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2023 in music

This topic covers events and articles related to 2023 in music.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Classical
Country
Electronic
Jazz
Latin
Heavy metal
Hip hop
R&B
Rock
K-pop
J-pop

Albums released

Classical music

Gavriil Popov – Symphony No. 4 (written 1948–49; premiere February 16)

Awards

Bands formed

Soloist debuts

Bands reformed

Bands disbanded

Bands on hiatus

Blood Youth
Blur
DNCE
The Mamas
Walk the Moon

Deaths

January

1
- Gangsta Boo, 43, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia)
- Sebastian Marino, 57, American metal guitarist (Overkill, Anvil)
- Fred White, 67, American funk drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
2
- Andrew Downes, 72, British classical composer
- Kingsize Taylor, 83, British rock and roll singer and guitarist (Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes)
3
- Joseph Koo, 91, Hong Kong film composer
- Notis Mavroudis, 77, Greek classical guitarist and composer
- Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish post-punk keyboardist and guitarist (The Associates)
4
- Stan Hitchcock, 86, American country music singer and co-founder of CMT
- Zoran Kalezić, 72, Serbian-Montenegrin folk singer
- Beeyar Prasad, 61, Indian film lyricist
5
- Mark Capps, 54, American sound engineer
- Gordy Harmon, 79, American R&B and soul singer (The Whispers)
6
- Jeff Blackburn, 77, American rock guitarist and songwriter (Blackburn & Snow, Moby Grape)
- Danny Kaleikini, 85, American Hawaiian pop singer
7 – Aleksandr Kharchikov, 73, Russian folk singer-songwriter
8 – Slim Newton, 90, Australian country music singer-songwriter
9
- Séamus Begley, 73, Irish folk fiddler and accordionist
- Dick Flood, 90, American country music singer-songwriter
- Magnar Mangersnes, 84, Norwegian classical organist and choral conductor
- Yoriaki Matsudaira, 91, Japanese classical composer
10
- Jeff Beck, 78, British rock guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, Beck, Bogert & Appice, The Honeydrippers)
- Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking Crew)
- José Evangelista, 79, Spanish classical composer
11 – Yukihiro Takahashi, 70, Japanese electronic and rock drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, METAFIVE)
12
- Robbie Bachman, 69, Canadian rock drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
- Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American country rock singer-songwriter
- Laylaw, American hip hop record producer.
13
- Keith Beaton, 72, American R&B singer (Blue Magic)
- Ray Cordeiro, 98, Hong Kong disc jockey (RTHK Radio 3)
14 – Matthias Carras, 58, German pop singer
15
- Doris, 75, Swedish pop singer
- Bruce Gowers, 82, British music video director
- C. J. Harris, 31, American country singer
- Vakhtang Kikabidze, 84, Georgian singer
16 – Johnny Powers, American rockabilly singer and guitarist
17
- Van Conner, 55, American alternative rock bassist (Screaming Trees)
- Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian classical pianist
- Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian folk composer
- Renée Geyer, 69, Australian pop singer
- Larry Morris, 75, New Zealand garage rock singer (Larry's Rebels)
- Richard Oesterreicher, 90, Austrian jazz guitarist and conductor
18
- David Crosby, 81, American folk rock singer-songwriter (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
- Victor Rasgado, 63, Mexican classical pianist and composer
- Gary Smith, American record producer (death announced on this date)
- Marcel Zanini, 99, Turkish-born French jazz clarinetist
19 – Alex Napier, 75, English hard rock drummer (Uriah Heep)
20
- Stella Chiweshe, 76, Zimbabwean folk mbira player
- Loïc Guguen, French opera singer
- Nick Todd, 87, American pop singer
21 – B.G., the Prince of Rap, 57, American rapper
22
- Easley Blackwood Jr., 89, American classical and electronic composer and pianist
- Lin Brehmer, 68, American disc jockey and radio personality (WXRT)
- Zhanna Pliyeva, 73, Georgian classical composer and pianist
23
- Carol Sloane, 85, American jazz singer
- Top Topham, 75, English blues rock guitarist (The Yardbirds)
26
- Dean Daughtry, 76, American rock keyboardist (The Candymen, Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section)
- Peter McCann, 74, American songwriter and singer
27 – Floyd Sneed, 80, Canadian rock drummer (Three Dog Night)
28
- Odd Børre, 83, Norwegian pop singer
- David Challinor, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sounds Like Sunset)
- Barrett Strong, 81, American R&B singer-songwriter
- Tom Verlaine, 73, American art punk singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television)
29
- Heddy Lester, 72, Dutch pop singer
- Gabriel Tacchino, 88, French classical pianist
31
- Donnie Marsico, 68, American rock singer (The Jaggerz)
- Charlie Thomas, 85, American R&B singer (The Drifters)

