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We’ve heard the rumors about Aretha Franklin on her deathbed, but when it was announced today that the Queen of Soul has died, it was still hard to take.
Anyone who likes soul music, heck, just music, loved Aretha Franklin. There’s just something unbelievable about her voice and power that demands to be heard. Sure, her big hit song “Respect” was a cover of Otis Redding, but Franklin’s version is so much better known that anyone would confusion “Respect” as on one else but Aretha Franklin’s song.
The past few years, we’ve lost a few singers in the world of Soul, like Sharon Jones (in 2016), Charles Bradley (in 2017), and, locally, Sonny Knight (also in 2017).
Below are more deaths for the month of August - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.
August (27)
[16 Aug 2018] Aretha Franklin (American soul singer, pianist and songwriter), 76, pancreatic cancer
[16 Aug 2018] Count Prince Miller (Jamaican-born British singer and actor), 83, cancer
[14 Aug 2018] Valentina Levko (Russian opera and chamber singer), 92
[11 Aug 2018] Blue Miller (American musician), 66
[10 Aug 2018] Donnie Robichaud (Canadian bassist), 42, shot
[10 Aug 2018] Scepaz (Australian hip-hop artist), 30, homicide
[09 Aug 2018] Arthur Davies (Welsh opera singer), 77
[08 Aug 2018] Linda Mkhize (South African rapper and DJ), 37, seizure
[07 Aug 2018] Carlos Almenar Otero (Venezuelan singer and songwriter), 92
[07 Aug 2018] Vicki Archer (British radio DJ for BBC Radio Shropshire), 41
[07 Aug 2018] Étienne Chicot (French actor and composer), 69
[07 Aug 2018] Dumitru Fărcaș (Romanian tárogató player), 80
[07 Aug 2018] Guilherme Lamounier (Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer), 67, pneumonia
[05 Aug 2018] Dan Uhrich (American tuba musician), 42
[05 Aug 2018] Majid Al-Majid (Saudi folk singer), 52, shot
[05 Aug 2018] Navid Izadi (American DJ and hip hop artist), 32, plane crash
[05 Aug 2018] Ellen Joyce Loo (Canadian-born Hong Kong singer for at17), 32, fall
[04 Aug 2018] Lorrie Collins (American rockabilly singer for The Collins Kids), 76
[04 Aug 2018] Anar Nagilbaz (Azerbaijani rapper, songwriter and actor), 44, internal hemorrhage
[03 Aug 2018] Bradley Daymond (Canadian dance musician for Love Inc.), 48, cardiac arrest
[03 Aug 2018] Tommy Peoples ( Irish fiddler for The Bothy Band), 70
[02 Aug 2018] Neil Argo (American composer for Mission: Impossible), 71, heart failure
[01 Aug 2018] Gaqo Çako (Albanian opera singer), 83
[01 Aug 2018] Hasanaga Sadigov (Azerbaijani ashik musician), 67, cancer
[01 Aug 2018] Jan Kirsznik (Polish rock and roll saxophonist), 84
[01 Aug 2018] Celeste Rodrigues (Portuguese fado singer), 95
[01 Aug 2018] Umbayee (Indian ghazal singer), 66, cancer
Anyone who likes soul music, heck, just music, loved Aretha Franklin. There’s just something unbelievable about her voice and power that demands to be heard. Sure, her big hit song “Respect” was a cover of Otis Redding, but Franklin’s version is so much better known that anyone would confusion “Respect” as on one else but Aretha Franklin’s song.
The past few years, we’ve lost a few singers in the world of Soul, like Sharon Jones (in 2016), Charles Bradley (in 2017), and, locally, Sonny Knight (also in 2017).
Below are more deaths for the month of August - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.
August (27)