Australian
Australian(s) may refer to:
Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal ...
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
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Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
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Malaysian
Malaysian may refer to:
* Something from or related to Malaysia, a country in Southeast Asia
* Malaysian Malay, a dialect of Malay language spoken mainly in Malaysia
* Malaysian people, people who are identified with the country of Malaysia regar ...
Philippine
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
World
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...
Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, whil ...
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Electronic
Electronic may refer to:
*Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor
* ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal
*Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device
*Electronic co ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...
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Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libre ...
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Pop
Pop or POP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
14U
14U (Hangul: 원포유) was a South Korean boy band formed by BG Entertainment in Incheon, South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Penin ...
Adoy
Adoy (), is a South Korean band formed in 2017. The band debuted on May 17, 2017, with ''Catnip''.
Members
*Oh Ju-hwan (오주환)
*Zee (지)
*Park Geun-chang (박근창)
*Jung Da-young (정다영)
Discography Studio albums
Extended plays
Aw ...
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Bad Wolves
Bad Wolves is an American heavy metal band formed in 2017. Initially finding fame from their first single, a cover of the Cranberries' 1994 hit "Zombie", the band proceeded to find further success with a number of songs topping the ''Billboard' ...
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Be.A
Be.A (Hangul: 비에이, shortened from Be. A or Be an A; formerly known as K-Much) was a South Korean boy band formed under Chrome Entertainment in 2014. They debuted on 7 January 2014 as K-Much with the release of their first mini album ''Bey ...
Bloodywood
Bloodywood is an Indian Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from New Delhi, formed in 2016. They began as a parody music, parody band that uploaded metal covers of pop songs on YouTube, but later went on to write their own original material. Th ...
THE BOYZ
Boyz or The Boyz may refer to:
Music Bands
* The Boyz (German band), a German boy band of the 1990s
* The Boyz (American band), an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, established in 1975
*The Boyz (South Korean band)
The Boyz () ...
Dimlim
DIMLIM was a Japanese visual kei rock band established in 2017, currently on the label DUM LABEL with the members Sho, Retsu and Hiroshi.
Career Formation, VARIOUS and CHEDOARA (2017–2018)
The band was formed in April 2017 by Ryuya, forme ...
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Dreamcatcher
In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher ( oj, asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. It may also be decorated with sacred items such a ...
Elris
Alice (; formerly known as Elris), is a South Korean girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denot ...
FanxyRed
Fanxy Red (), previously known as FFC-Acrush or simply Acrush, is a Chinese girl group. They debuted in 2017 and released their first single album, ''Activate'', in 2019.
Artistry Image
Fanxy Red's style is often described as androgynous or tom ...
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Favorite
A favourite (British English) or favorite (American English) was the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person. In post-classical and early-modern Europe, among other times and places, the term was used of individuals delegated si ...
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Fever 333
Fever 333 (or the Fever 333) is an American rock band formed in Inglewood, California, United States, in July 2017. The three-piece band was founded by former Letlive vocalist Jason Aalon Butler, former the Chariot guitarist Stephen Harrison ...
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Fontaines D.C.
Fontaines D.C. are an Irish post-punk band formed in Dublin in 2017. The band consists of Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O'Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan III (bass), and Tom Coll (drums).
After meeting while attending mu ...
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Fromis 9
Fromis 9 (; stylized as fromis_9) is a South Korean girl group formed by CJ E&M through the 2017 reality show '' Idol School''. The group is composed of eight members: Roh Ji-sun, Song Ha-young, Lee Sae-rom, Lee Chae-young, Lee Na-gyung, Park ...
Gizmodrome
Gizmodrome (sometimes known as Copeland, King, Cosma & Belew) is a British- Italian- American rock supergroup formed in Milan, Italy in 2017. The four-piece band consists of Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Level 42 bassist Mark King, Italian ...
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Grayscale
In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a grayscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an ''amount'' of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Graysc ...
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GreatGuys
GreatGuys () is a South Korean boy band signed to DNA Entertainment. The group consists of nine members: Jaei, Uiyeon, Horyeong, Daun, Baekgyeol, Donghwi, Hwalchan, Haneul, and Dongin. The nonet debuted on August 25, 2017, with the single "Last ...
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Golden Child
Golden means made of, or relating to gold.
Golden may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
*Golden, in the parish of Probus, Cornwall
*Golden Cap, Dorset
* Golden Square, Soho, London
*Golden Valley, a valley on the River Frome in Gloucesters ...
Hash Tag
A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash (also known as pound or octothorpe) sign, ''#''. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Instagram as a form of user-generated t ...
Hyeongseop X Euiwoong
Hyeongseop X Euiwoong ( Hangul: 형섭x의웅) is a South Korean duo formed by Yuehua Entertainment
Yuehua Entertainment (Chinese: 乐华娱乐, Korean: 위에화 엔터테인먼트) is a privately held Chinese multinational entertainment group ...
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IN2IT
In2It (; stylized as IN2IT, pronounced as "In to It") is a South Korean boy band consisting of six members, Yoo Ji-ahn, Jung Yeon-tae, Hwang In-ho, Han Hyun-uk, Lee In-pyo, and Isaac Voo, who previously participated in Mnet's 2016 survival show ...
Leetspeak Monsters
Leetspeak Monsters (stylized as ''Leetspeak monsters'') is a Japanese visual kei rock band whose songs and appearance are centered around Halloween and dark fantasy themes. The band members perform as characters from the fictional city of "Gravet ...
Måneskin
Måneskin are an Italian rock band formed in Rome in 2016. The band are composed of vocalist Damiano David, bassist Victoria De Angelis, guitarist Thomas Raggi, and drummer Ethan Torchio. Performing in the streets in their early days, they rose t ...
My Indigo
My Indigo is a musical project by Dutch singer and songwriter Sharon den Adel. The project was announced in late 2017 and is unrelated to den Adel's symphonic metal band Within Temptation.
Background
On late 2017 and with no recent news of Shar ...
NGT48
NGT48 (read "N.G.T. Forty-eight") is a Japanese girl group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. NGT48 is named after Niigata City of Niigata Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at the NGT48 Theater which is located in the fourth fl ...
Pink Babies
was a 14-member Japanese female idol group that was active from 2014 to 2017. Created by songwriter/producer Shunichi Tokura as part of his "Pan-Pacific Project", the group was a tribute to the 1970s J-pop duo Pink Lady, performing only songs w ...
P.O.P
''P.O.P'' is the second album by The Mad Capsule Markets and their major label debut. It was a faster, thrashier effort than their debut album ''Humanity'', and featured new guitarist Ai Ishigaki.
Track listing
#"Human Protest" – 1:17
# ...
Pristin
Pristin (; stylized as PRISTIN and formerly known as Pledis Girlz) was a South Korean girl group formed by Pledis Entertainment in 2016. The group was composed of ten members: Nayoung, Roa, Yuha, Eunwoo, Rena, Kyulkyung, Yehana, Sungyeon, Xiyeon ...
The Rose
A rose is a perennial plant of the genus ''Rosa'', or the flower it bears.
Rose may also refer to:
Colors
* Rose (color)
** RAL 3017 Rose
* Rose (heraldic tincture)
Arts, entertainment and media Film
* ''Rose'' (2011 film), a Polish film ...
The Sea Within
The Sea Within are an international rock supergroup founded in 2017, formed by Swedish guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt, bassist Jonas Reingold and guitarist Daniel Gildenlöw, German drummer Marco Minnemann, and American keyboardist T ...
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S.I.S
S.I.S () was a South Korean girl group formed by Double X Entertainment in 2017. They debuted on August 25, 2017, with ''I've Got A Feeling''.
Career
In 2017 all members participated in KBS's '' The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project''; however, on ...
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Seven O'Clock
Seven O'Clock () was a South Korean boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform Love s ...
Squid
True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting ...
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Stray Kids
Stray Kids (; often abbreviated as SKZ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment through the 2017 Stray Kids (TV series), reality show of the same name. The group is composed of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunji ...
Superorganism
A superorganism or supraorganism is a group of synergetically interacting organisms of the same species. A community of synergetically interacting organisms of different species is called a holobiont.
Concept
The term superorganism is used mo ...
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Top Secret
Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to kn ...
Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969), better known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler currently serving as the chief content officer for WWE. He is widely regarded as ...
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Tropical Fuck Storm
Tropical Fuck Storm are an Australian rock band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed by Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin from The Drones. Lauren Hammel, from the band High Tension, plays drums, and Erica Dunn, from the bands Mod Con, Harmony ...
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Varsity
Varsity may refer to:
*University, an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines
Places
*Varsity, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
* Varsity Lakes ...
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Wanna One
Wanna One () was a South Korean boy band formed by CJ E&M through the second season of ''Produce 101''. The group was composed of eleven members: Kang Daniel, Park Ji-hoon, Lee Dae-hwi, Kim Jae-hwan, Ong Seong-wu, Park Woo-jin, Lai Kuan-lin, ...
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Weki Meki
Weki Meki (; abbreviated as WEME or WKMK) is a South Korean girl group formed by Fantagio in 2017. The group consists of eight members: Suyeon, Elly, Yoojung, Doyeon, Sei, Lua, Rina, and Lucy.
History
Pre-debut
The members started out as trai ...
Yorushika
is a Japanese Rock music, rock duo founded in 2017 represented by Universal Music Group, Universal Music Japan. The group is composed of N-buna, a vocaloid#Music, vocaloid music producer, and Suis, a female vocalist. They are known for their jux ...
