Musicians and singers who died in March 2021

Georgian folklorist, founder of the vocal ensemble “Rustavi”, holder of the Georgian Order of Radiance Anzor Erkomaishvili died at the age of 80 from complications after coronavirus infection
… via tass.ru

British soprano Jane Manning has died, aged 82.
An advocate and leading performer of contemporary music, Manning performed in over 350 world premieres, including Knussen‘s opera Where the Wild Things Are in the role of Max
… via classical-music.com

The long-time soloist of the National Theater Opera (ND), soprano Jadwiga Wysoczanská-Štrosová, died at the age of 93 in Prague on Wednesday after a long illness
… via lidovky.cz

Punjabi singer Diljaan (31) died in a road accident in Jandiala Guru near Amritsar on Tuesday morning (March 30). The singer was on his way to Kartarpur from Amritsar when his vehicle met with an accident
… via indiatoday.in

He was part of the troupe “Les Charlots”, a French musical and humorous group that starred in the 70s. The band was composed mainly of Luis Rego, Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Jena-Guy Fechner, Richard Bonnot and the late Gérard Filipelli
… via lalibre.be

Claire dela Fuente, known as the Karen Carpenter of the Philippines, died in her sleep today. She was 63.
… via coconuts.co

Former Cuby + Blizzards guitarist Hans Kinds from Assen passed away in the night from Sunday to Monday
… via rtvdrenthe.nl

Pianist Keiko Toyama died of a brain tumor on the 29th. She is 87 years old
… via mainichi.jp

On Sunday (March 28) we received the sad news about the death of Olgierd Buczek
… via polskieradio.pl

Malcolm Cecil, a pioneering producer known for his work on some of Stevie Wonder‘s biggest albums of the 1970s, has died. He was 84 years old.
… via nme.com

Ryszard Zimak was born on February 11, 1947 in Gdańsk. At the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music), he studied choral conducting with Józef Bok, and violin with Zenon Brzewski
… via polskieradio.pl

Singer-songwriter, poet and actor Zafir Hadzimanov, passed away at the age of 78, having lost the battle with the corona virus, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) reported on March 27.
… via slobodnaevropa.org

Cluj artist Rodion Roşca, nicknamed “the father of Romanian electronic music” has died. The musician went through a serious illness.
… via adevarul.ro

One of the most important and influential creators of the Sarajevo music stage, Želimir Altarac Čičak and the winner of the “Honorary Citizen of the City of Sarajevo” award, passed away after fighting the corona virus during the night, confirmed his wife Edina Gugać.
… via bhrt.ba

Very sad news today as Faster Pussycat have announced that their former drummer Brett Bradshaw has passed away. Bradshaw played in Faster Pussycat from 1990 to 1993 and handled the drums on the album Whipped! (1992)
… via sleazeroxx.com

Cornelia Catanga was hospitalized at the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital on Thursday, being infected with SARS-CoV-2, in serious condition, brought by an ambulance.
… via mediafax.ro

Famous violinist Balym Kozhamkulova has died
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Coosje Wijzenbeek (1948-2021) was the national violin teacher – and that of Janine Jansen
… via volkskrant.nl

Oso Oso’s Jade Lilitri has shared a touching remembrance of his longtime friend Tavish Maloney, who played guitar in the band and passed away this week.
… via stereogum.com

Russian musician, collector and journalist Alexander Lipnitsky passed away on March 25. Journalist Anna Mongait announced this on her Facebook account.
… via eg.ru

Professor Jaroslav Šaroun, a composer and excellent pianist who was recognized as one of the best Czech accompanists of his time, died on the night of Thursday, March 25
… via operaplus.cz

Mourning in the world of music. The husband of the singer Luciana Spinu, the composer Dorin Ieseanu, passed away
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Jean Baudlot, born February 16, 1947 in Saint-Ouen and died March 24, 2021, is a French songwriter and composer.
… via sacem.fr

Connie Bradley, who worked with ASCAP Nashville for 34 years and came to lead the performing rights organization’s Tennessee office, died Wednesday at age 75.
… via variety.com

Acclaimed Irish drummer Noel Bridgeman, who played and recorded with Skid Row, Mary Black, The Waterboys, Van Morrison, Christy Moore and many others, has died.
… via rte.ie

