2024 in music

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Deaths

January

2 – Chris Karrer, 76, German progressive rock guitarist 3 – Tawl Ross, 75, American funk guitarist 4

* Ruy Mingas, 84, Angolan folk singer-songwriter and anthem composer
* Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, Swedish folk pop singer
* David Soul, 80, American-British pop singer
* Glynis Johns, 100, British musical theatre actress and singer5
* Larry Collins, 79, American rockabilly guitarist and songwriter
* Del Palmer, 71, English art rock singer-songwriter, bassist and sound engineer6
* Iasos, 76, Greek-born American new age keyboardist
* Amparo Rubín, 68, Mexican folk singer-songwriter7
* Germana Caroli, 92, Italian pop singer
* Tony Clarkin, 77, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter 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 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 10
* Audie Blaylock, 61, American bluegrass singer and guitarist
*Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian opera singer11
* Annie Nightingale, 83, English radio disk jockey
* Sigi Schwab, 83, German jazz guitarist12
* Bill Hayes, 98, American folk singer
* David Lumsdaine, 92, Australian classical composer13
* Prabha Atre, 91, Indian classical singer
* Jo-El Sonnier, 77, American country singer-songwriter and accordionist
* Romuald Twardowski, 93, Polish classical composer15 – K. J. Joy, 77, Indian film and classical composer16
* Peter Schickele, 88, American classical composer and musical satirist
* Laurie Johnson, 96, English classical composer and swing bandleader17
* Serge Laprade, 83, Canadian pop singer
* Gerd Uecker, 77, German opera director and music teacher18
* 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 singer19
* 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 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 23
* Melanie, 76, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Frank Farian, 82, German pop singer-songwriter and record producer
* Anders Sandberg, 55, Swedish Eurodance singer.24 – Anders Lampe, 59, Danish pop rock guitarist 25
* Bruno Amstad, 59–60, Swiss jazz singer
* Bhavatharini, 47, Indian playback singer and film music director26
* Dean Brown, 68, American jazz guitarist
* Michel Hausser, 96, French jazz vibraphonist
* Michael Watford, 80, American dance and house singer27 – Lillebjørn Nilsen, 73, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter28 – Albert Mayr, 80, Italian classical and experimental composer29
* Tony Cedras, 71, South African jazz multi-instrumentalist
* Yuri Ilchenko, 72, Russian rock singer and guitarist 30 – Chita Rivera, 91, American musical theater singer and actress

February

* Steve Brown, 66, British classical composer
* Wilhelmenia Fernandez, 75, American opera singer
* Wayne Kramer, 75, American rock guitarist and songwriter 3 – Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, Jamaican reggae bassist 5 – Toby Keith, 62, American country singer-songwriter6
* Donald Kinsey, 70, American blues and reggae guitarist and singer
* Seiji Ozawa, 88, Japanese classical conductor7
* Vaja Azarashvili, 87, Georgian classical composer
* Henry Fambrough, 85, American R&B singer
* Mojo Nixon, 66, American psychobilly singer-songwriter8 – Yuri Borzov, 70, Russian blues rock drummer 9
* Nikša Gligo, 77, Croatian musicologist
* Damo Suzuki, 74, Japanese Krautrock singer
* Jimmy Van Eaton, 86, American rock and roll drummer11
* Ladislav Burlas, 96, Slovak classical composer and musicologist
* Randy Sparks, 90, American folk singer-songwriter
* Mihai Amihalachioaie, 62, Moldovan accordionist and conductor12
* Tamás Deák, 95, Hungarian classical composer and conductor
* Rudolf Jansen, 84, Dutch classical pianist
* Juris Kulakovs, 65, Latvian rock keyboardist
* Steve Wright, 69, English radio disk jockey13
* Eddie Cheeba, 67, American hip hop DJ
* Jussi Raittinen, 80, Finnish Rautalanka singer and guitarist15 – Ian Amey, 79, English rock singer and guitarist 16
* Etterlene DeBarge, 88, American gospel singer
* Fritz Hinz, 68, Canadian hard rock drummer
* Reuben Jackson, 67, American jazz historian
* Ben Lanzarone, 85, American television composer
* Dexter Romweber, 57, American rockabilly guitarist
* Cynthia Strother, 88, American pop singer 18
* Davlatmand Kholov, 73, Tajik Shashmaqam multi-instrumentalist
* Hasina Mumtaz, 78, Bangladeshi pop singer19
* Stewart Robertson, 75, Scottish classical conductor
* Bobby Tench, 79, British blues rock singer and guitarist. 20
* David Libert, 81, American sunshine pop singer and keyboardist
* Geoffrey Michaels, 79, Australian classical violinist and violist 21 – Vitalij Kuprij, 49, Ukrainian-American symphonic metal keyboardist 22
* John Lowe, 81, English skiffle pianist
* Roni Stoneman, 85, American bluegrass banjoist23
* Tina Rainford, 77, German pop singer
* Shinsadong Tiger, 40, South Korean record producer24 – Juana Bacallao, 98, Cuban guaracha singer25
* Bigidagoe, 26, Dutch rapper
* Peter "Peetah" Morgan, 46, Jamaican reggae singer 26
* Bhakta Raj Acharya, 81, Nepali Bhajan singer and composer
* Pankaj Udhas, 72, Indian ghazal singer28
* Cat Janice, 31, American electropop singer-songwriter
* Eugen Indjic, 76, Yugoslav born French-American classical pianist29 – Eugen Šváb, 87, Slovak swing singer and percussionist