February

1
- Lucy Quintero, 74, Panamanian folk singer
- George Zukerman, 95, Canadian classical bassoonist
2
- Butch Miles, 78, American jazz drummer
- Tim Quy, 61, English post-punk percussionist and keyboardist (Cardiacs)
3 – Paul Janovitz, 54, American alternative rock singer and guitarist (Cold Water Flat)
4 – Vani Jairam, 77, Indian playback singer
5
- Phil Spalding, 65, English rock bassist (GTR, Original Mirrors, Toyah)
- Lillian Walker, 78, American R&B singer (The Exciters)
7
- Mendelson Joe, 78, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
- Steve Sostak, 49, American experimental rock singer and saxophonist (Sweep the Leg Johnny) (death announced on this date)
8
- Burt Bacharach, 94, American pop songwriter and composer
- Dennis Lotis, 97, South African-born British swing singer
10
- AKA, 35, South African rapper
- Joe Millar, 87, Northern Irish folk singer and musician (The Irish Rovers)
11 – Tito Fernández, 80, Chilean folk singer-songwriter
12 – David Jolicoeur, 54, American rapper (De La Soul)
13
- Tim Aymar, 59, American progressive metal singer (Pharaoh, Control Denied)
- Guido Basso, 85, Canadian jazz trumpeter
- Alain Goraguer, 91, French jazz pianist, arranger and composer
- Huey "Piano" Smith, 89, American R&B pianist
- Spencer Wiggins, 81, American soul singer
14
- Friedrich Cerha, 96, Austrian classical composter and conductor
- Peter Renkens, 55, Belgian new beat singer (Confetti's) (death announced on this date)
- Akira Tsuneoka, 51, Japanese pop punk drummer (Hi-Standard)
15 – Raquel Welch, 82, American dance singer
16
- Chuck Jackson, 85, American R&B singer
- Michael Kupper, 65, German heavy metal guitarist (Running Wild)
- Maon Kurosaki, 35, Japanese pop singer
- Marilú, 95, Mexican bolero singer
- Tony Marshall, 85, German schlager and opera singer
- Alberto Radius, 80, Italian pop rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Formula 3)
17
- Otis Barthoulameu, American pop punk singer and guitarist (Fluf, Olivelawn) (death announced on this date)
- Jerry Dodgion, 90, American jazz saxophonist and flautist
- Gerald Fried, 95, American film and television composer
- Kyle Jacobs, 49, American songwriter
- Vijay Kichlu, 92, Indian classical singer
- Hans Poulsen, 77, Australian soft rock singer-songwriter
- Tom Whitlock, 68, American pop rock songwriter
19 – Davis Causey, 74, American Southern rock guitarist (Sea Level)
20
- Bruce Barthol, 75, American psychedelic rock bassist (Country Joe and the Fish)
- Victor Brox, 81, English blues singer
- Lyubomyr Futorsky, 50, Ukrainian rock singer (Dead Rooster)
- Tom Stephen, 68, Canadian blues rock drummer (The Jeff Healey Band)
21
- Ron Altbach, 76, American rock keyboardist (King Harvest, Celebration)
- Jesse Gress, 67, American rock guitarist
23
- Slim Borgudd, 76, Swedish rock drummer (Lea Riders Group)
- Junnosuke Kuroda, 34, Japanese rock guitarist (Sumika)
25 – Walter Ferguson, 103, Panamanian-born Costa Rican calypso singer-songwriter
27 – Ismaïla Touré, 73, Senegalese Mbalax singer and percussionist (Touré Kunda)

March

1
- Wally Fawkes, 98, British-Canadian jazz clarinettist
- Leon Hughes, 92, American R&B singer (The Coasters)
- Neela Ramgopal, 87, Indian Carnatic singer
- Irma Serrano, 89, Mexican ranchera and corrido singer
2
- Johnny Johnson, 80, American soul singer (Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon)
- Steve Mackey, 56, British indie rock bassist (Pulp) and record producer
- Wayne Shorter, 89, American jazz saxophonist (Miles Davis Quintet, Weather Report, The Jazz Messengers)
- Gothart Stier, 84, German classical singer, organist and conductor
3
- David Lindley, 78, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kaleidoscope)
- Calvin Newton, 93, American gospel singer (The Oak Ridge Boys, Sons of Song)
4
- Sueli Costa, 79, Brazilian MPB composer and singer
- Robert Haimer, 69, American comedy rock singer-songwriter (Barnes & Barnes)
- Michael Rhodes, 69, American country bassist (The Notorious Cherry Bombs)
- Spot, 72, American record producer and engineer
- James "Owl" Walsh, 74, American rock singer and keyboardist (Gypsy)
5
- Arif Cooper, Jamaican reggae DJ and multi-instrumentalist
- Gary Rossington, 71, American Southern rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band)
6 – Eric Alan Livingston, 38, American experimental metal multi-instrumentalist
7 – Michael Brimer, 89, South African-Australian classical organist and conductor
8
- Jim Durkin, 58, American thrash metal guitarist (Dark Angel)
- Josua Madsen, 45, Danish thrash metal drummer (Artillery)
9 – Robin Lumley, 74, British jazz keyboardist (Brand X)
10
- Junior English, 71–72, Jamaican reggae singer
- Napoleon XIV, 84, American novelty singer-songwriter
11 – Costa Titch, 27, South African rapper
12 – Marek Kopelent, 90, Czech classical composer
13
- Simon Emmerson, 67, English jazz and worldbeat guitarist (Weekend, Working Week, Afro Celt Sound System)
- Jim Gordon, 77, American rock drummer (Derek and the Dominos, The Wrecking Crew, Traffic) and songwriter
- Canisso, 57, Brazilian rock bassist (Raimundos)
14
- Bobby Caldwell, 71, American singer-songwriter
- Dix Denney, American punk guitarist (The Weirdos, Thelonious Monster) (death announced on this date)
15 – Théo de Barros, 80, Brazilian jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer (Quarteto Novo)
16 – Tony Coe, 88, English jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
17
- Fuzzy Haskins, 81, American R&B and funk singer (Parliament-Funkadelic, The Parliaments)
- Fito Olivares, 75, Mexican cumbia saxophonist
- Mick Slattery, 77, British space rock guitarist (Hawkwind)
20 – Dmitry Nova, 34, Russian synthpop and house producer (Cream Soda)
21
- Oleksandr Kozarenko, 59, Ukrainian classical pianist and composer
- Anita Thallaug, 85, Norwegian pop singer
22
- Tom Leadon, 70, American rock guitarist (Mudcrutch)
- Wayne Swinny, 59, American nu metal guitarist (Saliva)
23
- Luca Bergia, 54, Italian alternative rock drummer (Marlene Kuntz)
- Keith Reid, 76, English psychedelic rock lyricist and songwriter (Procol Harum)
- Peter Shelley, 80, English pop singer-songwriter
25
- Juca Chaves, 84, Brazilian comedy pop singer
- Nick Lloyd Webber, 43, English theatre and television composer
26 – Ray Pillow, 85, American country singer
27
- James Bowman, 81, English opera singer
- Daniel Chorzempa, 78, American classical organist and composer
- Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, 99, Ethiopian classical pianist and composer
- Howie Kane, 81, American pop singer (Jay and the Americans) (death announced on this date)
- Jocelyn Morlock, 53, Canadian classical composer
- Peggy Scott-Adams, 74, American blues and R&B singer
28
- Blas Durán, 73, Dominican bachata singer
- Sanath Nandasiri, 81, Sri Lankan playback and pop singer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, 71, Japanese electronic keyboardist (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and composer
29
- Brian Gillis, 48, American pop singer (LFO)
- Sweet Charles Sherrell, 80, American R&B and funk bassist (The J.B.'s)
30
- Alfio Cantarella, 81, Italian rock drummer (Equipe 84)
- Mark Russell, 90, American musical comedy singer and pianist
- Ray Shulman, 73, English progressive rock multi-instrumentalist (Gentle Giant), songwriter and record producer
- Caroline "Care Failure" Kawa, 36, Canadian alternative rock singer (Die Mannequin)

