Musicians who died in 2022:
496
July (70)
- [31 Jul 2022] Nirmala Mishra (Indian playback singer for Malajahna), 83, heart attack
- [30 Jul 2022] Raymond Raposa (American singer-songwriter for Castanets), 41
- [30 Jul 2022] Nichelle Nichols (American actress on Star Trek and singer), 89
- [30 Jul 2022] Archie Roach (Australian musician and singer-songwriter), 66
- [29 Jul 2022] Jim Sohns (American singer for The Shadows of Knight), 75
- [28 Jul 2022] İlhan İrem (Turkish singer and songwriter), 67, kidney failure
- [27 Jul 2022] Pino d'Olbia (Italian singer), 87
- [27 Jul 2022] JayDaYoungan (American rapper), 24, murdered
- [27 Jul 2022] Sidney Kirk (American pianist), 78
- [27 Jul 2022] John Grenell (New Zealand country singer), 78
- [27 Jul 2022] Larry Josephson (American radio host for WBAI), 83, Parkinson's disease
- [27 Jul 2022] Yuri Marusin (Юрий Михайлович Марусин) (Russian opera singer), 76
- [27 Jul 2022] Mick Moloney (Irish musician and folklorist), 77
- [27 Jul 2022] Charles Ward (British recording studio owner of Rockfield Studios)
- [26 Jul 2022] Giancarlo Cardini (Italian pianist and composer), 81
- [26 Jul 2022] Darío Gómez (Colombian singer), 71
- [26 Jul 2022] Balwinder Safri (Indian singer), 63
- [25 Jul 2022] Sandy Roberton (British record producer), 80
- [25 Jul 2022] Comedian Selvy (Indian actor, writer and singer), 48
- [24 Jul 2022] Bob Heathcote (American bassist for Suicidal Tendencies), 58, traffic collision
- [24 Jul 2022] Vittorio De Scalzi (Italian composer and singer for New Trolls), 72, pulmonary fibrosis
- [23 Jul 2022] Bob Rafelson (American film director and creator of The Monkees), 89
- [23 Jul 2022] Zayar Thaw (Burmese politician and rapper for Acid), 41, execution by hanging
- [22 Jul 2022] Núria Feliu (Spanish singer and actress), 80, stroke
- [22 Jul 2022] Henrique Morelenbaum (Brazilian musician, conductor and teacher), 90
- [22 Jul 2022] Kenichi Ōkuma (家の大熊謙) (Japanese video game music composer), 57
- [22 Jul 2022] Stefan Soltész (Hungarian-Austrian conductor), 73
- [21 Jul 2022] Michel Schneider (French writer and musicologist), 78
- [20 Jul 2022] Jody Abbott (American drummer for Fuel), 55, Huntington's disease
- [20 Jul 2022] Frankie Davidson (Australian singer), 88
- [20 Jul 2022] Alice Harnoncourt (Austrian violinist for Concentus Musicus Wien), 91
- [20 Jul 2022] Viktor Žmegač (Croatian musicologist and scholar), 93
- [19 Jul 2022] Michael Henderson (American vocalist and bass guitarist for Miles Davis), 71
- [19 Jul 2022] Henkie (Dutch singer), 76
- [19 Jul 2022] Richard Seal (English organist and conductor), 86
- [18 Jul 2022] Dani (French actress and singer), 77
- [18 Jul 2022] Vincent DeRosa (American hornist), 101
- [18 Jul 2022] Povl Dissing (Danish singer and guitarist), 84
- [18 Jul 2022] Muhsin Farhan (Iraqi composer), 75
- [18 Jul 2022] Hans-Joachim Hespos (German composer), 84
- [18 Jul 2022] Bhupinder Singh (Indian ghazal singer), 82
- [17 Jul 2022] César Pedroso (Cuban pianist), 75
- [17 Jul 2022] Héctor Tricoche (Puerto Rican salsa singer-songwriter), 66
- [16 Jul 2022] Idris Phillips (American musician and composer), 64
- [16 Jul 2022] Vadim Golutvin (Russian guitarist, songwriter and composer), 69
- [15 Jun 2022] Paul Ryder (English bassist for Happy Mondays), 58
- [15 Jul 2022] Pavel Deshura (Павел Дешура) (Russian guitarist and arranger for Pelageya), 36
- [14 Jul 2022] William Hart (American songwriter and singer for The Delfonics), 77
- [13 Jul 2022] A. B. Crentsil (Ghanaian singer, composer and guitarist), 78
- [13 Jul 2022] Michael James Jackson (American music producer for Kiss), 56, COVID-19
- [13 Jul 2022] Rubina Qureshi (Pakistani classical singer), 81, cancer
- [12 Jul 2022] Bramwell Tovey (British conductor for Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and composer for Eighteen), 69, sarcoma
- [11 Jul 2022] Monty Norman (English composer), 94
- [10 Jul 2022] Andrew Ball (British pianist), 72, Parkinsons Disease
- [10 Jul 2022] Chantal Gallia (Algerian-born French singer and humorist), 65, stroke