Ethel Gabriel peacefully passed away at the age of 99 on March 23, 2021. Ethel was born on November 16, 1921 in Milmont, PA to Charles and Margaret (Nee Horvath) Nagy
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Don Heffington, a versatile drummer who played on recordings for Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris and was a member of Lone Justice during the 1980s, died Tuesday
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Legendary singer Hana Hegerová died. She is famous for remakes of French chansons, but also songs like Lavender, Denim Blue or Vana full of violets
… via idnes.cz

Musician Peter Viskinde has died after a blood clot in his heart.
This is confirmed by his family to Ekstra Bladet.
… via ekstrabladet.dk

Indonesian composer and pianist Trisutji Djuliati Kamal passed away in Jakarta, early Sunday morning, at the age of 84.
… via antaranews.com

In his hometown of The Hague, the well-known Surinam-Dutch singer Mohamed Shahied Wagid Hosain passed away this morning at the age of 59
… via waterkant.net

Constance Demby, pioneering composer and musician, died peacefully on March 20 at the age of 81
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Buddy Deppenschmidt, a drummer and educator who co-conceived the landmark 1962 album Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, died in hospice on March 20 near his home in Doylestown, PA
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Soprano Taryn Fiebig has died at the age of 49 after a long illness. A versatile artist, Fiebig performed and recorded music from the French Baroque, traditional celtic folk, musical theatre and a vast body of operatic repertoire.
… via abc.net

Opera singer, People’s Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Nesterenko died in Vienna at the age of 84
… via regnum.ru

Fans are paying tribute to cult rocker Dan Sartain, who has died aged 39.
His death was confirmed via a GoFundMe page set up to help pay for the Alabama musician’s funeral by his family. The exact date and cause of his death have not yet been revealed.
… via nme.com

The Coquimbo-born musician was key to the expansion of jazz in Chile as a genre that is stylistically diverse and popular in scope
… via latercera.com

The councilor, gospel singer and former member of Olodum, Brother Lázaro (PL), 54, died on Friday night (19), a victim of complications from Covid-19
… via globo.com

Singer Éva Nagy, who died at the age of 73, was informed by a source close to the family at 24.hu, according to our information, the singer’s death was caused by a coronavirus infection
… via 24.hu

Today, we’re very sad to report the loss of another bass legend. Paul Jackson, who changed the face of jazz and funk bass, has passed away at his home in Japan. A cause of death has not been announced.
… via notreble.com

Conductor and violinist Valeriu Negruța, founder of the “Mugurel” Folk Music Orchestra, Artist Emeritus of the Republic of Moldova, settled in France, passed away at the age of 80, MOLDPRES reports.
… via publika.md

Matt “Money” Miller, founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, has died at 34. Frontman Patrick Stickles announced the news on Twitter, writing, “It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you the sudden and untimely death of Matt ‘Money’ Miller, founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, cover model of A Productive Cough…
… via stereogum.com

Mayada Bassilis has died at the age of 54, after a struggle with a passive cancer disease.
The artist Basilis was born in Aleppo 1967 and began his artistic career at the age of 9 as 14 pains were released from “Qatley Balgar”.
… via sana.sy

The composer Antón García Abril is the author capable of an unabharkable symphonic work next to more than 200 soundtracks among which are films such as ‘Sister Citroën’ or ‘the innocent saints’, and series like ‘El Man and Earth’
… via elmundo.es

Freddie Redd, a pianist and composer who enjoyed an ascendant hard-bop career in the 1950s and early ’60s, before slipping into semi-obscurity and a resurgence on various local scenes, died early Wednesday morning in Baltimore, Md. He was 92.
… via wbgo.org

She has trained generations and generations of harpsichordists teaching at the Milan Conservatory, edited the editions of Domenico Scarlatti, carried out an intense concert activity, wrote a manual on the harpsichord published by EDT: Emilia Fadini died on March 16 at the age of 90 years old, she was born in Barcelona on 11 October 1930.
… via giornaledellamusica.it

