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Antonio Abad Lugo-Machín is born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, Caribbean. He will find success as a singer of boleros and ballads under the name Antonio Machin. His version of El Manisero, recorded in 1930, will be the first million-selling record for a Cuban artist.
Clarence Profit's Trio and The Calypso Recorders are playing at The Village Vanguard, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.Clarence Profit's Trio and The Calypso Recorders are playing at The Village Vanguard, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Anselmo Sacasas And His Royal Havana Orchestra are playing at The Colony Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with The Four Senators.
Michael James is born in Jamaica, Caribbean. He will grow up in Kingston, Jamaica, where he will also begin his recording and performing career. Re-locating to the UK in 1964, he will become the leader of successful soul band Jimmy James And The Vagabonds.
Lord Invader performs his composition Rum And Coca Cola for the first time in front of a paying audience in the Victory Calypso Tent [an informal music venue set up for the carnival season] in Port of Spain, Trindidad, West Indies. Six months later, visiting US radio comedian Morey Amsterdam will hear the song, take it back to the USA, sanitise its saucy lyric and copyright it in his own name. Rum And Coca Cola will be a huge hit for The Andrews Sisters but Lord Invader will have to go to court to win his royalties.
Guillermo Marchena is born in Curacao, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, West Indies. He will find success after moving to Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, as a singer and drummer in the Christoph Spendel Group, Head Heart And Hands and Marchena And Bishop.
in Willemstad, Curaçao, died in 1994 in Curaçao as a result of AIDS.
The Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) performs at The South Bank Exhibition, London, UK. This is considered to have been the first exposure of white Britons to steel band music in a live context. By the end of the year, steel band music will have become hugely popular in the UK.
Chuck Berry plays the third of six nights at The Glass Bucket, Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean.
Harry Belafonte is feted in a reception at Danny's Hideaway in New York City, USA, by being presented with a gold disc for his 2LP Carnegie Hall live album set.
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Anthony Ian Berkeley is born in Trinidad, Caribbean. He will find success as rapper Poetic, aka Grym Reaper when working as a member of Gravediggaz.
Millie In Jamaica, a tv special featuring Millie, is screened by Rediffusion in the UK. The show also features Cilla Black, Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff, Lord Jellicoe, Byron lee, The Rockin' Berries and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Cilla Black plays the third night of a two-week season at The Forty Thieves Club in Bermuda, Caribbean.
Joan Armatrading plays at The Arts Centre, Poole, England, UK, Europe, supported by Kim Beacon.
On their World Invasion Tour, Van Halen play the first of two nights at The Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.Mongo Santamaria and the Hugh Masekela Band play the eleventh of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Toots And The Maytals play at The Dominion Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
The single Sun City by Artists United Against Apartheid enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No21 during an eight week run. Largely the brainchild of Little Steven Van Zandt, the artists involved include U2, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Cliff, Lou Reed, Joey Ramone, Simple Minds, Keith Richards and Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock and Gil Scott-Heron.
The Mighty Diamonds play at La Mutualite, Paris, France, Europe.
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones leaves New York City, USA, to begin a lengthy stay in Jamaica, Caribbean. 
During a 22-date tour in support of her album Square The Circle, Joan Armatrading plays at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.Fire damages Eric Clapton's house in Chelsea, London, UK. The second floor is gutted and a first floor gallery is badly damaged, but Clapton manages to rescue his guitars. Clapton also owns the
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Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao is born in Cojímar, Eastern Havana, Cuba, Caribbean. She will find success first as a member of all-female singing group Fifth Harmony and then as a solo performer.
During a 13-date tour, 
Rihanna, Ke$ha and Travie McCoy play at the Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, New Jersey, USA.Guitarist and singer Eddie Kirkland, known as the 'Gypsy of the Blues,' dies aged 88 after a bus collides with his Ford Taurus while he is making a U-turn on US98 near Crystal River, Florida, USA.
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play in the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Jose Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
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The Toronto Jazz Festival, a ten day event, begins at venues in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Artists appearing during the course of the festival include Ziggy Marley, Esperanza Spalding, Bill Frisell, George Benson, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Trombone Shorty, Natalie Cole, The Canadian Jazz Quartet and Benny Green.Guitarist and songwriter Steven Springer, best-known as a member of the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, dies aged 60 of cancer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Springer also played with Sir Lancelot Pinard and the band Sanctuary, and he founded the musical project Tropicooljazz.
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On her Diamonds World Tour, Rihanna plays at The BankAtlantic Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
It is announced that a newly-discovered species of water mite has been named Litarachna lopezae in honour of singer Jennifer Lopez. The singer has Puerto Rican ancestry, and the water mite was discovered in a coral reef in Mona Passage, near Puerto Rico. Also, the biologists were listening to music by Lopez while writing about their discovery.
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A Dominican Republic government commission with responsibility for public performances announces that it is banning a September 13 concert by Miley Cyrus because the former Disney cutie-pie often "undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican law."
Rihanna begins the European leg of her Anti World Tour with a show at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherland, Europe.Rihanna plays at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, du Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Asia.
Fifth Harmony, DNCE, Joe Jonas, Fergie, DJ Khaled, Ektor Rivera, Gloria Estefan and Ana Villafane perform at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest in Los Angeles, California, USA.On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays at The NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights in Tokyo, Japan, Asia, supported by Charli XCX.
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