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January

• 2 – Chris Karrer, 76, German progressive rock guitarist (Amon Düül II)
• 3 – Tawl Ross, 75, American funk guitarist (Funkadelic)
• 4
  • Ruy Mingas, 84, Angolan folk singer-songwriter and anthem composer
  • Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, Swedish folk pop singer (Ainbusk)
  • David Soul, 80, American-British pop singer
  • Glynis Johns, 100, British musical theater actress and singer
• 5
  • Larry Collins, 79, American rockabilly guitarist and songwriter (The Collins Kids)
  • Del Palmer, 71, English art rock singer-songwriter, bassist and sound engineer
• 6
  • Iasos, 76, Greek-born American new age keyboardist
  • Amparo Rubín, 68, Mexican folk singer-songwriter
• 7
  • Germana Caroli, 92, Italian pop singer
  • Tony Clarkin, 77, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter (Magnum)
• 8
  • Guy Bonnet, 78, French pop singer-songwriter
  • Serge Laprade, French-Canadian pop singer
  • Phill Niblock, 90, American avant garde composer
  • Gian Franco Reverberi, 89, Italian film composer (death announced on this date)
• 9
  • Diego Gallardo, 31, Ecuadorian folk singer-songwriter
  • Karel Janovický, 93, Czech-born British classical composer and pianist
  • Rashid Khan, 55, Indian Hindustani classical singer
  • James Kottak, 61, American hard rock drummer (Scorpions, Kingdom Come, Kottak)
• 10
  • Audie Blaylock, 61, American bluegrass singer and guitarist
  • Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian opera singer
• 11
  • Annie Nightingale, 83, English radio disk jockey
  • Sigi Schwab, 83, German jazz guitarist
• 12
  • Bill Hayes, 98, American folk singer
  • David Lumsdaine, 92, Australian classical composer
• 13
  • Prabha Atre, 91, Indian classical singer
  • Jo-El Sonnier, 77, American country singer-songwriter and accordionist
  • Romuald Twardowski, 93, Polish classical composer
• 15 – K. J. Joy, 77, Indian film and classical composer
• 16
  • Peter Schickele, 88, American classical composer and musical satirist (P. D. Q. Bach)
  • Laurie Johnson, 96, English classical composer and swing bandleader
• 17
  • Serge Laprade, 83, Canadian pop singer
  • Gerd Uecker, 77, German opera director and music teacher
• 18
  • Katelele Ching'oma, 32, Malawian pop singer
  • Ivan Moody, 59, British classical composer and musicologist
  • Silent Servant, 46, Guatemalan-born American techno DJ
  • The Soft Moon, 44, American darkwave singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
  • Yogesh Vaidya, 77, Nepalese folk singer
• 19
  • Georgi Kostov, 82, Bulgarian classical composer
  • Ewa Podleś, 71, Polish opera singer
  • Marlena Shaw, 81, American jazz and soul singer
  • Pluto Shervington, 73, Jamaican reggae singer
  • Mary Weiss, 75, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las)
• 20
  • Zoran Erić, 73, Serbian classical composer
  • Charis Kostopoulos, 59, Greek laiko singer-songwriter.
• 22
  • Neil Kulkarni, 51, British music journalist
  • Margo Smith, 84, American singer-songwriter
  • Sergei Yefremenko, 51, Russian ska singer and guitarist (Markscheider Kunst)
• 23
  • Melanie, 76, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Frank Farian, 82, German pop singer-songwriter and record producer (Boney M., Milli Vanilli, La Bouche, No Mercy)
  • Anders Sandberg, 55, Swedish eurodance singer (Rednex).
• 24 – Anders Lampe, 59, Danish pop rock guitarist (Bamses Venner)
• 25
  • Bruno Amstad, 59–60, Swiss jazz singer
  • Bhavatharini, 47, Indian playback singer and film music director
• 26
  • Dean Brown, 68, American jazz guitarist
  • Michel Hausser, 96, French jazz vibraphonist
  • Michael Watford, 80, American dance and house singer
• 27 – Lillebjørn Nilsen, 73, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter
• 28 – Albert Mayr, 80, Italian classical and experimental composer
• 29
  • Tony Cedras, 71, South African jazz multi-instrumentalist
  • Yuri Ilchenko, 72, Russian rock singer and guitarist (Mify, Zemlyane)
• 30 – Chita Rivera, 91, American musical theater singer and actress

