Overview of the events of 2017 in music
Overview of the events of 2017 in music
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59th Annual Grammy Awards (USA)
Record of the Year : "Hello " by Adele • Album of the Year : 25 Song of the Year : "Hello" by Adele • Best New Artist : Chance the Rapper
18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards (USA/Latin America)
Record of the Year : "Despacito " by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee • Album of the Year : Salsa Big Band Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta • Song of the Year : "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee • Best New Artist : Vicente García
2017 ARIA Music Awards (Australia)
Album of the Year : Go Farther in Lightness Gang of Youths • Song of the Year : "Stranger " by Peking Duk feat. Elliphant • Breakthrough Artist : Night Thinker by Amy Shark
2017 Billboard Music Awards (USA)
Artist of the Year : Drake • New Artist of the Year : Zayn ��� Top Hot 100 Song : "Closer " by the Chainsmokers feat. Halsey • Top Billboard 200 Album : Views Drake
2017 Brit Awards (UK)
British Album of the Year : Blackstar David Bowie • British Single of the Year : "Shout Out to My Ex " by Little Mix • British Breakthrough Act : Rag'n'Bone Man • British Video : "History " by One Direction
Eurovision Song Contest 2017 (Europe)
"Amar pelos dois " by Salvador Sobral (Portugal )
48th GMA Dove Awards (USA)
Song of the Year : "What a Beautiful Name " written by Brooke Ligertwood and Ben Fielding • Songwriter of the Year : Bart Millard • Songwriter of the Year (Non-artist) : Bernie Herms • Artist of the Year : MercyMe • New Artist of the Year : Zach Williams • Producer of the Year :Bernie Herms
59th Japan Record Awards (Japan)
Grand Prix : Influencer Nogizaka46 • Best Song : several • Best New Artist : Tsubaki Factory
2017 Juno Awards (Canada)
Artist of the Year : Leonard Cohen • Album of the Year : You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen • Single of the Year : "Spirits " by The Strumbellas • Breakthrough Artist of the Year : Ruth B
2017 Mercury Prize (UK and Ireland)
Process Sampha
2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards (South Korea, hosted in Vietnam, Japan and Hong Kong)
Artist of the Year : BTS • Album of the Year : The War Exo • Song of the Year : "Signal " by Twice • Best Music Video : Spring Day
2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe)
Video of the Year : "Humble " by Kendrick Lamar • Artist of the Year : Shawn Mendes • New Artist : Dua Lipa
2017 MTV Video Music Awards (USA)
Video of the Year : "Humble " by Kendrick Lamar • Artist of the Year : Ed Sheeran • New Artist : Khalid
2017 New Zealand Music Awards (New Zealand)
Album of the Year : Melodrama Lorde • Song of the Year : "Green Light " by Lorde • Breakthrough Artist : Aldous Harding
2017 NME Music Awards (UK)
Best Album : Wild World Bastille • Best Track : "Tilted " by Christine and the Queens • Best New Artist : Dua Lipa • Best Live Band : The 1975 • Best Festival : Glastonbury Festival 2016
2017 Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
La Papessa Lido Pimienta
2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music (USA)
Angel's Bone Du Yun
The 5th V Chart Awards (China)
Top Male Artist : Lay with Lose Control Top Female Artist : Li Yuchun with Sense of Presence • Top Group : TFBOYS with Protecting Home • Top New Artist : Xu Weizhou
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA)
Inductees: Joan Baez • Electric Light Orchestra • Journey • Pearl Jam • Tupac Shakur • Yes
Bands formed [ ] Soloist debuts [ ] Bands reformed [ ]
As I Lay Dying Audioslave Big Dumb Face Carnivore Chimaira Company of Thieves Dreamcatcher Eagles Eighteen Visions Elastica Exhorder Heavy Load House vs. Hurricane Jawbreaker Jethro Tull The KLF Light This City Lionheart Madina Lake Nachtmystium NRG Orbital Pleymo Sadus Sleeper Steps The Streets Stornoway Sugarland Tripping Daisy Viva Brother The Union Underground Xscape
Bands on hiatus [ ]
Camera Obscura Dark Sermon Dave Matthews Band Disclosure fun. Girls’ Generation The Gaslight Anthem Heart Katatonia Karnataka Linkin Park One Direction Pinegrove PWR BTTM Slipknot Soundgarden The Jezabels [1] Twenty One Pilots With Confidence