- [10 Jul 2022] Enamul Haque (Bangladeshi museologist), 85
- [09 Jul 2022] Barbara Thompson (English jazz saxophonist for Colosseum), 77, Parkinson's disease
- [08 Jul 2022] Alam Khan (Bangladeshi composer), 78
- [07 Jul 2022] Mark Astronaut (British musician and poet for The Astronauts)
- [07 Jul 2022] Don Graham (American music promoter), 87, stomach cancer
- [07 Jul 2022] Samvel Sahakyan (Armenian singer), 61
- [07 Jul 2022] Adam Wade (American singer and television host for Musical Chairs), 87, Parkinson's disease
- [05 Jul 2022] Manny Charlton (Scottish rock guitarist for Nazareth), 80
- [05 Jul 2022] Alfred Koerppen (German organist and composer), 95
- [05 Jul 2022] Bob Tutupoly (Indonesian singer, presenter and actor), 82
- [04 Jul 2022] Alan Blaikley (English songwriter and composer), 82
- [03 Jul 2022] Antonio Cripezzi (Italian singer and keyboardist for I Camaleonti), 76
- [03 Jul 2022] Miu Chu (朱俐静) (Taiwanese singer), 40, breast cancer
- [01 Jul 2022] Richard Taruskin (American musicologist for Oxford History of Western Music), 77, esophageal cancer
- [01 Jul 2022] Irene Fargo (Italian singer and theater actress), 59
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Eminent singer Nirmala Mishra breathed her last yesterday night at her residence in Chetla, Kolkata. The 81-year-old singer wasn’t keeping well for some time
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Ray Raposa, best known as the force behind Castanets, has died. He was 41
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Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed communications officer Uhura on the original “Star Trek” series, died Saturday night in Silver City, N.M. She was 89 years old.
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Prolific Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach has died aged 66.
The Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder died at Warrnambool Base Hospital in Victoria after a long illness.
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Jimmy Sohns, lead singer of the 1960s band Shadows of Knight—best known for the hit “Gloria”—has died at the age of 75 after suffering a stroke earlier in the week.
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İlhan İrem, one of the masters of Turkish music, who underwent dialysis treatment for kidney failure, passed away.
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Farewell to the singer Pino d’Olbia. He had been ill for some time and disappeared at the age of 87, leaving a void in Gallura and island music
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Popular Louisiana rapper JayDaYoungan shot and killed outside home ... TMZ has learned.
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Pianist Sidney Kirk, one of Memphis’ great jazz and R&B musicians and a key member of The Isaac Hayes Movement, died Wednesday
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New Zealand country music legend John Hore Grenell has died at the age of 78.
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Larry Josephson has passed away. He died Wednesday, July 27th, 2022, a little before, or after 10pm. (He was never all that concerned with exact start and end times, as those of you who listened to WBAI know.)
... via wbai.org
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With deepest regret, we inform you that on the night of July 27, 2022, at the age of 77, the People's Artist of Russia, Professor of the Department of Solo Singing at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Yuri Mikhailovich Marusin, died.
... via conservatory.ru
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Mick Moloney legendary Irish American musician dies at 77. Often named Irish America's greatest performer and who was considered the greatest historian of Irish music, has passed away.
... via irishcentral.com
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Rockfield Studios has announced that its co-founder Charles Ward has died.