February

• 2
  • Steve Brown, 66, British classical composer
  • Wilhelmenia Fernandez, 75, American opera singer
  • Wayne Kramer, 75, American rock guitarist and songwriter (MC5)
• 3 – Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, Jamaican reggae bassist (Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Upsetters)
• 5 – Toby Keith, 62, American country singer-songwriter
• 6
  • Donald Kinsey, 70, American blues and reggae guitarist and singer (The Kinsey Report, The Wailers Band)
  • Seiji Ozawa, 88, Japanese classical conductor
• 7
  • Vaja Azarashvili, 87, Georgian classical composer
  • Henry Fambrough, 85, American R&B singer (The Spinners)
  • Mojo Nixon, 66, American psychobilly singer-songwriter
• 8 – Yuri Borzov, 70, Russian blues rock drummer (Mashina Vremeni)
• 9
  • Nikša Gligo, 77, Croatian musicologist
  • Damo Suzuki, 74, Japanese Krautrock singer (Can)
  • Jimmy Van Eaton, 86, American rock and roll drummer
• 11
  • Ladislav Burlas, 96, Slovak classical composer and musicologist
  • Randy Sparks, 90, American folk singer-songwriter (The New Christy Minstrels, The Back Porch Majority)
  • Mihai Amihalachioaie, 62, Moldovan accordionist and conductor
• 12
  • Tamás Deák, 95, Hungarian classical composer and conductor
  • Rudolf Jansen, 84, Dutch classical pianist
  • Juris Kulakovs, 65, Latvian rock keyboardist (Pērkons)
  • Steve Wright, 69, English radio disk jockey
• 13
  • Eddie Cheeba, 67, American hip hop DJ
  • Jussi Raittinen, 80, Finnish Rautalanka singer and guitarist
• 15 – Ian Amey, 79, English rock singer and guitarist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
• 16
  • Etterlene DeBarge, 88, American gospel singer
  • Fritz Hinz, 68, Canadian hard rock drummer (Helix)
  • Reuben Jackson, 67, American jazz historian
  • Ben Lanzarone, 85, American television composer
  • Dexter Romweber, 57, American rockabilly guitarist (Flat Duo Jets)
  • Cynthia Strother, 88, American pop singer (The Bell Sisters)
• 18
  • Davlatmand Kholov, 73, Tajik Shashmaqam multi-instrumentalist
  • Hasina Mumtaz, 78, Bangladeshi pop singer
• 19
  • Stewart Robertson, 75, Scottish classical conductor (death announced on this date)
  • Bobby Tench, 79, British blues rock singer and guitarist (Humble Pie, The Jeff Beck Group, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, The Gass). (death announced on this date)
• 20
  • David Libert, 81, American sunshine pop singer and keyboardist (The Happenings)
  • Geoffrey Michaels, 79, Australian classical violinist and violist (death announced on this date)
• 21 – Vitalij Kuprij, 49, Ukrainian-American symphonic metal keyboardist (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ring of Fire)
• 22
  • John Lowe, 81, English skiffle pianist (The Quarrymen)
  • Roni Stoneman, 85, American bluegrass banjoist
• 23
  • Tina Rainford, 77, German pop singer
  • Shinsadong Tiger, 40, South Korean record producer
• 24 – Juana Bacallao, 98, Cuban guaracha singer
• 25
  • Bigidagoe, 26, Dutch rapper
  • Peter "Peetah" Morgan, 46, Jamaican reggae singer (Morgan Heritage)
• 26
  • Bhakta Raj Acharya, 81, Nepali Bhajan singer and composer
  • Pankaj Udhas, 72, Indian ghazal singer
• 28
  • Cat Janice, 31, American electropop singer-songwriter
  • Eugen Indjic, 76, Yugoslav born French-American classical pianist
• 29 – Eugen Šváb, 87, Slovak swing singer and percussionist