March

* Ernest Berger, 73, Czech-born British funk and disco drummer
* Don Wise, 81, American R&B saxophonist2
* Jim Beard, 63, American jazz rock keyboardist
* Blues Boy Willie, 77, American blues singer and guitarist
* W. C. Clark, 84, American blues singer and guitarist3
* 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 4
* B. B. Seaton, 79, Jamaican ska and rocksteady singer
* Amnon Weinstein, 84, Israeli violin luthier5
* 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 6 – Dimos Moutsis, 85, Greek Éntekhno singer-songwriter and composer7
* Pedro Altamiranda, 88, Panamanian salsa singer
* Joe Cutajar, 83, Maltese pop singer.
* Françoise Garner, 90, French opera singer
* Steve Lawrence, 88, American pop singer8
* 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 9
* Malcolm Holcombe, 68, American alternative country singer-songwriter
* Vince Power, 76, Irish music festival promoter
* Guy Touvron, 74, French classical trumpeter10
* Blake Harrison, 48, American grindcore sampler
* Paul Nelson, American blues guitarist
* T. M. Stevens, 72, American rock bassist
* Marc Tobaly, 74, Moroccan-born French rock guitarist
* Karl Wallinger, 66, Welsh alternative rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 11
* Boss, 54, American rapper
* Eric Carmen, 74, American power pop singer-songwriter
* Pete Rodriguez, 91, American Latin boogaloo pianist and bandleader12
* Michael Knott, American Christian rock singer-songwriter
* James Whitbourn, 60, British classical composer and conductor
* Russ Wilson, 62, Canadian alternative rock bassist 13
* Dick Allix, 78, British pop rock drummer
* John Blunt, British rock drummer
* Sylvain Luc, 58, French jazz guitarist
* Sadi Mohammad, 70, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer and composer
* Aribert Reimann, 88, German classical composer and pianist14
* Lamara Chkonia, 93, Georgian opera singer
* Frank Darcel, 65, French post-punk guitarist
* Byron Janis, 95, American classical pianist
* Jean-Pierre Marty, 91, French classical pianist and conductor
* Angela McCluskey, 64, Scottish alternative rock singer-songwriter 15 – Hans Blum, 95, German schlager singer-songwriter17
* Cola Boyy, 34, American disco multi-instrumentalist
* Sandra Crouch, 81, American gospel singer
* Steve Harley, 73, British glam rock singer-songwriter 18
* Jimmy Hastings, 85, British progressive rock multi-instrumentalist
* Khalid, 60, Bangladeshi pop singer
* Kevin Toney, 70, American jazz fusion pianist and composer 19 – Greg Lee, 53, American ska and reggae singer 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
* Cocky Mazzetti, 87, Italian pop singer21 – Laurens van Rooyen, 88, Dutch classical pianist and composer23
* Igor Ozim, 92, Slovenian classical violinist
* Maurizio Pollini, 82, Italian classical pianist24
* Vincent Bonham, 67, American funk singer
* Def Rhymz, 53, Surinamese-Dutch rapper
* Péter Eötvös, 80, Hungarian opera composer25
* Humphrey Campbell, 66, Surinamese-Dutch pop singer
* Chris Cross, 71, English new wave bassist and keyboardist
* Maurice El Médiouni, 95, Algerian jazz pianist26
* Clare Elliott, New Zealand punk singer
* Chandra Kumara Kandanarachchi, 76, Sri Lankan playback singer
* Slađana Milošević, 68, Serbian new wave singer-songwriter
* George Nicolescu, 74, Romanian pop singer27 – La Castou, 75, Swiss pop singer28 – Marian Zazeela, 83, American experimental music singer and tanpura player29 – Gerry Conway, 76, English folk rock drummer and percussionist.30
* Mark Spiro, 66–67, American songwriter and record producer
* Vanhlupuii, 77, Indian Mizo multi-genre singer31 – Casey Benjamin, 45, American jazz multi-instrumentalist