Asca
''Asca'' is a genus of mites with worldwide distribution in the family Ascidae.
Species
* ''Asca acornis'' Lindquist, 1972
* ''Asca annandalei'' Bhattacharyya & Sanyal, 2002
* ''Asca anwenjui'' Ma, 2003
* '' Asca aphidioides' ...
Au/Ra
Jamie Lou Stenzel (born 15 May 2002), known by her stage name Au/Ra, is an Antiguan-German singer-songwriter. Stenzel released her first single "Concrete Jungle" in 2016, which quickly gained 15 million streams worldwide. She rose to prominenc ...
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Baby Ariel
Ariel Rebecca Martin (born November 22, 2000), known professionally as Baby Ariel, is an American social media personality known for her videos on the social media platform musical.ly (now known as TikTok). She was recognized as one of the mos ...
Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (; ; born March 3, 1997) is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. While i ...
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Cavetown
Robin Daniel Skinner (born 15 December 1998), known professionally as Cavetown (sometimes stylized in all lowercase), is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, and YouTuber. His style blends elements of indie rock, indie pop and bedro ...
Clairo
Claire Elizabeth Cottrill (born August 18, 1998), known professionally as Clairo, is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, she began posting music on the internet at age 13.
Clairo rose ...
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Conan Gray
Conan Lee Gray (born December 5, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Lemon Grove, California and raised in Georgetown, Texas, he began uploading vlogs, covers and original songs to YouTube as a teenager. Gray signed a record d ...
Harry Styles
Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His musical career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series ''The X Factor''. Following his elimination, he was brought ...
Jeon So-yeon
Jeon So-yeon (; born August 26, 1998), known mononymously as Soyeon, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer signed to Cube Entertainment. She first gained attention for competing in the television shows '' Produce 10 ...
Kevin Oh
Kevin Oh ( Hangul: 케빈오, born August 29, 1990), is a Korean-American singer-songwriter. He is the winner of ''Superstar K7
Superstar K7 () is the seventh season of the South Korean television talent show series Superstar K, which premier ...
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Keina Suda
is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He belongs to the label Unborde, a sublabel of Warner Music Japan. Before 2017 he made music using Vocaloid and other related software under the name .
Life and career
Keina Suda started playing ...
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Kim Chung-ha
Kim Chung-ha (, born Kim Chan-mi []; February 9, 1996), known mononym, mononymously as Chungha (stylized as CHUNG HA), is a South Korean Pop music, pop singer, dancer and choreographer signed under MNH Entertainment. She finished fourth in Mn ...
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Kim Petras
Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Between 2016 and 2020, she released music as an independent artist under her own imprint, BunHead Records, before signing with Amigo and Republ ...
Lauv
Ari Staprans Leff (born August 8, 1994), known professionally as Lauv (), is an American singer and musician, best known for his breakout hit " I Like Me Better"; included on his compilation album '' I Met You When I Was 18 (The Playlist)'', ...
Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Marc Capaldi ( ; born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. In March 2019, his single " Someone You Loved" topped the UK Singles Chart wher ...
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Liam Payne
Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer. He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. Payne made his debut as a singer in 2008 when he auditioned for the British television series '' The X Factor''. After bei ...
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Little Simz
Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo (born 23 February 1994), better known by her stage name Little Simz, is a British rapper, singer and actress. She rose to prominence with the independent release of her first three albums; ''A Curious Tale ...
Madison Beer
Madison Elle Beer (born March 5, 1999) is an American singer. Born in New York, she began posting covers to YouTube in early 2012. Beer gained substantial media coverage when Justin Bieber posted a link to one of her covers. She released her d ...
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Maisie Peters
Maisie Hannah Peters (born 28 May 2000) is an English singer-songwriter. After independently releasing two singles, she was signed to Atlantic Records, with whom she released two EPs and the second series soundtrack to the British comedy series ...
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Masaki Suda
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor and singer. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. His debut song is "Mita Koto mo Nai Keshiki".
Personal life
Suda is a close junior to ...
Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Jovon Ruth Pete (born February 15, 1995), known professionally as Megan Thee Stallion (pronounced "Megan the Stallion"), is an American rapper and songwriter. Originally from Houston, Texas, she first garnered attention when videos of he ...
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Minzy
Gong Min-ji (; born January 18, 1994), better known by her stage name Minzy, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer. She debuted in 2009 as a member of South Korean girl group 2NE1, which became one of the best-selling girl groups worldwi ...
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Mxmtoon
Maia (born July 9, 2000), known professionally as mxmtoon, is an American singer-songwriter and YouTuber. Her music is characterized by emotionally transparent, confessional lyrics, and often employs the ukulele. She released her first EP, ' ...
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Nao Tōyama
is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with the agency Intention. Before joining Intention, she was affiliated with Arts Vision. She debuted as a voice actress in 2010, and played her first leading role as Kanon Nakagawa in '' The Wo ...
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Niki __NOTOC__
Niki may refer to:
People
* Niki (given name)
* NIKI (singer), Indonesian singer and songwriter
* Niki DeMar, American singer
* Niki Etsuko (1928–1986), Japanese author of mystery fiction
Places
* Niki, Hokkaido, a town in Japan
* Ni ...
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (born August 17, 1994) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She has released two solo albums, '' Stranger in the Alps'' (2017) and '' Punisher'' (2020), both of which received critical accla ...
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Punch
Punch commonly refers to:
* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
Punch may also refer to:
Places
* Pun ...
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Ravi Ravi may refer to:
People
* Ravi (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Ravi (composer) (1926–2012), Indian music director
* Ravi (Ivar Johansen) (born 1976), Norwegian musical artist
* Ravi (music director) (1926� ...
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Rena Nōnen
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actress, fashion model and singer from Kamikawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series '' Amachan'' (2013). In July 2016, it was announced that she changed her st ...
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Sabrina Claudio
Sabrina Claudio (born September 19, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter. In late 2016, Claudio uploaded several songs to SoundCloud, before compiling a select collection as part of her debut extended play, ''Confidently Lost'', which was ...
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Sam Fender
Samuel Thomas Fender (born 25 April 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his high tenor voice and thick Geordie accent, layered over music characterised by a roots-orientated rock approach. Fender's sound relies ...
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Samuel
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bi ...
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Sayumi Michishige
is a Japanese singer, actress and model. She is a former sixth-generation member and former leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Following the departure of fifth-generation member Risa Niigaki on October 12, 2013, Michishige has the longe ...
Seohyun
Seo Ju-hyun (; born June 28, 1991), known professionally as Seohyun, is a South Korean singer, actress and songwriter. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation (and later its subgroup Girls' Generation-TTS) in August 2007, which ...
Sōma Saitō
is a Japanese voice actor and singer affiliated with 81 Produce and Sacra Music.
Biography
Early life
Saito was born on April 22, 1991, in Shōwa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. He is the eldest of three siblings, with two younger sisters. He ...
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Saweetie
Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper (born July 2, 1993), known professionally as Saweetie (), is an American rapper. After the release of her debut single " Icy Grl" in 2017, she was signed to her then-manager Max Gousse's record label Artistry W ...
Soyou
Kang Ji-hyun (born February 12, 1992), known professionally as Soyou, is a South Korean singer. She is best known as a former member of the South Korean girl group Sistar.
Life and career
1992–2010: Early life and career beginnings
Soyou ...
Woo Won-jae
Woo Won-jae (; born December 23, 1996), also known as Woo, is a South Korean rapper. In 2017, he released his debut single "We Are" () which had commercial success and widespread acclaim. He has released one studio album: ''Black Out'' (2020) on ...
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Volts Vallejo
Voltaire Calahi Vallejo, simply known as Volts Vallejo, is a Filipino songwriter and recording artist who rose to popularity when his song "Hey Crush" was chosen as the official theme song for the Metro Manila Film Festival movie Vince & Kath & ...
Yungblud
Dominic Richard Harrison (born 5 August 1997), known professionally as Yungblud (pronounced "Youngblood"), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor. In 2018, he released his first EP, ''Yungblud'', followed shortly after by the albu ...
Bands reformed
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As I Lay Dying
''As I Lay Dying'' is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to Wo ...
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Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Glendale, California, in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello (lead guitar), Ti ...
Carnivore
A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements derive from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other ...
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Chimaira
Chimaira () is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in August 1998, the group was a member of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal scene. The band's name is derived from the word Chimera, a monstrous creature in Greek m ...
Dreamcatcher
In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher ( oj, asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. It may also be decorated with sacred items such a ...
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Eagles
Eagle is the common name for many large Bird of prey, birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of Genus, genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Ou ...
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Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in October 1995. The band broke up in April 2007, less than a year after their major label debut was released through Epic and Trustkill Records. After over ...
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Elastica
Elastica were an English rock band formed in London in 1992 by ex-Suede members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch. The band was stylistically influenced by punk rock, post-punk and new wave music. The band's members changed several times, ...
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Exhorder
Exhorder is an American heavy metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana. They are considered progenitors of the groove-oriented thrash sound later made famous by bands such as Pantera, Lamb of God, White Zombie and Machine Head, and their music ...
The KLF
The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing ...
Madina Lake
Madina Lake is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 2005. The band released their debut album, '' From Them, Through Us, to You'', through Roadrunner Records on March 27, 2007. Madina Lake won Best Int ...