April

2
- Pedro Lavirgen, 92, Spanish opera singer
- Seymour Stein, 80, American music executive and founder of Sire Records
3
- Andrew Laing, British punk drummer (Cockney Rejects)
- Rena Koumioti, 81, Greek new wave singer
- Jack Vreeswijk, 59, Swedish folk singer and composer
4 – Vivian Trimble, 59, American alternative rock keyboardist and singer (Luscious Jackson, Dusty Trails, Kostars)
5 – Duško Gojković, 91, Serbian jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger
6
- Paul Cattermole, 46, English pop singer (S Club 7)
- Nora Forster, 80, German music promoter
7
- Guy Bailey, British hard rock guitarist and songwriter (The Quireboys)
- Ian Bairnson, 69, Scottish rock guitarist and saxophonist (The Alan Parsons Project, Pilot)
- Kidd Jordan, 87, American jazz saxophonist
- John Regan, 71, American hard rock bassist (Frehley's Comet)
- Lasse Wellander, 70, Swedish pop guitarist (ABBA)
8 – Bob Heatlie, 76, Scottish songwriter and record producer
9
- Karl Berger, 88, German jazz pianist
- Valter Dešpalj, 75, Croatian classical cellist
- Chuck Morris, 46, American jam band percussionist (Lotus) (body discovered on this date)
11 – Cynara, 78, Brazilian bossa nova singer (Quarteto em Cy)
12 – Jah Shaka, Jamaican dub and reggae sound system operator (death announced on this date)
14
- Cliff Fish, 73, English pop bassist (Paper Lace)
- Mark Sheehan, 46, Irish pop rock guitarist (The Script)
15 – Peter Badie, 97, American jazz bassist
16 – Ahmad Jamal, 92, American jazz pianist
17
- Ivan Conti, 76, Brazilian jazz-funk drummer (Azymuth)
- April Stevens, 93, American pop singer (Nino Tempo & April Stevens)
18 – Otis Redding III, 59, American funk and soul singer and guitarist (The Reddings)
19
- Moonbin, 25, South Korean K-pop singer (Astro)
- Ron "Patch" Hamilton, 72, American Christian pop singer-songwriter
- Martin Petzold, 67, German classical singer (Thomanerchor)
- Carlo Saba, 54, Indonesian jazz pop singer (Kahitna)
- Federico Salvatore, 63, Italian pop singer-songwriter
20 – Pamela Chopra, 75, Indian playback singer
21 – Mark Stewart, 62, English post-punk singer-songwriter (The Pop Group)
22 – Ron Cahute, 68, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and accordionist
23
- Keith Gattis, 52, American country singer-songwriter
- Isaac Wiley Jr., 69, American funk drummer (Dazz Band)
24 – Lilian Day Jackson, 63, American disco singer (Spargo)
25
- Harry Belafonte, 96, American calypso and pop singer
- Ralph Humphrey, 79, American psychedelic rock drummer (The Mothers of Invention)
- Manfred Weiss, 88, German classical composer
26 – Billy "The Kid" Emerson, 97, American rock and roll singer-songwriter (death announced on this date)
27 – Wee Willie Harris, 90, English rock and roll singer
28
- Tim Bachman, 71, Canadian rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Brave Belt)
- Helge Engelke, 61, German hard rock guitarist (Fair Warning)
- Johnny Fean, 71, Irish Celtic rock guitarist (Horslips, Zen Alligators)
- Claude Gray, 91, American country music singer
29 – Don Sebesky, 85, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and conductor
30 – Broderick Smith, 75, Australian rock singer and harmonica player (Carson, The Dingoes)