April

* Phil Delire, 67–68, Belgian music producer.
* Michael Ward, 57, American alternative rock guitarist 2 – Jerry Abbott, 81, American country music songwriter and record producer3
* Joe Aitken, 79, Scottish bothy ballad singer
* Albert Heath, 88, American jazz drummer
* Kalevi Kiviniemi, 65, Finnish classical organist
* Muñequita Milly, 23, Peruvian huayno singer
* Notker Wolf, 83, German Benedictine priest-monk and rock guitarist4
* Keith LeBlanc, 69, American multi-genre drummer
* Graeme Naysmith, 57, English shoegaze guitarist 5
* Phil Nimmons, 100, Canadian jazz clarinetist.
* Rocket Norton, 73, Canadian hard rock drummer
* C. J. Snare, 64, American glam metal singer-songwriter 6 – Dutty Dior, Norwegian rapper7
* 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 saxophonist8 – Jon Card, 63, German-born Canadian punk drummer 9
* Bob Lanese, 82, American big band jazz trumpeter
* Muluken Melesse, 70, Ethiopian tizita singer and drummer
* Sturgis Nikides, 66, American blues rock and no wave guitarist
* Dieter Rexroth, 83, German musicologist and dramaturge
* Max Werner, 70, Dutch progressive rock singer and drummer 10 – Mister Cee, 57, American hip hop DJ and radio broadcaster 11
* Park Bo-ram, 30, South Korean K-pop singer
* Enrique Llácer Soler, 89, Spanish jazz percussionist and composer12
* Lucy Rimmer, British post-punk singer
* Rico Wade, 52, American music producer and songwriter 13
* Richard Horowitz, 75, American film composer
* Lorenzo Palomo, 86, Spanish classical composer14 –
* Ben Eldridge, 85, American progressive bluegrass banjoist
* Calvin Keys, 82, American jazz guitarist15
* Reita, 42, Japanese alternative metal bassist
* Eugene Wolfgramm, 57, American pop singer 16
* Clorofila, 56, Mexican Nortec DJ
* K. G. Jayan, 89, Indian Carnatic singer
* Gavin Webb, 77, Australian psychedelic rock bassist 17 – Pooch Tavares, 81, American R&B and disco singer 18
* Dickey Betts, 80, American Southern rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Steve Kille, American stoner rock bassist
* Mandisa, 47, American gospel singer
* Larry Page, 86, English pop singer and record producer19
* Naomy, 46, Romanian pop singer
* Eddie Sutton, 59, American crossover thrash singer 20
* Kaj Chydenius, 84, Finnish avant garde composer and folk songwriter
* Tony Tuff, 69, Jamaican reggae singer 21
* Jean-Marie Aerts, 72, Belgian rock guitarist
* MC Duke, 58, British rapper
* Alex Hassilev, 91, American folk singer and banjoist
* KODA, 45, Ghanaian gospel singer22 – Chan Romero, 82, American rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist 23 – Fergie MacDonald, 86, Scottish cèilidh accordionist24 – Mike Pinder, 82, English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter 26
* Robin George, 68, British rock singer and guitarist.
* Anderson Leonardo, 51, Brazilian pagode singer
* Frank Wakefield, American bluegrass mandolinist27 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, 89, Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter28 – Norman Carol, 95, American classical violinist and concertmaster 30 – Duane Eddy, 86, American rock and roll guitarist

May

* 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 2
* Gary Floyd, 71, American hardcore punk and alternative rock singer
* John Pisano, 93, American jazz guitarist.3 – Jim Mills, 57, American bluegrass banjoist 4
* Miroslav Imrich, 71, Czech rock singer
* Ron Kavana, 73, Irish multi-genre singer-songwriter5
* 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
* Wayland Holyfield, 82, American country songwriter
* Christiane Stefanski, 74, Belgian folk singer7
* Steve Albini, 61, American post-hardcore and noise rock singer and guitarist and record producer
* Ignatius Jones, 66–67, Australian-Filipino new wave and swing singer
* Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, 88, Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger8
* John Barbata, 79, American rock drummer
* Conrad Kelly, 65, Jamaican-born British reggae drummer
* Giovanna Marini, 87, Italian folk singer-songwriter
* Dennis Thompson, 75, American rock drummer 9 – Fred Noonan, Australian alternative rock drummer 12 – David Sanborn, 78, American jazz saxophonist.13
* Christian Escoudé, 76, French Gypsy jazz guitarist
* Luis María Serra, 82, Argentine film composer14 – Jimmy James, 83, Jamaican-British ska and disco singer15
* John Hawken, 84, English rock keyboardist
* Ahmed Piro, 92, Moroccan Andalusi classical singer17
* Charlie Colin, 58, American pop rock bassist and guitarist
* Missinho, 64, Brazilian Axé singer 18
* Palle Danielsson, 77, Swedish jazz bassist
* Frank Ifield, 86, Australian country singer
* John Koerner, 85, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Jon Wysocki, 53, American post-grunge drummer 19 – Peggi Blu, 77, American R&B singer and vocal coach 21 – Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, 71, Polish film composer22 – Toni Montano, 62, Serbian punk rock singer24 – Doug Ingle, 78, American psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and keyboardist 25 – Richard M. Sherman, 95, American film songwriter 27
* Rodger Fox, 71, New Zealand jazz trombonist and bandleader.
* Francesco Petrozzi, 62, Peruvian opera singer28 – Gustavo Mullem, 72, Brazilian punk rock guitarist 29
* Cayouche, 75, Canadian country singer-songwriter
* Mansour Seck, 69, Senegalese worldbeat singer and Kora player.30 – Doug Dagger, 56, American punk rock singer 31 – Ed Mann, 70, American rock drummer and keyboardist

