May 2024 (60)
- [31 May 2024] Geoff Follin (English video game composer for Silver Surfer), 58, pancreatic cancer
- [30 May 2024] Doug Dagger (American punk rock singer for The Generators), 56, cancer
- [29 May 2024] Mansour Seck (Senegalese singer and musician), 69
- [29 May 2024] Bob Rogers (Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster for 2UE), 97
- [29 May 2024] Cayouche (Canadian singer-songwriter), 75, cancer
- [28 May 2024] Gustavo Mullem (Brazilian guitarist for Camisa de Vênus), 72, lung cancer
- [27 May 2024] Ghigo Agosti (Italian singer-songwriter), 87
- [27 May 2024] Stefan Wojtas (Polish pianist), 80
- [27 May 2024] Rodger Fox (New Zealand jazz trombonist and bandleader), 71
- [27 May 2024] Francesco Petrozzi (Peruvian lyric tenor and politician), 62
- [25 May 2024] Richard M. Sherman (American film songwriter), 95
- [24 May 2024] Mark Gormley (American singer-songwriter), 67
- [24 May 2024] Doug Ingle (American musician for Iron Butterfly), 78
- [22 May 2024] Charlie Colin (American bassist and guitarist for Train), 58, fall
- [22 May 2024] Toni Montano (Serbian rock musician), 62
- [21 May 2024] Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (Polish film composer), 71, multiple system atrophy
- [21 May 2024] Carlos Paravís (Uruguayan physician and folk singer), 56, esophageal cancer
- [21 May 2024] Werner Hink (Austrian violinist), 81
- [19 May 2024] Peggi Blu (American singer and vocal coach), 77
- [19 May 2024] Franchino (Italian disc jockey), 71, heart attack
- [18 May 2024] Jon Wysocki (American rock drummer for Staind), 53
- [18 May 2024] Frank Ifield (Australian singer), 86
- [18 May 2024] Palle Danielsson (Swedish jazz double bassist), 77
- [18 May 2024] John Koerner (American songwriter and guitarist for Koerner, Ray & Glover), 85
- [17 May 2024] Roberta Marrero (Spanish artist, singer and actress), 52, suicide
- [17 May 2024] Missinho (Brazilian singer for Chiclete com Banana), 64, multiple organ failure
- [15 May 2024] John Hawken (English keyboard player for The Nashville Teens, Strawbs), 84, melanoma
- [14 May 2024] Teddy Lasry (French sax player for MAGMA)
- [14 May 2024] Taro Kida (Japanese composer), 93
- [14 May 2024] Jimmy James (Jamaican-British singer), 83
- [14 May 2024] Mélanie Renaud (Canadian singer), 42, ovarian cancer
- [13 May 2024] Luis María Serra (Argentine musician and composer), 82
- [13 May 2024] Enrico Musiani (Italian singer), 86
- [13 May 2024] Christian Escoudé (French Gypsy jazz guitarist), 76
- [12 May 2024] David Sanborn (American alto saxophonist and television host for Night Music), prostate cancer
- [10 May 2024] Jhonny Iskandar (Indonesian singer), 64
- [09 May 2024] Fred Noonan (Australian drummer for Six Ft Hick), cancer
- [09 May 2024] Andrés Vega Delfín (Mexican folk guitarist), 93
- [08 May 2024] John Barbata (American rock drummer for The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane), 79
- [08 May 2024] Conrad Kelly (Jamaican-born British drummer for Steel Pulse), 65
- [08 May 2024] Dennis Thompson (American Hall of Fame drummer MC5), 75, heart attack
- [08 May 2024] Giovanna Marini (Italian singer-songwriter), 87
- [07 May 2024] Phil Wiggins (American blues musician for Cephas & Wiggins), 69, cancer
- [07 May 2024] Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski (Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger), 88
- [07 May 2024] Ignatius Jones (Australian-Filipino singer for Jimmy and the Boys), 67
- [07 May 2024] Steve Albini (American musician for Big Black, and recording engineer for In Utero), 61, heart attack
- [06 May 2024] Christiane Stefanski (Belgian singer), 74
- [06 May 2024] Bill Holman (American jazz composer and saxophonist), 96
- [05 May 2024] Belgacem Bouguenna (Tunisian singer and teacher), 61
- [05 May 2024] Willie Hona (New Zealand musician for Herbs), 70, pancreatic cancer
- [04 May 2024] Miroslav Imrich (Czech singer and composer for Abraxas), 71
- [04 May 2024] Ron Kavana (Irish singer-songwriter), 73
- [03 May 2024] Jim Mills (American banjo player for Kentucky Thunder), 57, heart attack
- [02 May 2024] John Pisano (American jazz guitarist), 93
- [02 May 2024] Gary Floyd (American singer for Dicks), 71
- [02 May 2024] Praveen Kumar (Indian composer for Raakadhan), 28
- [01 May 2024] Hasna El-Bacharia (Algerian musician), 74
- [01 May 2024] Richard Maloof (American musician for Les Brown), 84
- [01 May 2024] Richard Tandy (English musician for Electric Light Orchestra), 76
- [01 May 2024] Uma Ramanan (Indian playback singer), 69
Video Game Music Legend Geoff Follin Has Passed Away. The siblings (Tim and Geoff Follin) crafted some of the finest video game soundtracks of the era, making relatively humble audio hardware perform some seriously catchy and engaging tunes. Their credits include The New Zealand Story (NES), Terminator 2 (NES), Spot: The Video Game (Game Boy), Solstice II (NES), Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (SNES), Plok (SNES) and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (SNES).
