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Bands on hiatus Bands disbanded Deaths January 1 3 4 – Alexi Laiho , 41, Finnish death metal singer and guitarist (Children of Bodom ) (death announced on this date) 5 – John Georgiadis , 81, British classical violinist and conductor 6 – Paul de Leon, 52, American metal drummer (Las Cruces ) 7 8 Ed Bruce , 81, American country music singer-songwriter Michael Fonfara , 74, Canadian blues and rock keyboardist (The Electric Flag , Rhinoceros , Downchild Blues Band ) Uno Loop , 91, Estonian singer and guitarist Elijah Moshinsky , 75, Australian opera director 10 – Thorleif Torstensson , 71, Swedish dansband singer, guitarist and saxophonist (Thorleifs ) 11 12 – Ron Getman, 72, American country rock guitarist and singer (The Tractors ) 13 Tim Bogert , 76, American psychedelic rock bassist (Vanilla Fudge , Cactus , Beck, Bogert & Appice ) Duke Bootee , 69, American rapper, producer and songwriter Sylvain Sylvain , 69, American glam rock guitarist (New York Dolls ) 14 16 Jason Cope, 43, American country guitarist (The Steel Woods ) Pave Maijanen , 70, Finnish rock keyboardist (Hurriganes , Dingo ) Claudia Montero , 58, Argentine classical composer Phil Spector , 81, American record producer, pop musician (The Teddy Bears ), and songwriter 17 18 20 – Joe Jordan, 79, American pop singer and musician (The Jordan Brothers ) 21 Randy Parton , 67, American country music singer-songwriter Marc Phillips, 66, American rock singer (Hotel ) and record producer 22 23 24 – Tom Stevens , 64, American alternative country bassist (The Long Ryders ) 25 – Iron , 29, South Korean rapper 26 27 – Trung Kiên , 81, Vietnamese classical singer 28 29 30 31 – Wambali Mkandawire , Malawian jazz singer February 1 – Temur Tsiklauri , 75, Georgian pop singer (VIA Iveria ) 2 – Aaron Wegelin, American indie rock drummer (Elf Power ) 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 – Joel Pina, 100, Portuguese fado guitarist (Amália Rodrigues ) 12 – Milford Graves , 79, American jazz drummer (New York Art Quartet ) 13 14 Erriquez, 60, Italian folk rock singer and guitarist (Bandabardò ) Ari Gold , 47, American R&B singer 15 Steuart Bedford , 81, British classical conductor and pianist Lucien Gourong , 77, French cabaret singer Andréa Guiot , 93, French opera singer Raymond Lévesque , 92, French chanson singer Johnny Pacheco , 85, Dominican salsa multi-instrumentalist (Fania All-Stars ) and record producer 16 17 18 19 20 21 – Hélène Martin , 92, French chanson singer 22 – Yalchin Rzazadeh , 74, Azerbaijani pop singer 23 – Sean Kennedy, 35, Australian metalcore bassist (I Killed The Prom Queen , Deez Nuts ) 24 – Sardool Sikander , 60, Indian folk singer 26 – Bob James , 68, American hard rock singer (Montrose ) 27 – Danilo Rustici, 72, Italian progressive rock guitarist (Osanna ) 28 March 1 – Ralph Peterson Jr. , 58, American jazz drummer (Out of the Blue , The Jazz Messengers ) 2 3 4 5 6 – Carmel Quinn , 95, Irish-American pop singer 7 9 – James Levine , 77, American classical conductor and pianist (Metropolitan Opera ) 8 Adrian Bărar , 61, Romanian heavy metal guitarist and composer (Cargo ) James Mac Gaw, French progressive rock guitarist (Magma ) 11 12 – Maximiliano Djerfy, 46, Argentine alternative rock guitarist (Callejeros ) 14 Eulalio Cervantes, 52, Mexican rock saxophonist (Maldita Vecindad ) Reggie Warren, 52, American R&B singer (Troop ) 15 16 – Bill Irvine, 87, American rock and roll pianist (Chuck Alaimo Quartet ) 17 18 – Paul Jackson , 73, American jazz fusion bassist (The Headhunters , Azteca ) 19 20 23 25 – Tavish Maloney, 24, American emo guitarist (Oso Oso ) 26 – Brett Bradshaw, 50, American glam metal drummer (Faster Pussycat ) 28 – Malcolm Cecil , 84, British jazz bassist and synthesizer player (Tonto's Expanding Head Band , Blues Incorporated , The Jazz Couriers ) 29 Jerry Burgan, 76, American folk rock guitarist (We Five ) Hans Kinds, 74, Dutch blues rock guitarist (Cuby + Blizzards ) 30 – Willie Schofield, 81, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Falcons ) 31 April 1 – Tony Pola , Australian blues-rock drummer (Beasts of Bourbon , Kim Salmon and the Surrealists ) 2 Shaukat Ali , 76, Pakistani folk singer Morris "B.B." Dickerson, 71, American funk bassist and singer (War ) Gabi Luncă , 82, Romanian lăutărească singer Nelu Ploieşteanu , 70, Romanian lăutărească