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Joni Sledge, one of the sisters of Sister Sledge, has died at the age of 60. The cause of death is, at this time, unknown, according to Billboard.
The Philadelphia real-life sisters (Debbie, Joni, Kim and Kathy Sledge), rocketed to fame with their songs and strong family values at the height of the disco era.
Their breakout record We Are Family peaked at #3 on the US Album Chart and went Platinum with such hits as ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’, ‘Lost in Music’, and the title track.
Sister Sledge became a trio (Debbie, Joni, and Kim) after Kathy left the band (although rejoining them on and off for live performances) in 1989. With Joni’s death, Sister Sledge will likely just be a duo.
Below are more deaths for the month of March - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.
March (16)
[11 Mar 2017] Ángel Parra (Chilean singer and songwriter), 73, cancer
[10 Mar 2017] Joni Sledge (American singer for Sister Sledge), 60
[09 Mar 2017] Barbara Helsingius (Finnish singer and Olympic fencer), 79
[09 Mar 2017] Tony Lorenzo (American guitarist for Sons of Azrael), 30
[08 Mar 2017] Dave Valentin (American jazz flautist), 64, Parkinson's disease
[07 Mar 2017] Kamran Aziz (Turkish Cypriot pianist and pharmacist), 85, pulmonary complications
[07 Mar 2017] Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (Indian folk singer), 47, traffic collision
[06 Mar 2017] Lars Diedricson (Swedish songwriter, winner of Eurovision), 55
[05 Mar 2017] Kurt Moll (German opera singer), 78
[04 Mar 2017] Edi Fitzroy (Jamaican reggae singer), 62
[03 Mar 2017] Misha Mengelberg (Dutch jazz pianist and composer), 81
[03 Mar 2017] Valerie Carter (American singer-songwriter of Howdy Moon), 64
[03 Mar 2017] Tommy Page (American singer-songwriter), 46, suicide
[02 Mar 2017] Fred Fiske (American radio broadcaster for WAMU), 96
[01 Mar 2017] Hiroshi Kamayatsu (Japanese musician for The Spiders), 78, pancreatic cancer
[01 Mar 2017] Wally Pikal (American Hall of Fame musician), 90
The Philadelphia real-life sisters (Debbie, Joni, Kim and Kathy Sledge), rocketed to fame with their songs and strong family values at the height of the disco era.
Their breakout record We Are Family peaked at #3 on the US Album Chart and went Platinum with such hits as ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’, ‘Lost in Music’, and the title track.
Sister Sledge became a trio (Debbie, Joni, and Kim) after Kathy left the band (although rejoining them on and off for live performances) in 1989. With Joni’s death, Sister Sledge will likely just be a duo.
Below are more deaths for the month of March - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2017.
March (16)
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