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Nachtmystium
Nachtmystium was an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word ''Nacht'' meaning "night", and the made-up term ''mystium'' which re ...
Orbital
Orbital may refer to:
Sciences Chemistry and physics
* Atomic orbital
* Molecular orbital
* Hybrid orbital Astronomy and space flight
* Orbit
** Earth orbit
Medicine and physiology
* Orbit (anatomy), also known as the ''orbital bone''
* Orbito ...
Sadus
Sadus is an American thrash metal band from Antioch, California, active from 1985 to 2015, and reunited in 2017. Originally a quartet, the band's sound fuses thrash metal with death metal, featuring highly technical musicianship. They are kno ...
Steps
Step(s) or STEP may refer to:
Common meanings
* Steps, making a staircase
* Walking
* Dance move
* Military step, or march
** Marching
Arts Films and television
* ''Steps'' (TV series), Hong Kong
* ''Step'' (film), US, 2017
Literature
* ...
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The Streets
The Streets are an English music project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.
The project has released six studio albums: '' Original Pirate Material'' (2002), ''A Grand Don't Come for Free'' (2004), '' The Hardest Way to ...
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Stornoway
Stornoway (; gd, Steòrnabhagh; sco, Stornowa) is the main town of the Western Isles and the capital of Lewis and Harris in Scotland.
The town's population is around 6,953, making it by far the largest town in the Outer Hebrides, as well ...
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Sugarland
Sugarland is an American country music duo founded in Atlanta, Georgia. The duo consists of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles (lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (vocals, guitar, mandolin). They were founded in 2002, at which point Kristen Hall ...
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Tripping Daisy
Tripping Daisy is a neo-psychedelic pop rock band that was formed in Dallas, Texas, by lead singer/guitarist Tim DeLaughter in 1990 along with Jeff Bouck (drums), Wes Berggren (guitar) and Mark Pirro (bass).
The group disbanded in 1999 foll ...
Camera Obscura
A camera obscura (; ) is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole.
''Camera obscura'' can also refer to analogous constructions such as a box or tent in ...
Dark Sermon
Dark Sermon was an American blackened death metal band from Tampa, Florida signed to EOne Music in North America and Nuclear Blast Records in Europe. The band was formed in 2009 under the name "In Reference to a Sinking Ship" and later chang ...
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Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band (also known by the initials DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991. The band's founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer and back ...
Girls’ Generation
Girls' Generation (), also known as SNSD, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment. The group is composed of eight members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. Originally a nine-piece e ...
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Ikimono-gakari
The romanization of the group's name does not have the hyphen according to Sony's websites for their albums. is a Japanese pop rock duo from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan consisting of Yoshiki Mizuno and Kiyoe Yoshioka. The group started in Februa ...
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The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 2006. The band consists of Brian Fallon (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Alex Rosamilia (lead guitar, backing vocals), Alex Levine (bass guitar, backing vocals ...
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Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon diox ...
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The Jezabels
The Jezabels are an Australian indie rock band formed in Sydney in 2007. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Mary (born Hayley Frances McGlone), lead guitarist Sam Lockwood, pianist and keyboardist Heather Shannon, and drummer and percuss ...
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Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them ...
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Karnataka
Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Kar ...
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and dr ...
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil (both of whom are the only members to appear in every incarnation of the band), and bassist Hiro Ya ...
*
Sphere
A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...
*
Tackey & Tsubasa
were a Japanese idol duo consisting of Hideaki Takizawa and Tsubasa Imai from the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. Takizawa, nicknamed "Tackey" (sometimes spelled as its literal romanization, ), is best known for his drama works, a ...
*
Tsubaki
Tsubaki (つばき or ツバキ) may refer to:
People
* , Japanese snowboarder
* , the pen name used by a member of the all-female manga-creating team Clamp
*Andrew T. Tsubaki (1931-2009), Japanese theatre scholar
*, Japanese speed skater
* , a ...
*
Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots (stylized in all lowercase or as twenty øne piløts) are an American musical duo from Columbus, Ohio. Initially a band, the group was formed in 2009 by lead vocalist Tyler Joseph along with Nick Thomas and Chris Salih, who b ...
A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group formed in Queens, New York City, in 1985,Q-Tip
* Amoral
*
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Glendale, California, in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello (lead guitar), Ti ...
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped de ...
The Cab
The Cab is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their debut album, '' Whisper War'', was released on April 29, 2008. They have been called "The Band You Need to Know 2008" by '' Alternative Press'' magazine. They were also featured in ...
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Chairlift
An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel wire rope loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs. Th ...
*
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject m ...
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Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...
*
Circus Devils
Circus Devils is an American art rock band founded in 2001 by Robert Pollard, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Dayton, Ohio, band Guided by Voices. The band consists of Pollard (vocals and lyrics), Todd Tobias (music and produ ...
*
Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber is an American nu metal band formed by Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón in Los Angeles, California in 1993. Prior to Coal Chamber, the two had also created the band She's in Pain, in 1992. The original lineup also consisted of bassis ...
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan was an American metalcore band. The band was formed in 1997 in Morris Plains, New Jersey by guitarist Ben Weinman, bassist Adam Doll, vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, and drummer Chris Pennie. The band's use of odd time sign ...
Heaven's Basement
Heaven's Basement were an English rock band formed in 2008 and signed with Red Bull Records. Band members included Aaron Buchanan (vocals), Sid Glover (guitar, vocals), Rob Ellershaw (bass, backing vocals), and Chris Rivers (drums). The band sp ...
*
Hilcrhyme
is a Japanese two member hip-hop group. The band's name is a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of hillclimb and the word rhyme. They are best known for their 2009 hit song "Shunkashūtō", which has been certified for 1,000,000 cellphone digital ...
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In Dying Arms
In Dying Arms is an American deathcore band from Baltimore. The lineup currently consists of Orion Stephens (vocals), Christian Becker and Noah Williamson (guitar, vocals), Keith Kohlhepp (bass) and Nate White (drums).
History
In Dying Ar ...
*
Letlive
Letlive, stylized letlive., was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's final lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jason Aalon Butler (son of Aalon Butler, vocalist and guitarist of the soul group Aalon), guitarist Jeff S ...
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Les B.B.
Les B.B. (pronounced leh beh beh) was a Canadian band from the province of Quebec. It had great success in the 1980s and the early 1990s. It is made up of Patrick Bourgeois (vocals, guitar, bass), Alain Lapointe (keyboards, guitar, bass and backi ...
Marionette
A marionette (; french: marionnette, ) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or reveale ...
Mindless Behavior
Mindless Behavior was an American boy band who were best known for the singles " My Girl" and " Mrs. Right", produced by Walter Millsap. The band was put together in Los Angeles in 2008, by Keisha Gamble, Vincent Herbert and Walter Millsap. The ba ...
*
Miss A
Miss A (stylized as "MISS A" or "miss A", Hangul: ) was a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment. The group debuted in July 2010 with the single " Bad Girl Good Girl" as a quartet consisting of Fei, Jia, Min, and Suzy. Their d ...
*
Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep was an American hip hop duo from New York City. The duo consisted of rappers Prodigy and Havoc. They are considered to be among the principal progenitors of hardcore East Coast hip hopEdwards, Paul, 2009, '' How to Rap: The Art & Sci ...
Plenty
Plenty may refer to:
Places
* Plenty, Victoria, a town in Australia
* Plenty River (Victoria), a river in the Australian state of Victoria
*Plenty River (Northern Territory), a river in the Northern Territory of Australia
* Plenty, Tasmania, a sma ...
Poured Out
Poured Out are an American metalcore band from Hollywood, Maryland, and they started making music together in 2014, playing hardcore punk and metalcore. They have released one extended play, '' Blind Heart'' (2016), with Facedown Records.
Backgro ...
Rev. from DVL
Rev. from DVL was a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2011, as a successor to vocal and dance group DVL. It was formed as a local idol group for major activities within Fukuoka Prefecture, and was managed under ActiveHakata.
History
Rev. from DV ...
*
The Roches
The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
Career
In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry", ...
*
The Saturdays
The Saturdays were a British-Irish girl group based in London, England. The group formed during the summer of 2007 and have been on hiatus since 2014. The lineup consists of Frankie Bridge, Una Healy, Rochelle Humes, Mollie King, and Vanessa ...
*
Spawn of Possession
Spawn of Possession was a Swedish technical death metal group, which formed in 1997 in Kalmar. The band have collectively released three studio albums. A fourth album was planned, but in 2017 the band announced their split up.
Biography
Spawn of ...
*
Staind
Staind ( ) is an American rock band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny April, an ...
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American Rock music, rock band from Gainesville, Florida. Formed in 1976, the band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell (musician), Mike Campbell, ...
*
The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassi ...
*
Trap Them
Trap Them was an American hardcore punk band formed in Salem, New Hampshire in 2001. They released five studio albums and five EPs, including a split EP with Extreme Noise Terror.
History
Trap Them began in 2001 as a side-project for Ryan ...
White Miles
White Miles was an Austrian Rock band, rock duo, consisting of singer/guitarist Medina Rekic and drummer/singer Hansjörg Loferer and founded in 2011. They describe their musical style as "dirty pole dancer stoner blues rock". It oscillates betw ...
The Wonder Girls
Wonder Girls () was a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment. The group debuted in February 2007 with the single "Irony" and 5 members: Yeeun, Sunye, Sunmi, Hyuna and Sohee. After Hyuna's departure in July, Yubin was added into t ...