Bands disbanded [ ] Deaths [ ] January [ ] 1 – Memo Morales (79), Venezuelan rumba singer2 – Auriel Andrew (69), Indigenous Australian country singer4 – Bade Fateh Ali Khan (82), Pakistani classical music and Khyal singer6 – Sylvester Potts (78), American R&B singer (the Contours )7 – Jerzy Kossela (74), Polish rock guitarist (Czerwone Gitary )8 – Peter Sarstedt (75), British folk pop singer10 – Buddy Greco (90), American jazz singer and pianist11 – Tommy Allsup (83), American rock and roll guitarist13
Horacio Guarany (91), Argentine folklore singerRichie Ingui (69), American soul singer (Soul Survivors ) 14 – John Boudreaux (80), American jazz and soul drummer15 – Greg Trooper (61), American alternative country singer and songwriter16
William Onyeabor (70), Nigerian funk singer-songwriterSteve Wright (66), American power pop bassist and songwriter (The Greg Kihn Band )18 – Mike Kellie (69), British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer (Spooky Tooth , The Only Ones )19 – Loalwa Braz (63), Brazilian pop and lambada singer (Kaoma )20
Ronald "Bingo" Mundy (76), American singer (The Marcels )
Joey Powers (82), American pop singerTommy Tate (71), American soul singer21
Karl Hendricks (46), American alternative rock singer (The Karl Hendricks Trio )
Walter "Junie" Morrison (62), American funk keyboardist (The Ohio Players , Parliament-Funkadelic )Maggie Roche (65), American folk singer (The Roches ) 22
Jaki Liebezeit (78), German experimental rock drummer (Can )Pete Overend Watts (69), British glam rock bassist (Mott the Hoople )23 – Bobby Freeman (76), American pop and R&B singer24
Gil Ray (60), American power pop drummer (Game Theory , The Loud Family )Butch Trucks (69), American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band , Les Brers )25 – Ronnie Davis (66), Jamaican reggae singer (The Tennors , The Itals )27 – Stan Boreson (91), American comedian, accordionist and singer28
Guitar Gable (79), American blues singer and guitaristGeoff Nicholls (68), British rock musician and keyboardist (Black Sabbath , Quartz )Alexander Tikhanovich (64), Belarusian pop singer (Verasy )29 – Elkin Ramírez (54), Colombian hard rock singer (Kraken )30 – James Laurence (27), American hip hop musician and producer (Friendzone ) (death announced on this date)31
Deke Leonard (72), British progressive rock guitarist (Man )John Wetton (67), British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter (Asia , King Crimson )February [ ] 1 – Robert Dahlqvist (40), Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer (The Hellacopters , Thunder Express , Dundertåget )4 – Steve Lang (67), Canadian rock bassist (April Wine )5
David Axelrod (85), American jazz musician and producerSonny Geraci (70), American pop and rock singer (Climax , The Outsiders )7 – Svend Asmussen (100), Danish jazz violinist8
Rina Matsuno (18), Japanese pop singer (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku )Tony Särkkä (44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist11 – Jarmila Šuláková (87), Czech folk singer12
Al Jarreau (76), American jazz singerDamian (52), British pop singer13
Trish Doan (31), American heavy metal bassist (Kittie ) (death announced on this date)
E-Dubble (34), American rapper16 – Pericoma Okoye (81), Nigerian traditional music singer17
Peter Skellern (69), English easy listening singer-songwriter and pianistDave Yorko (73), American rock and roll guitarist (Johnny and the Hurricanes ) 18 – Clyde Stubblefield (73), American funk and soul drummer (James Brown , The J.B.'s )19 – Larry Coryell (73), American jazz fusion guitarist20 – Huang Feili (99), Chinese classical music conductor23
Horace Parlan (86), American jazz pianistLeon Ware (77), American funk singer and songwriter25
Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist (Drive )
Toshio Nakanishi (61), Japanese new wave guitarist (Plastics )Bill Paxton (61), American new wave keyboardist (Martini Ranch ) and actorMarch [ ] 1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu (78), Japanese rock singer (The Spiders , Vodka Collins )2 – Gata Cattana (26), Spanish rapper3
