2026 in music

This topic covers events and articles related to 2026 in music.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Bands disbanded

Deaths

January

2 - Johnny Legend, 77, American rockabilly musician5

* Andrew Bodnar, 71, English bass guitarist and songwriter.
* Andrew Carter, 86, English composer and conductor
* Mike Embro, 63, Canadian drummer
* Elsje de Wijn, 82, Dutch actress and singer6 - Jim McBride, 78, American country music songwriter 7
* James Bernard, American music journalist and magazine editor
* Ihor Blazhkov, 89, Ukrainian conductor8 - Guy Moon, 63, American television composer9
* Dieudonné Larose, 80, Haitian singer
* Terry Sullivan, 87, British drummer 10
* Yeison Jiménez, 34, Colombian singer, plane crash
* Bob Weir, 78, American Hall of Fame musician and songwriter, complications from cancer11
* Prashant Tamang, 43, Indian singer, cardiac arrest
* John Wallace, 76, Scottish trumpeter, composer and arts educator12
* Sheila Bernette, 94, English singer
* Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, 26, British guitarist 13 - Seán Ó Sé, 89, Irish tenor singer14
*, 76, Argentine singer.
* Quemil Yambay, 87, Paraguayan musician and composer. 15
* Raju Bandara, 65, Sri Lankan singer, kidney disease.
* Kenny Morris, 68, English drummer.
*, 69, Argentine singer.16
* Tony Dallara, 89, Italian singer, respiratory illness.
*, 76, Chilean singer.
*, 63, Spanish choral conductor, composer and musicologist.
*, 37, Slovak radio presenter and music concert host.
*, 90, Colombian composer and organist.17
*, 82, Argentine singer and actress.
* Tucker Zimmerman, 84, American singer-songwriter, smoke inhalation.18
* Stephen "Cat" Coore, 69, Jamaican guitarist and cellist.
*, 63, Swedish musician, cancer.
* Jaan Ross, 68, Estonian musicologist and psychologist.
* Ralph Towner, 85, American jazz multi-instrumentalist.19
*, 70, Czech musician, actor and host.
* Billy Parker, 88, American country music singer and DJ.20
* Rob Hirst, 70, Australian musician and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* Yaw Sarpong, Ghanaian gospel musician and songwriter.22
* Francis Buchholz, 71, German bass guitarist.
* Guy Hovis, 84, American singer.23
* Dalibor Brun, 81, Croatian singer.
* Kristinn Svavarsson, 78, Icelandic saxophonist. 24 - Yuri Rymanov, 69, Russian guitarist.25
* Gabe Lopez, 31, American songwriter and producer, lymphoma.
* Abhijit Majumdar, 54, Indian composer and music director, liver disease.
* Marie Rouanet, 89, French singer and writer.
*, 49, Indonesian singer and songwriter, kidney tuberculosis.26
* Richie Beirach, 78, American jazz pianist and composer.
* Sly Dunbar, 73, Jamaican drummer, record producer, and songwriter.
*, 60, Hungarian jazz bassist.27
* António Chainho, 88, Portuguese fado guitarist.
* Vladislav Chernushenko, 90, Russian conductor.28
* Maroochy Barambah, 70, Australian Turrbal elder and mezzo-soprano singer.
* Nilton César, 86, Brazilian singer.
* Bryan Loren, 59, American songwriter. 29 - Wojciech Michniewski, 78, Polish composer and conductor. 30
* Abdelhadi Belkhayat, 85, Moroccan singer.
* Parthenon Huxley, 70, American musician.
*, 59, Turkish singer and actor, complications from a heart attack.31
*, 78, Hungarian singer, songwriter and musician.
* Mingo Lewis, 72, American percussionist and drummer.
*Billy Bass Nelson, 75, American Hall of Fame bass guitarist.

February

1 - Fernando Esteso, 80, Spanish singer, comedian, and actor, respiratory failure.