May

1
- Gordon Lightfoot, 84, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
- Pugh Rogefeldt, 76, Swedish psychedelic pop singer-songwriter
3
- Moulay Tahar Al Asbahani, 75, Moroccan funk and gnawa singer (Jil Jilala)
- John Albert, 53, American punk guitarist and drummer (Christian Death, Bad Religion)
- Linda Lewis, 72, English pop and soul singer-songwriter
4
- Rob Laakso, 44, American indie rock guitarist (Kurt Vile and the Violators, Swirlies)
- Karaikudi Mani, 77, Indian Carnatic mridangam player
- Jasmin Stavros, 68, Croatian pop singer
5
- Chris Strachwitz, 91, American record company founder and executive (Arhoolie Records)
- Jack Wilkins, 78, American jazz guitarist
6 – Menahem Pressler, 99, German-born Israeli-American classical pianist (Beaux Arts Trio)
7
- Grace Bumbry, 86, American opera singer
- Soňa Červená, 97, Czech opera singer
- Seán Keane, 76, Irish Celtic fiddler (The Chieftains)
8 – Rita Lee, 75, Brazilian Tropicália and psychedelic rock singer-songwriter (Os Mutantes)
9
- Liudmila Kovnatskaya, 82, Russian musicologist
- Jon Povey, 80, British rock drummer and keyboardist (Pretty Things, Bern Elliott and the Fenmen)
- Joaquin Romaguera, 90, American opera singer
- Günter Wewel, 88, German opera singer
10
- Rolf Harris, 93, Australian pop singer and multi-instrumentalist
- Stu James, 77, British rock singer (The Mojos)
11 – Francis Monkman, 73, English progressive rock guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter (Curved Air, Sky, Matching Mole)
12 – Dum-Dum, 54, Brazilian rapper (Facção Central)
13 – Arno Veimer|et, 50, Estonian hard rock guitarist and lyricist (Terminaator)
14
- John Giblin, 71, Scottish rock and jazz bassist (Brand X)
- Ingrid Haebler, 93, Austrian classical pianist
15 – Bernt Rosengren, 85, Swedish jazz saxophonist (death announced on this date)
16
- Richard Landis, 77, American country singer-songwriter and record producer
- Lester Sterling, 87, Jamaican ska saxophonist (The Skatalites, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires)
17 – Algy Ward, 63, English punk and heavy metal bassist (Tank, The Damned, The Saints)
19
- Pete Brown, 82, English rock singer and lyricist
- Andy Rourke, 59, English indie rock bassist (The Smiths)
20
- Paul Desenne, 63, Venezuelan classical cellist and composer
- Sven Nyhus, 90, Norwegian folk fiddler
21
- Ed Ames, 95, American pop singer (Ames Brothers)
- Thotakura Somaraju, 68, Indian film composer
22
- Kirk Arrington, 61, American heavy metal drummer (Metal Church)
- Ferus Mustafov, 72, Macedonian folk saxophonist
- Chas Newby, 81, British rock bassist (The Beatles)
23
- Mark Adams, 64, American doom metal bassist (Saint Vitus)
- Redd Holt, 91, American jazz drummer (The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Young-Holt Unlimited)
- Floyd Newman, 91, American R&B and soul saxophonist (The Mar-Keys, The Memphis Horns)
- Sheldon Reynolds, 63, American funk and R&B guitarist (Sun, Commodores, Earth, Wind & Fire)
24
- Javier Álvarez, 67, Mexican classical composer
- Jack Martin Händler, 75, Slovak classical violinist and conductor
- Bill Lee, 94, American jazz bassist and film composer
- George Maharis, 94, American pop singer
- Tina Turner, 83, American-born Swiss rock and R&B singer (Ike & Tina Turner)
25
- Joy McKean, 93, Australian country singer-songwriter
- Jean-Louis Murat, 71, French pop singer-songwriter
26
- Jack Lee, 71, American power pop singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Nerves)
- Reuben Wilson, 88, American jazz organist
31 – Dickie Harrell, 82, American rock and roll drummer (Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps)

June

1
- Pacho El Antifeka, 42, Puerto Rican rapper
- Roy Taylor, Irish pop rock singer and bassist (Jump the Gun)
- Cynthia Weil, 82, American pop songwriter
- Kurt Widmer, 82, Swiss classical singer (death announced on this date)
2 – Kaija Saariaho, 70, Finnish classical composer
4
- Dora María, 89, Mexican folk singer
- George Winston, 74, American new age and R&B pianist
5 – Astrud Gilberto, 83, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer
6 – Tony McPhee, 79, English blues rock guitarist (The Groundhogs)
7 – Banani Ghosh, Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer
8 – Peter Belli, 79, Danish pop singer
9 – Niel Immelman, 78, South African classical pianist (death announced on this date)
10 – Yannis Markopoulos, 84, Greek classical and film composer
11 – Suna Kan, 86, Turkish classical violinist
13
- Christy Dignam, 63, Irish rock singer (Aslan)
- Blackie Onassis, 57, American alternative rock drummer (Urge Overkill)
14 – Sharda, 85, Indian playback singer
15
- Sergey Kolchin, 45, Russian rock guitarist (Zemlyane)
- Dan Lardner, American indie rock singer and guitarist (QTY) (death announced on this date)
- Luiz Schiavon, 64, Brazilian keyboardist (RPM)
16 – Peter Dickinson, 88, English classical composer and musicologist
17 – Dave Maclean, 78, Brazilian pop rock singer-songwriter
18
- Big Pokey, 48, American rapper (Screwed Up Click)
- Nasrollah Nasehpour, 82, Iranian radif singer
- Krzysztof Olesiński, 70, Polish rock bassist (Maanam)
- Cornel Țăranu, 88, Romanian classical composer
- Teresa Taylor, 60, American alternative rock drummer (Butthole Surfers)
19
- Max Morath, 96, American ragtime pianist
- Gabriele Schnaut, 72, German opera singer
- Ryan Siew, 26, Australian metalcore guitarist (Polaris)
20
- Choi Sung-bong, 33, South Korean singer
- Vyacheslav Nagovitsin, 83, Russian classical composer
- John Waddington, 63, English post-punk guitarist (The Pop Group, Maximum Joy, Perfume)
- Paolo Zavallone, 90, Italian disco singer
22
- Robert Black, 67, American classical bassist (Bang on a Can All Stars)
- Peter Brötzmann, 82, German jazz saxophonist
23
- Sheldon Harnick, 99, American musical theater lyricist and songwriter
- Jesse McReynolds, 93, American bluegrass mandolinist, singer and songwriter (Jim & Jesse)
- Lee Rauch, 58, American metal drummer (Megadeth, Dark Angel)
24
- Claude Barzotti, 69, Belgian pop singer
- Rachel Yakar, 87, French opera singer
25 – Tapas Das, 68, Indian rock singer-songwriter (Moheener Ghoraguli)
27 – Bobby Osborne, 91, American bluegrass mandolinist and singer (Osborne Brothers)
30
- Lord Creator, 87, Trinidad-born Jamaican calypso and ska singer-songwriter
- Monte Cazazza, American industrial composer and singer (death announced on this date)
- Rick Froberg, 55, American post-hardcore singer and guitarist (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Obits, Pitchfork)