March

• 1
  • Ernest Berger, 73, Czech-born British funk and disco drummer (Heatwave)
  • Don Wise, 81, American R&B saxophonist
• 2
  • Jim Beard, 63, American jazz rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
  • Blues Boy Willie, 77, American blues singer and guitarist
  • W. C. Clark, 84, American blues singer and guitarist
• 3
  • Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer
  • Emmanuëlle, 81, Canadian pop singer
  • Oscar Ghiglia, 85, Italian classical guitarist
  • Günther Leib, 96, German opera singer
  • Amjad Parvez, 78, Pakistani semi-classical singer
  • Presto, 31, German rapper
  • Bill Ramsay, 95, American jazz saxophonist
  • Félix Sabal Lecco, 64–65, Cameroonian makossa and rock drummer
  • Makoto Shinohara, 92, Japanese classical composer
  • Brit Turner, 57, American country rock drummer (Blackberry Smoke)
• 4
  • B. B. Seaton, 79, Jamaican ska and rocksteady singer (The Gaylads)
  • Amnon Weinstein, 84, Israeli violin luthier
• 5
  • Linda Balgord, 64, American musical theater actress and singer
  • Debra Byrd, 72, American soul singer and vocal coach
  • Brahim Fribgane, Moroccan jazz oud player and percussionist (La Mar Enfortuna) (death announced on this date)
• 6 – Dimos Moutsis, 85, Greek Éntekhno singer-songwriter and composer
• 7
  • Pedro Altamiranda, 88, Panamanian salsa singer
  • Joe Cutajar, 83, Maltese pop singer (Helen and Joseph). (death announced on this date)
  • Françoise Garner, 90, French opera singer
  • Steve Lawrence, 88, American pop singer
• 8
  • Abdou Cherif, 52, Moroccan pop singer
  • Ernie Fields Jr., 89, American jazz saxophonist
  • George Newson, 91, English electronic and avant-garde composer and pianist
  • Ľubomír Stankovský, 72, Slovak pop rock singer and drummer (Modus)
• 9
  • Malcolm Holcombe, 68, American alternative country singer-songwriter
  • Vince Power, 76, Irish music festival promoter
  • Guy Touvron, 74, French classical trumpeter
• 10
  • Blake Harrison, 48, American grindcore sampler (Pig Destroyer, Hatebeak)
  • Paul Nelson, American blues guitarist
  • T. M. Stevens, 72, American rock bassist (The Pretenders, Vai)
  • Marc Tobaly, 74, Moroccan-born French rock guitarist (Les Variations)
  • Karl Wallinger, 66, Welsh alternative rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The Waterboys, World Party)
• 11
  • Boss, 54, American rapper
  • Eric Carmen, 74, American power pop singer-songwriter (Raspberries) (death announced on this date)
  • Pete Rodriguez, 91, American Latin boogaloo pianist and bandleader
• 12
  • Michael Knott, American Christian rock singer-songwriter (Lifesavers Underground)
  • James Whitbourn, 60, British classical composer and conductor
  • Russ Wilson, 62, Canadian alternative rock bassist (Junkhouse)
• 13
  • Dick Allix, 78, British pop rock drummer (Vanity Fare)
