2023 in music


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Specific locations

Specific genres

Bands formed

Soloist debuts

Bands reformed

Bands disbanded

Bands on hiatus

Deaths

January

1

February

1
  • * Lucy Quintero, 74, Panamanian folk singer
  • * George Zukerman, 95, Canadian classical bassoonist2
  • * Butch Miles, 78, American jazz drummer
  • * Tim Quy, 61, English post-punk percussionist and keyboardist 3 – Paul Janovitz, 54, American alternative rock singer and guitarist 4 – Vani Jairam, 77, Indian playback singer5
  • * Phil Spalding, 65, English rock bassist
  • * Lillian Walker, 78, American R&B singer 7
  • * Mendelson Joe, 78, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
  • * Steve Sostak, 49, American experimental rock singer and saxophonist 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 11 – Tito Fernández, 80, Chilean folk singer-songwriter12 – David Jolicoeur, 54, American rapper 13
  • * Tim Aymar, 59, American progressive metal singer
  • * 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 singer14
  • * Friedrich Cerha, 96, Austrian classical composter and conductor
  • * Peter Renkens, 55, Belgian new beat singer
  • * Akira Tsuneoka, 51, Japanese pop punk drummer 15 – Raquel Welch, 82, American dance singer16
  • * Chuck Jackson, 85, American R&B singer
  • * Michael Kupper, 65, German heavy metal guitarist
  • * 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 17
  • * Otis Barthoulameu, American pop punk singer and guitarist
  • * 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 songwriter19 – Davis Causey, 74, American Southern rock guitarist 20
  • * Bruce Barthol, 75, American psychedelic rock bassist
  • * Victor Brox, 81, English blues singer
  • * Lyubomyr Futorsky, 50, Ukrainian rock singer
  • * Tom Stephen, 68, Canadian blues rock drummer 21
  • * Ron Altbach, 76, American rock keyboardist
  • * Jesse Gress, 67, American rock guitarist23
  • * Slim Borgudd, 76, Swedish rock drummer
  • * Junnosuke Kuroda, 34, Japanese rock guitarist 25 – Walter Ferguson, 103, Panamanian-born Costa Rican calypso singer-songwriter27 – Ismaïla Touré, 73, Senegalese Mbalax singer and percussionist

March

1

April

2

May

1

June

1

July

2 – Margaret Nisbett, 94, Australian opera singer3

August

1
  • * Alexander Kolker, 90, Russian film composer
  • * Dom Minasi, 80, American jazz guitarist3 – Carl Davis, 86, American-born British film composer and conductor4 – John Gosling, 75, British rock keyboardist 5 – Tristan Honsinger, 73, American free jazz cellist6 – David LaFlamme, 82, American psychedelic rock singer and violinist 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 singer8 – Sixto Rodriguez, 81, American psychedelic folk singer-songwriter9
  • * Peppino Gagliardi, 83, Italian pop singer
  • * Robbie Robertson, 80, Canadian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist 10 – Brad Thomson, American mathcore guitarist 11
  • * Ron Peno, 68, Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter
  • * Carlos Camacho, 73, Puerto Rican pop singer
  • * Shoji Tabuchi, 79, Japanese-American country fiddler12
  • * Vilayil Faseela, 63, Indian Mappila songs singer
  • * Berit Lindholm, 88, Swedish opera singer13
  • * Clarence Avant, 92, American music executive
  • * Magoo, 50, American rapper and songwriter 14 – Jessica Cash, 84, British opera singer15 – Arnold Östman, 83, Swedish classical conductor16
  • * Jerry Moss, 88, American recording executive
  • * Renata Scotto, 89, Italian opera singer17
  • * Bobby Eli, 77, American soul and funk guitarist, songwriter, and record producer
  • * Gary Young, 70, American indie rock drummer 18 – Ray Hildebrand, 82, American pop singer-songwriter 19
  • * Gloria Coates, 89, American-born German classical composer
  • * Václav Patejdl, 68, Slovak pop rock singer and keyboardist 20 – Luc Smets, 76, Belgian rock singer and keyboardist 21 – Denis LePage, 74, Canadian disco singer-songwriter and keyboardist 22
  • * Toto Cutugno, 80, Italian pop singer-songwriter
  • * Vaccine, 43, American dubstep producer23 – Bob Feldman, 83, American pop singer, songwriter, and record producer24
  • * Bernie Marsden, 72, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter
  • * Sakevi Yokoyama, Japanese hardcore punk singer 25 – Carlos Gonzaga, 99, Brazilian rock singer26
  • * Bosse Broberg, 85, Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer
  • * John Kezdy, 64, American punk singer 27
  • * Robert Hale, 90, American opera singer
  • * Brian McBride, 53, American ambient multi-instrumentalist
  • * Denyse Plummer, 69, Trinidadian calypso and gospel singer28
  • * August 08, 31, American R&B singer-songwriter
  • * James Casey, 40, American jam band saxophonist 29 – Peter King, 84, Nigerian Afrobeat and jazz multi-instrumentalist30 – Jack Sonni, 68, American rock guitarist

September

1

October

1

November

1

December

1 – Badar uz Zaman, 83, Pakistani classical singer2 – Medea Amiranashvili, 93, Georgian opera singer.3

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