Doug Parkinson, a national musical fixture for more than five decades once billed as “Australia’s greatest soul voice”, has died.
Doug Parkinson in September, 1972. (Fairfax Media)
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Drummer Dragoljub Đuričić (68) died today in the hospital “Dr Dragiša Mišović” from the consequences of the coronavirus, it was confirmed to Tanjug.
… via politika.rs

Eulalio ‘Sax’ Cervantes, a virtuoso saxophonist and co-founder of iconic Mexican rock band Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del 5to Patio, has died of COVID-19 complications. He was 52 years old.
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Mahmoud Khoshnam, born in 1314 in Tehran, is a researcher and expert on Iranian music who has published hundreds of research articles and several books on Iranian music.
… via bbc.com

Singer and lyricist Thione Seck, one of the lords of Senegalese music for forty years, died Sunday at the age of 66 in Dakar, according to his lawyer, Ousmane Seye
… via leparisien.fr

Reggie Warren, best known for being an original member of the iconic R&B group Troop, passed away on Sunday at his California home, TMZ reports. He was 52.
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Raoul Casadei did not make it. Another illustrious victim of the coronavirus. The smooth star died this morning at the Bufalini hospital in Cesena (the same where Gianni Morandi has been hospitalized since Thursday, but for a serious burn).
… via repubblica.it

Today, March 13, 2021, the great musician, brilliant violinist, teacher, writer Mark Davydovich Lubotsky passed away
… via schnittke-mgim.ru

Maximiliano Djerfy, former guitarist for the band Callejeros, died this Friday night after suffering a heart attack. He was 46 years old and it turned out that he suffered a heart attack while playing a soccer game.
… via infobae.com

Alfredo Fraile died this Friday in a Madrid hospital after being hospitalized for a month for covid, as reported by the newspaper ‘La Razón’.
… via elperiodico.com

Sally Grossman, the widow of Albert Grossman, the artist manager for such music stars as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and The Band, has died, according to online reports
… via bestclassicbands.com

People’s Artist of Russia Stakhan Rakhimov died on March 12, 2021 at the age of 83. His death was announced on Facebook by a representative of the Mosconcert, Valery Korn. Her partner, Alla Ioshpe died on 30 Jan 2021
… via intermedia.ru

The story of Ray Campi commenced in a most unlikely place for a proud rockabilly warrior: Yonkers, New York, a suburb of New York City. That’s where Campi was born on April 20, 1934, and he lived there until his family relocated to Austin, Texas in 1943
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Jewlia Eisenberg, who became an unlikely musical star by creating lively tunes inspired in part by arcane poetic and intellectual traditions, has died after struggling with the effects of a rare autoimmune disease. She was 50.
… via timesofisrael.com

A few days after his 96th birthday this Sunday, the great Paraguayan composer Florentín Giménez died this morning at his home after being admitted to the San Roque hospital due to covid-19, according to reports
… via abc.com.py

Composer Viktor Lebedev died at the age of 87. This was announced on Thursday, March 11, by the singer and songwriter Irina Letina on her VKontakte page.
… via iz.ru

The loss of the composer-songwriter Takis Mousafiris is very big for the folk song. This is proven in the first phase by his many and great successes, but also by something else
… via lifo.gr

The Nijmegen singer Lily de Vos has passed away. She turned 96 years old, her funeral was in the Groenestraatkerk on Friday. With her clear voice she performed the NEC song for the first time in 1966 in the Goffert Stadium in Nijmegen: For red, black and green.
… via gelderlander.nl

Roger Trigaux, the guitarist of the in opposition rock group Univers Zero, then of Present, died last night after a long illness. He was 69 years old.
… via shootmeagain.com

János Gonda, a Széchenyi and Erkel Prize-winning music teacher, pianist and composer, a decisive figure in Hungarian jazz life, has died, the Hungarian Jazz Association told MTI on Wednesday
… via telex.hu

Composer Lyudmila Lyadova died at the age of 96. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the former administrator of the pianist. Earlier, the People’s Artist of the RSFSR was hospitalized with covid.
… via life.ru

Stephen Allen Scott, an accomplished composer and longtime music professor at Colorado College, died on March 10, 2021 from complications of dementia.
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Musician Freddy Birset passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 73. De Genkenaar started his career in the orchestra of Rocco Granata and became a professional musician in the 1990s
… via vrt.be