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Douglas Scott Kane, lead singer of The Generators, Doug and the Slugz, and Schleprock, has passed away. He was 56 years old and passed away on May 30 following a battle with cancer.
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The backing vocalist and co-founder of the Dande Leool Orchestra, Mansour Seck, died on Wednesday in Dakar at the age of 69, according to the artist Baba Maal, the voice lead of the group to which the deceased belonged.
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Australia's longest serving disc jockey Bob Rogers has died aged 97.
The veteran radio presenter, who had a broadcasting career spanning 78 years, died at his Mosman home on Wednesday morning.
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Acadia is in mourning: country singer Cayouche died on Wednesday, at the age of 75.
He reportedly asked for medical help in dying to relieve his cancer-related pain.
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Gustavo Mullem, former guitarist of the band Camisa de Vênus, in Salvador, died on Monday (28), at 72 years old. The information was confirmed by the musician Luiz Mullem, son of the artist, on social networks.
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Ghigo Agosti, a historic Milanese rocker, has died at the age of 88. The man, born in Milan in 1936, had moved in the last years of his life in the hills of Padua, leaving his last musical testimony in 2017 to Il Sotto di Arlati
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The professor has died. Stefan Wojtas, pianist and pedagogue associated with the Academy of Music in the Tustorm
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Rodger Fox - who has been synonymous with big band jazz in New Zealand - has died aged 71.
The jazz legend founded the Rodger Fox Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively here and overseas, playing at international jazz festivals
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On the morning of Monday, May 27, the death of politician and artist Francesco Petrozzi, who remained in the position of Minister of Culture during the government of former President Martín Vizcarra, was reported. The former congressman who joined the Popular Force party during the period 2016-2019, died at the age of 62, leaving behind a long career in both public management and in art and music.
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Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award®-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother, Disney Legend Robert B. Sherman), passed away Saturday, May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, due to age-related illness. He was 95 years old.
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Mark Donan Gormley 67, passed away on May 24, 2024 at Baptist Hospital in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla. He was born on May 7, 1957 in Key West, FL.
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IRON BUTTERFLY founding member, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist Doug Ingle has died at the age of 78.
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Charlie Colin, the founding bassist of the pop-rock group Train who featured on the band’s Grammy-winning hit “Drops of Jupiter,” has died at the age of 58.
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Musician Toni Montano died today at the age of 62, it was confirmed to the portal Nova.rs.
Toni Montano was born Velibor Miljković in Belgrade in 1962.
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Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, the Polish composer who won a Oscar for his score of the 2004 film Finding Neverland, died today in Krakow following a years-long battle with Multiple System Atrophy. He was 71.
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Uruguayan singer-songwriter, doctor and folklorist Carlos Paravís died Tuesday after suffering from esophageal cancer, Subrayadothe musician Santiago Soares de Lima confirmed to Underthes.
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Austrian violinist Werner Hink died on 21 May 2024. He was 81 years old.
Hink was born on 18 March 1943 in Vienna.
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The world first discovered the unique vocal stylngs of Peggy Blu when she was crowned Grand Champion on the television talent contest Star Search in 1986, and that began a career where Blu became a icon among her peers and one of the most respected women in soul music. We are sad to report today the passing of Ms. Blu. Tributes have been pouring in online from Blu's musical friends. Her cause of death has not yet been reported.