singer 3 4 – Paul Humphrey , 60, Canadian new wave singer (Blue Peter ) 5 6 – Predrag Živković Tozovac , 85, Serbian folk singer 9 – DMX , 50, American rapper 10 11 13 14 15 – Barby Kelly, 45, Spanish-born German folk singer (The Kelly Family ) 16 17 – Black Rob , 52, American rapper 18 19 – Jim Steinman , 73, American rock lyricist, composer, pianist, and record producer 20 – Les McKeown , 65, Scottish pop rock singer (Bay City Rollers ) 21 22 – Shock G , 57, American rapper (Digital Underground ) 23 Fredi , 78, Finnish novelty pop singer Milva , 81, Italian pop singer 25 27 – Paul Couter , 72, Belgian rock guitarist (TC Matic ) 28 29 Johnny Crawford , 75, American pop singer John Hinch , 73, British heavy metal drummer (Judas Priest , Bakerloo ) Tony Markellis , 68, American jam band bassist (Trey Anastasio Band ) Will Mecum , 48, American stoner rock guitarist (Karma to Burn , Year Long Disaster ) 30 May 1 2 – Tommy West , 78, American music producer and pop singer-songwriter (Cashman & West ) 3 Phil Naro, 63, American hard rock singer (Talas ) Lloyd Price , 88, American R&B singer-songwriter 4 6 7 8 – Curtis Fuller , 86, American jazz trombonist (The Jazz Messengers ) 10 12 – Maran , 48, Indian gaana singer 13 14 – Ester Mägi , 99, Estonian classical composer 15 16 17 18 – Franco Battiato , 76, Italian progressive rock and new wave singer-songwriter 19 20 – Roger Hawkins , 75, American rock and soul drummer (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section ) 22 – Glenn Douglas Tubb , 85, American country singer-songwriter 23 24 25 – Søren Holm, 25, Danish indie pop singer (Liss ) 26 27 28 29 31 - Lil Loaded , 20, American rapper June 3 – Karla Burns , 66, American opera singer 6 – Michele Merlo , 28, Italian pop singer-songwriter 7 – David C. Lewis , American soft rock and new age keyboardist (Ambrosia , Shadowfax ) 8 9 – Juan Nelson, 62, American blues rock bassist (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals ) 10 – Fran McKendree, 74, American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (McKendree Spring ) 11 14 – Selçuk Tekay , 68, Turkish classical composer and violinist 16 – Novica Zdravković , 73, Serbian folk singer 17 – Fane Flaws , 70, New Zealand rock guitarist (The Crocodiles , The Spats , Blerta ) 18 20 21 22 – Parassala B. Ponnammal , 96, Indian Carnatic singer 23 25 26 27 28 29 July 1 4 5 – Raffaella Carrà , 78, Italian pop singer 6 – David King, American alternative rock guitarist (Mary's Danish ) 9 – Andy Williams, 49, American Christian rock drummer (Casting Crowns ) 10 11 13 – Brother Resistance , 67, Trinidadian rhythm poet 14 15 16 – Biz Markie , 57, American rapper 17 19 20 – Jerry Granelli , 80, American-born Canadian jazz drummer 21 Tõnu Aare, 67, Estonian rock singer and multi-instrumentalist (Apelsin ) Clarence McDonald , 76, American pianist, composer, arranger, and producer 22 23 25 – Count M'Butu, 75-76, American blues-rock percussionist (The Derek Trucks Band ) (death announced on this date) 26 27 28 29 – Gonzoe, 45, American rapper (Kausion ) 30 Jacob Desvarieux, 65, Guadeloupean-French zouk singer Tom LeGarde, 90, Australian country music singer and guitarist (The LeGarde Twins ) 31 – Jerzy Matuszkiewicz , 93, Polish jazz saxophonist August 1 3 4 Razzy Bailey , 82, American country singer Jean "Binta" Breeze , 65, Jamaican dub poet Paul Johnson , 50, American house DJ Stan Lark, 81, American rock and roll bassist (The Fireballs ) Anders Pettersson, 69, Swedish dansband keyboardist (Lasse Stefanz ) 6 7 – Dennis Thomas, 70, American funk saxophonist (Kool & The Gang ) 9 11 12 – Ronnell Bright , 91, American jazz pianist 13 14 – R. Murray Schafer , 88, Canadian avant-garde classical composer 15 – Jagjit Kaur , 91, Indian playback singer 16 – Hormoz Farhat , 93, Iranian-American classical composer 17 – Squeak, 26, American hip hop producer (Pivot Gang ) 20 21 22 23 24 25 – Dave Harper, British indie rock drummer (Frankie & The Heartstrings ) 26 – Kenny Malone , 83, American country drummer 27 – Siegfried Matthus , 87, German composer and conductor 29 30 – Lee Williams, 75, American gospel singer (Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC's ) 31 – Nobesuthu Mbadu, 76, South African mbaqanga singer (Mahotella Queens ) September 1 2 4 5 6 7 – Warren Storm , 84, American swamp pop singer and drummer 8 9 – Amanda Holden , 73, British classical