Jim Fuller (69), American surf rock guitarist (The Surfaris )Lyle Ritz (87), American rock bassist and ukuleleist (The Wrecking Crew )Danny Spooner (80), British-born Australian folk singer4
Valerie Carter (64), American rock singer and songwriterEdi Fitzroy (61), Jamaican reggae and dancehall singerTommy Page (46), American pop singer6
Ritchie Adams (78), American songwriter and singer (The Fireflies )Lars Diedricson (66), Swedish rock singer (Snowstorm )Alberto Zedda (89), Italian conductor and musicologist7 – Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (46), Indian folk singer8
Dave Valentin (64), American jazz flutistWordsayer (47), American rapper (Source of Labor )10 – Joni Sledge (60), American R&B and disco singer (Sister Sledge )11
Evan Johns (60), American rockabilly guitarist (The LeRoi Brothers )Ángel Parra (73), Chilean folk singerDon Warden (87), American country slide guitarist12 – Joey Alves (63), American hard rock rhythm guitarist (Y&T )13
Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, American funk singer (Parliament-Funkadelic )
John Lever (55), British post-punk drummer (The Chameleons ) 15
Phil Garland (75), New Zealander folk singerVicky (69), Colombian pop singer16 – James Cotton (81), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter18 – Chuck Berry (90), American rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter20
Buck Hill (90), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonistTony Terran (90), American rock and pop trumpeter (The Wrecking Crew )21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa (42), black metal drummer (Negură Bunget )22
Sib Hashian (67), American rock drummer (Boston )Sven-Erik Magnusson (74), Swedish pop singer and guitarist (Sven-Ingvars )23 – Sebastián (63), Argentine cuarteto singer24
Vincent Falcone (78), American pianist (Frank Sinatra ) and conductor
Pete Shotton (75), British skiffle percussionist and washboardist (The Quarrymen )25 – Edward Grimes (43), American post-rock drummer (Rachel's )26
Alessandro Alessandroni (92), Italian film composer and classical guitaristJimmy Dotson (83), American blues singer and songwriter27 – Clem Curtis (76), Trinidadian-British singer (The Foundations )28 – Terry Fischer (70), American pop singer (The Murmaids )30 – Rosie Hamlin (71), American pop singer (Rosie and the Originals )April [ ] 1
Lonnie Brooks (83), American blues singer and guitaristIkutaro Kakehashi (87), Japanese engineer, founder of Roland Corporation , manufacturer of electronic musical instrumentsWycliffe Noble (91), British gospel singer (The Joystrings ) and architect3 – Brenda Jones (62), American singer (The Jones Girls )5 – Paul O'Neill (61), American progressive metal composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter (Trans-Siberian Orchestra , Savatage )6 – David Peel (74), American folk singer and songwriter7 – Ben Speer (86), American gospel singer (Speer Family )8 – Keni Richards (60), American rock drummer (Autograph )9
Alan Henderson (72), Northern Irish rock bassist (Them )
Bob Wootton (75), American country guitarist (The Tennessee Three )10 – Banner Thomas (62), American hard rock bassist (Molly Hatchet )11
J. Geils (71), American blues, rock and jazz guitarist (The J. Geils Band )Scotty Miller (65), American drummer (Instant Funk )
Toby Smith (46), English acid jazz keyboardist, songwriter and producer (Jamiroquai )12 – Barry "Frosty" Smith (71), American rock drummer (Sweathog , Soulhat )14 – Bruce Langhorne (78), American folk singer15
Tim Goshorn, 62, American country rock guitarist and singer (Pure Prairie League )
Allan Holdsworth (70), British jazz fusion guitarist (Gong , Soft Machine , U.K. )Matt Holt (39), American heavy metal singer (Nothingface )Sylvia Moy (78), American songwriter19 – Dick Contino (87), American accordionist and singer20 – Cuba Gooding Sr. (72), American soul and R&B singer (The Main Ingredient )23 – Jerry Adriani (70), Brazilian rock singer27
Jeff Decker, Canadian heavy metal guitarist (Thor )
John Shifflett (64), American jazz bassist28 – Joanna Brouk (68), American electronic music composerMay [ ] 1
Bruce Hampton (70), American rock and jazz fusion singer and guitarist (Hampton Grease Band , Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit )Erkki Kurenniemi (75), Finnish electronic music composer2 – Kevin Garcia (41), American indie rock bassist (Grandaddy )3