Yellowcard
Yellowcard is an American rock band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and was based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000. The band is recognized for having a distinct sound in their genre, primarily due to the prominent use of a violin i ...
*
Your Memorial
Your Memorial was an American metalcore band from Hennepin County, Minnesota. The group is currently under contract with Facedown Records. Its debut studio album, ''Seasons'', was released in 2008. In 2010, the band released its second studio alb ...
Deaths
January
* 1 –
Memo Morales
Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo (6 April 1937 – 1 January 2017) was a Venezuelan singer. Better known as Memo Morales, he was also dubbed as ''El Gitano Maracucho''.
Morales was the main voice of many important orchestras of the country, as ...
(79), Venezuelan rumba singer
* 2 –
Auriel Andrew
Auriel Andrew (1947 – 2 January 2017) was an award-winning Arrernte country musician from the Northern Territory of Australia.
Biography
Andrew was born in Darwin, and grew up in Mparntwe, Northern Territory. She is Arrernte, the Traditio ...
(69), Indigenous Australian country singer
* 4 –
Bade Fateh Ali Khan
Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan ( ur, ; ; 1935 – 4 January 2017) was among the foremost Khyal vocalists in Pakistan, and a leading exponent of the Patiala Gharana tradition of music. He was the younger of the legendary singing duo Amanat Ali a ...
(82), Pakistani classical music and Khyal singer
* 6 – Sylvester Potts (78), American R&B singer (
the Contours
The Contours is one of the early American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records. The group is best known for its classic chart-topping 1962 hit, "Do You Love Me", which sold over 1 million copies and became a major hit again in 1988.
His ...
Peter Sarstedt
Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of singers Eden Kane, a teenage pop idol and Clive Sarstedt, with both of whom he also recorded and performed ...
(75), British folk pop singer
* 10 –
Buddy Greco
Armando Joseph "Buddy" Greco (August 14, 1926 – January 10, 2017) was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist who had a long career in the US and UK. His recordings have sold millions, including "Oh Look A-There Ain't She Pretty", " Up, Up ...
(90), American jazz singer and pianist
* 11 –
Tommy Allsup
Thomas Douglas Allsup (November 24, 1931 – January 11, 2017) was an American rockabilly and swing musician.
Personal life
Allsup was born near Owasso, Oklahoma in 1931, and was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. Allsup had a son, ...
(83), American rock and roll guitarist
* 13
** Horacio Guarany (91), Argentine folklore singer
** Richie Ingui (69), American soul singer ( Soul Survivors)
* 14 – John Boudreaux (80), American jazz and soul drummer
* 15 –
Greg Trooper
Greg Trooper (January 13, 1956 – January 15, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, whose songs have been recorded by many artists, including Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Vince Gill.
History
Trooper was born in Neptune Township, New Jerse ...
(61), American alternative country singer and songwriter
* 16
**
William Onyeabor
William Ezechukwu Onyeabor (, ; 26 March 1946 – 16 January 2017) was a Nigerian funk musician and businessman. His music was widely heard in Nigeria in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Despite his success, he remained an enigmatic, private and ...
(70), Nigerian funk singer-songwriter
** Steve Wright (66), American power pop bassist and songwriter (
The Greg Kihn Band
The Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright. Their most successful singles include " The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" ( ''Billboard'' Hot 100 #15) and " Jeopardy" (''Billboard' ...
)
* 18 – Mike Kellie (69), British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer (
Spooky Tooth
Spooky Tooth were an English rock band originally formed in Carlisle in 1967. Principally active between 1967 and 1974, the band re-formed several times in later years.
History
Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band's five founding members ...
,
The Only Ones
The Only Ones were an English rock band formed in London in 1976, whose original band members are Peter Perrett, Alan Mair, John Perry and Mike Kellie, they first disbanded in 1982. They were associated with punk rock, yet straddled the mus ...
)
* 19 – Loalwa Braz (63), Brazilian pop and lambada singer (
Kaoma
Kaoma was a French-Brazilian band formed in 1988 by Loalwa Braz (lead vocals), Chyco Dru (bass), Jacky Arconte (guitar), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (keyboard), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion) and Fania (backing vocals). Dru is from Martini ...
)
* 20
** Ronald "Bingo" Mundy (76), American singer (
The Marcels
The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and signed to Colpix Records with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, R ...
)
**
Joey Powers
Joseph S. "Joe" Ruggiero (December 7, 1934 – January 20, 2017), who performed as Joey Powers, was an American former pop singer and songwriter whose record "Midnight Mary" reached No. 10 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot 100 i ...
(82), American pop singer
**
Tommy Tate
Thomas Tate (born February 26, 1956) is an American football coach and athletics administrator. He is the athletic director and defensive coordinator at Opelousas Catholic School in Opelousas, Louisiana, positions he has held since 2013. Tate ...
The Ohio Players
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in ...
,
Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American musical collective, music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton (funk musician), George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament (band), Parlia ...
)
** Maggie Roche (65), American folk singer (
The Roches
The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
Career
In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry", ...
)
* 22
**
Jaki Liebezeit
Jaki Liebezeit (born Hans Liebezeit; 26 May 1938 – 22 January 2017) was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can. He was called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral". ...
(78), German experimental rock drummer ( Can)
** Pete Overend Watts (69), British glam rock bassist and singer (
Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were an English rock band formed in Herefordshire. Originally known as the Doc Thomas Group, the group changed their name after signing with Island Records in 1969. The band released albums throughout the early 1970s but fai ...
Bobby Freeman
Robert Thomas Freeman (June 13, 1940 – January 23, 2017)"Bobby Freeman" Ace Records.co.uk. Retrieve ...
(76), American pop and R&B singer
* 24
** Gil Ray (60), American power pop drummer ( Game Theory,
The Loud Family
The Loud Family was a San Francisco-based power pop band formed in 1991 by songwriter and guitarist Scott Miller (pop musician), Scott Miller, who previously led the 1980s band Game Theory (band), Game Theory. The Loud Family released six studi ...
)
**
Butch Trucks
Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born ...
(69), American rock drummer (
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (founder, slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guit ...
The Itals
The Itals are a Jamaican reggae vocal group formed in 1976 by Alvin "Keith" Porter, Lloyd Ricketts, and Ronnie Davis (formerly a member of The Tennors), all of whom had previously also recorded as solo artists. All three had worked together i ...
)
* 27 –
Stan Boreson Stan Boreson (May 5, 1925 – January 27, 2017), the "King of Scandinavian Humor," was a Norwegian-American comedian, accordionist and singer from Everett, Washington. Boreson was an early local TV star in the Seattle area, with a career that includ ...
(91), American comedian, accordionist and singer
* 28
** Guitar Gable (79), American blues singer and guitarist
** Geoff Nicholls (68), British rock musician and keyboardist (
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped de ...
,
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica ( silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical ...
Kraken
The kraken () is a legendary sea monster of enormous size said to appear off the coasts of Norway.
Kraken, the subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in the modern age at the turn of the 18th century, in a travel ...
)
* 30 – James Laurence (27), American hip hop musician and producer ( Friendzone) (death announced on this date)
* 31
** Deke Leonard (72), British progressive rock guitarist (
Man
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chrom ...
)
**
John Wetton
John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter. Known for his dexterous bass playing and booming baritone voice, Wetton first gained fame in the early 1970s.
Wetton was the singer and p ...
(67), British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter (
Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an ...
,
King Crimson
King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experime ...
)
February
* 1 –
Robert Dahlqvist
Robert Dahlqvist (16 April 1976 – 1 February 2017) was a Sweden, Swedish guitarist and vocalist best known for his nine-year tenure with the rock band The Hellacopters. He was also the lead singer and lead guitarist for Dundertåget (first known ...
(40), Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer (
The Hellacopters
The Hellacopters are a Swedish garage rock band that was formed in 1994 by Nicke Andersson (vocals and guitar), Andreas Tyrone "Dregen" Svensson (guitar), Kenny Håkansson (bass) and Robert Eriksson (drums). Andersson (sometimes known as Nick ...
,
Thunder Express
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightnin ...
Steve Lang
Stephen Keith Lang (March 24, 1949 – February 4, 2017) was a Canadian bassist best known for his time and work with the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984 during the band's most successful years.
Early life
Lang was born in Montreal, ...
(67), Canadian rock bassist (
April Wine
April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Myles Goodwin since its inception, April Wine's first success came with its second album, '' On Record'' (1972), which rea ...
)
* 5
** David Axelrod (85), American jazz musician and producer
**
Sonny Geraci
Emmett Peter "Sonny" Geraci ("Jer-ah-see"); November 22, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American singer, best known as lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax.
Biography
Geraci first became known as the original lead vocali ...
(70), American pop and rock singer (
Climax
Climax may refer to:
Language arts
* Climax (narrative), the point of highest tension in a narrative work
* Climax (rhetoric), a figure of speech that lists items in order of importance
Biology
* Climax community, a biological community th ...
Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the other jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and ...
(100), Danish jazz violinist
* 8
**
Rina Matsuno
was a Japanese singer, model, actress and '' tarento'' who was a member of the idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku.
Career
Matsuno was scouted into the entertainment industry in Tokyo in the Omotesandō Avenue when she was in the first grade o ...