Charles, with his brother Kingsley, created Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire in the ’60s.
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Farewell to Giancarlo Cardini, the pianist, composer, entertainer and music organizer, died in his Versilia
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Colombian composer and singer Darío Gómez, the “King of spite” dies
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Punjabi singer Balwinder Safri passes away at 63. The UK-based Punjabi singer and was known for his popular tracks like 'O chan mere makhna', 'Pao Bhangra', 'Gal Sun Kuriye', 'Nachdinu'and many more
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Sandy Roberton, a producer and manager who worked with artists ranging from Steeleye Span in the early 1970s to the Matrix in the 2000s, died Monday in a hospital in London, colleagues report.
... via variety.com
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Comedian Selvy, who left audiences in splits for years, now leaves Goa in tears
... via timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Former Suicidal Tendencies bassist, Bob Heathcote, has passed away at the age of 58 due to complications following a motorcycle accident
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Bob Rafelson, the writer, director, producer and maverick who set the tone for the swinging, psychedelic 1960s with The Monkees, then was a pioneer in one of the most influential eras in the history of independent film, has died
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Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts", sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions in decades.
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The singer Núria Feliu died this morning in Barcelona, aged 80, after not being able to overcome the complications following the stroke she suffered at the beginning of 2021
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Maestro Henrique Morelenbaum died at the age of 90 on the morning of this Friday (22)
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Composer Kenichi Okuma passed away at the age of 56. Worked on many games such as "Classmate", "Graduation", and "Smash Bros X"
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Austrian conductor Stefan Soltész collapses during performance and dies
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High official, psychoanalyst, the author of "La Comédie de la culture" leaves an abundant and diverse work, where he evokes in particular his family history, music, his favorite authors... He died on July 21, at the age 78 years old.
... via lemonde.fr
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Jody Abbott, the original drummer for the band Fuel, died earlier this month on July 20, announced his family and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. He was 55.
... via americansongwriter.com
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Frankie Davidson had three more songs in the Australian charts. ‘The Ball-Bearing Bird’ (no 55, 1971), ‘I Love a Sunburnt Football’ (no 79, 1973) and ‘The Australian Barbeque Song’ (no 53, 1981).
... via noise11.com
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For Nikolaus Harnoncourt, his wife Alice was "an additional life-giving organ". Now the Viennese violinist, who had a symbiotic marriage and musical partnership with the great conductor, has died at the age of 91.
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Prominent academic, university professor Viktor Žmegač passed away
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R&B singer and bass player Michael Henderson dies at 71
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Singer Henk Leeuwis, better known as Henkie, died yesterday in Amsterdam after 'a lingering illness'. At the age of 61, the artist scored in 2006 with his Sweet little bunny, the summer hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. He turned 77.
... via gelderlander.nl
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We are saddened to learn of the death of Dr Richard Seal, former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Salisbury Cathedral from 1968 until his retirement in 1997.
... via winchester-cathedral.org.uk
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She loved the night smoke and the early morning dew on the roses. Singer Dani, who was also an actress, model or magazine leader and had a comeback in 2001 with the song "Like a boomerang", died Monday at the age of 77, her manager Lambert Boudier told AFP on Tuesday.
... via leparisien.fr
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American horn player Vincent DeRosa has died at the age of 101. DeRosa rose to fame as a studio musician in Hollywood, where he worked on numerous film productions and studio recordings from 1935 until his retirement in 2005
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Singer and musician Povl Dissing has died, his wife, Pia Jacobæus, told Ritzau.
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The Iraqi Artists Syndicate mourned the departure of the great composer, Mohsen Farhan.
The union stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that it "mourns the departure of the great artist Mohsen Farhan, who passed away today."
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Hans-Joachim Hespos died on July 18 at the age of 84
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Veteran playback singer Bhupinder Singh, who sang scores of Bollywood numbers in his heavy bass voice, passed away here on Monday evening, his wife and singer Mitali Singh said.
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Cuban musician Cesar Pedroso passed away on July 17, 2022 at the age of 75. Pedroso gained recognition for his work with Orquesta Reve and was a founding member of music group Los Van Van. He wrote a few of Van Van’s popular hits like Calla Calla, Seis Semanas, and more.
