Musicians and singers who died in September 2020

Angelita Castany, Cuban actress, singer and dancer, died this Tuesday after being hospitalized. In Mexico, she is recognized for her work in film, theater and television.
… via binoticias.com

Mac Davis, the writer of Elvis Presley’s “In the Ghetto” and a former ACM Entertainer of the Year winner, has died. He was 78 years old.
… via tasteofcountry.com

Tower of Power bassist and fingerstyle funk master Rocco Prestia has died at the age of 69.
Prestia had been battling various illnesses since 2001 – in 2014, he underwent a “lifesaving” kidney transplant.
… via guitarworld.com

Australian singer Helen Reddy, who became a global superstar on the back of her hit I Am Woman, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 78.
… via smh.com.au

As it was announced from SANU, Isidora Zebeljan was one of the most prominent and most performed Serbian composers on the world music scene, and “her departure represents a great loss for the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the entire Serbian and world art and culture.”
… via danas.rs

Jackie was discovered at the tender age of 15 and very briefly took the world by storm with his unique brand of tartan-infused pop.
His big break occurred in 1958, after impressing comic duo Mike and Bernie Winters with his vocal talents during a performance at Prestwick military base.
… via scotsman.com

Frédéric Devreese was a composer, especially of many film music, and also conducted, among others, the BRT Philharmonic Orchestra.
… via vrt.be

Bob Shane, last surviving original member of the seminal group Kingston Trio. January 26, 2020, age 85.
The Kingston Trio were a huge influence on folk groups of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, as well as numerous skiffle groups in Britain. Bob often said they were not solely a folk group or a protest group, but wrote, sang and played a wide array of topical, political, social and traditional music.
… via weheartmusic

Bass and guitar player Masayoshi Kabe died of multiple organ failure on the 26th.
Born in Yokohama. Debuted in 1967 as a member of the band “Golden Cups”. The band was hit by “Long-haired girl” in 1968
… via yomiuri.co.jp

There are voices that you can already hear in your ear after hearing them once and which can then be heard immediately and effortlessly among many. Adele Stolte’s soprano is one of them.
… via pnn.de

Van Halen’s original bass player, Mark Stone, has died at an unknown age after a battle with cancer.
According to Van Halen News Desk, Stone had been under hospice care recently.
… via ultimateclassicrock.com

Jimmy Winston (real name Jimmy Langwith) was the Small Faces’ original keyboard player. He was a guitar player but switched to keyboards as Steve was already playing guitar. He turned out to be a good keyboard player as shown on the first album.
… via makingtime.co.uk

Former TRIVIUM bassist Brent Young, who played on the band’s debut album, 2003’s “Ember To Inferno”, has died.
… via blabbermouth.net

ARIA Hall of Fame artist Max Merritt has died aged 79 in a Los Angeles hospital after being diagnosed with Goodpasture Syndrome, a rare serious auto-immune disease that attacks the lungs and kidneys.
Merritt is best known for his 1975 hit Slippin’ Away, with his band Max Merritt and The Meteors
… via news.com.au

Opera singer Vyacheslav Voinarovsky (or Вячеслав Войнаровский or Vyacheslav Voynarovskii) has passed away.
The artist’s son Igor Voinarovsky told TASS that the singer died while at home.
… via iz.ru

WS “Fluke” Holland, the man who provided the backbeat for some of rock and roll’s most iconic artists and songs, has died. Holland passed away on Wednesday at his home in Jackson, Tenn. following a short illness. He was 85.
… via commercialappeal.com

Juliette Gréco, who has died aged 93, was the most influential French popular singer to emerge immediately after the second world war. With her long dark hair, soulful eyes and deep voice, she became the musical embodiment of the existentialist movement.
… via theguardian.com

Gerson King Combo, a pioneer singer of soul and funk, died on Tuesday night (22), at the age of 76. The information was confirmed to G1 by producer Ronaldo Pereira.
… via theguardian.com

Ramona Modesta Onetto – famous by her stage name: Ramona Galarza – died this Tuesday, September 22, at the age of 80. She had been transferred to the Pirovano Hospital after having suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest at her home in Buenos Aires.
… via infobae.com

