MySQL query with multiple 'OR' statements

Question

I have a query, that I have tested outside of PHP directly on SQL and still getting the same problem

The idea being that $currentArtist is sent through using the GET met

Answer 1

SELECT *
  FROM events e
 WHERE '$currentArtist' IN (e.event_artist1,e.event_artist2,e.event_artist3);

Answer 2

try

SELECT * FROM `".DBN."`.`events` WHERE
            `event_artist1`= '".$currentArtist."' OR `event_artist2`= '".$currentArtist."' OR `event_artist3` = '".$currentArtist."'";

Answer 3

SELECT *
FROM `".DBN."`.`events`
WHERE `event_artist1` = '".$currentArtist."' 
OR `event_artist2` = '".$currentArtist."' 
OR `event_artist3` = '".$currentArtist."'
";

Hope this helps.