Casey Jones (77), American blues drummer (Johnny Winter )C'el Revuelta, American punk rock bassist (Black Flag )
Saxa (83), Jamaican ska saxophonist (The Beat )4 – Katy Bødtger (84), Danish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1960 )5 – Clive Brooks (67), British progressive rock drummer (Egg )9
Michael Parks (77), American country singer and actorRobert Miles (47), Swiss-born Italian electronic dance record producer, composer and DJ10
Bonaldo "Burt" Bonaldi (90), American pop singer (The Gaylords )
Pierre DeMudd (64), American trumpeter and singer (Dazz Band ) 11 – İbrahim Erkal (50), Turkish folk singer12 – Bill Dowdy (84), American jazz drummer (The Three Sounds )13 – Jimmy Copley (63), British rock drummer14 – Keith Mitchell, American dream pop drummer (Mazzy Star )17 – Chris Cornell (52), American alternative rock singer and songwriter (Soundgarden , Audioslave , Temple of the Dog )18 – Frankie Paul (51), Jamaican dancehall singer20
Jimmy Dale (81), British-Canadian film and television composerAce Still, American doom metal singer (Goatlord ) 21
Kenny Cordray (62), American rock guitarist and songwriterJimmy LaFave (61), American folk singer and songwriterTulsa Pittaway (42), South African indie rock drummer (Watershed , Evolver One )22
25 – Saucy Sylvia (96), Canadian-born American comedy music singer and pianist27
Gregg Allman (69), American rock singer, songwriter and keyboardist (The Allman Brothers Band )Guillermo Sanchez, Argentinian heavy metal bassist (Rata Blanca ) 29 – Arleen Lanzotti (73), American pop singer (The Delicates )31 – Bern Nix (69), American jazz guitaristJune [ ] 2 – Aamir Zaki (49), Pakistani psychedelic rock guitarist6
Sandra Reemer (66), Dutch pop singerVin Garbutt (68), British folk singer and songwriter8 – Norro Wilson (79), American country music singer, songwriter and record producer11 – Rosalie Sorrels (83), American folk singer and songwriter12 – Geri Allen (60), American jazz pianist16 – Eliza Clívia (37), Brazilian forro singer17 – Thara Memory (68), American jazz trumpeter18 – Chris Murrell (60), American gospel and jazz singer20
Prodigy (42), American rapper (Mobb Deep )Bo Wagner (72), American marimba player (Starbuck ) 21 – Belton Richard (77), American Cajun accordionist22 – Jimmy Nalls (66), American blues rock guitarist (Sea Level )25 – Dave Evans (66), American bluegrass singer and banjoist28
Gary DeCarlo (75), American pop singer and songwriter (Steam )
Nic Ritter (37), American thrash metal drummer (Warbringer )
Dave Rosser (50), American alternative rock guitarist (The Afghan Whigs ) 30 – Don Rea (88), American pop singer (The Gaylords )July [ ] 3 – Rudy Rotta (66), Italian blues rock guitarist4 – John Blackwell, Jr. (43), American funk and R&B drummer (D'Angelo , The New Power Generation )5 – Pierre Henry (89), French musique concrète composer6
9 – Erik Cartwright (66), American blues rock guitarist (Foghat )12
Marc 'Blaash' Michaelson, American black metal drummer (Bahimiron )
Tamara Miansarova (86), Russian pop singerRay Phiri (70), South African jazz fusion singer and guitarist13
Simon Holmes (54), Australian jangle pop guitarist (The Hummingbirds )Egil Kapstad (76), Norwegian jazz pianist and composerChris Wong Won (53), American rapper (2 Live Crew ) 14
Mahi Beamer (88), American-Native Hawaiian folk singer and pianistDavid Zablidowsky (38), American hard rock bassist (Adrenaline Mob , Trans-Siberian Orchestra ) 16 – Wilfried (67), Austrian pop singer17 – Peter Principle (63), American post-punk bassist (Tuxedomoon )19
Barbara Weldens (35), French pop singer and songwriterGraham Wood (45), Australian jazz pianist20
Chester Bennington (41), American hard rock singer and songwriter (Linkin Park , Stone Temple Pilots , Dead by Sunrise )Andrea Jürgens (50), German schlager singer21
Errol Dyers (65), South African jazz guitaristGeoff Mack (94), Australian country singer and songwriterKenny Shields (69), Canadian hard rock singer (Streetheart )Paapa Yankson (73), Ghanaian highlife singer22