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The renowned salsa singer, Héctor Tricoche, died at the age of 66 on Sunday, according to his family on social networks in the early hours of this Monday.
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Music producer Idris Phillips, who recorded his solo album in Dubai, dies at 64
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On the night of July 16, the guitarist Vadim Golutvin died. This was reported in social networks by the Araks group.
The musician was 69 years old
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Paul Ryder, the bass guitarist who helped power the hugely popular “baggy” funk sound of the Happy Mondays, has died aged 58.
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The guitarist Pavel Deshura has died.
The news of the death of the guitarist appeared on the official page of Пелагеи on the social network. “This morning Pasha left us. Polyorgan deficiency against the background of a long chronic disease ... We ourselves do not understand anything ... ”
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Today we mourn the passing of Delfonics co-founder and longtime lead singer William "Poogie" Hart. He was 77.
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Ghanaian Highlife legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, better known as AB Crentsil has passed away at the age of 79 years.
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Producer, engineer and longtime Kiss associate Michael James Jackson, who worked on several of the band’s ‘80s albums, has died, reportedly due to COVID-related complications.
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Renowned singer Rubina Qureshi, known as ‘Nightingale of Sindh’, died in Karachi on Wednesday morning. She was 81. She was battling cancer for some time
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Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra principal conductor and artistic director Bramwell Tovey died Tuesday, according to the organization.
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Composer Monty Norman, who wrote the theme for the James Bond films, has died at the age of 94.
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The widely respected pianist Andrew Ball has died of the effects of Parkinsons Disease at the age of 72.
He was Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music, London, from 1999 to 2005 and a sught-after international performer.
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Chantal Gallia, pioneer of imitation, dies of a "brutal stroke" at 65.
The comedian, star of the 1970s, died on July 10.
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When people talk about female saxophonists of international renown, it’s usually Candy Dulfer that comes to mind; when I think about players of the fair sex, it’s always Barbara Thompson whose name and music I mentally hear
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Legendary music director and composer Alam Khan passed away in Dhaka on Friday at the age of 79.
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It has been announced that yesterday (7 July 2022) poet, lyricist and punk singer Mark Astronaut (born Mark Wilkins) passed away.
... via louderthanwar.com
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Don Graham, Music Promotion Pioneer, Dies at 87.
He helped start Tower Records, worked for Warner Bros. Records and A&M Records and promoted Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens' "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb."
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Samvel Sahakyan Death – Popular Armenian singer, Samvel Sahakyan passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2022. He was 61 years of age according to Harout Baghjedjian, a social media user.
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Adam Wade, the suave singer and actor who registered three top 10 hits on the Billboard 100 in 1961 and appeared in films including Shaft, Crazy Joe and Claudine before making history as a game show host, has died. He was 87.
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Manny Charlton, the founding guitarist for the Scottish rock band Nazareth, died on July 5, 2022, in Texas, at age 80. The news was shared on July 6 by his grandson, Jamie Charlton
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With the end, Alfred Koerppen recently made peace in a typical idiosyncratic way. "In paradisum" is the name of the piece that the then elderly composer completed less than twelve months ago.
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Veteran Indonesian singer Bob Tutupoly has passed away at the age 82 after reports of declining health including a stroke.
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Elvis Presley songwriter and former Ham&High columnist dies aged 82.
Songwriter and composer Alan Blaikley, died overnight after being taken from his care home to hospital on July 4.
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Antonio Cripezzi, singer and keyboardist of the Camaleonti, was found dead in a hotel room in San Giovanni Teatino (Chieti).
The death, according to initial information, would be due to natural causes
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Singer Zhu Lijing, who was born in Taiwan's singing talent show "Super Idol", died of cancer at the age of 40.
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Richard Taruskin, a commanding musicologist and public intellectual whose polemical scholarship and criticism upended conventional classical music history, died early Friday in Oakland, Calif. He was 77.
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Irene Fargo died, the Brescia singer was 59 years old. Irene Fargo, a name of art of Flavia Pozzaglio, in her career was also a theatrical actress.
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I love this forum !