  • John Blunt, British rock drummer (The Searchers) (death announced on this date)
  • Sylvain Luc, 58, French jazz guitarist
  • Sadi Mohammad, 70, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer and composer
  • Aribert Reimann, 88, German classical composer and pianist
• 14
  • Lamara Chkonia, 93, Georgian opera singer
  • Frank Darcel, 65, French post-punk guitarist (Marquis de Sade)
  • Byron Janis, 95, American classical pianist
  • K. K. Kabobo, 64, Ghanaian highlife singer and guitarist
  • Jean-Pierre Marty, 91, French classical pianist and conductor
  • Angela McCluskey, 64, Scottish alternative rock singer-songwriter (Wild Colonials)
• 15 – Hans Blum, 95, German schlager singer-songwriter
• 17
  • Cola Boyy, 34, American disco multi-instrumentalist
  • Sandra Crouch, 81, American gospel singer
  • Steve Harley, 73, British glam rock singer-songwriter (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel)
• 18
  • Jimmy Hastings, 85, British progressive rock multi-instrumentalist (Caravan, Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North)
  • Khalid, 60, Bangladeshi pop singer
  • Kevin Toney, 70, American jazz fusion pianist and composer (The Blackbyrds)
• 19 – Greg Lee, 53, American ska and reggae singer (Hepcat)
• 20
  • Faramarz Aslani, 79, Iranian folk singer and guitarist
  • George Darko, 73, Ghanaian burger-highlife singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Gene Elders, 80, American country fiddler (Ace in the Hole Band)
  • Cocky Mazzetti, 87, Italian pop singer
• 21 – Laurens van Rooyen, 88, Dutch classical pianist and composer
• 23
  • Igor Ozim, 92, Slovenian classical violinist
  • Maurizio Pollini, 82, Italian classical pianist
• 24
  • Vincent Bonham, 67, American funk singer (Raydio) (death announced on this date)
  • Def Rhymz, 53, Surinamese-Dutch rapper
  • Péter Eötvös, 80, Hungarian opera composer
• 25
  • Humphrey Campbell, 66, Surinamese-Dutch pop singer
  • Chris Cross, 71, English new wave bassist and keyboardist (Ultravox, Tiger Lily)
  • Maurice El Médiouni, 95, Algerian jazz pianist
• 26
  • Clare Elliott, New Zealand punk singer (Suburban Reptiles)
  • Chandra Kumara Kandanarachchi, 76, Sri Lankan playback singer
  • Slađana Milošević, 68, Serbian new wave singer-songwriter
  • George Nicolescu, 74, Romanian pop singer
• 27 – La Castou, 75, Swiss pop singer
• 28 – Marian Zazeela, 83, American experimental music singer and tanpura player
• 29 – Gerry Conway, 76, English folk rock drummer and percussionist (Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Cat Stevens, Pentangle).
• 30
  • Mark Spiro, 66–67, American songwriter and record producer (death announced on this date)
  • Vanhlupuii, 77, Indian Mizo multi-genre singer
• 31 – Casey Benjamin, 45, American jazz multi-instrumentalist (Robert Glasper Experiment)