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Michael Johnson (72), American country singer and songwriterGeoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (46), Indigenous Australian folk singer and guitarist27 – Billy Joe Walker Jr. (64), American country music record producer28 – D.L. Menard (85), American Cajun music singer31 – Chuck Loeb (61), American jazz guitarist (Fourplay )August [ ] 1 – Goldy McJohn (72), Canadian hard rock keyboardist (Steppenwolf )2 – Daniel Licht (60), American film and television composer4
Luiz Melodia (66), Brazilian MPB singerJoe Romano 67, American bassist (The Fun and Games ) 8 – Glen Campbell (81), American country music singer and songwriter11 – Segun Bucknor (71), Nigerian soul and funk keyboardist and guitarist19 – Bea Wain (100), American big band singer (Larry Clinton and His Orchestra )20 – Jerry Lewis (91), American actor and pop singer21 – Sonny Burgess (88), American rockabilly singer22 – John Abercrombie (73), American jazz fusion guitarist24
Pete Kuykendall (79), American bluegrass banjoistLarry Marshall (75), Jamaican reggae singer26 – Wilson das Neves (81), Brazilian bossa nova singer and percussionist28 – Melissa Bell (53), British R&B and soul singer (Soul II Soul )29 – Larry Elgart (95), American jazz bandleader and alto saxophonist30 – Skip Prokop (73), Canadian rock and jazz fusion drummer (Lighthouse , The Paupers )September [ ] 1 – Mick Softley (77), British folk singer and songwriter2 – Dave Hlubek (66), American rock guitarist and songwriter (Molly Hatchet )3 – Walter Becker (67), American jazz rock guitarist, bassist and songwriter (Steely Dan )4 – Earl Lindo (64), Jamaican reggae keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers )5 – Rick Stevens (77), American R&B singer (Tower of Power )6 – Holger Czukay (79), German experimental rock bassist (Can )8
Troy Gentry (50), American country singer (Montgomery Gentry )
Don Williams (78), American country singer11 – Virgil Howe (41), British alternative rock drummer (Little Barrie )12
Riem de Wolff (74), Dutch-Indonesian rock and roll singer (The Blue Diamonds )
Josh Schwartz (45), American alternative country guitarist (Beachwood Sparks )
Jessi Zazu (28), American garage rock singer and songwriter (Those Darlins ) 13 – Grant Hart (56), American alternative rock singer, songwriter and drummer (Hüsker Dü )17 – Laudir de Oliveira (77), Brazilian rock and jazz percussionist (Chicago )18 – Mark Selby (56), American blues rock singer and guitarist21 – Cees Bergman (65), Dutch glam rock singer (Catapult )22
Ammon Tharp (75), American soul singer and drummer (Bill Deal and the Rhondels )
Eric Eycke (41), American heavy metal singer (Corrosion of Conformity ) 23 – Charles Bradley (68), American soul singer27
CeDell Davis (91), American blues guitaristJoy Fleming (72), German pop singerHiromi Hayakawa (34), Japanese-born Mexican pop singer30 – Tom Paley (89), American folk guitarist and banjoist (New Lost City Ramblers )October [ ] 2 – Tom Petty (66), American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Traveling Wilburys , Mudcrutch )4 – Janis Hansen (74), American pop and bossa nova singer (Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 , The Carnival )5
Alvin DeGuzman, American post-hardcore guitarist (The Icarus Line )
Rodrigo BVevino (42), British heavy metal singer (Avenger ) 6 – Bunny Sigler (76), American soul singer, songwriter and record producer7 – Jimmy Beaumont (76), American doo-wop singer (The Skyliners )8 – Grady Tate (85), American jazz drummer and singer16
Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi (56), Congolese afro-pop lkembist (Konono Nº1 )
Iain Shedden (60), Australian punk rock drummer (The Saints ) 17
Gord Downie (53), Canadian rock singer and songwriter (The Tragically Hip )18 – Eamonn Campbell (70), Irish folk singer and guitarist (The Dubliners )21 – Martin Eric Ain (50), American-Swiss heavy metal bassist (Celtic Frost )22
Al Hurricane (81), American folk singer and songwriterScott Putesky (49), American heavy metal guitarist (Marilyn Manson )George Young (70), British-born Australian rock guitarist and songwriter (The Easybeats , Flash and the Pan )24
Fats Domino (89), American rock and roll singer and pianistLarry Ray (63), American power pop guitarist (Outrageous Cherry ) 27
Mike Hudson (61), American punk rock singer (The Pagans )