librettist 10 11 – María Mendiola , 69, Spanish pop singer (Baccara ) 12 – Don Maddox, 90, American country singer (Maddox Brothers and Rose ) 13 – George Wein , 95, American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival 14 – Vicente Zarzo Pitarch , 83, Spanish classical French horn player 15 16 17 – Dottie Dodgion , 91, American jazz drummer 19 20 21 22 23 – Sue Thompson , 96, American pop and country singer 24 – Pee Wee Ellis , 80, American jazz and soul saxophonist 25 – Patricio Manns , 84, Chilean folk singer-songwriter 26 27 28 Nana Ampadu , 76, Ghanaian highlife singer and guitarist Karan Armstrong , 79, American opera soprano Pete Fullerton, 75, American folk rock bassist and singer (We Five ) Phi Nhung , 49, Vietnamese-American Vọng cổ singer Barry Ryan , 72, British pop singer Lonnie Smith , 79, American jazz organist 29 30 October 1 2 3 – Anouman Brou Félix , 86, Ivorian attie multi-instrumentalist 5 – Pat Fish , 64, British indie pop singer and guitarist (The Jazz Butcher ) 8 9 – Dee Pop, 65, American post-punk drummer (Bush Tetras , The Gun Club ) 10 – Luis de Pablo , 91, Spanish classical composer 11 12 – Paddy Moloney , 83, Irish Celtic folk multi-instrumentalist (The Chieftains , Ceoltóirí Chualann ) 13 – Andrea Haugen , 45, German heavy metal singer 14 15 – Regi Hargis, 70, American funk guitarist and singer (Brick ) 16 17 – Bruce Gaston , 74, American Thai classical multi-instrumentalist 18 19 – Leslie Bricusse , 90, British film and theater composer and lyricist 21 Tommy DeBarge, 64, American R&B-funk bassist and singer (Switch ) Dmitriy Galitsky, 65, Russian pop singer and keyboardist (Sinyaya Ptitsa ) Bernard Haitink , 92, Dutch classical conductor and violinist Sergei Krinitzin, 65, Russian progressive rock drummer (Autograph ) Robin McNamara , 74, American pop rock singer-songwriter Allan Wilmot, 96, Jamaican-born British pop singer (The Southlanders ) 22 24 25 – Alfredo Diez Nieto , 103, Cuban classical composer and conductor 26 – Rose Lee Maphis , 98, American country singer 27 28 – Raša Đelmaš , 71, Serbian progressive rock drummer (YU Grupa , Zebra , Pop Mašina ) 30 – Fan Tsai, 26, Taiwanese indie rock drummer (No Party for Cao Dong ) November 1 2 3 – Georgie Dann , 81, French pop singer 4 – Mario Lavista , 78, Mexican film composer 5 – Marília Mendonça , 26, Brazilian sertanejo singer-songwriter 6 7 8 – Margo Guryan , 84, American pop singer-songwriter 10 11 13 – Philip Margo , 79, American doo-wop singer (The Tokens ) 15 – Heber Bartolome , 73, Filipino folk singer 16 – Belinda Sykes, 55, British medieval folk singer and multi-instrumentalist (Joglaresa ) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 – Tatyana Chudova , 77, Russian classical composer 24 25 – Betty Jean Robinson , 88, American country music singer-songwriter 26 – Stephen Sondheim , 91, American film and theater composer and lyricist 28 30 December 1 2 – Abdel Karim al Kabli , 89, Sudanese folk singer and oud player 4 5 6 – János Kóbor, 78, Hungarian progressive rock singer (Omega ) 7 8 Gil Bridges, 80, American rock saxophonist (Rare Earth ) Barry Harris , 91, American jazz pianist Chandidas Mal , 92, Indian classical singer Robbie Shakespeare , 68, Jamaican reggae bassist (Sly and Robbie ) and record producer Ralph Tavares, 79, American R&B singer (Tavares ) 9 – David Lasley , 74, American pop and R&B singer 10 11 – Garth Dennis , 72, Jamaican reggae singer (Black Uhuru , The Wailing Souls ) 12 – Vicente Fernández , 81, Mexican ranchera singer 13 14 – Phil Chen , 81, Jamaican rock and reggae bassist (Manzarek–Krieger , Butts Band ) 15 16 Hub , 62, American hip hop bassist (The Roots ) Terry Uttley, 70, British rock bassist (Smokie ) Ian Worang, 47, Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist (Uncut ) 17 John Morgan, 80, English Scrumpy and Western drummer (The Wurzels ) Weerasak Sunthornsri, 71, Thai folk rock guitarist (Caravan ) Lindsay Tebbutt, Australian pub rock drummer (The Choirboys ) 18 19 20 – Paul Mitchell, American R&B singer (The Floaters ) 21 – Anthony Williams , 90, Trinidadian steelband steel pan player 23 24 25 – Tiffini Hale, 46, American pop singer (The Party ) 27 – Victor Socaciu , 68, Romanian folk singer and composer 29 30 – Stephen J. Lawrence , 82, American television composer 31 Musical films See also References
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