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Franchino, born Francesco Principato da Caronia, in Sicily, was for years the voice on disco music, the vocalist that bewitched thousands of young people becoming a myth for many generations. The news of his death at the age of 71 at the Niguarda hospital in Milan, where he was hospitalized after an illness he had in Livigno during an evening a few weeks earlier, literally went around Italy.
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Founding drummer for Staind, Jon Wysocki, has passed away at the age of 53. Wysocki's death was confirmed by his bandmates in Lydia's Castle.
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Renowned country singer Frank Ifield has died at the age of 86, it’s been confirmed.
The news comes via journalist Glenn A. Baker, who posted on Facebook this afternoon (May 20) that Ifield’s brother David called him personally to confirm the artist’s passing. At the time of writing, a cause of death has not yet been made public.
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Palle Danielsson already played in his teens in the 60s with famous greats such as the pianist Bill Evans, introduced by Monica Zetterlund, and on the international stage he rose fully and fully as bass player in pianist Keith Jarrett's European / Scandinavian quartet in the early 70s
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Minnesota music legend Spider John Koerner, who influenced Dylan and Raitt, dies at 85.
The vet of Minneapolis' West Bank folk/blues scene inspired several generations of players but stayed humble in his six-decade career.
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Roberta Marrero lived and wrote in Madrid. That is what it said, essentially, but in the present, the brief biographical note of her last book, the collection of poems Derecho a cita (Continta me tú, 2024).
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The body of Missinho, one of the founders of the Bahian band Chiclete with Banana, was cremated late Friday morning (17), at the Bosque da Paz Cemetery in Salvador. The artist died on Thursday (16), aged 64, due to multiple organ failure.
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From Dave Cousins FB page: JOHN HAWKEN PASSES.
It is with deep sadness that I must tell you that John Hawken passed away peacefully with his family at his side at 2pm US Eastern Standard Time today.
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Teddy Lasry , sax player of French band : MAGMA died May 14 .
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Taro Kida (real name Taro Kida), a composer known for his theme songs for TV and radio programs and commercial songs, passed away on the 14th. He is 93 years old.
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Jimmy James, whose ballad Come To Me Softly won him fans in Jamaica and the United Kingdom, died in London yesterday at age 84.
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Canadian singer Mélanie Renaud, 42, has died after a years-long battle with ovarian cancer. Her team announced she passed away at the La Prairie Palliative Care Center in Quebec on Tuesday morning.
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Luis María Serra, known for composing the original music for films such as La Mary, Camila, Yo, la mejor de todos and Juan Moreira, among others, died at the age of 82. The sad news was confirmed to LA NACIÓN by Santiago Serra, son of who was also the author of “Emperatriz”
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Enrico Musiani died today, at the age of 86. The popular music singer from Livorno passed away this morning.
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Christian Escoudé has left us
Coming from a gypsy background, the legendary guitarist who tackled jazz in all its forms, flew away from his scores.
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Smooth jazz saxophonist David Sanborn, who played on recordings by Stevie Wonder, James Brown, and Carly Simon and performed live with David Bowie and the Rolling Stones, died in Tarrytown, New York, on Sunday afternoon. A rep confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. A message on Sanborn’s social media cited complications after an extended battle with prostate cancer. He was 78.
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Senior dangdut singer Jhony Iskandar died at the age of 64 on Friday morning.
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Brisbane punk scene stalwart Alan “Fred” Noonan died in the early hours of this morning, 9 May, after a battle with cancer.
Best known as the drummer with party punks Blowhard and swamp rockers Six Ft Hick
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At the dawn of Thursday, May 9, Don Andrés Vega Delfín, considered one of the most important musicians in the world for keeping alive the great tradition of classical music in Veracruz, the son jarocho, died, at the age of 93, in front of the landscape that decorates his home, in the ranchería of Boca de San Miguel
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Drummer John Barbata, whose long list of credits is topped by prime-era stints with the Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, has died. His death, believed to be on May 8, 2024, was confirmed by reliable local sources in Ada, Okla., where he lived
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Tributes have been paid after the death of Conrad Kelly, the former drummer in reggae band Steel Pulse.
Kelly, who was born in Jamaica and performed with many local community bands, died on Wednesday aged 65, Steel Pulse said.