June

1 – Harry van Hoof, 81, Dutch pop conductor, composer, and music arranger.2

* Emma Lou Diemer, 96, American classical composer
* Colin Gibb, 70, British pop singer and guitarist 3 – Brother Marquis, 58, American rapper.4 – C.Gambino, 26, Swedish rapper5 – Ranch Sironi, American stoner rock bassist 7
*Rose-Marie, 68, Northern Irish pop singer
*Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, 90, German minimalist composer8
* Mark James, 83, American pop and country songwriter
* Charlie Lennon, 85, Irish traditional folk fiddler and composer9
*William Carragan, 86, American musicologist and Bruckner expert
*Alex Riel, 83, Danish jazz and rock drummer11
* Enchanting, 26, American rapper
* Marcel Guilloux, 93, French kan ha diskan singer and storyteller.
* Françoise Hardy, 80, French pop and yé-yé singer-songwriter
* Gaps Hendrickson, 73, British ska singer
* Adam Lewis, 45, American pop punk bassist
* Kevork Mardirossian, 70, American classical violinist
* Rajeev Taranath, 91, Indian classical sarod player12 – Johnny Canales, 77, Mexican Tejano singer13
* Angela Bofill, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter
* Skowa, 68, Brazilian samba rock singer-songwriter and guitarist 14 – Jeremy Tepper, 60, American radio executive and country singer, co-founder of Diesel Only Records16
* Buzz Cason, 84, American pop and country singer-songwriter
* Jodie Devos, 35, Belgian opera singer17 – Paul Spencer, 53, English house DJ 18 – James Chance, 71, American no wave singer and saxophonist 19
* Chrystian, 67, Brazilian sertanejo singer
* Silvia Infantas, 101, Chilean folk singer
* James Loughran, 92, Scottish classical conductor20 – Margarita Voites, 87, Estonian opera singer23
* Julio Foolio, 26, American rapper
* Sakini Ramachandraih, 61, Indian folk singer and dhol player
* David Tunley, 94, Australian musicologist.24
* Shifty Shellshock, 49, American rap rock singer-songwriter and rapper
* Rob Stone, 55, American record producer25
* Jewel Brown, 86, American jazz and blues singer
* Ray St. Germain, 83, Canadian country singer26 – Gary Grant, American jazz trumpeter27
* Kinky Friedman, 79, American country singer-songwriter
* Alexander Knaifel, 80, Russian opera composer
* Martin Mull, 80, American comedy music singer-songwriter28
* Lando Bartolini, 87, Italian opera singer
*Kong Nay, 80, Cambodian traditional folk chapei dang veng player
* Betty Veldpaus, 72, Dutch pop and country singer 29 – Martti Wallén, 75, Finnish opera singer30
* Lucius Banda, 53, Malawian reggae singer-songwriter
* Peter Collins, 73, English record producer

