2014 in music
This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.Specific locations
Specific genres
Albums released
Awards
Bands formed
January
- 13 – Ronny Jordan, British guitarist.
- 27 – Pete Seeger, American guitarist.
February
- 5 – Samantha Juste, English-American singer and television host.
- 8 – Finbarr Dwyer, Irish accordionist and fiddler.
- 17 – Frank Wappat, British DJ and singer.
- 24 – Franny Beecher, American guitarist.
- 25
- * Paco de Lucía, Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.
- * Peter Callander, English songwriter and record producer.
March
- 5 – Dave Sampson, English singer.
- 6 – Marion Stein , British pianist.
April
- 2 – Lyndsie Holland, English actress and singer.
- 7 – John Shirley-Quirk, British operatic bass-baritone.
- 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, British songwriter, author and computer engineer.
- 17 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer and composer
- 18 – Brian Priestman, British conductor.
May
- 25 – Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor.
June
- 18 – Horace Silver, American jazz pianist.
- 21 – Jimmy C. Newman, country music singer.
July
- 11 – Charlie Haden, American upright-bassist.
- 19 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter.
- 24 – Christian Falk, Swedish record producer and musician.
August
- 3 – Yvette Giraud, French singer and actress.
- 15 – Svein Nymo, Norwegian violinist and composer.
- 17 – Pierre Vassiliu, Swiss-born French singer.
- 19 – Kåre Kolberg, Norwegian composer.
- 23 – Inga Juuso, singer and actress.
- 24 – Aldo Donati, Italian singer, composer and television personality,
- 29
- * Jan Groth, Norwegian singer,.
- *Peret, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.
September
- 2 – Antonis Vardis, Greek composer and singer.
- 8 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter.
- 12 – Joe Sample, American pianist.
- 17 – George Hamilton IV, American country music singer.
- 18 – Kenny Wheeler, Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
October
- 10 – Olav Dale, Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.
- 16 – Tim Hauser, American jazz singer.
- 20 - Tyson Stevens, vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
- 25 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.
November
- 6 – Maggie Boyle, British folk singer and musician.
- 14 – Mike Burney, British jazz saxophonist.
- 15 – Cherry Wainer, South African-born British organist.
- 17 – Jeff Fletcher, British guitarist.
- 20 – Arthur Butterworth, English composer and conductor.
December
- 8 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer.
- 12 – John Persen, Norwegian composer.
- 24 – Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinetist.
- 31 – Michael Kennedy, English writer on music.