The Malouf singer, Hamdi Benani, died this Monday morning in Annaba. He had been hospitalized for several days for reports of COVID-19
… via reporters.dz

Tommy DeVito, one of the founding members of iconic doo-wop group The Four Seasons has died from COVID-19. He was 92.
… via nj.com

Roy Head, 79, of Porter passed away this morning with a heart attack. Roy was one of the top performers of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. With at least nine albums and almost 50 singles to his name.
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Former Ozzy Osbourne and Uriah Heep drummer Lee Kerslake has died today (19th September) following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 73.
… via planetradio.co.uk

Dave Kusworth, of Jacobites, TV Eye and The Dogs D’Amour and other groups, has died at age 60.
… via brooklynvegan.com

Singer Tung Duong suddenly shared on his personal page the farewell to veteran musician Pho Duc Phuong. The information immediately surprised many of Tung Duong’s friends and colleagues.
… via vtv.vn

Pamela Hutchinson, a member of influential R&B group The Emotions, has passed away at the age of 61.
The band confirmed the news on Facebook overnight (September 20), revealing that Hutchinson had passed away on Friday September 18.
… via nme.com

Stanley Crouch, the lauded and fiery jazz critic, has died. According to an announcement by his wife, Gloria Nixon-Crouch, Stanley Crouch died at the Calvary Hospital in New York on Wednesday, following nearly a decade of serious health issues.
… via npr.org

Southern Soul legend Roy C. Hammond, known to music fans as Roy C. Best known for his 1965 hit, “Shotgun Wedding,” Hammond had a long and fruitful career. He was 81.
… via soultracks.com

Taiwanese television host, singer and actor Alien Huang has died at the age of 36, according to Taiwanese media.
… via straitstimes.com

Opera singer and presenter Caroline Kaart passed away yesterday at the age of 88. Kaart became known for programs such as Een liedje met Caroline and the radio program Klassiek met Caroline.
… via nos.nl

Tributes follow one another on Twitter in memory of Paul Méfano, who died this Tuesday morning at the age of 83. He was “a good, generous, and sensitive man” says composer Jean-Louis Agobet.
… via francemusique.fr

He belonged to a generation of musicians who laid the foundations of musical life in Poland after World War II.
He made his debut with the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 20.
… via polskieradio24.pl

Al Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
… via variety.com

The legendary Peruvian singer and songwriter, Alicia Maguiña, passed away this morning, at 81 years of age.
… via andina.pe

Peter Starkie, a founding member of Australian rock band Skyhooks, has died at 72 after falling from a ladder.
… via smh.com.au

Edna Wright, the lead singer of the girl group Honey Cone, has died at the age of 76, her sister, Darlene Love, confirmed in a Facebook post.
… via heavy.com

The Teruel musician Joaquín Carbonell (Alloza, Teruel, 1947), a key figure in Aragonese popular music, has died at the age of 73 a victim of the coronavirus after almost two months admitted to the Clinical Hospital of Zaragoza.
… via heraldo.es

Calypso legend Sir Rupert ‘King Swallow’ Philo dies.
King Swallow died last Friday at his home in Antigua after a prolonged illness.
Philo was known for his social and political commentary, as well as his many hits which include Fire in the Backseat, Subway Jam, Party In Space and Satan Coming Down.
… via thecaribbeancamera.com

Putrajaya: Singer who is also the star of the third season of Big Stage, Sandra Dianne died at the Putrajaya Hospital, early this morning, today.
Sandra, 26, who had a road accident last Saturday, was reportedly in a coma and was placed in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital.
… via hmetro.com.my

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the lead singer and songwriter of Toots and the Maytals and one of reggae’s foundational figures, died Friday in Kingston, Jamaica. The cause of death was not revealed, but his Facebook account confirmed on Aug. 31 that Hibbert was tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks and placed in intensive care.
… via npr.org

The Dresden opera singer Annette Jahns is dead. According to DNN information, she died on Friday night after a long, serious illness.
… via dnn.de