Posted by: Steve Guthrie | 01/01/2022 at 06:36 PM
January has already been bad, now Rachel Lee Nagy of Detroit Cobras can be added to the list: https://www.nme.com/news/music/rachel-nagy-vocalist-of-the-detroit-cobras-has-died-3138471
Posted by: Paul Schwartzberg | 01/16/2022 at 12:23 PM
R Dean Taylor, Motown songwriter who had a hit of his own with “Indiana Wants Me,” passed away on Jan 7.
Posted by: John Cox | 01/19/2022 at 07:33 AM
Saxophonist Ray Gaskins passed away on January 20th at the age of 62.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10228062574286543&set=a.1098613062437
Posted by: Phil Horneman | 01/23/2022 at 01:54 AM
Soul singer Freddie Hughes (79) January 18
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Respect.html
Posted by: Phil Horneman | 01/26/2022 at 11:49 PM
Singer and drummer Lew Kirton passed away January 22nd
https://www.soultracks.com/story-lew-kirton-dies
Posted by: Phil Horneman | 01/29/2022 at 12:26 AM
Sister Janet Mead who had a 1974 hit with her rock version of “The Lord’s Prayer” passed away Jan. 26
Posted by: John Cox | 01/30/2022 at 09:10 PM
Fredrick Johannson died of cancer January 25. Former guitarist for metal band Dark Tranquillity. https://loudwire.com/former-dark-tranquillity-guitarist-fredrik-johansson-has-died/
Posted by: Jayne Hanley | 01/31/2022 at 02:23 PM
https://scroll.in/latest/1015394/bangladeshi-tabla-player-badal-roy-dies-at-77
Posted by: Charles Spellen | 02/04/2022 at 02:13 AM
How can you miss Gary Brooker from Procol Harum Died Febr 19
Posted by: evert | 02/26/2022 at 01:48 AM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/procol-harum-frontman-gary-brooker-dead-obituary-1310688/amp/
Passed away on Feb 19
Posted by: Phil Horneman | 02/26/2022 at 01:52 AM
Jamal Edwards passed away on Feb 20th
https://news.sky.com/story/jamal-edwards-music-entrepreneur-and-youtube-star-dies-aged-31-12547675
Posted by: Phil Horneman | 03/11/2022 at 07:52 AM
Keaton Pierce, lead singer of Too Close to Toych, around about March 26. His vocals were insane. Surprised he didn't grab more attention with his passing
https://www.facebook.com/tooclosetotouch/posts/to-all-of-the-people-whos-lives-were-positively-affected-by-the-music-of-too-clo/510583567103975/
Posted by: Jayden | 04/02/2022 at 03:08 AM
*Too Close To Touch. Apologies. Big fingers, small keyboard.
Posted by: Jayden | 04/02/2022 at 03:09 AM
Tommy Tausis died 30 March. Drummer for Swedish Tages And Spotnicks
Posted by: evert | 04/13/2022 at 03:41 AM
Lennart "lelle" Hegland of Hep Stars Died 13 April Benny Anderssons 60s group.
Posted by: evert | 04/26/2022 at 01:00 PM
David Freel, vocalist, guitarist, lead and founding member of Swell, died at 64. Their 90s albums are still amazing.
Born January 31th, 1958, died April 12th.
Posted by: Antonio Carvalho | 05/02/2022 at 12:58 PM
You missed Glenn Wheatley who passed away on 1st February 2022 with COVID. Wheatley was the bass player in Masters Apprentice and later became manager for Little River Band, John Farnham and Delta Goodrem.
Posted by: Isaac | 05/13/2022 at 06:52 AM
I hope whoever keeps up this page didnt die :`(
Posted by: Christoph | 05/28/2022 at 01:53 PM
Vangelis doesn't get a "yellow banner"? VANGELIS!
Posted by: s polk | 05/30/2022 at 06:15 PM
Please add Magdalena Silvestra, a UK based trance singer, songwriter and the owner of the Verse Recordings Label. Cause of death: pancreatic cancer.
https://www.facebook.com/verserecordings
Posted by: Trancedog | 06/27/2022 at 01:43 AM
Name correction: it is Magdalen Silvestra. Sorry for the typo. SHe passed around June, 11th.
Posted by: Trancedog | 06/27/2022 at 01:48 AM