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-Pre-historic people used bones and other natural material to create musical instuments to make music for entertainment
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-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 -
-Native Americans used their voices to create music
-They also used percussion instruments made out of hollowed out logs with tanned buckskin or elkskin -
-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
-Colonists and slaves played drums and banjos as well -
The first Grammy Awards are held in Beverley Hills, California
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-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" -
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-Singer Sonny Bono wins mayor and is mayor for 4 years
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(The Woman in Me and Come on Over) were Twain's two albums
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-Adele releases one of the biggest songs of the year
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-Popstar Singer Prince dies at age 57
