R.I.P. C.W. Vrtacek and Jon James
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We normally post musician deaths by looking up obituaries, but this recent death of C.W. Vrtacek (born Charles O’Meara) came from experimental electronic music collective Biota (which O’Meara was a member of). O’Meara was 65.
Another recent death is for Canadian rapper Jon James McMurray (recording under the name Jon James), who fell to his death filming a music(?) video! He was 34. According to the story on cfjctoday.com, he was walking on the airplane’s wings when it lost control and he fell. He had a parachute, but failed to release it before ground impact.
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2018.
October (40)
[22 Oct 2018] Titi Qadarsih (Indonesian actress and singer), 72
[21 Oct 2018] C.W. Vrtacek, aka Charles O’Meara (American composer, guitarist, pianist for Forever Einstein and Biota), 65
[20 Oct 2018] Jon James McMurray, aka Jon James, McFee (Canadian rapper and freeskier), 34, fall
[18 Oct 2018] Ayub Bachchu (Bangladeshi singer-songwriter for Love Runs Blind), 56, heart attack
[18 Oct 2018] Sergey Bondarenko (Ukrainian singer for Nensi), 31
[18 Oct 2018] Randolph Hokanson (American classical pianist), 103
[18 Oct 2018] Raúl Marrero Quiles (Puerto Rican singer, composer and conductor), 92
[17 Oct 2018] Rashod Ollison (American music journalist for The Virginian-Pilot), 41, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
[17 Oct 2018] Valters Frīdenbergs (Latvian musician for Valters and Kaža), 30, cancer
[17 Oct 2018] Oli Herbert (American heavy metal guitarist for All That Remains), 44
[16 Oct 2018] Du Yuwei (Chinese singer for GNZ48), 19, suicide
[14 Oct 2018] Aziza Niyozmetova (Uzbekistani singer), 46, cancer
[14 Oct 2018] Saleem Iklim (Malaysian singer for Iklim), 57, traffic collision
[13 Oct 2018] Annapurna Devi (Indian classical musician), 91
[12 Oct 2018] Andy Goessling (American musician for Railroad Earth)
[12 Oct 2018] Takehisa Kosugi (Japanese composer and violinist), 80
[11 Oct 2018] James Emswiller (American sound mixer), 61, fall
[11 Oct 2018] Carol Hall (American composer and lyricist), 82, progressive aphasia
[10 Oct 2018] Theresa Hightower (American jazz singer), 64, colon cancer
[09 Oct 2018] Nitin Bali (Indian singer), 47, traffic collision
[08 Oct 2018] Tim Chandler (American rock bassist for Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies), 58
[07 Oct 2018] John Wicks (British singer and musician for The Records)
[06 Oct 2018] Montserrat Caballé (Spanish opera singer), 85, gallbladder infection
[05 Oct 2018] Bernadette Carroll (American singer for The Angels), 74
[05 Oct 2018] Ed Kenney (American singer and actor for Flower Drum Song), 85
[05 Oct 2018] Ed Kenney (American singer and actor for Flower Drum Song), 85
[04 Oct 2018] Hamiet Bluiett (American jazz saxophonist), 78
[04 Oct 2018] John Tyrrell (British musicologist), 76
[03 Oct 2018] Hugo Raspoet (Belgian singer and guitarist), 77
[03 Oct 2018] Bent Lorentzen (Danish composer), 83
[03 Oct 2018] John Von Ohlen (American jazz drummer for Blue Wisp Big Band), 77
[03 Oct 2018] Joseph Kamaru (Kenyan benga musician), 79, Parkinson’s disease
[02 Oct 2018] Balabhaskar (Indian violinist, composer and record producer), 40, heart attack
[02 Oct 2018] Geoff Emerick (English recording engineer for Abbey Road Studios, The Beatles), 72, heart attack
[01 Oct 2018] Charles Aznavour (French-Armenian singer, lyricist and actor), 94, pulmonary edema
[01 Oct 2018] Caroline Charrière (Swiss composer, conductor and flautist), 57
[01 Oct 2018] Stelvio Cipriani (Italian composer), 81, stroke
[01 Oct 2018] Jerry González (American bandleader and trumpeter), 69, heart attack
[01 Oct 2018] Antonis Kontogeorgiou (Greek choir conductor for Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation), 73
[01 Oct 2018] Vasyl Kozak (Ukrainian trumpeter), 75
Another recent death is for Canadian rapper Jon James McMurray (recording under the name Jon James), who fell to his death filming a music(?) video! He was 34. According to the story on cfjctoday.com, he was walking on the airplane’s wings when it lost control and he fell. He had a parachute, but failed to release it before ground impact.
For the full death list head over to Musicians who died in 2018.
October (40)