(18), Japanese pop singer (
Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku
are a Japanese female idol group. The group's name is officially shortened to . The group was created by 3B Junior, the third section of the talent agency Stardust Promotion. Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku is considered a "little sister" group to anoth ...
)
**
Tony Särkkä
Tony Särkkä (15 December 1972 – 8 February 2017), who went by the stage name It, was a Swedish multi-instrumentalist who has played in many black metal bands. He played guitar, drums and bass guitar as well as doing vocals. He was joined by ...
(44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist
* 11 – Jarmila Šuláková (87), Czech folk singer
* 12
**
Al Jarreau
Alwin Lopez Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician. His 1981 album '' Breakin' Away'' spent two years on the ''Billboard'' 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R ...
(76), American jazz singer
**
Damian Damian ( la, links=no, Damianus) may refer to:
*Damian (given name)
*Damian (surname)
*Damian Subdistrict, in Longquanyi District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
See also
*Damiani, an Italian surname
*Damiano (disambiguation)
*Damien (disambiguation)
*Dam ...
(52), British pop singer
* 13
** Trish Doan (31), American heavy metal bassist ( Kittie) (death announced on this date)
** E-Dubble (34), American rapper
* 16 – Pericoma Okoye (81), Nigerian traditional music singer
* 17
**
Peter Skellern
Peter Skellern (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist who rose to fame in the 1970s. He had two top twenty hits on the UK Singles Chart - "You're a Lady" (1972), which typifies his signature use of br ...
(69), English easy listening singer-songwriter and pianist
** Dave Yorko (73), American rock and roll guitarist (
Johnny and the Hurricanes
Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock band from Toledo, Ohio, United States. They specialized in adapting popular traditional melodies into the rock idiom, using organ and saxophone as their featured instruments. Between ...
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.
Early life
Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He w ...
(73), American jazz fusion guitarist
* 20 – Huang Feili (99), Chinese classical music conductor
* 23
**
Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan (January 19, 1931 – February 23, 2017) was an American pianist and composer known for working in the hard bop and post-bop styles of jazz. In addition to his work as a bandleader Parlan was known for his contributions to the Cha ...
(86), American jazz pianist
**
Leon Ware
Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American songwriter, producer, composer, and singer. Besides a solo career as a performer, Ware was best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson, Quincy ...
(77), American funk singer and songwriter
* 25
** Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist ( Drive)
** Toshio Nakanishi (61), Japanese new wave guitarist (
Plastics
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient. Their plasticity makes it possible for plastics to be moulded, extruded or pressed into solid objects of various shapes. This adaptab ...
)
**
Bill Paxton
William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and filmmaker. He appeared in films such as ''Weird Science'' (1985), ''Aliens'' (1986), '' Near Dark'' (1987), '' Tombstone'' (1993), '' True Lies'' (1994), ''Apollo 13 ...
(61), American new wave keyboardist ( Martini Ranch) and actor
Lyle Ritz
Lyle Joseph Ritz (January 10, 1930 – March 3, 2017) was an American musician, known for his work on ukulele and bass (both double bass and bass guitar). His early career in jazz as a ukulele player made him a key part of the Hawaii music scene ...
Danny Spooner
Danny Spooner (16 December 1936 – 3 March 2017) was an Australian traditional folk singer and social historian. Born in England, he left school at the age of 13 and worked as a salvage tug and trawler skipper before moving to Australia in 19 ...
(80), British-born Australian folk singer
* 4
**
Valerie Carter
Valerie Gail Zakian Carter (February 5, 1953 – March 4, 2017) was an American singer.
Biography
Carter began her career singing in coffeehouses as a teenager, and eventually became one-third of the country-folk band Howdy Moon. Though they de ...
(64), American rock singer and songwriter
** Edi Fitzroy (61), Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer
**
Tommy Page
Thomas Alden Page (May 24, 1967 – March 3, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1990 hit single " I'll Be Your Everything" and was later a music industry executive. Page collaborated with many artists, including Malaysi ...
(46), American pop singer
* 6
** Ritchie Adams (78), American songwriter and singer (
The Fireflies
The Fireflies were an American doo-wop group from Long Island, New York, from the late 1950s to early 1960s. They were one of the first groups in which all band members both sang and played instruments. In addition, they were the first all-white vo ...
Snowstorm
A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessar ...
)
**
Alberto Zedda
Alberto Zedda (2 January 19286 March 2017) was an Italian conductor and musicologist whose specialty was the 19th-century Italian repertoire.
Alberto Zedda was born in Milan, Italy, where he accomplished his education in music and humanities, comp ...
(89), Italian conductor and musicologist
* 7 –
Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (11 September 1970 – 7 March 2017) was an Indian folk singer and researcher. He was born and raised in Silchar, Assam. He went on to study comparative literature at Jadavpur University. His musical inspiration was his ...
Joni Sledge
Joan Elise Sledge (September 13, 1956 – March 10, 2017) was an American singer best known as a founding member of the family vocal group Sister Sledge. The group was known for their hits during the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s; most notably ...
(60), American R&B and disco singer (
Sister Sledge
Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1971, the group consisted of sisters Debbie, Joni, Kim, and Kathy Sledge. The siblings achieved international success at the height of the disco era. ...
)
* 11
** Evan Johns (60), American rockabilly guitarist ( The LeRoi Brothers)
** Ángel Parra (73), Chilean folk singer
** Don Warden (87), American country slide guitarist
* 12 – Joey Alves (63), American hard rock rhythm guitarist ( Y&T)
* 13
** Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, American funk singer (
Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American musical collective, music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton (funk musician), George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament (band), Parlia ...
)
** John Lever (55), British post-punk drummer (
The Chameleons
The Chameleons are an English rock band, formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1981. The band's classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever.
Th ...
)
* 15
**
Phil Garland
Philip Humphrey Garland (9 February 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to folk music, and was called the "Godfather of New Zealan ...
(75), New Zealander folk singer
** Vicky (69), Colombian pop singer
* 16 –
James Cotton
James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many fellow blues artists and with his own band. He also played drums early in his career.
...
(81), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
* 18 –
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined a ...
(90), American rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter
* 20
**
Buck Hill
Buck Hill is a ski hill in Burnsville, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. It is one of three ski areas in the Twin Cities metropolitan area; the others are Afton Alps and Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area. Buck Hill opened in 1954 and offe ...
(90), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
**
Tony Terran
Anthony Terran (May 30, 1926 – March 20, 2017) was an American trumpet player and session musician. He was part of the Wrecking Crew, a group of largely uncredited session musicians in Los Angeles, California, who helped famous artists record ...
(90), American rock and pop trumpeter ( The Wrecking Crew)
* 21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa (42), black metal drummer (
Negură Bunget
Negură Bunget was a black metal band from Timișoara, Romania whose atmospheric sound incorporated elements of progressive metal and Romanian folk music.
Biography
Negură Bunget originally formed at the end of 1994 under the name Wiccan Rede, ...
)
* 22
**
Sib Hashian
John Thomas "Sib" Hashian (August 17, 1949 – March 22, 2017) was an American musician, best known as a drummer for the rock band Boston.
Career
Boston
Hashian was chosen by Boston founder and band leader Tom Scholz in 1975 to replace origina ...
(67), American rock drummer (
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...
Sebastián
Saint Sebastian (in Latin: ''Sebastianus''; Narbo, Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Empire c. AD 255 – Rome, Italia, Roman Empire c. AD 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the D ...
(63), Argentine cuarteto singer
* 24
** Vincent Falcone (78), American pianist ( Frank Sinatra) and conductor
** Pete Shotton (75), British skiffle percussionist and washboardist (
The Quarrymen
The Quarrymen (also written as "the Quarry Men") are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several schoolfriends, the Quar ...
)
* 25 – Edward Grimes (43), American post-rock drummer ( Rachel's)
* 26
**
Alessandro Alessandroni
Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple
instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and piano, and composed more than 40 film scores an ...
(92), Italian film composer and classical guitarist
**
Jimmy Dotson
James Dent Dotson (October 19, 1933 – March 26, 2017), sometimes known as Jimmy "Louisiana" Dotson, was an American blues singer, guitarist and drummer. His best known track was "I Need Your Love", a song he co-wrote with Jerry West. Over a s ...
(83), American blues singer and songwriter
* 27 –
Clem Curtis
Clem Curtis (born Curtis Clements; 28 November 1940 – 27 March 2017) was a Trinidadian British singer, who was the original lead vocalist of sixties soul group The Foundations.
Background Family
He was the father of seven children, six sons ...
(76), Trinidadian-British singer (
The Foundations
The Foundations were a British soul band (m. 1967–1970). The group's background was: West Indian, White British, and Sri Lankan. Their 1967 debut single " Baby Now That I've Found You" reached number one in the UK and Canada, and number ...
)
* 28 – Terry Fischer (70), American pop singer ( The Murmaids)
* 30 –
Rosie Hamlin
Rosalie "Rosie" Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals, best known for the 1960 song " Angel Baby", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Ham ...
Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017) was an American blues singer and guitarist. The musicologist Robert Palmer, writing in ''Rolling Stone'', stated, "His music is witty, soulful and ferociously energetic, br ...
(83), American blues singer and guitarist
**
Ikutaro Kakehashi
, also known by the nickname Taro, was a Japanese engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He founded the musical instrument manufacturers Ace Tone, Roland Corporation, and Boss Corporation, and the audiovisual electronics company ATV Corporation.
...