July

* Fausto Bordalo Dias, 75, Portuguese folk singer-songwriter
* Nino Vella, 31, French classical and jazz composer
* Cliff Waldron, 83, American bluegrass singer and guitarist2 – Tom Fowler, 73, American psychedelic rock bassist 3 – Mark Germino, 73, American folk rock singer-songwriter5 – Liana Isakadze, 77, Georgian classical violinist 6
* Pino D'Angiò, 71, Italian Italo disco singer-songwriter
* Joe Egan, 77, Scottish folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist 8
* Adrián Olivares, 48, Mexican pop singer.
* Pavol Zelenay, 96, Slovak swing composer9 – Joe Bonsall, 76, American country and gospel singer 10 – Dave Loggins, 76, American pop and country singer-songwriter11 – Tommy Drennan, 82–83, Irish classical and showband singer13
* Ruth Hesse, 87, German opera singer
* Claudio Reyes, 64, Chilean pop singer14 – R. P. S. Lanrue, 74, German rock guitarist 15
* Wieteke van Dort, 81, Dutch pop singer
* Édith Lejet, 82, French classical composer
* Tomcraft, 49, German progressive trance DJ and producer16
* Ulf Dageby, 80, Swedish rock guitarist
* Bernice Johnson Reagon, 81, American gospel a capella singer
* Irène Schweizer, 83, Swiss free jazz pianist.17
* Pinche Peach, 57, American death metal singer
* Happy Traum, 86, American folk singer and guitarist
* Heather Wood, 79, English folk singer 18 – Jerry Fuller, 85, American rockabilly and pop singer-songwriter and producer19 – Toumani Diabaté, 58, Malian mande kora player20
* Jerry Miller, 81, American psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Sandy Posey, 80, American pop and country singer
* Eugene Sârbu, 73, Romanian classical violinist.21
* Kim Min-ki, 73, South Korean folk rock singer-songwriter
* Evelyn Thomas, 70, American Hi-NRG singer22
* Jerzy Artysz, 93, Polish opera singer
* Klara Berkovich, 96, Soviet-born American classical violinist
* Duke Fakir, 88, American R&B singer
* Elena Mauti Nunziata, 77, Italian opera singer
* John Mayall, 90, English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist23 – Ekaterina Shklyaeva, 86, Russian folk pop singer 24
* Shafin Ahmed, 63, Bangladeshi rock singer-songwriter and bassist
* Antonio Cabán Vale, 81, Puerto Rican folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Bill Crook, Canadian alternative metal and pop punk bassist. 25
* Pascal Danel, 80, French pop singer-songwriter
* Benjamin Luxon, 87, British opera singer
* Tadashi Yabe, 59, Japanese acid jazz DJ and music producer.26
* Jason Clark, American gospel singer.
* Sd Laika, American deconstructed club producer and DJ
* Kelly Nelon Clark, 64, American gospel singer
* Amber Nelon Thompson, American gospel singer
* Tomáš Vendl, 52, Czech black metal bassist 27
* Pat Collier, 72, English punk rock bassist and record producer
* Danny Clarke, 71–72, Jamaican reggae singer
* DJ Polo, American hip hop DJ and record producer
* Oldřich Janota, 74, Czech folk singer-songwriter
* Mísia, 69, Portuguese fado singer
* Wolfgang Rihm, 72, German classical composer28
* Chino XL, 50, American rapper
* Martin Phillipps, 61, New Zealand indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Mick Underwood, 78, English rock drummer 30 – Onyeka Onwenu, 72, Nigerian pop and gospel singer-songwriter31
* DJ Randall, 54, British jungle and drum and bass DJ
* Arthur Miles, 74, American R&B and jazz singer
* Carmen Pateña, 83, Filipino pop singer

August

1 – Jürgen Ahrend, 94, German pipe organ builder2 – Nicu Covaci, 77, Romanian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist 3

* Shaun Martin, 45, American jazz fusion and gospel multi-instrumentalist
* Antônio Meneses, 66, Brazilian classical cellist
* Phloen Phromdaen, 85, Thai luk thung singer4 – Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, 74, Spanish classical conductor and composer5 – Maurice Williams, 86, American doo-wop singer-songwriter 7 – Jack Russell, 63, American glam metal singer 9
* Carl Bevan, 51, Welsh Britpop drummer
* Maryvonne Le Dizès, 84, French classical violinist
* Charles R. Cross, 67, American music journalist
* Dave Sweetapple, 58, American indie rock and stoner metal bassist.
* Carl Weathersby, 71, American blues guitarist10 – Celestina Casapietra, 85, Italian opera singer11
* Gökçe Akçelik, 47, Turkish psychedelic rock singer and guitarist
* Haniya Aslam, 46, Pakistani pop rock singer and guitarist
* Steve Davislim, 57, Malaysian-born Australian opera singer
* Talos, 37, Irish indie electronic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
* Chon Travis, American punk singer 12
* Christof Nel, 80, German theatre and opera director
* Zdeněk Pololáník, 88, Czech classical composer, conductor and organist.13 – Greg Kihn, 75, American power pop singer-songwriter and guitarist 14 – Dean Roberts, 49, New Zealand electroacoustic multi-instrumentalist and composer 15
* Joe Chambers, 81, American psychedelic soul singer-songwriter
* Peter Marshall, 98, American pop singer and musical theater actor 16
* Charles Blackwell, 84, English pop arranger, record producer, film composer and songwriter
* Bobby Hicks, 91, American bluegrass fiddler
* Luther Kent, 76, American blues singer
* Rajko Maksimović, 89, Serbian classical composer
* Tore Ylwizaker, 54, Norwegian experimental rock keyboardist 17
* Johnny "Dandy" Rodríguez, 78, American Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa bongo player.
* Bert Susanka, 62, American surf rock and cowpunk singer-songwriter and guitarist 20
* Erik Barrett, 48, American metalcore bassist
* Maryvonne Le Dizès, 84, French classical violinist
* Manju Mehta, 79, Indian classical sitar player.
* Charin Nantanakorn, 91, Thai pop singer21
* Diana, 76, Brazilian pop singer
* Russell Stone, 77–78, English singer 22 – Justin Chearno, 54, American indie rock guitarist 23
* Daron Beck, 48, American synth-doom singer and keyboardist
* Russell Malone, 60, America jazz guitarist
* Catherine Ribeiro, 82, French psychedelic rock singer 26 – Paul Dwayne, 60, Canadian country singer-songwriter27
* Richard Macphail, 73, English rock singer and road manager
* Makaya Ntshoko, 84, South African jazz drummer30
* Fatman Scoop, 53, American rapper
* Danielle Moore, 52, English downtempo singer
* Cunnie Williams, 61, American R&B singer 31 – Jessica Mbangeni, 47, South African gospel singer