Federico Fabregat, a visual artist, musician and writer born in Guadalajara in 1975, passed away yesterday Tuesday. As an author, Fabregat’s bibliography includes collective books and two of his own collections of aphorisms
… via informador.mx

Maarja Haamer, a long-time soloist of the Estonian National Opera, left us at the age of 82
… via kultuur.err.ee

Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, has died. He was 77.
… via suntimes.com

Shuichi Murakami “Ponta” was hospitalized on February 8 due to thalamic bleeding.
He died on March 9, 3rd year of Reiwa at the age of 70.
… via ponta.club

It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of bassist Len Skeat in hospital in the early hours of this morning 9 March 2021 at the age of 84.
… via londonjazznews.com

This was the case for me with Mark Whitecage for years … Now the wonderful saxophonist and clarinetist has passed away at the age of 83.
… via freejazzblog.org

Adrian Barar was a guitarist and vocalist in the Romanian rock band Cargo.
… via open.fm

Magma have announced the death of their former guitarist James Mac Gaw. The musician, who released the solo album La Fin Des Temples last December, had been part of the band’s live line-up but retired from performing in 2015 following the diagnosis of an aggressive brain tumour
… via loudersound.com

Tordai Éva, a private singer at the Opera House, passed away at the age of 84.
Éva Tordai was born on October 25, 1937 in Budapest
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A figure of music and of the Swiss Romandie Radio, the pianist and composer Julien-François Zbinden passed away this week at the venerable age of 103 years. He leaves behind a particularly rich production of more than a hundred works.
… via rts.ch

We regret to have to report the death yesterday Sunday of Dmitri Bashkirov at the age of 89. Grand piano teacher, legendary teacher for many generations of talented young pianists, Bashkirov developed for decades a very important pedagogical work as professor of the Piano Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid since its foundation in 1991
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Aleksandar Sanja Ilić, a musician and frontman of the group “Balkanika”, has passed away. Ilić died at the age of 70, from the consequences of the corona virus, after he was on a respirator.
… via codalario.com

Legendary TPOK Jazz singer Josky Kiambukuta died in a Kinshasa hospital on Sunday.
The 72-year-old singer, songwriter and performer had been ill for several years.
… via theeastafrican.co.ke

Entombed A.D. have made the tragic announcement that frontman Lars-Göran Petrov has passed away.
LG was diagnosed with ​‘incurable’ bile duct cancer last year, stating that it ​“can’t be removed” but that doctors were ​“trying to control it with chemotherapy”
… via kerrang.com

She was just 100 years old. Renée Doria, coloratura soprano with a crystalline voice and inexhaustible breath, is gone.
Renée Doria was born in 1921 in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in Perpignan.
… via francemusique.fr

The well-known female singer Zhuang Lingyun ran back to her alma mater to chat with her teacher at 3 pm on the 5th, but fell from the library corridor on the 10th floor and committed suicide. Need to be dissected and return the body to the family.
… via ettoday.net

Hip Hop artist and Moja Love television presenter Sasa Klaas is no more. The 27 year old artist is believed to have died in a helicopter crash
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Michael Stanley, who passed away Friday at the age of 72 from lung cancer, leaves more than a small part of himself behind in his native Cleveland — and a gaping hole in a city where he was a rock ‘n’ roll king and a much-loved, award-winning radio and television personality
… via cleveland.com

Procol Harum’s former bassist Alan Cartwright has died aged 75. He was part of the band’s line-up between 1971 and 1976, playing on four albums including their groundbreaking 1972 release Live With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
… via loudersound.com

Barbara Ess, a boundary-pushing photographer, musician, and writer, and the creator of the No Wave experimental media zine Just Another Asshole, died today at the age of seventy-three. Ess was most widely known for her large-scale photographs made using a pinhole camera
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Bhaskar Menon, the founding chairman and CEO at EMI Music Worldwide who is widely credited for breaking Pink Floyd in the U.S. and presiding over one of Capitol Records’ most successful eras, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 86.
… via hollywoodreporter.com