July

2 – Margaret Nisbett, 94, Australian opera singer
3
- Vicki Anderson, 83, American soul singer (death announced on this date)
- Mo Foster, 78, English rock and pop multi-instrumentalist (Affinity, Fancy, RMS)
- Sudakshina Sarma, 88, Indian borgeet singer
4
- Jenő Jandó, 71, Hungarian classical pianist
- Canelita Medina, 84, Venezuelan salsa singer
- Robin Tamang, 60, Nepalese hard rock singer
5
- Rob Agerbeek, 85, Indonesian-born Dutch jazz pianist
- Anthony Gilbert, 88, British classical composer
- Coco Lee, 48, Hong Kong-American pop singer-songwriter
- Ralph Lundsten, 86, Swedish classical composer
- Martin Stevens, 69, Canadian pop singer
- George Tickner, 76, American rock guitarist (Journey, Frumious Bandersnatch) (death announced on this date)
6
- Graham Clark, 81, English opera singer
- Peter Nero, 89, American pop and classical pianist and conductor (Philly Pops)
- Caleb Southern, 53, American record producer
8
- Victor Pikayzen, 90, Russian classical violinist
- Özkan Uğur, 69, Turkish rock bassist (MFÖ)
10
- Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, 89, German jazz multi-instrumentalist
- Bob Segarini, 77, American-Canadian rock singer-songwriter (The Wackers)
11
- Toni Carbone, 62, Italian new wave bassist (Denovo)
- Sam Cutler, 80, English tour manager (The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead)
- Yuzo Toyama, 92, Japanese classical composer
12 – André Watts, 77, American classical pianist
14 – Anthony Meo, American hardcore punk drummer (Biohazard) (death announced on this date)
15 – Chen Mao-shuen, 87, Taiwanese classical composer
16 – Jane Birkin, 76, English-French pop singer
17
- DJ Deeon, 56, American house DJ and producer
- João Donato, 88, Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist
- Walt Groller, 92, American polka accordionist
- Marc Herrand, 98, French pop and chanson singer (Les Compagnons de la chanson)
19 – Mark Thomas, 67, British film composer
21
- Hafiz Abdelrahman, Sudanese traditional and classical flautist
- Tony Bennett, 96, American pop singer
- Neal Langford, 50, American indie rock bassist (The Shins) (death announced on this date)
- Chollathee Tharnthong, 85, Thai luk thung composer and singer
22
- Peter Austin, 78, Jamaican ska singer (The Clarendonians)
- Vince Hill, 89, English pop singer
- Knut Riisnæs, 77, Norwegian jazz saxophonist and flautist
23 – Raymond Froggatt, 81, English pop singer and songwriter
24
- Leny Andrade, 80, Brazilian jazz singer
- Brad Houser, 62, American alternative rock bassist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Critters Buggin)
- Dóris Monteiro, 88, Brazilian pop singer
- Cecilia Pantoja, 79, Chilean bolero singer-songwriter
25 – Andreas Tsoukalas, 60, Greek pop singer-songwriter
26
- Randy Meisner, 77, American country rock singer-songwriter and bassist (Eagles, Poco)
- Sinéad O'Connor, 56, Irish alternative rock singer-songwriter
- Surinder Shinda, 70, Indian Punjabi singer
27 – Ruth W. Greenfield, 99, American classical pianist
28
- Jim Parker, 88, British classical composer
- Tommi Stumpff, 65, German EBM singer and multi-instrumentalist
29 – Manolo Miralles, 71, Spanish folk singer (Al Tall)
31 – Anders Stenmo, 67, Swedish-Austrian pop drummer (Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung) (death announced on this date)