September

* Mike Billard, 60, Canadian jazz drummer.
* Teresa Bright, 64, American hapa haole guitarist and ukulele player.2
* James Darren, 88, American pop singer
* Peter Kubik, 49, Austrian black metal guitarist
* Pat Lewis, 76, American soul singer 3 – Göran Fristorp, 76, Swedish schlager singer-songwriter 4
* Oswald d'Andréa, 90, French classical pianist and film composer
* Bora Đorđević, 71, Serbian hard rock singer-songwriter.5
* Roy Cape, 82, Trinidadian calypso saxophonist
* Herbie Flowers, 86, English rock bassist.
* Martin France, 60, British jazz drummer
* Sérgio Mendes, 83, Brazilian bossa nova pianist and composer
* Rich Homie Quan, 34, American rapper
* Władysław Słowiński, 94, Polish classical composer and conductor.6
* Will Jennings, 80, American pop lyricist
* Mark Moffatt, 74, Australian pop guitarist and record producer
* Screamin' Scott Simon, 75, Americanrock and roll pianist and singer 7
* Jimmy Gilmer, 83, American rock and roll singer
* Dan Morgenstern, 94, German-born American music journalist and archivist8
* Viktor Lyadov, 58, Russian classical pianist
* Zoot Money, 82, English blues rock singer and keyboardist
* Ben Thapa, 42, English operatic pop singer
* Caterina Valente, 93, French-Italian pop singer and guitarist10
* Frankie Beverly, 77, American R&B and funk singer-songwriter
* Doug Hood, 70, New Zealand record producer12
* Robin Guy, 54, British punk and alternative rock drummer
* Papa Kojak, 68, Jamaican reggae singer13
* Moisés Canelo, 74, Honduran pop singer-songwriter
* Tommy Cash, 84, American country singer
* Chalmers Davis, 73, American country keyboardist 15
* David Davis, 63, American bluegrass mandolinist
* Tito Jackson, 70, American pop and R&B singer and guitarist
* Roli Mosimann, 68, Swiss-born American experimental rock drummer and record producer16 – Billy Edd Wheeler, 91, American country singer-songwriter17
* Evin Agassi, 78, Iranian-born American pop singer.
* Kenny Hyslop, 73, Scottish new wave drummer
* Rise Kagona, 62, Zimbabwean jit guitarist
* JD Souther, 78, American country rock singer-songwriter18
* Juan Brujo, 61, American death metal singer
* Dick Diamonde, 76, Dutch-born Australian rock bassist
* Nick Gravenites, 85, American blues singer and guitarist
* Zulya Kamalova, 55, Russian-born Australian folk singer19 – Florence Warner, 77, American pop and commercial jingle singer20
* Richard Dyer, 82, American music critic
* Srirangam Kannan, 72, Indian classical morsing player
* Kim Richmond, 84, American jazz saxophonist and composer
* Sayuri, 28, Japanese pop singer-songwriter21
* Paul Cripple, American anarcho-punk guitarist
* Benny Golson, 95, American jazz saxophonist and composer
* Eddie Low, 81, New Zealand country singer
* Roger Palm, 75, Swedish pop drummer
* Juan Carlos Salazar, 59, Venezuelan folk singer and cuatro player23 – Freddie Salem, 70, American Southern rock guitarist 24 – Cat Glover, 60, American funk singer and rapper27
* John McNeil, 76, American jazz trumpeter
* Pit Passarell, 56, Argentine-born Brazilian heavy metal singer and bassist 28 – Kris Kristofferson, 88, American country singer-songwriter29
* Rohan de Saram, 85, British-born classical Sri Lankan cellist
* Martin Lee, 77, English pop singer-songwriter
* Stoika Milanova, 79, Bulgarian classical violinist 30
* Dave Allison, 68, Canadian heavy metal guitarist
* Fayo, 46, Canadian folk singer-songwriter