(87), Japanese engineer, founder of
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on 18 April 1972. In 2005, its headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It has f ...
, manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
** Wycliffe Noble (91), British gospel singer (
The Joystrings
The Joystrings (originally credited as The Joy Strings) were a 1960s UK Christian music group led by classically trained keyboard player and singer Joy Webb, an officer (now retired) in the Salvation Army.
History
After appearing on Cliff M ...
) and architect
* 3 – Brenda Jones (62), American singer ( The Jones Girls)
* 5 – Paul O'Neill (61), American progressive metal composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter (
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel ...
,
Savatage
Savatage () was an American heavy metal band founded by brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1979 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The band was first called Avatar, but, shortly before the release of their debut album ''Sirens'' (1983), they changed t ...
)
* 6 – David Peel (74), American folk singer and songwriter
* 7 –
Ben Speer
Ben Lacy Speer (June 26, 1930 – April 7, 2017) was a singer, musician, music publisher, and record company executive. He sang for The Speer Family for most of his career. Speer later became the music director of the Gaither Homecoming programs ...
(86), American gospel singer ( Speer Family)
* 8 – Keni Richards (60), American rock drummer (
Autograph
An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word ''autograph'' comes from Ancient Greek (, ''autós'', "self" and , ''gráphō'', "write"), and can mean more specifically: Gove, Philip B. (ed.), 1981. ''Webster's Third New Inter ...
)
* 9
** Alan Henderson (72), Northern Irish rock bassist (
Them
Them or THEM, a third-person plural accusative personal pronoun, may refer to:
Books
* ''Them'' (novel), 3rd volume (1969) in American Joyce Carol Oates' ''Wonderland Quartet''
* '' Them: Adventures with Extremists'', 2003 non-fiction by Wels ...
)
**
Bob Wootton
Robert "Bob" Wootton (March 4, 1942 – April 9, 2017) was an American guitarist. He joined Johnny Cash's backing band, the Tennessee Three, after original lead guitarist Luther Perkins died in a house fire. He remained Cash's guitarist for n ...
(75), American country guitarist ( The Tennessee Three)
* 10 – Banner Thomas (62), American hard rock bassist (
Molly Hatchet
Molly Hatchet is an American rock band formed in 1971 by guitarist Dave Hlubek in Jacksonville, Florida. They were a popular band during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s among the southern rock and hard rock communities. The band releas ...
Toby Smith
Toby Grafftey-Smith (29 October 1970 – 11 April 2017), known professionally as Toby Smith, was an English musician, most famous for being the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Jamiroquai from 1992 until his departure in 2002.
Background and p ...
(46), English acid jazz keyboardist, songwriter and producer (
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai () are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in t ...
)
* 12 – Barry "Frosty" Smith (71), American rock drummer ( Sweathog, Soulhat)
* 14 – Bruce Langhorne (78), American folk singer
* 15
** Tim Goshorn, 62, American country rock guitarist and singer ( Pure Prairie League)
**
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist and composer.
Holdsworth was known for his esoteric and idiosyncratic usage of advanced music theory concepts, especially with respe ...
(70), British jazz fusion guitarist (
Gong
A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...
,
Soft Machine
Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge (keyboards, 1966–1976), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals, 1966–1971), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals, 1966–1968) and Daevid Allen (guitar, 1966– ...
Sylvia Moy
Sylvia Rose Moy (September 15, 1938 – April 15, 2017) was an American songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group. The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, sh ...
(78), American songwriter
* 19 –
Dick Contino
Richard Joseph "Dick" Contino (January 17, 1930 – April 19, 2017) was an American accordionist and singer.
Early life
Contino was born in Fresno, California. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Contino, and he attended Fresno High School. ...
(87), American accordionist and singer
* 20 – Cuba Gooding Sr. (72), American soul and R&B singer ( The Main Ingredient)
* 23 – Jerry Adriani (70), Brazilian rock singer
* 27
** Jeff Decker, Canadian heavy metal guitarist (
Thor
Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing ...
)
** John Shifflett (64), American jazz bassist
* 28 – Joanna Brouk (68), American electronic music composer
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit is a jazz fusion group founded by Col. Bruce Hampton. The band gained popularity in the Atlanta club scene in the early 1990s and went on to tour with the first H.O.R.D.E. Tour. During their format ...
)
** Erkki Kurenniemi (75), Finnish electronic music composer
* 2 – Kevin Garcia (41), American indie rock bassist (
Grandaddy
Grandaddy is an American indie rock band from Modesto, California. The group was formed in 1992, and featured Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Jim Fairchild, Kevin Garcia and Tim Dryden, until Garcia's death in 2017 following a stroke.
After sever ...
)
* 3
**
Casey Jones
John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi.
Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...
(77), American blues drummer (
Johnny Winter
John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer and guitarist. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also produced three Grammy Award-win ...
)
** C'el Revuelta, American punk rock bassist ( Black Flag)
** Saxa (83), Jamaican ska saxophonist ( The Beat)
* 4 – Katy Bødtger (84), Danish singer (
Eurovision Song Contest 1960
The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on Tuesday 29 March 1960 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, United Kingdom, and hosted by British television presenter and actress Catherine ...
)
* 5 –
Clive Brooks
Clive Colin Brooks (28 December 1949 – 5 May 2017) was a drummer, best known for his work in the English progressive rock band Egg.
Biography Uriel/Egg
Clive Colin Brooks was born in Bow, East London. Answering a ''Melody Maker'' ad in early ...
(67), British progressive rock drummer (
Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...
)
* 9
** Michael Parks (77), American country singer and actor
**
Robert Miles
Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 – 9 May 2017), known professionally as Robert Miles, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. His 1995 composition " Children" sold more than 5 million copies and topped the charts worldwide ...
(47), Swiss-born Italian electronic dance record producer, composer and DJ
* 10
** Bonaldo "Burt" Bonaldi (90), American pop singer ( The Gaylords)
** Pierre DeMudd (64), American trumpeter and singer (
Dazz Band
The Dazz Band is an American R&B/funk band most popular in the early 1980s. Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include "Let It Whip" (1982), "Joystick" (1983), and "Let It All Blow" (1984). The name of the band is a p ...
)
* 11 – İbrahim Erkal (50), Turkish folk singer
* 12 –
Bill Dowdy
Bill Dowdy (August 15, 1932 – May 12, 2017) was an American jazz musician and teacher. He was the drummer with the jazz trio, The Three Sounds. The Three Sounds recorded over ten jazz albums from the 1950s through the early 1970s and played ...
(84), American jazz drummer ( The Three Sounds)
* 13 – Jimmy Copley (63), British rock drummer
* 14 – Keith Mitchell, American dream pop drummer (
Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal.
Mazzy St ...
)
* 17 –
Chris Cornell
Christopher John Cornell (né Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American singer and musician best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. ...
(52), American alternative rock singer and songwriter (
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil (both of whom are the only members to appear in every incarnation of the band), and bassist Hiro Ya ...
,
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Glendale, California, in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello (lead guitar), Ti ...
,
Temple of the Dog
Temple of the Dog was an American rock supergroup that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of the bands Malfunkshun ...
)
* 18 –
Frankie Paul
Paul Blake (19 October 1965 – 18 May 2017), better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'.
Biography
Born in Jamaica in 1965, Blake was born blind bu ...
(51), Jamaican dancehall singer
* 20
** Jimmy Dale (81), British-Canadian film and television composer
** Ace Still, American doom metal singer ( Goatlord)
* 21
** Kenny Cordray (62), American rock guitarist and songwriter
**
Jimmy LaFave
Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. After moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma, LaFave became a supporter of Woody Guthrie. He later became an Advisory Board member and regular performer ...
(61), American folk singer and songwriter
** Tulsa Pittaway (42), South African indie rock drummer ( Watershed,
Evolver One
Evolver One is a South African rock band. Established in Port Elizabeth
Gqeberha (), formerly Port Elizabeth and colloquially often referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa ...
Zbigniew Wodecki
Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (; 6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter.
Early life and career
He was born on 6 May 1950 in Godów, Poland. He started to play the violin at the age of fi ...
(67), Polish pop singer and violinist
* 25 –
Saucy Sylvia
Sylvia Cadeski (July 27, 1920 – May 25, 2017), known professionally as Saucy Sylvia, was a Canadian-born American comedian, classically trained pianist, singer, and radio personality.
Biography
Early life and career
Saucy Sylvia was born Sy ...
(96), Canadian-born American comedy music singer and pianist
* 27
**
Gregg Allman
Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Br ...
(69), American rock singer, songwriter and keyboardist (
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (founder, slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guit ...
)
** Guillermo Sanchez, Argentinian heavy metal bassist (
Rata Blanca
Rata Blanca ("White Rat" in English) is an Argentine heavy metal band, formed in 1986.
History Beginnings
The guitarist Walter Giardino replaced Osvaldo Civile in V8 for a little time, and left the band when his songs were rejected. Hi ...
)
* 29 – Arleen Lanzotti (73), American pop singer (
The Delicates
The Delicates, were an American three-girl singing group, made up of members Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti, and Peggy Santiglia. The group was formed in 1958 while all three members were attending Elementary School No. Eight, in Belleville, New ...
Sandra Reemer
Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was an Indo-Dutch singer and television presenter. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most app ...