August

1
- Alexander Kolker, 90, Russian film composer
- Dom Minasi, 80, American jazz guitarist
3 – Carl Davis, 86, American-born British film composer and conductor
4 – John Gosling, 75, British rock keyboardist (The Kinks)
5 – Tristan Honsinger, 73, American free jazz cellist
6 – David LaFlamme, 82, American psychedelic rock singer and violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
7
- Gillian Bibby, 77, New Zealand classical composer and pianist
- DJ Casper, 58, American dance DJ and songwriter
- Erkin Koray, 82, Turkish Anatolian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Toussaint McCall, 89, American R&B singer
8 – Sixto Rodriguez, 81, American psychedelic folk singer-songwriter
9
- Peppino Gagliardi, 83, Italian pop singer
- Robbie Robertson, 80, Canadian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Band)
10 – Brad Thomson, American mathcore guitarist (The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza) (death announced on this date)
11
- Ron Peno, 68, Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter (Died Pretty)
- Carlos Camacho, 73, Puerto Rican pop singer (Los Hispanos)
- Shoji Tabuchi, 79, Japanese-American country fiddler
12
- Vilayil Faseela, 63, Indian Mappila songs singer
- Berit Lindholm, 88, Swedish opera singer
13
- Clarence Avant, 92, American music executive
- Magoo, 50, American rapper and songwriter (Timbaland & Magoo)
14 – Jessica Cash, 84, British opera singer
15 – Arnold Östman, 83, Swedish classical conductor
16
- Jerry Moss, 88, American recording executive
- Renata Scotto, 89, Italian opera singer
17
- Bobby Eli, 77, American soul and funk guitarist (MFSB), songwriter, and record producer
- Gary Young, 70, American indie rock drummer (Pavement)
18 – Ray Hildebrand, 82, American pop singer-songwriter (Paul & Paula)
19
- Gloria Coates, 89, American-born German classical composer
- Václav Patejdl, 68, Slovak pop rock singer and keyboardist (Elán)
20 – Luc Smets, 76, Belgian rock singer and keyboardist (The Pebbles)
21 – Denis LePage, 74, Canadian disco singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Lime)
22
- Toto Cutugno, 80, Italian pop singer-songwriter
- Vaccine, 43, American dubstep producer
23 – Bob Feldman, 83, American pop singer (The Strangeloves), songwriter, and record producer
24
- Bernie Marsden, 72, English hard rock guitarist (Whitesnake) and songwriter
- Sakevi Yokoyama, Japanese hardcore punk singer (GISM)
25 – Carlos Gonzaga, 99, Brazilian rock singer
26
- Bosse Broberg, 85, Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer
- John Kezdy, 64, American punk singer (The Effigies)
27
- Robert Hale, 90, American opera singer (death announced on this date)
- Brian McBride, 53, American ambient multi-instrumentalist (Stars of the Lid, Bell Gardens) (death announced on this date)
- Denyse Plummer, 69, Trinidadian calypso and gospel singer
28
- August 08, 31, American R&B singer-songwriter
- James Casey, 40, American jam band saxophonist (Trey Anastasio Band)
29 – Peter King, 84, Nigerian Afrobeat and jazz multi-instrumentalist
30 – Jack Sonni, 68, American rock guitarist (Dire Straits)

September

1
- Robert Becerra, 64, American punk guitarist (Stains)
- Jimmy Buffett, 76, American country rock singer-songwriter
- Milka Stojanović, 86, Serbian opera singer
2 – Walter Arlen, 103, Austrian-American classical composer and music critic
3 – José Sébéloué, 74, French pop guitarist and singer (La Compagnie Créole)
4
- Teté Caturla, 85, Cuban pop singer (Cuarteto d'Aida)
- Steve Harwell, 56, American alternative rock singer (Smash Mouth)
- Sherali Joʻrayev, 76, Uzbek folk singer
- Tail Dragger Jones, 82, American blues singer
- Gary Wright, 80, American rock singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Spooky Tooth)
5
- Tom Davies, 48, British-American stoner rock bassist (Nebula)
- Joe Fagin, 83, British pop singer (death announced on this date)
- Bruce Guthro, 62, Canadian folk and country singer-songwriter (Runrig)
- Richard Laviolette, 41, Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter
- Anatol Ugorski, 80, Russian-born German classical pianist
6
- Larry Chance, 82, American doo-wop singer (The Earls)
- Richard Davis, 93, American jazz bassist
- Malini Rajurkar, 82, Indian classical singer
- Steve Roden, 59, American lowercase composer and synthesizer player
7
- Charles Gayle, 84, American jazz saxophonist and pianist
- María Jiménez, 73, Spanish bolero and ranchera singer
- Margherita Rinaldi, 88, Italian opera singer
8 – Mylon LeFevre, 78, American Christian rock singer
10
- Evgeny Brazhnik, 78, Russian classical conductor
- Brendan Croker, 70, English country rock guitarist (The Notting Hillbillies)
- Charlie Robison, 59, American country singer-songwriter
- Matthew Stewart, 41, American ska punk trumpeter (Streetlight Manifesto)
11 – Dedi Graucher, 62, Israeli religious singer
12
- Beytocan, 67, Turkish-born Swedish Kurdish folk singer
- MohBad, 27, Nigerian Afrobeats rapper and singer-songwriter
13
- Manik Bhide, 88, Indian Hindustani classical singer
- Roger Whittaker, 87, British folk singer-songwriter
14 – Fred Lewis, 72, American funk percussionist (Lakeside)
15
- Franco Migliacci, 92, Italian pop lyricist
- Suzanne Sarroca, 96, French opera singer
- Paul Woseen, 56, Australian hard rock bassist and songwriter (The Screaming Jets)
16
- Nikolai Dobronravov, 94, Russian pop and estrada lyricist
- Irish Grinstead, 43, American R&B singer (702)
- Milo Hrnić, 73, Croatian pop singer
- John Marshall, 82, English jazz fusion and progressive rock drummer (Nucleus, Soft Machine, Centipede)
17 – Lies Adji Rachman, 78, Indonesian pop singer (Dara Puspita)
19
- Lou Deprijck, 77, Belgian pop singer-songwriter and record producer
- Stephen Gould, 61, American opera singer
20
- Katherine Anderson, 79, American R&B singer (The Marvelettes)
- Yaacov Bergman, 78, Israeli classical conductor
- Kent Stax, American hardcore punk drummer (Scream)
21 – Robert W. Smith, 64, American classical trumpeter and composer
22
- Mike Henderson, 70, American country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The SteelDrivers)
- Peter Horton, 82, Austrian pop guitarist and singer (death announced on this date)
- Stan Klees, 91, Canadian businessman (RPM) and record executive
- Alejandro Meerapfel, 54, Argentine opera singer
- Dieter Schneider, 86, German schlager lyricist
23
- François Glorieux, 91, Belgian classical conductor and composer
- Terry Kirkman, 83, American sunshine pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The Association)
24
- Felix Ayo, 90, Spanish-born Italian baroque and chamber violinist (I Musici)
- Barry Olivier, 87, American folk guitarist, guitar teacher and founder of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival
25 – David McCallum, 90, Scottish easy listening composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist
27 – Dom Famularo, 70, American jazz drummer
28 – Stephen Ackles, 57, Norwegian rock and roll singer and pianist
29
- Jon Fausty, 74, American sound and recording engineer
- Ron Howden, 78, English progressive rock drummer (Nektar)
30
- Russell Batiste Jr., 57, American funk and jazz fusion drummer (The Meters, Vida Blue, Papa Grows Funk)
- Russell Sherman, 93, American classical pianist

