2026 in music
This topic covers events and articles related to 2026 in music.
Specific locations
- African music
- American music
- British music
- Japanese music
- Philippine music
- Scandinavian music
- South Korean music
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.