Dick Noel (90), American big band singer28
Bruce Black, American power metal drummer (Meliah Rage )
Daichi Shimoda, Japanese deathcore vocalist (Victim of Deception)[2] 29
Muhal Richard Abrams (87), American free jazz pianistBilly Mize (88), American country singer and steel guitaristKeith Wilder (65), American funk singer (Heatwave ) November [ ] 1
Katie Lee (98), American folk singerScott Wily, American death metal singer (Vital Remains ) 2 – María Martha Serra Lima (72), Argentinean bolero singer3 – Gaetano Bardini (91), Italian opera singer5
Danny Anaya (52), American heavy metal drummer (MX Machine )
Robert Knight (72), American soul singerLouis Roney (96), American opera tenor7
Paul Buckmaster (71), British rock and orchestral arranger and conductorRobert De Cormier (95), American folk arrangerPentti Glan (71), Finnish rock drummer (Mandala , Lou Reed , Alice Cooper )9 – Fred Cole (69), American garage rock singer and guitarist (The Lollipop Shoppe , Dead Moon )10 – Chuck Mosley (57), American alternative rock singer (Faith No More )11 – Chiquito de la Calzada (85), Spanish flamenco singer12 – Chad Hanks (46), American metal bassist (American Head Charge )15
Bonnie Flower (63), American sunshine pop singer (Wendy and Bonnie )
Lil Peep (21), American rapper16 – Michael "Dik Mik" Davies (73), British space rock keyboardist (Hawkwind )17 – Rikard Wolff (59), Finnish pop singer and actor18
Ben Riley (84), American jazz drummerMalcolm Young (64), Australian hard rock guitarist (AC/DC )19
Ronnie Butler (80), Bahamanian calypso singerWarren "Pete" Moore (79), American R&B singer (The Miracles )Della Reese (86), American gospel singerMel Tillis (85), American country singer20 – Laila Sari (82), Indonesian children's music singer21
David Cassidy (67), American pop singer and actorWayne Cochran (78), American soul singer and songwriter22 – Tommy Keene (59), American power pop singer and songwriter23
John Coates Jr. (79), American jazz pianistJon Hendricks (96), American jazz singerDmitri Hvorostovsky (55), Russian opera singer24
Mitch Margo (70), American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Tokens )Clotilde Rosa (87), Portuguese classical harpistBari Siddiqui (63), Bangladeshi folk singer and flautist26 – Patrick Bourgeois (54), Canadian rock singer and guitarist (Les B.B. )27 – Robert Popwell (66), American rock and jazz bassist (The Young Rascals , The Crusaders )28 – Shadia (86), Egyptian pop singer29 – Robert Walker (80), American blues guitarist30
Jim Nabors (87), American actor and singerZé Pedro (61), Portuguese new wave guitarist (Xutos & Pontapés ) December [ ] 2
Norihiko Hashida (72), Japanese folk singer and songwriter (The Folk Crusaders )Mundell Lowe (95), American jazz guitarist6 – Johnny Hallyday (74), French rock singer7 – Sunny Murray (81), American free jazz drummer8 – Gloria Ann Taylor (73), American soul singer12
Pat DiNizio (62), American power pop singer and guitarist (The Smithereens )Willie Pickens (86), American jazz pianist13
Dave Christenson (54), American new wave singer (Stabilizers )
Warrel Dane (56), American heavy metal singer (Sanctuary , Nevermore )Rory O'Donoghue (68), Australian rock and pop guitarist16
Ralph Carney (61), American rock and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Tin Huey )Richard Dobson (75), American country singer and songwriterMichael Prophet (60), Jamaican reggae singerKeely Smith (89), American jazz singer17 – Kevin Mahogany (59), American jazz singer18 – Kim Jong-hyun (27), South Korean K-pop singer and songwriter (Shinee )19
Jim Forrester (43), American hard rock bassist (Sixty Watt Shaman )
Leo Welch (85), American gospel blues singer and guitarist21
Roswell Rudd (82), American free jazz trombonistMarilyn Tyler (91), American opera singer22 – Pam the Funkstress, American hip hop DJ (The Coup )25 – Nao (56), Japanese heavy metal vocalist (United )28
Rose Marie (94), American actress, singer and comedienneCurly Seckler (98), American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist (Foggy Mountain Boys , Nashville Grass )31 – Maurice Peress (87), American conductor and music educatorSee also [ ]
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