April

• 1
  • Phil Delire, 67–68, Belgian music producer.
  • Michael Ward, 57, American alternative rock guitarist (The Wallflowers, School of Fish)
• 2 – Jerry Abbott, 81, American country music songwriter and record producer
• 3
  • Joe Aitken, 79, Scottish bothy ballad singer
  • Albert Heath, 88, American jazz drummer (Heath Brothers)
  • Kalevi Kiviniemi, 65, Finnish classical organist
  • Muñequita Milly, 23, Peruvian huayno singer
  • Notker Wolf, 83, German Benedictine priest-monk and rock guitarist
• 4
  • Keith LeBlanc, 69, American multi-genre drummer (Little Axe, Tackhead)
  • Graeme Naysmith, 57, English shoegaze guitarist (Pale Saints)
• 5
  • Phil Nimmons, 100, Canadian jazz clarinetist.
  • Rocket Norton, 73, Canadian hard rock drummer (Prism)
  • C. J. Snare, 64, American glam metal singer-songwriter (FireHouse)
• 6 – Dutty Dior, Norwegian rapper
• 7
  • Michael Boder, 65, German classical conductor
  • Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 87, American R&B singer and pianist
  • Antonette Mendes, 79, Indian tiatr singer
  • Joe Viera, 91, German jazz saxophonist
• 8 – Jon Card, 63, German-born Canadian punk drummer (SNFU, D.O.A., Subhumans)
• 9
  • Bob Lanese, 82, American big band jazz trumpeter (James Last Orchestra)
  • Muluken Melesse, 70, Ethiopian tizita singer and drummer
  • Sturgis Nikides, 66, American blues rock and no wave guitarist (Low Society, Cool It Reba)
  • Dieter Rexroth, 83, German musicologist and dramaturge (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Young Euro Classic)
  • Max Werner, 70, Dutch progressive rock singer and drummer (Kayak)
• 10 – Mister Cee, 57, American hip hop DJ and radio broadcaster (death announced on this date)
• 11
  • Park Bo-ram, 30, South Korean K-pop singer
  • Enrique Llácer Soler, 89, Spanish jazz percussionist and composer
• 12
  • Lucy Rimmer, British post-punk singer (The Fall) (death announced on this date)
  • Rico Wade, 52, American music producer and songwriter (Organized Noize)
• 13
  • Richard Horowitz, 75, American film composer
  • Lorenzo Palomo, 86, Spanish classical composer
• 14 –
  • Ben Eldridge, 85, American progressive bluegrass banjoist (The Seldom Scene)
  • Calvin Keys, 82, American jazz guitarist
• 15
  • Reita, 42, Japanese alternative metal bassist (The Gazette)
  • Eugene Wolfgramm, 57, American pop singer (The Jets, Boys Club)
• 16
  • Clorofila, 56, Mexican Nortec DJ (Nortec Collective)
  • K. G. Jayan, 89, Indian Carnatic singer
  • Gavin Webb, 77, Australian psychedelic rock bassist (The Masters Apprentices)
• 17 – Pooch Tavares, 81, American R&B and disco singer (Tavares) (death announced on this date)
• 18
  • Dickey Betts, 80, American Southern rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band)
  • Steve Kille, American stoner rock bassist (Dead Meadow)
  • Mandisa, 47, American gospel singer
  • Larry Page, 86, English pop singer and record producer
• 19
  • Naomy, 46, Romanian pop singer
  • Eddie Sutton, 59, American crossover thrash singer (Leeway)
• 20
  • Kaj Chydenius, 84, Finnish avant garde composer and folk songwriter
  • Tony Tuff, 69, Jamaican reggae singer (The African Brothers)
• 21
  • Jean-Marie Aerts, 72, Belgian rock guitarist (TC Matic)
  • MC Duke, 58, British rapper
  • Alex Hassilev, 91, American folk singer and banjoist (The Limeliters)
  • KODA, 45, Ghanaian gospel singer
• 22 – Chan Romero, 82, American rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist (death announced on this date)
• 23 – Fergie MacDonald, 86, Scottish cèilidh accordionist
• 24 – Mike Pinder, 82, English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter (The Moody Blues)
• 26
  • Robin George, 68, British rock singer and guitarist.
  • Anderson Leonardo, 51, Brazilian pagode singer (Molejo)
  • Frank Wakefield, American bluegrass mandolinist
• 27 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, 89, Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter
• 28 – Norman Carol, 95, American classical violinist and concertmaster (Philadelphia Orchestra)
• 30 – Duane Eddy, 86, American rock and roll guitarist

May

• 1
  • Hasna El-Bacharia, 74, Algerian diwan sintir player
  • Richard Maloof, 84, American pop and big band bassist and tuba player
  • Uma Ramanan, 69, Indian playback singer
  • Richard Tandy, 76, English rock keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move)
• 2
  • Gary Floyd, 71, American hardcore punk and alternative rock singer (Dicks, Sister Double Happiness)
  • John Pisano, 93, American jazz guitarist.
• 3 – Jim Mills, 57, American bluegrass banjoist (Kentucky Thunder)
• 4
  • Miroslav Imrich, 71, Czech rock singer (Abraxas)
  • Ron Kavana, 73, Irish multi-genre singer-songwriter
• 5
  • Belgacem Bouguenna, 61, Tunisian mezwed singer
  • Kelath Aravindakshan Marar, 82, Indian Panchari melam chenda player.
• 6
  • Bill Holman, 96, American jazz and big band saxophonist, composer and arranger
  • Christiane Stefanski, 74, Belgian folk singer
• 7
  • Steve Albini, 61, American post-hardcore and noise rock singer and guitarist (Big Black, Shellac) and record producer
  • Ignatius Jones, 66–67, Australian-Filipino new wave and swing singer (Jimmy and the Boys, Pardon Me Boys)
  • Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, 88, Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
• 8
  • Giovanna Marini, 87, Italian folk singer-songwriter
  • Dennis Thompson, 75, American rock drummer (MC5)

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