October

* Vyacheslav Dobrynin, 78, Russian pop rock singer and composer
* Fritz Escovão, 81, Brazilian samba rock singer and guitarist 2
* Arbogaste Mbella Ntone, 82, Cameroonian gospel singer
* Ken Tobias, 79, Canadian folk singer-songwriter3
* Terje Bjørklund, 79, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
* Jack Colwell, 34, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter.
* Jerry Miller, American ska singer 5 – Mimis Plessas, 99, Greek film composer and classical pianist6 – Johnny Neel, 70, American Southern rock singer and keyboardist 7
* Hans van Hemert, 79, Dutch music producer and songwriter
* Cissy Houston, 91, American gospel and R&B singer
* Jack Ponti, 66, American songwriter and record producer8 – Jorge Arriagada, 81, Chilean-French film composer9
* Michel Boyibanda, 84, Congolese rumba and soukous singer.
* Bruno Pochesci, 54, Italian-born French singer-songwriter
* Leif Segerstam, 80, Finnish classical conductor, composer and multi-instrumentalist10
* Adam Abeshouse, 63, American recording engineer, music producer and classical violinist
* El Taiger, 37, Cuban reggaeton singer11
* Kiril Marichkov, 79, Bulgarian progressive rock singer and bassist
* Aminollah Rashidi, 99, Iranian classical singer and composer12
* Jackmaster, 38, Scottish house DJ
* Ka, 52, American rapper13 – Libby Titus, 77, American pop singer-songwriter15 – Ollie Olsen, 66, Australian post-punk multi-instrumentalist and film composer16
* Inger Lorre, 61, American alternative rock singer-songwriter
* Alan Mansfield, 72, American-New Zealand rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer
* Liam Payne, 31, English pop singer 18 – Shujeo Shyam, 78, Bangladeshi music director20
* Barbara Dane, 97, American jazz, blues, and folk singer
* Janusz Olejniczak, 72, Polish classical pianist21
* Egidio Cuadrado, 71, Colombian vallenato accordionist
* Paul Di'Anno, 66, English heavy metal singer
* Mimi Hines, 91, Canadian pop singer and musical theater actress
* Barbara Kolb, 85, American classical composer22
* Claire Daly, 66, American jazz saxophonist and composer
* Edd Griles, 78, American music video director
* Ferenc Sánta Jr., 79, Hungarian classical and Romani folk violinist23
* Jack Jones, 86, American pop singer
* Linda LaFlamme, 85, American psychedelic rock keyboardist and songwriter 24
* DJ Clark Kent, 57, Panamanian–American hip hop DJ and record producer
* Marco Paulo, 79, Portuguese pop singer
* Hans Rotmo, 76, Norwegian folk rock singer-songwriter25 – Phil Lesh, 84, American psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and bassist 26 – Ustad Tafu, 79, Pakistani classical tabla player and film score composer28
* Bill Beach, 92, American rockabilly singer and guitarist
* Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, 91, Cuban guajira trumpeter 30
* Richard Andrew, 58, Australian indie rock drummer
* Arthur Moreira Lima, 84, Brazilian classical pianist31 – Candy Devine, 85, Australian radio broadcaster and pop singer