(66), Dutch pop singer
** Vin Garbutt (68), British folk singer and songwriter
* 8 – Norro Wilson (79), American country music singer, songwriter and record producer
* 11 – Rosalie Sorrels (83), American folk singer and songwriter
* 12 –
Geri Allen
Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. In addition to her career as a performer and bandleader, Allen was also an associate professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh ...
(60), American jazz pianist
* 16 –
Eliza Clívia
Eliza Clívia (November 14, 1979 – June 16, 2017) was a Brazilian singer of electronic forró.
Biography
Influenced by her accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sound ...
(37), Brazilian forro singer
* 17 – Thara Memory (68), American jazz trumpeter
* 18 –
Chris Murrell
Byron Christopher Murrell (December 18, 1956 – June 18, 2017) was an American jazz and gospel singer who has toured as the featured vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra and has made appearances with the Roger Humphries Big Band and perfor ...
(60), American gospel and jazz singer
* 20
**
Prodigy
Prodigy, Prodigies or The Prodigy may refer to:
* Child prodigy, a child who produces meaningful output to the level of an adult expert performer
** Chess prodigy, a child who can beat experienced adult players at chess
Arts, entertainment, and ...
(42), American rapper (
Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep was an American hip hop duo from New York City. The duo consisted of rappers Prodigy and Havoc. They are considered to be among the principal progenitors of hardcore East Coast hip hopEdwards, Paul, 2009, '' How to Rap: The Art & Sci ...
)
** Bo Wagner (72), American marimba player (
Starbuck Starbucks is a chain of coffee shops.
Starbuck or Starbucks may also refer to:
People
* Starbuck (surname), list of people with the family name
* StarBuck, ring name of professional wrestler Michael Majalahti
Places Antarctica
*Starbuck Cirque ...
)
* 21 –
Belton Richard
Belton Richard (October 5, 1939 – June 21, 2017) was an American Cajun accordionist and vocalist known for his baritone vocal range.
Biography
Richard was born in Rayne, Louisiana, in 1939. He began to play the accordion when he was seven, an ...
(77), American Cajun accordionist
* 22 – Jimmy Nalls (66), American blues rock guitarist (
Sea Level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...
)
* 25 – Dave Evans (66), American bluegrass singer and banjoist
* 28
** Gary DeCarlo (75), American pop singer and songwriter (
Steam
Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, and sometimes also an aerosol of liquid water droplets, or air. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporizat ...
)
** Nic Ritter (37), American thrash metal drummer ( Warbringer)
** Dave Rosser (50), American alternative rock guitarist (
The Afghan Whigs
The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio. They were active from 1986 to 2001 and have since reformed as a band. The group – with core members Greg Dulli (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick McCollum (lead guitar), and John Curl ...
)
* 30 – Don Rea (88), American pop singer ( The Gaylords)
D'Angelo
Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo (), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He first garnered attention after co-producing the single "U Will Know" ...
,
The New Power Generation
The New Power Generation, also known as The NPG, was the backing band of musician Prince from 1990 to 2013. They were replaced by 3rdeyegirl as his backing band in 2013. In 2015, the New Power Generation reunited as Prince's backing band for ...
)
* 5 –
Pierre Henry
Henry at his home (January 2008)
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (; 9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète.
Biography
Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age o ...
(89), French musique concrète composer
* 6
** Mick Bund, British post-punk bassist (
Felt
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or w ...
Erik Cartwright
Foghat are an English rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in its music. The band has achieved eight gold records, one platinum and one double platinum record, and despite several line-up c ...
(66), American blues rock guitarist (
Foghat
Foghat are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in its music. The band has achieved eight Music recording sales certification, gold records, one platinum and one doub ...
)
* 12
** Marc 'Blaash' Michaelson, American black metal drummer (
Bahimiron
Bahimiron was an American black metal band based in Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It was formed by vocalist and guitarist David "Grimlord" Herrera in 2001, after leaving the death metal band Imprecation in 1993. Other member ...
)
** Tamara Miansarova (86), Russian pop singer
** Ray Phiri (70), South African jazz fusion singer and guitarist
* 13
** Simon Holmes (54), Australian jangle pop guitarist (
The Hummingbirds
The Hummingbirds were an Australian indie pop and jangle pop band from Sydney, who formed in 1986 from Bug Eyed Monsters. They were one of the most highly regarded outfits to emerge from Sydney's inner-city scene during the late 1980s and were ...
)
**
Egil Kapstad
Egil Kapstad (6 August 1940 – 13 July 2017) was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He wrote the music for more than 50 theatre productions, and composed for film and television drama. Kapstad composed classical works for orchestr ...
(76), Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
** Chris Wong Won (53), American rapper (
2 Live Crew
2 Live Crew is an American hip hop group from Miami, Florida, which had its greatest commercial success from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The group's most well-known line up was composed of Luke Campbell, Fresh Kid Ice, Mr. Mixx, and ...
)
* 14
**
Mahi Beamer
Edwin Mahiai (Mahi) Copp Beamer (December 5, 1928 – July 14, 2017) was a tenor falsetto singer, composer and hula dancer of Hawaiian ancestry. He was born in Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii and is the grandson of Helen Desha Beamer. His ...
(88), American-Native Hawaiian folk singer and pianist
** David Zablidowsky (38), American hard rock bassist (
Adrenaline Mob
Adrenaline Mob is an American heavy metal supergroup formed in early 2011 by singer Russell Allen, guitarist Mike Orlando and drummer Mike Portnoy. The band's current lineup consists of Allen, Orlando, and drummer Jordan Cannata.
History
The ...
,
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel ...
)
* 16 –
Wilfried
Wilfried is a masculine German given name derived from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "peace" (''Wille'' and ''Frieden'' in German). The English spelling is Wilfrid. Wilfred and Wifred (also Wifredo) are closely related to Wilfried with the sam ...
(67), Austrian pop singer
* 17 – Peter Principle (63), American post-punk bassist (
Tuxedomoon
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, ori ...
)
* 19
**
Barbara Weldens Barbara Weldens (born Barbara Jacquinot, 17 April 1982 – 19 July 2017) was a French singer-songwriter. After releasing her first studio album, ''Le grand H de l'homme'' (Man with a capital M), in February 2017, she died on stage the following July ...
(35), French pop singer and songwriter
** Graham Wood (45), Australian jazz pianist
* 20
**
Chester Bennington
Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, ...
(41), American hard rock singer and songwriter (
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and dr ...
,
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots (also known by the initialism STP) is an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Dean (guitar) and Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals), and Eric K ...
Andrea Jürgens
Andrea Elisabeth Maria Jürgens (15 May 1967 – 20 July 2017) was a German schlager singer. She became famous as a child star in the late 1970s when she had her first hit with "Und dabei liebe ich euch beide" (And Yet I Love You Both) at age 1 ...
(50), German schlager singer
* 21
** Errol Dyers (65), South African jazz guitarist
**
Geoff Mack
Albert Geoffrey McElhinney OAM (20 December 1922 – 21 July 2017), better known by his stage name Geoff Mack, was an Australian country singer, songwriter and aircraft mechanic. As a songwriter, he wrote the song " I've Been Everywhere" which ...
(94), Australian country singer and songwriter
** Kenny Shields (69), Canadian hard rock singer ( Streetheart)
**
Paapa Yankson
Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson, known as Paapa Yankson (22 June 1944 – 21 July 2017) was a Ghanaian highlife singer, songwriter, and producer. He recorded two dozen albums during his career; his hit songs included "Wiase Mu Nsem", "Show Your Love ...
(73), Ghanaian highlife singer
* 22
** Polo Hofer (72), Swiss pop singer
** Bobby Taylor (83), American soul singer ( Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers)
* 25
** Michael Johnson (72), American country singer and songwriter
**
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal Australian musician of the Yolŋu peoples. A multi-instrumentalist, he played ...
(46), Indigenous Australian folk singer and guitarist
* 27 – Billy Joe Walker Jr. (64), American country music record producer
* 28 –
D.L. Menard
Doris Leon Menard François 1990, p. 446. (April 14, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was an American songwriter, performer, and recording artist in contemporary Cajun music. He was called the "Cajun Hank Williams".
Biography
Menard was born in Erath, L ...
(85), American Cajun music singer
* 31 – Chuck Loeb (61), American jazz guitarist (
Fourplay
Fourplay (stylized as fOURPLAY) is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitars), Nathan East (bass), and Harvey Mason (drums).
In 1997, Lee Ritenour left the ...
Daniel Licht
Daniel Licht (March 13, 1957 – August 2, 2017) was an American soundtrack composer and musician, best known for writing the score of Showtime TV drama series ''Dexter''.
Life and career
Licht grew up in suburban Detroit and attended the Roepe ...
(60), American film and television composer
* 4
** Luiz Melodia (66), Brazilian MPB singer
** Joe Romano 67, American bassist (The Fun and Games)
* 8 – Glen Campbell (81), American country music singer and songwriter
* 11 – Segun Bucknor (71), Nigerian soul and funk keyboardist and guitarist
* 19 – Bea Wain (100), American big band singer (Larry Clinton, Larry Clinton and His Orchestra)
* 20 – Jerry Lewis (91), American actor and pop singer
* 21 – Sonny Burgess (88), American rockabilly singer
* 22 – John Abercrombie (guitarist), John Abercrombie (73), American jazz fusion guitarist
* 24
** Pete Kuykendall (79), American bluegrass banjoist
** Larry Marshall (singer), Larry Marshall (75), Jamaican reggae singer
* 26 – Wilson das Neves (81), Brazilian bossa nova singer and percussionist
* 28 – Melissa Bell (singer), Melissa Bell (53), British R&B and soul singer (Soul II Soul)
* 29 – Larry Elgart (95), American jazz bandleader and alto saxophonist
* 30 – Skip Prokop (73), Canadian rock and jazz fusion drummer (Lighthouse (band), Lighthouse, The Paupers)
September
* 1 – Mick Softley (77), British folk singer and songwriter
* 2 – Dave Hlubek (66), American rock guitarist and songwriter (
Molly Hatchet
Molly Hatchet is an American rock band formed in 1971 by guitarist Dave Hlubek in Jacksonville, Florida. They were a popular band during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s among the southern rock and hard rock communities. The band releas ...