October

1
- Julian Bahula, 85, South African jazz drummer (Jabula)
- Patricia Janečková, 25, Slovak opera singer
- Joy Webb, 91, British gospel singer (The Joystrings)
- Ricky Wolff, 78, South African pop singer (White Plains)
2
- Herbert Handt, 97, American opera singer and conductor
- Lefteris Hapsiadis, 69, Greek laïko and rebetiko lyricist
3
- Jacqueline Dark, 55, Australian opera singer
- Lena McLin, 95, American classical and religious composer and music teacher
5 – Bruno Filippini, 78, Italian pop singer
6 – Maurice Bourgue, 83, French classical oboist, composer, and conductor
7 – Reiner Goldberg, 83, German opera singer
8 – Ritchie Routledge, 73, British rock singer and guitarist (The Cryin' Shames)
9
- Hugh Friel, 71, Irish new wave drummer (The Atrix)
- Steven Lutvak, 64, American musical theater composer
- Buck Trent, 85, American country multi-instrumentalist
11 – Rudolph Isley, 84, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
12
- Michael Cooper, 71, Jamaican reggae keyboardist (Inner Circle, Third World)
- Aérea Negrot, 43, Venezuelan house DJ and singer (Hercules and Love Affair)
13 – Garry Mapanzure, 25, Zimbabwean Afropop singer
14 – Gary Nuñez, 71, Puerto Rican plena and bomba bassist (Plena Libre)
16 – Gennady Gladkov, 88, Russian film composer
17 – Carla Bley, 87, American jazz composer and pianist
18 – Dwight Twilley, 72, American power pop singer-songwriter
19
- The 45 King, 62, American hip hop record producer and DJ
- Lasse Berghagen, 78, Swedish schlager singer
- Atsushi Sakurai, 57 Japanese alternative rock singer-songwriter (Buck-Tick)
22 – Gregg Sutton, 74, American country rock bassist (Lone Justice) and songwriter
23
- Chronis Aidonidis, 95, Greek folk singer
- Angelo Bruschini, 62, English alternative rock and trip-hop guitarist (The Blue Aeroplanes, Massive Attack)
- István Láng, 90, Hungarian classical composer
- Mervin Shiner, 102, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
24
- Lily Afshar, 63, Iranian classical guitarist
- Ricardo Iorio, 61, Argentine heavy metal singer and bassist (Almafuerte, Hermética, V8)
- Steve Riley, 67, American hard rock drummer (Keel, W.A.S.P., L.A. Guns)
25 – Zdeněk Mácal, 87, Czech classical conductor
26
- Goa Gil, 72, American psytrance and goa trance DJ
- Rigo Star, 68, Congolese soukous guitarist and composer
27 – Axali Doëseb, 69, Namibian anthem composer
29 – Heath, 55, Japanese visual kei bassist (X Japan)

November

1
- Pierre Dutour, 91, French classical and jazz trumpeter, composer, and conductor
- Leela Omchery, 94, Indian classical singer and musicologist
- Vladimir Urbanovich, 85, Russian opera singer
- Vic Vergeat, 72, Italian rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
2
- Michel Pilz, 78, German jazz clarinetist
- Evgeniy Shiryaev, 80, Russian classical composer
- Yuri Temirkanov, 84, Russian classical conductor
3 – Pete Garner, 61, British alternative rock bassist (The Stone Roses) (death announced on this date)
5
- Ryland Davies, 80, Welsh opera singer
- Lolita Rodrigues, 94, Brazilian pop singer
6
- Nadira Begum, Bangladeshi folk singer
- Sean Martin, 26, English indie pop singer and guitarist (The Night Café) (death announced on this date)
7 – C-Knight, 52, American rapper (The Dove Shack)
9
- R.L. Boyce, 68, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Junko Ohashi, 73, Japanese pop singer
10 – Johnny Ruffo, 35, Australian dance pop singer
11
- Luis Carlos Gil, 72, Spanish pop singer (Trigo Limpio)
- Conny Van Dyke, 78, American pop singer
- Angelita Vargas, 77, Spanish flamenco singer
12 – Mohammed al Amin, 80, Sudanese folk singer-songwriter and oud player
13 – Ivo Kuusk, 86, Estonian opera singer
14 – Buzy, 66, French pop singer
15
- P. K. Narayanan Nambiar, 96, Indian traditional mizhavu player
- Karl Tremblay, 47, Canadian folk singer (Les Cowboys Fringants) (death announced on this date)
16
- George "Funky" Brown, 74, American funk drummer and songwriter (Kool & the Gang)
- Thành Được, 89, Vietnamese cải lương singer
17
- Christiane Bervoets, 75, Belgian pop singer
- Seóirse Bodley, 90, Irish classical composer
- Charlie Dominici, 72, American progressive metal singer (Dream Theater, Dominici) (death announced on this date)
- Claude Kahn, 88, French classical pianist
18 – David Del Tredici, 86, American classical composer
19
- Ninie Doniah, 56, Malagasy salegy singer and composer
- Catherine Christer Hennix, 75, Swedish minimalist and drone multi-instrumentalist and composer
- Sara Tavares, 45, Portuguese pop and jazz singer
20 – Mars Williams, 68, American new wave and jazz fusion saxophonist (The Waitresses, The Psychedelic Furs, Liquid Soul)
21
- Chad Allan, 80, Canadian rock singer, guitarist and keyboardist (The Guess Who, Brave Belt)
- Horacio Malvicino, 94, Argentine jazz and tango guitarist and composer
22
- Jean Knight, 80, American soul and funk singer (death announced on this date)
- Phil Quartararo, 67, American music industry executive
24 – Jukka Haavisto, 93, Finnish swing accordionist and vibraphonist
25
- Julio Anderson, 74, Chilean folk rock bassist (Los Jaivas)
- Les Maguire, 81, English pop rock keyboardist and saxophonist (Gerry and the Pacemakers).
- Akzhol Meirbekov, 73, Kazakh rock singer (Dos Mukasan)
- Yngvar Numme, 79, Norwegian pop singer (Dizzie Tunes)
- B. Sasikumar, 74, Indian carnatic violinist
26
- Brian Godding, 78, Welsh jazz rock guitarist (Blossom Toes, Centipede).
- Geordie Walker, 64, English post-punk guitarist and songwriter (Killing Joke, The Damage Manual)
28
- Queenzy Cheng, 37, Malaysian pop singer
- John Colianni, 61, American jazz pianist
29 – Scott Kempner, 69, American rock guitarist (The Dictators, The Del-Lords)
30 – Shane MacGowan, 65, Irish Celtic punk singer-songwriter (The Pogues).