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MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, whose muscular, high-octane style helped propel the influential Detroit band, died Thursday morning after a series of medical issues. He was 75.
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Giovanna Marini died at the age of 87. Compositor, singer, researcher and teacher, Giovanna Marini did with music of oral tradition what Calvino did with fairy tales.
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It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of acoustic blues harmonica player Phil Wiggins, recipient of a 2017 NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
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One of the most important Polish jazz musicians, saxophonist Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, died on Tuesday at the age of 88. The family broke the news via social media.
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Ignatius Jones, best known as the singer of Jimmy and the Boys, jazz cabaret act ‘Pardon Me Boys’ and then director of major events including the City of Sydney Millennium Celebrations and Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony segment (horses) has died at his home in the Philippines.
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Steve Albini, an icon of indie rock as both a producer and performer, died on Tuesday, May 7, of a heart attack, staff at his recording studio, Electrical Audio, confirmed to Pitchfork. As well as fronting underground rock lynchpins including Shellac and Big Black, Albini was a legend of the recording studio, though he preferred the term “engineer” to “producer.”
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This disappearance in the musical world: the singer of the Liège Christiane Stefanski has died.
Originally from Poland, she was born in St. Nicholas in 1949.
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Winning Grammys in the 1980s and 90s for arrangements of Billy Strayhorn's 'Take the "A" Train,' Thelonious Monk's 'Straight, No Chaser' and his own composition 'A View from the Side,' Bill Holman, who has died aged 96, emerged as a leader with …
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Originally from the governorate of Kébili, Belgacem Bouguenna, singer and teacher, died on Sunday, 5 May 2024, after a fight against the disease.
He distinguished himself by his popular songs, which he drew from the Tunisian heritage.
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New Zealand music legend Willie Hona has died.
The singer-guitarist had a dynamic career, and most famously was a member of the iconic reggae band Herbs.
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The singer Miroslav Imrich, who performed in the rock band Abraxas or the group Tango, has died, he was 71 years old, the singer's Facebook profile and music server Headliner reported. Imrich was a co-author and performer of hits such as Obžíčnej svět or Karel drogy nebere.
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Ron passed away peacefully in the exceptional care of the staff at Cork University Hospital after a long illness bravely borne. Beloved husband of the late Breda (nee Mulcahy), son of the late Joe and Dolores.
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Jim Mills, one of the most celebrated banjo players of his generation, and a noted vintage instrument trader, has died of a heart attack at his home in Durham, NC on May 3. He was 57 years of age.
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Known for his work with Chico Hamilton, Herb Alpert, Sérgio Mendes, Joe Pass and Peggy Lee, guitarist and composer John Pisano has died aged 93. A native New Yorker his albums under his own name included Among Friends featuring duets with Lee
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Gary Floyd, who fronted legendary Texas punk band The Dicks as well as Sister Double Happiness, died on Tuesday in San Francisco. He had been in ill health for a while and was admitted to a hospital earlier this week after suffering congestive heart failure. He was 71.
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Music composer Praveen Kumar, who composed music for Tamil movies, passed away on Thursday morning due to a prolonged illness. He was 28.
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Nicknamed “the rocker of the desert”, the Algerian artist Hasna El Becharia, considered a pioneer of diwan music, died at the age of 74, Algerian national television announced on Wednesday 1 May
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Richard David Maloof, age 84, of Sherman Oaks, California passed away on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
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Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) posted the sad news that the band’s longtime keyboardist Richard Tandy has passed away. He wrote on Facebook, alongside several photos of Tandy and the band, “It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of my long-time collaborator and dear friend Richard Tandy. He was a remarkable musician & friend and I’ll cherish the lifetime of memories we had together. Sending all my love to Sheila & the Tandy Family.”
… via remindmagazine
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Tamil film playback singer Uma Ramanan (69) passed away in Chennai due to ill health on Wednesday.
Uma Ramanan, who made her debut as a singer with the song Aanandha Raagam in the movie Panneer Pushpangal, has sung in many films including, Thillu Mullu, Vaidehi Kathirunthal, Thirupaachi.
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See also: Musicians who died in 2024, Musicians who died in 2023, Musicians who died in 2022, Comic Book creators who died in 2022, Musicians who died in 2021, Musicians who died in 2020, Musicians who died in 2019, Musicians who died in 2018, Musicians who died in 2017, and Musicians who died in 2016.
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