R.I.P. Art Neville (The Neville Brothers)

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Art Neville, the founding member of The Neville Brothers and The Meters (and later known as The Funky Meters), has died at the age of 81, according to a statement released by his longtime manager, Kent Sorrell, via CNN. Neville was 81.

Neville was probably most famous for being in The Neville Brothers with his brothers, Aaron, Charles, and Cyril. It should be noted that Charles Neville died of pancreatic cancer on April 26, 2018, at the age of 79.

For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2019.

July (30)

[22 Jul 2019] Art Neville (American singer-songwriter and keyboardist for The Neville Brothers), 81

[22 Jul 2019] Daniel Rae Costello (Fiji-born Samoan guitarist), 58, cancer

[19 Jul 2019] Yao Lee (Chinese singer), 96

[18 Jul 2019] Bob Frank (American singer-songwriter), 75

[18 Jul 2019] Ruud Jacobs (Dutch jazz musician and music producer), 81

[16 Jul 2019] Pat Kelly (Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer), 70, complications of kidney disease

[16 Jul 2019] Bill Vitt (American drummer)

[12 Jul 2019] Eberhard Kummer (Austrian singer), 78

[12 Jul 2019] Arno Marsh (American jazz saxophonist), 91

[12 Jul 2019] Dick Richards (American drummer for Bill Haley & His Comets), 95

[12 Jul 2019] Joseph Rouleau (Canadian bass opera singer), 90

[12 Jul 2019] Russell Smith (American singer-songwriter for Amazing Rhythm Aces), 70, cancer

[11 Jul 2019] Brendan Grace (Irish comedian and singer), 68, lung cancer

[10 Jul 2019] Jerry Lawson (American a cappella singer for The Persuasions), 75

[09 Jul 2019] Aaron Rosand (American violinist), 92

[08 Jul 2019] James Henke (American music journalist and museum curator for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), 65, dementia

[08 Jul 2019] Tunica Teixeira (Brazilian sound designer and musical producer), 69, cancer

[06 Jul 2019] Martin Charnin (American lyricist), 84, heart attack

[06 Jul 2019] João Gilberto (Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style), 88

[06 Jul 2019] Thommy Gustafsson (Swedish keyboardist for Sven-Ingvars), 71

[06 Jul 2019] Yannis Spathas (Greek guitarist for Socrates Drank the Conium), 68

[05 Jul 2019] Paolo Vinaccia (Italian jazz percussionist), 65, pancreatic cancer

[04 Jul 2019] Vivian Perlis (American musicologist), 91

[02 Jul 2019] Michael Colgrass (American-born Canadian composer), 87, skin cancer

[02 Jul 2019] Costa Cordalis (Greek-born German schlager singer), 75

[02 Jul 2019] Ibrahim Emin (Azerbaijani rock musician for Yukhu), 56

[02 Jul 2019] Jacky Zimah (Indonesian singer), 63

[01 Jul 2019] Oskar Kröher (German folk singer), 91

[01 Jul 2019] Sid Ramin (American composer for West Side Story), 100

[01 Jul 2019] Bogusław Schaeffer (Polish composer, musicologist), 90

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