December

1 – Badar uz Zaman, 83, Pakistani classical singer
2 – Medea Amiranashvili, 93, Georgian opera singer.
3
- Thanga Darlong, 103, Indian folk singer
- Myles Goodwyn, 75, Canadian hard rock singer and guitarist (April Wine)
4
- John Hyatt, British post-punk singer (The Three Johns)
- Vlado Pravdić, 73, Bosnian hard rock keyboardist (Bijelo Dugme)
5
- Mama Diabaté, 63, Guinean folk singer and multi-instrumentalist
- Denny Laine, 79, English rock guitarist and songwriter (Wings, The Moody Blues)
6 – Michel Sardaby, 88, French jazz pianist
7
- Ramón Ayala, 96, Argentine folk singer-songwriter
- Terry Baucom, 71, American bluegrass singer and banjoist (Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out)
- Lola Dee, 95, American pop singer
8 – Nidra Beard, 71, American soul and funk singer (Dynasty) (death announced on this date)
10 – Cayle Sain, 31, American metal drummer (Twitching Tongues). (death announced on this date)
11
- Jeffrey Foskett, 67, American pop rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys)
- Richard Kerr, 78, English singer-songwriter (death announced on this date)
- Essra Mohawk, 75, American jazz rock singer-songwriter
- Zahara, 36, South African Afro-soul singer
12
- Roderick McLeod, Australian psychedelic rock singer (The Pineapples from the Dawn of Time)
- Ole Paus, 76, Norwegian ballad singer-songwriter
13 – Travis Dopp, American post-hardcore guitarist (Small Brown Bike)
14 – Giorgos Tolios, 58, Greek post-punk drummer (Trypes)
15
- Anup Ghoshal, 78, Indian playback singer and film composer
- Bob Johnson, 79, British folk rock singer and guitarist (Steeleye Span)
16
- Óscar Agudelo, 91, Colombian bolero singer
- Colin Burgess, 77, Australian rock drummer (AC/DC, The Masters Apprentices) (death announced on this date)
- Carlos Lyra, 90, Brazilian bossa nova singer and composer
- Tim Norell, 68, Swedish pop songwriter (Norell Oson Bard).
17
- Amp Fiddler, 65, American funk singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Enchantment, Parliament, Funkadelic)
- Jim Ladd, 75, American disc jockey and radio personality (KMET, KLOS, Sirius XM),
- Mike Maxfield, 79, English pop rock guitarist and songwriter (The Dakotas). (death announced on this date)
18
- Ronnie Caryl, 70, English rock guitarist (Flaming Youth)
- Susanna Parigi, 62, Italian pop singer-songwriter and pianist
19
- Gunther Emmerlich, 79, German opera singer and jazz banjoist
- Russell Hunter, 76, British psychedelic rock drummer (Pink Fairies, The Deviants)
- Bram Inscore, 41, American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist (Electrocute), producer and songwriter
20 – Eric Moyo, 41, Zimbabwean gospel singer
22
- Laura Lynch, 65, American country singer and bassist (The Dixie Chicks)
- Heike Matthiesen, 59, German classical guitarist
23
- Murad Kajlayev, 92, Russian classical composer and conductor
- Lisandro Meza, 86, Colombian cumbia singer and accordionist
24
- Vasilis Karras, 70, Greek laïko singer
- Alice Parker, 98, American choral composer and conductor
- Willie Ruff, 92, American jazz bassist and French hornist
25 – Thanh Điền, 56, Vietnamese Đờn ca tài tử guitarist
26
- Tony Oxley, 85, English avant-garde jazz drummer
- Tom Smothers, 86, American comedy and folk singer and guitarist (Smothers Brothers)
27 – Michael Gibbons Jr, American crossover thrash guitarist (Leeway)
28
- Francis Dhomont, 97, French electroacoustic composer
- Pedro Suárez-Vértiz, 54, Peruvian rock singer-songwriter (Arena Hash)
- Tommy Talton, 74, American rock guitarist (We the People, Cowboy)
29 – Les McCann, 88, American jazz pianist
30 – Bhavani Shankar, 66–67, Indian Hindustani classical pakhawaj drummer
31
- Shmulik Bilu, 71, Israeli pop singer (Milk and Honey)
- O. S. Thyagarajan, 76, Indian Carnatic singer

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