)
* 3 – Walter Becker (67), American jazz rock guitarist, bassist and songwriter (Steely Dan)
* 4 – Earl Lindo (64), Jamaican reggae keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
* 5 – Rick Stevens (77), American R&B singer (Tower of Power)
* 6 – Holger Czukay (79), German experimental rock bassist ( Can)
* 8
** Troy Gentry (50), American country singer (Montgomery Gentry)
** Don Williams (78), American country singer
* 11 – Virgil Howe (41), British alternative rock drummer (Little Barrie)
* 12
** Riem de Wolff (74), Dutch-Indonesian rock and roll singer (The Blue Diamonds (duo), The Blue Diamonds)
** Josh Schwartz (45), American alternative country guitarist (Beachwood Sparks)
** Jessi Zazu (28), American garage rock singer and songwriter (Those Darlins)
* 13 – Grant Hart (56), American alternative rock singer, songwriter and drummer (Hüsker Dü)
* 17 – Laudir de Oliveira (77), Brazilian rock and jazz percussionist (Chicago (band), Chicago)
* 18 – Mark Selby (musician), Mark Selby (56), American blues rock singer and guitarist
* 21 – Cees Bergman (65), Dutch glam rock singer (Catapult (band), Catapult)
* 22
** Ammon Tharp (75), American soul singer and drummer (Bill Deal and the Rhondels)
** Eric Eycke (41), American heavy metal singer (Corrosion of Conformity)
* 23 – Charles Bradley (singer), Charles Bradley (68), American soul singer
* 27
** CeDell Davis (91), American blues guitarist
** Joy Fleming (72), German pop singer
** Hiromi Hayakawa (34), Japanese-born Mexican pop singer
* 30 – Tom Paley (89), American folk guitarist and banjoist (New Lost City Ramblers)
October
* 2 – Tom Petty (66), American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American Rock music, rock band from Gainesville, Florida. Formed in 1976, the band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell (musician), Mike Campbell, ...
, Traveling Wilburys, Mudcrutch)
* 4 – Janis Hansen (singer), Janis Hansen (74), American pop and bossa nova singer (Sérgio Mendes, Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66, The Carnival (band), The Carnival)
* 5
** Alvin DeGuzman, American post-hardcore guitarist (The Icarus Line)
** Rodrigo BVevino (42), British heavy metal singer (Avenger (British band), Avenger)
* 6 – Bunny Sigler (76), American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
* 7 – Jimmy Beaumont (76), American doo-wop singer (The Skyliners)
* 8 – Grady Tate (85), American jazz drummer and singer
* 16
** Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi (56), Congolese afro-pop Mbira, lkembist ()
** Iain Shedden (60), Australian punk rock drummer (The Saints (Australian band), The Saints)
* 17
** Gord Downie (53), Canadian rock singer and songwriter (
The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassi ...
)
* 18 – Eamonn Campbell (70), Irish folk singer and guitarist (The Dubliners)
* 21 – Martin Eric Ain (50), American-Swiss heavy metal bassist (Celtic Frost)
* 22
** Al Hurricane (81), American folk singer and songwriter
** Scott Putesky (49), American heavy metal guitarist (Marilyn Manson (band), Marilyn Manson)
** George Young (rock musician), George Young (70), British-born Australian rock guitarist and songwriter (The Easybeats, Flash and the Pan)
* 24
** Fats Domino (89), American rock and roll singer and pianist
** Larry Ray (63), American power pop guitarist (Outrageous Cherry)
* 27
** Mike Hudson (61), American punk rock singer ( The Pagans)
** Dick Noel (90), American big band singer
* 28
**Bruce Black, American power metal drummer (Meliah Rage)
**Daichi Shimoda, Japanese deathcore vocalist (Victim of Deception)
* 29
** Muhal Richard Abrams (87), American free jazz pianist
** Billy Mize (88), American country singer and steel guitarist
** Keith Wilder (65), American funk singer (Heatwave (band), Heatwave)
November
* 1
** Katie Lee (singer), Katie Lee (98), American folk singer
** Scott Wily, American death metal singer (Vital Remains)
* 2 – María Martha Serra Lima (72), Argentinean bolero singer
* 3 – Gaetano Bardini (91), Italian opera singer
* 5
** Robert Knight (musician), Robert Knight (72), American soul singer
** Louis Roney (96), American opera tenor
* 7
** Paul Buckmaster (71), British rock and orchestral arranger and conductor
** Robert De Cormier (95), American folk arranger
** Pentti Glan (71), Finnish rock drummer (Mandala (band), Mandala, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper)
* 9 – Fred Cole (musician), Fred Cole (69), American garage rock singer and guitarist (The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon)
* 10 – Chuck Mosley (57), American alternative rock singer (Faith No More)
* 11 – Chiquito de la Calzada (85), Spanish flamenco singer
* 12 – Chad Hanks (46), American metal bassist (American Head Charge)
* 15
** Bonnie Flower (63), American sunshine pop singer (Wendy and Bonnie)
** Lil Peep (21), American rapper
* 16 – Michael "Dik Mik" Davies (73), British space rock keyboardist (Hawkwind)
* 17 – Rikard Wolff (59), Finnish pop singer and actor
* 18
** Ben Riley (84), American jazz drummer
** Malcolm Young (64), Australian hard rock guitarist (AC/DC)
* 19
** Ronnie Butler (80), Bahamanian calypso singer
** Warren "Pete" Moore (79), American R&B singer (The Miracles)
** Della Reese (86), American gospel singer
** Mel Tillis (85), American country singer
* 20 – Laila Sari (82), Indonesian children's music singer
* 21
** David Cassidy (67), American pop singer and actor
** Wayne Cochran (78), American soul singer and songwriter
* 22 – Tommy Keene (59), American power pop singer and songwriter
* 23
** John Coates Jr. (79), American jazz pianist
** Jon Hendricks (96), American jazz singer
** Dmitri Hvorostovsky (55), Russian opera singer
* 24
** Mitch Margo (70), American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Tokens)
** Clotilde Rosa (87), Portuguese classical harpist
** Bari Siddiqui (63), Bangladeshi folk singer and flautist
* 26 – Patrick Bourgeois (54), Canadian rock singer and guitarist (
Les B.B.
Les B.B. (pronounced leh beh beh) was a Canadian band from the province of Quebec. It had great success in the 1980s and the early 1990s. It is made up of Patrick Bourgeois (vocals, guitar, bass), Alain Lapointe (keyboards, guitar, bass and backi ...
)
* 27 – Robert Popwell (66), American rock and jazz bassist (The Young Rascals, The Crusaders (Houston group), The Crusaders)
* 28 – Shadia (86), Egyptian pop singer
* 29 – Robert Walker (musician), Robert Walker (80), American blues guitarist
* 30
** Jim Nabors (87), American actor and singer
** Zé Pedro (61), Portuguese new wave guitarist (Xutos & Pontapés)
December
* 2
** Norihiko Hashida (72), Japanese folk singer and songwriter (The Folk Crusaders)
** Mundell Lowe (95), American jazz guitarist
* 6 – Johnny Hallyday (74), French rock singer
*7 – Sunny Murray (81), American free jazz drummer
* 8 – Gloria Ann Taylor (73), American soul singer
* 12
** Pat DiNizio (62), American power pop singer and guitarist (The Smithereens)
** Willie Pickens (86), American jazz pianist
* 13
**Dave Christenson (54), American new wave singer (Stabilizers (band), Stabilizers)
** Warrel Dane (56), American heavy metal singer (Sanctuary (band), Sanctuary, Nevermore)
** Rory O'Donoghue (68), Australian rock and pop guitarist
* 16
** Ralph Carney (61), American rock and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Tin Huey)
** Richard Dobson (75), American country singer and songwriter
** Michael Prophet (60), Jamaican reggae singer
** Keely Smith (89), American jazz singer
* 17 – Kevin Mahogany (59), American jazz singer
* 18 – Kim Jong-hyun (singer), Kim Jong-hyun (27), South Korean K-pop singer and songwriter (Shinee)
* 19
** Jim Forrester (43), American hard rock bassist (Sixty Watt Shaman)
** Leo Welch (85), American gospel blues singer and guitarist
* 21
** Roswell Rudd (82), American free jazz trombonist
** Marilyn Tyler (91), American opera singer
* 22 – Pam the Funkstress, American hip hop DJ (The Coup)
*25 – Nao (56), Japanese heavy metal vocalist (United (band), United)
* 28
** Rose Marie (94), American actress, singer and comedienne
** Curly Seckler (98), American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist (Foggy Mountain Boys, Nashville Grass)
* 31 – Maurice Peress (87), American conductor and music educator
See also
* Timeline of musical events
* Women in music
References
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