November

* Quincy Jones, 91, American record producer, songwriter, arranger, and jazz trumpeter
* Andy Leek, 66, English new wave keyboardist.4
* Johnny Madsen, 73, Danish rock singer-songwriter
* Tyka Nelson, 64, American R&B singer
* Renato Serio, 78, Italian film composer5 – Sharda Sinha, 72, Indian folk and classical singer8
* Musafir Ram Bhardwaj, 94, Indian folk drummer
* George Bohanon, 87, American jazz trombonist9
* Lou Donaldson, 98, American jazz saxophonist
* Ella Jenkins, 100, American folk singer-songwriter
* Ram Narayan, 96, Indian classical sarangi player10
* Pepe Justicia, 64, Spanish flamenco guitarist
* Emre Tukur, 55, Turkish pop keyboardist 11 – Papa Noël Nedule, 83, Congolese soukous guitarist.12
* Johnny Duhan, 74, Irish folk singer-songwriter
* Roy Haynes, 99, American jazz drummer13
* Edgard Brito, 50, Brazilian folk metal keyboardist
* Shel Talmy, 87, American record producer14
* Tommy Alverson, American country singer-songwriter
* Dennis Bryon, 75, Welsh rock drummer
* Vic Flick, 87, English session guitarist
* Peter Sinfield, 80, English progressive rock lyricist and record producer15 – Aashish Khan, 84, Indian classical sarod player16
* S. Atan, 75, Singaporean-born Malaysian songwriter
* Dejan Despić, 94, Serbian classical composer
* Gerry Weil, 85, Austrian-born Venezuelan jazz pianist17 – Vladimir Lyovkin, 57, Russian pop singer 18
* Paulo Alexandre, 93, Portuguese pop singer
* Jordi Bonell, 66, Spanish jazz guitarist
* Charles Dumont, 95, French cabaret and chanson singer-songwriter
* J. Saul Kane, 55, English trip hop and breakbeat hardcore DJ
* Bjørn Müller, 64, Norwegian rock singer
* György Pauk, 88, Hungarian classical violinist
* Colin Petersen, 78, Australian pop rock drummer 19
* Cesare Bonizzi, 78, Italian heavy metal singer
* Odile Bailleux, 84, French classical harpsichordist and organist
* Diva Gray, 72, American disco singer
* Saafir, 54, American rapper
* Graciela Susana, 71, Argentine tango singer20
* Ita Beausang, 88, Irish musicologist
* Andy Paley, 72, American power pop multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and composer
* Mike Pinera, 76, American rock guitarist and songwriter 21 – Willy Quiroga, 84, Argentine rock bassist 22
* Toni Price, 63, American country blues singer
* Harry Williams, 80, American R&B singer 23
* Marius Bațu, 65, Romanian folk singer.24
* Ahmad Nawab, 92, Malaysian jazz saxophonist and composer
* Siegfried Thiele, 90, German classical composer25 – Jaroslav Jeroným Neduha, 79, Czech folk singer-songwriter26
* Bob Bryar, 44, American alternative rock drummer
* Leah Kunkel, 76, American folk and pop rock singer 27
* Artt Frank, 91, American jazz drummer
* Leonor González Mina, 90, Colombian cumbia singer29
* Will Cullen Hart, 53, American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, co-founder of Elephant 6.
* Bert De Coninck, 75, Belgian rock singer and guitarist30 – Steve Alaimo, 84, American pop singer and record producer

December

* Jacques Barsamian, 81, French rock singer and music journalist
* Samantha Lawrence, 55, British hip hop and reggae singer 2
* Liu Chia-chang, 81 or 84, Taiwanese songwriter
* Marlos Nobre, 85, Brazilian classical composer and pianist3 – Huang Zhun, 98, Chinese classical composer and singer5 – Mario Tessuto, 81, Italian pop singer6
* Angela Alvarez, 97, Cuban-born American folk-pop singer
* Miho Nakayama, 54, Japanese pop singer
* Dickie Rock, 88, Irish pop rock singer 7 – Steady Bongo, 58, Sierra Leonean afropop singer9 – Thomas Hertel, 73, German classical composer10 – Lennie De Ice, 54, British jungle DJ 11
* Corinne Allal, 69, Tunisian-born Israeli rock singer and guitarist
* Michio Mamiya, 95, Japanese opera composer12
* Papia Sarwar, 72, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer
* Martial Solal, 97, French jazz pianist13
* Koko Ateba, Cameroonian bikutsi singer and guitarist
* Bill Kelly, 74, American rock singer and guitarist
* Jon Camp, 75, British progressive rock singer and bassist 15
* Zakir Hussain, 73, Indian classical and jazz fusion tabla player
* Ankaralı Turgut, 61, Turkish folk singer16
* Naa Amanua, 75–76, Ghanaian folk singer
* Anita Bryant, 84, American pop singer
* Steve Lewinson, 60, British soul bassist
* Ruth McArdle, Belgian acid house singer 17
* Alfa Anderson, 78, American disco singer
* Mike Brewer, 80, American folk rock singer-songwriter
* David Mallett, 73, American folk singer-songwriter18
* Slim Dunlap, 73, American alternative rock guitarist
* Sigrid Kehl, 95, German opera singer
* Heikki Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish progressive rock guitarist 19
* Stanley Booth, 82, American music journalist
* Gaboro, 23, Swedish rapper20 – Sugar Pie DeSanto, 89, American R&B singer21 – Casey Chaos, 59, American punk and metal singer 23 – Gerardo Guevara, 94, Ecuadorian classical composer24
* Richard Perry, 82, American record producer
* Priya Suriyasena, 80, Sri Lankan pop singer25 – Dulce, 69, Mexican pop singer26 – OG Maco, 32, American rapper28
* Selami Karaibrahimgil, 80, Turkish rock singer
* Lars Martin Myhre, 68, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Barre Phillips, 90, American jazz bassist29
* Eric Carlson, 66, American heavy metal guitarist
* Linda Lavin, 87, American pop singer30 – Joe Grech, 90, Maltese pop singer31
* Tom Johnson, 85, American minimalist composer
* Don Nix, 83, American soul singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
* Johnnie Walker, 79, English radio disc jockey