This morning the folklorist Roberto “Ucucha” Franco, a member of the Voces de Oran, passed away. According to the northern media, he had been hospitalized for coronavirus for several days in the San Vicente de Paul hospital.
… via eltribuno.com

Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald “Khalis” Bell, who was credited as a writer and producer on the group’s biggest hits — among them: 1980’s “Celebration” and 1985’s “Cherish” — died Wednesday at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, his wife and agent Tia Sinclair Bell said in a statement. He was 68. The cause of death has not been revealed.
… via variety.com

It is a chilling press release from La Monnaie, which fell at 5:46 p.m., which tells us the terrible news:
We are very sad to announce that conductor Patrick Davin passed away this afternoon, just before starting a rehearsal of the opera Is this the end? The musicians, singers and collaborators of La Monnaie are deeply distressed.
… via eltribuno.com

Senior singer Yopie Latul passed away at Sentra Medika Hospital Cibinong, West Java, Wednesday (9/9/2020).
Yopie Latul breathed his last after testing positive for the coronavirus or Covid-19.
… via kompas.com

Simeon Coxe—inventor and electronic musician behind the experimental psychedelic rock group Silver Apples—died on Tuesday, September 8, AL.com. He was 82.
… via pitchfork.com

He died early on Tuesday morning at the age of 77, broken by a serious illness.
Vexi Salmi was born in 1942 in Hämeenlinna. He was one of the most prolific lyricists in Finland. He is estimated to have written between 5,000 and 8,000 lyrics, of which 3,000 have been recorded.
… via svenska.yle.fi

The Sudanese actress and singer, Sitouna Al Majrous, passed away, Tuesday, at the age of 58, after a busy artistic career that culminated in a number of famous cinematic works.
… via skynewsarabia.com

Bruce Williamson, the lead singer of the Temptations, has died from coronavirus.
Bruce died Sunday night at his home in Vegas after battling COVID.
… via tmz.com

Famous veteran Music Director of Hindi and Punjabi films, Mohinder Singh Sarna aka S. Mohinder passed away in Mumbai at the age of 95.
… via ghaintpunjab.com

The artist Anita Lindblom, known among other things for having sung the hit song “Sånt är livet”, has passed away at the age of 82 after a short illness.
… via sydsvenskan.se

Singer Annie Cordy has died aged 92, her family said. She was reportedly found at her home in Vallauris, near Cannes, this Friday evening, September 4.
… via rtl.fr

Gary Peacock, a versatile bassist who collaborated with some of the 20th century’s most notable jazz musicians, has died. He was 85.
… via npr.org

Manitoba’s queen of country music Lucille Starr died on Friday after a long illness, her family confirms.
The trailblazing chanteuse, best known for The French Song, came from a tightly-knit Francophone community in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood and rose to fame in the 1950s, performing all over the world.
… via cbc.ca

Barbadian entertainer Colin “Observer” Reid’s stellar contribution to calypso was highlighted on Thursday as news of his death filtered through the kaiso fraternity.
Members of the local entertainment community were saddened by Reid’s passing. The 65-year-old veteran calypsonian passed away at his Grazettes, St Michael home.
… via loopnewsbarbados.com

William Pursell, a Grammy-nominated composer and pianist famous for composing “Our Winter Love,” has died. He was 94.
Pursell died Saturday afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee after a battle with COVID-19 and pneumonia
… via hollywoodreporter.com

Double bass player Rinat Ibragimov died on September 2, 2020, at the age of sixty
… via classicalmusicnews.ru

keyboard player Sasha Priko (Саша Прико) passed away. This is a great loss for all the musicians of the Laskoviy Mai (Ласковый май) group.
… via yandex.ru

Former Bay City Rollers star Ian Mitchell has died at the age of 62, the band has said.
The musician joined the Scottish pop band in 1976 when he was 17, to replace founding member and bassist Alan Longmuir.
… via irishnews.com

Erick Morillo, the internationally-known DJ who was facing a sexual battery charge, was found dead Tuesday at his Miami Beach home, police say.
He was 49.
… via local10.com