Musician, music teacher, expert in vocal education and children’s singing, daughter of choirmaster Jan Kühn, founder of Kühn’s children’s choir.
Together with her brother Pavel (1938 – 2003) she was involved in musical life from childhood. From the age of three, she sang in the Kühn Children’s Choir, which was founded in 1932 by her father Jan Kühn, choirmaster and opera singer, founder of the Czech Philharmonic Choir
… via divadelni-noviny.cz

Helmut Winschermann, the world-renowned German conductor and oboe player, has died. He was 100.
He was found dead on March 4 at his home in Bonn by a family member.
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Famous cellist, People’s Artist of the USSR Medea Abrahamyan died at the age of 89. As reported by “Armenpress”, the director of Aram Khachaturian House-Museum Armine Grigoryan stated this.
… via armenpress.am

Duffy Jackson, a drummer whose swinging exuberance propelled him from child stardom to a prolific career behind Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and many others, died on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 67.
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One of the leading vocalists of the Karachi orchestra, the popular singer Dagoberto Planos Despaigne, died this morning in this city, at the age of 64, a victim of complications from liver cirrhosis.
… via sierramaestra.cu

The interpreter of “Menina dos Telephones” (1961) died at the Hospital de Santa Maria, where she had been hospitalized since February 20.
From her full name Maria José Valério Dourado, she was born on May 3, 1933 in Amadora and starred in other hits such as “Olha o Polícia Sinaleiro” and “As Carvoeiras”.
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Roger Verhaart (1966-2021): A Haarlem creative super talent, devil hunter and what not. Yet hardly anyone under thirty knows who he was
… via ijmuidercourant.nl

Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving founding member of the legendary group The Wailers, died on Tuesday in his native Jamaica. He was 73.
Wailer, a baritone singer whose birth name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with late superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when they lived in a slum in the capital of Kingston
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Born in 1930, Chris Barber was one of the leading figures in European jazz. Together with Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, he was one of the “Three B’s” who defined traditional jazz in Britain and spearheaded the “Trad” revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s
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The singer Álex Casademunt has died this past Tuesday, March 2 at the age of 39 after suffering a traffic accident in the Barcelona town of Mataró, as verified by YOTELE from sources close to the artist.
… via elperiodico.com

Mark Goffeney, a well-known San Diegan who was often spotted performing in Balboa Park and had made several TV show appearances, died this week, according to the county medical examiner’s office.
Both Goffeney, 51, and his wife, Annmaree, also 51, were found dead Tuesday in their El Cajon apartment, officials said
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The entertainment industry in the country is again in mourning. Presenter and actress Rina Gunawan reportedly passed away at the age of 46 on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
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“No one expected it, but the world will sometimes stop. On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, a great man, leader, musician and visionary, Dr. Radim Pařízek, suddenly left. He succumbed to complications associated with the recent operation,” Deník Roman Jeřábek from the Pohoda media group reported.
… via denik.cz

Renowned flutist, composer and singer Prabhat Sarma died here on Tuesday, family sources said.
He was 85.
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Anna Shuttleworth, who has died aged 93, was a cellist and cello teacher who worked with many of the leading musicians of the second half of the 20th century, ranging from her fellow cellists Jacqueline du Pré and Natalie Clein to conductors such as Colin Davis and John Eliot Gardiner.
… via telegraph.co.uk

“With deep regret, we announce that, on the afternoon of March 1, 2021, the band’s drummer, Iurie Berdea, passed away. With great sorrow, all the members of the band mourn the passing of Iurie and express feelings of compassion and sincere condolences to family, relatives and friends
… via zugo.md

Michael Gudinski, an Australian music industry icon who helped shape its sound for decades, has died aged 68.
The Mushroom Records owner and veteran tour promoter died in his sleep at his home in Melbourne on Monday night, his label said.
… via bbc.com

President of the Republic Ilir Meta has expressed his condolences for the death of the composer Agim Krajka, who passed away yesterday at the age of 83.
… via albaniandailynews.com

Drummer Ralph Peterson Jr. passed away at 1:45 a.m. EST on March 1 following a six-year battle with cancer, according to his publicist, Lydia Liebman. He was surrounded by family and friends at the time of his passing. Peterson was 58.
… via downbeat.com