Ex-NBA player
Rasual Butler and his wife,
Leah LaBelle , were both killed in a car crash outside of Marshalls in Studio City, California.
According to TMZ Sports, Butler was driving and lost control of his Range Rover around 2 AM, struck a parking meter and slammed into a wall. The car flipped.
R&B singer Leah LaBelle appeared on
American Idol , and currently signed to Epic Records. LaBelle was 31.
Below are more deaths for the month of January – for the full death list:
Musicians who died in 2018 .
January (71)
[31 Jan 2018] Leah LaBelle (Canadian-born American singer on American Idol ), 31, traffic collision
[30 Jan 2018] Mark Salling (American actor and musician for Glee ), 35, suicide
[29 Jan 2018] Asmund Bjørken (Norwegian jazz musician), 84
[29 Jan 2018] Eddie Shaw (American blues saxophonist and bandleader for Howlin’ Wolf ), 80
[28 Jan 2018] Neil Harris (British musician for Sham 69 ), 63, cancer
[28 Jan 2018] Coco Schumann (German jazz musician), 93
[27 Jan 2018] Grant Fell (New Zealand bassist for Headless Chickens ), 56, cancer
[27 Jan 2018] David Zard (Italian record producer), 75
[26 Jan 2018] Buzz Clifford (American singer and songwriter), 76, complications of influenza
[26 Jan 2018] Floyd Miles (American blues musician and singer), 74
[26 Jan 2018] Igor Zhukov (Russian pianist), 81
[26 Jan 2018] Francisco Savín (Mexican conductor and composer for Xalapa Symphony Orchestra ), 88
[25 Jan 2018] Tommy Banks (Canadian jazz pianist, composer and senator), 81, leukemia
[25 Jan 2018] Lyudmila Senchina (Russian singer), 67
[25 Jan 2018] Sabar Koti (Indian singer), 58
[25 Jan 2018] John Morris (American film composer), 91, respiratory infection
[25 Jan 2018] Cliff White (British music journalist), 72
[24 Jan 2018] Mark E. Smith (English singer and songwriter for The Fall ), 60
[24 Jan 2018] Renaud Gagneux (French composer), 70
[23 Jan 2018] Hugh Masekela (South African jazz trumpeter and composer), 78, prostate cancer
[23 Jan 2018] Lari White (American country singer and actress), 52, peritoneal cancer
[22 Jan 2018] Shorty Castro (Puerto Rican comedian, songwriter and entertainer), 89, cancer
[22 Jan 2018] Billy Hancock (American musician), 71
[22 Jan 2018] Preston Shannon (American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist), 70
[21 Jan 2018] Yao Ming (Chinese composer), 69
[20 Jan 2018] Mario Guccio (Belgian singer for Machiavel ), 64
[20 Jan 2018] Jim Rodford (English musician for Argent , The Kinks , The Zombies ), 76
[20 Jan 2018] Terry Evans (American blues and soul musician), 80
[19 Jan 2018] Fredo Santana (American rapper), 27, kidney failure
[18 Jan 2018] Augusto Polo Campos (Peruvian composer), 85
[17 Jan 2018] Christian Burchard (German musician), 71
[17 Jan 2018] Oldřich Veselý (Czech musician), 69
[17 Jan 2018] Denis Cuspert (German rapper and jihadist), 41, airstrike
[17 Jan 2018] Nathan Jatcko (American keyboardist for Pavlov’s Dog ), 31, suicide
[16 Jan 2018] Madalena Iglésias (Portuguese actress and singer), 78
[16 Jan 2018] Shammi Akhtar (Bangladeshi playback singer), 60, breast cancer
[15 Jan 2018] Edwin Hawkins (American gospel musician, multiple Grammy winner), 74, pancreatic cancer
[15 Jan 2018 ] Dolores O’Riordan (Irish musician for The Cranberries ), 46
[15 Jan 2018] Anshel Brusilow (American violinist and conductor), 89
[15 Jan 2018] Khadija Abdullahi Daleys (Somali singer), 81
[14 Jan 2018] Paul Lustig Dunkel (American flautist and conductor), 74
[13 Jan 2018] Otoniel Gonzaga (Filipino opera singer), 75
[13 Jan 2018] Tzimis Panousis (Greek musician, comedian and actor), 63, heart attack
[11 Jan 2018] Pierre Pincemaille (French organist), 61
[10 Jan 2018 ] “Fast” Eddie Clarke ( British guitarist for Motörhead and Fastway ), 67, pneumonia
[09 Jan 2018] Alexander Vedernikov (Russian singer and teacher, Bolshoi Theatre soloist, People’s Artist of the USSR for 1976), 90
[08 Jan 2018] Denise LaSalle (American blues singer), 78
[08 Jan 2018] Vojtěch Lindaur (Czech radio host for Radio Beat and record producer), 60
[08 Jan 2018] Moriss Taylor (American country and western music entertainer for The Moriss Taylor Show ), 93
[07 Jan 2018] France Gall (French singer, Eurovision 1965 winner), 70, cancer
[06 Jan 2018] Walther Dürr (German musicologist), 85
[06 Jan 2018] Chris Tsangarides (British music producer for Black Sabbath , Judas Priest ), 61, pneumonia and heart failure
[05 Jan 2018 ] Jerry Van Dyke (American actor and singer), 86
[05 Jan 2018] Yon Koeswoyo (Indonesian singer), 77
[05 Jan 2018] Mikio “Ko-Gami” Fujioka (Japanese guitarist for Babymetal ), 36, complications from a fall
[04 Jan 2018] Ray Thomas (English singer-songwriter for The Moody Blues ), 76, prostate cancer
[04 Jan 2018] John Braun (American radio DJ for WBZI ), 68
[04 Jan 2018] Rayya Elias (Syrian-born American author and musician), 57, pancreatic cancer
[03 Jan 2018] Lara Kruger (South African disc jockey for Motsweding FM ), 30
[03 Jan 2018] Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva (Soviet opera singer and music educator), 87
[03 Jan 2018] Colin Brumby (Australian composer and conductor), 84
[02 Jan 2018 ] Rick Hall (American record producer, songwriter and recording studio owner of FAME Studios , “Father of Muscle Shoals Music”), 85
[02 Jan 2018] Radha Viswanathan (Indian vocalist), 83, pneumonia
[02 Jan 2018] Tony Calder ( English music promoter and executive for The Beatles , The Rolling Stones ), 74
[01 Jan 2018 ] Vidwan Mahadevappa (Indian violinist, professor at the Fine Arts College of University of Mysore ), 87
[01 Jan 2018] Teddy Edelmann (Danish singer), 76
[01 Jan 2018] Robert Mann (American violinist and composer, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet ), 97
[01 Jan 2018] Konrad Ragossnig (Austrian classical guitarist), 85
[01 Jan 2018] Peter Evans (British musicologist), 88
[01 Jan 2018] Jon Paul Steuer (American actor and musician), 33
[01 Jan 2018 ] Betty Willis (American soul singer), 76, strangled
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