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Pre-Historic People Used Bones For Music
-Pre-historic people used bones and other natural material to create musical instuments to make music for entertainment -
Jan 1, 1000
Vikings Used Pipes and Drums to make music
-Vikings used wood to make pipes
-They also copper pipes to make pan pipes
-They made whistles out bones
-They made drums out of wooden or ceramic bowls -
Jan 1, 1500
Native People Use Percussion and Voices For Music
-Native Americans used their voices to create music
-They also used percussion instruments made out of hollowed out logs with tanned buckskin or elkskin -
Colonial Americans Make Music
-Colonists came from Europe where they brought church hymns
-Slaves in Colonial America sang work songs as they worked, as well dance
-They also had xylophones, kalimba (A kind of small guitar), flutes and rattles
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The First Grammy Awards
The first Grammy Awards are held in Beverley Hills, California -
Ray Charles wins 4 trophies at 3rd annual Grammy Awards (most famous being Best Male Vocal in Georgia on My Mind)
-Ray Charles wins 4 Grammy Awards at the 3rd annual Grammy Awards in 1961
-His most famous being "Best Male Vocal" in "Georgia on My Mind" -
"Elephant Parts" wins the first Grammy for "Music Video"
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Sonny Bono becomes mayor of Palm Springs, California for 4 years
-Singer Sonny Bono wins mayor and is mayor for 4 years -
Shania Twain becomes the first female to sell 10 million copies each with back-to-back album releases
(The Woman in Me and Come on Over) were Twain's two albums -
Adele Releases "Hello"
-Adele releases one of the biggest songs of the year -
Prince Dies
-Popstar Singer Prince dies at age 57
