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It's always sad to mention that another young musician has recently died: Luke Liang of Papa vs Pretty, has died at the age of 28, according to dailymail.co.uk.
Papa vs Pretty's drummer Tom Myers wrote that Liang lost his life to "depression", which can only mean one thing... that he took his own life.
We wrote about the band in Aug 2010, before Liang joined the group (he joined in 2012), saying, “I was lucky enough to see an acoustic set in a quirky little pub basement in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Three youngsters from the Sydney-based band Papa Vs Pretty played two of the songs from their new EP, Heavy Harm. Heavy on the melody and quite intense lyrically. Foot-tappingly brilliant.”
Below are more deaths 2018 - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.
[01 Sep 2018] Kenneth Bowen (Welsh operatic tenor singer), 86
[01 Sep 2018] Randy Weston (American jazz pianist and composer), 92
[30 Aug 2018] Mike Kennedy (American drummer for George Strait), 59, traffic collision
[30 Aug 2018] Joseph Kobzon (Russian singer for People's Artist of USSR), 80, prostate cancer
[29 Aug 2018] Ellie Mannette (Trinidadian steelpan musician), 90
[29 Aug 2018] Robert Stern (American composer), 84
[29 Aug 2018] Boris Vassemirskiy (Russian conductor), 77
[28 Aug 2018] Luke Liang (Australian musician for Papa vs Pretty), 28, suicide
[28 Aug 2018] William Márquez Uzcátegui (Venezuelan singer for Los Chamos), 50, pneumonia
[27 Aug 2018] Zé Béttio (Brazilian composer), 92
[27 Aug 2018] Józef Kossowski (Polish violinist), 83
[26 Aug 2018] Inge Borkh (German soprano), 97
[25 Aug 2018] Kyle Pavone (American rock vocalist for We Came as Romans), 28
[25 Aug 2018] Noam Sheriff (Israeli composer), 83
[24 Aug 2018] DJ Ready Red (American hip hop producer for Geto Boys), 53, heart attack
[23 Aug 2018] George Walker (American composer for Lilacs), 96, fall
[22 Aug 2018] Ed King (American Hall of Fame guitarist for Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd and songwriter), 68, lung cancer
[22 Aug 2018] Lazy Lester (American Hall of Fame blues musician), 85, stomach cancer
[21 Aug 2018] Spencer P. Jones (New Zealand singer and guitarist for The Johnnys), 61, liver cancer
[20 Aug 2018] Eddie Willis (American studio guitarist for The Funk Brothers), 82, complications from poliomyelitis
[19 Aug 2018] Khaira Arby (Malian singer), 59
[19 Aug 2018] Deivison Kellrs (Brazilian singer), 30, liver cancer
[19 Aug 2018] DJ Loutka (Czech DJ), 51, suicide by hanging
[17 Aug 2018] Claudio Lolli (Italian singer-songwriter), 68, cancer
[17 Aug 2018] Sahar Taha (Iraqi-born Lebanese musician and journalist), 61
[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
[16 Aug 2018] Benny Andersen (Danish author, poet and pianist), 88
[15 Aug 2018] Marie-Françoise Bucquet (French pianist and teacher), 80
[15 Aug 2018] Queeneth Ndaba (South African jazz singer and manager for Dorkay House), 82
[14 Aug 2018] Jill Janus (American rock singer for Huntress), 42, suicide
[14 Aug 2018] Valentina Levko (Russian opera and chamber singer), 92
[14 Aug 2018] Teo Maiste (Estonian opera singer), 86
[14 Aug 2018] Randy Rampage (Canadian thrash metal singer and bassist for D.O.A.), 58, heart attack
[14 Aug 2018] Alberto Tosca (Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist), 63
[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
Papa vs Pretty's drummer Tom Myers wrote that Liang lost his life to "depression", which can only mean one thing... that he took his own life.
We wrote about the band in Aug 2010, before Liang joined the group (he joined in 2012), saying, “I was lucky enough to see an acoustic set in a quirky little pub basement in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Three youngsters from the Sydney-based band Papa Vs Pretty played two of the songs from their new EP, Heavy Harm. Heavy on the melody and quite intense lyrically. Foot-tappingly brilliant.”
Below are more deaths 2018 - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.
