jagiello, polka musician, 76
- August 19 – Joseph Hill, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, 57
- August 21 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player, 90
- August 22 – Bruce Gary, American drummer of The Knack, 55
- August 24 – John Weinzweig, Canadian composer of classical music, 93
- August 27 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist with Napalm Death, 37
- August 28 – Pip Pyle, English drummer for Hatfield and the North, National Health and Gong, 56
September–October
- September 3 – Eva Knardahl, Norwegian classical pianist, 79
- September 4 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish operatic soprano, 88
- September 10 – Bennie Smith, American blues musician, 72
- September 13 – Lou Richards, American guitarist of Hatebreed, 35
- September 14 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer, 78
- September 19 – Danny Flores, Mexican-American saxophonist of The Champs, 77
- September 20 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, 74
- September 21 – Boz Burrell, English bass guitarist of Bad Company and King Crimson, 60
- September 23
- September 25 – Jamie Lyons, American rock singer (The Music Explosion), 57
- September 28 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer, 30
- September 30 – Isabel Bigley, American singer and actress, 78
- October 1 – Prentiss Barnes, American R & B singer, 81
- October 10 – Ed Summerlin, American composer, arranger, jazz saxophonist and music educator, 78
- October 14 – Freddy Fender, American singer, 69
- October 18 – Anna Russell, UK singer and comedian, 94
- October 21 – Sandy West, American drummer of The Runaways, 47
- October 23
- October 26 – Rogério Duprat, composer, 74
November–December
- November 1
- November 3 – Paul Mauriat, orchestra leader, 81
- November 6 – Robert Jance Garfet (Dr Hook)
- November 8 – Basil Poledouris, film composer, 61
- November 10 – Gerald Levert, singer, 40
- November 17 – Ruth Brown, US singer, 78
- November 21 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist, 91
- November 22 – John Allan Cameron, folk musician, 67
- November 23
- November 24 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter, 56
- November 25 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican banda singer, 27
- November 30 – Shirley Walker, film composer, 61
- December 2 – Mariska Veres, singer with Shocking Blue, 59
- December 6 – Darren Brown, AKA Wiz, former frontman of Mega City Four, 44
- December 8 – Martha Tilton, American big band singer, 91
- December 9
- Georgia Gibbs, American singer, 87
- Freddie Marsden, drummer of Gerry & The Pacemakers
- December 11 – Homer Ledford, bluegrass musician, 79
- December 12 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist, 71
- December 13 – Robert Long, singer and TV presenter, 63
- December 14
- December 16 – Pnina Salzman, pianist, 84
- December 17 – Denis Payton, The Dave Clark Five, 63
- December 18
- December 24 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and contemporary composer, 45
- December 25 – James Brown, American singer, 73
- December 27 – Pierre Delanoë, French lyricist, 88
Awards
See also
External charts
Notes and References
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- Web site: Rap Group Youngbloodz Arrested On Drug, Gun Charges. Grouchy Greg Watkins. June 3, 2006. July 27, 2021.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, 2006 Stockhausen-Kurse Kürten: Programm zu den Interpretations- und Kompositionskursen und Konzerten der Musik von / Programme for the Interpretation and Composition Courses and Concerts of the Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, 8. Juli bis 16. Juli 2006 in Kürten / from July 8 to 16, 2006 in Kuerten (Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 2006), 19 & 39.
- Web site: Top of the Pops bows out . July 30, 2006 . . April 21, 2013.
- Web site: Eddie Van Halen Says He Is Open To Playing With David Lee Roth Again . September 8, 2006 . . April 21, 2013.
- Web site: Tower Records to Sell Off Inventory . Semuels . Alana . October 7, 2006 . . April 21, 2013.
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