Events May 9 – Chinese musician and composer Gao Xiaosong is arrested after causing a road accident in Beijing. He receives a six-month jail sentence and loses his place as a judge in the new China's Got Talent series. July 25 – China's Got Talent is broadcast for the first time, by Dragon Television.
Albums AKB48 – Koko ni Ita Koto (Japan) Aynur Aydın – Emanet Beden (Turkey) Anne Curtis – Annebisyosa (Philippines) Dinesh Agrahari Deewana, Mamta Sharma and Indu Sonali – Jaan Marbu Ka (India) Bülent Ersoy – Aşktan Sabıkalı (Turkey) Ethnix – Ga'aguim (Israel) Gugun Blues Shelter – Satu Untuk Berbagi (Indonesia)January 31, 2011. Album Indonesia Terbaik 2011 . rollingstone.co.id. Retrieved January 16, 2012. Leessang – Asura Balbalta (South Korea) TV Daily Nima Rumba – Rangau Ki Ma (Nepal) Erik Santos – Awit Para Sa'yo (Philippines) Ali Zafar – Jhoom (Pakistan)
Classical Mehdi Hosseini – Monodies
Opera The Chinese Orphan, by Lei Lei, with a libretto by Zou Jingzhi Dr. Sun Yat-sen, by Huang Ruo, with libretto by Candace Mui-ngam Chong. It is her first opera libretto,Janice Leung, "Candace Chong: The playwright who draws inspiration from a complicated world" (Background on Candace Chong) on scmp.com/magazines. Retrieved 5 June 2014
Deaths January 3 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, 86 January 19 – Hira Devi Waiba, Nepali folk singer, 71 (injuries from a fire) January 24 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical vocalist, 88 February 8 – Roza Baglanova, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR, 89 (Russian) February 20 – Malaysia Vasudevan, Indian actor and playback singer, 66 April 21 – Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress and singer (Candies), 55 (breast cancer) April 29 – Vladimir Krainev, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, 67 (aortic aneurysm) May 23 – Pilu Momtaz, Bangladeshi pop singer, 52 May 31 – Ram Man Trishit, Nepali lyricist, 70 (kidney problems) June 5 – Azam Khan, Bangladeshi pop singer, 61 (cancer) June 14 – Asad Ali Khan, Indian musician, 74 July 27 – Rei Harakami, Japanese musician, 40 (cerebrovascular disease) December 8 – Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer
See also 2011 in music 2011 in Japanese music 2011 in South Korean music List of 2011 albums
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