Musicians and singers who died in May 2021

His lawyer Ashkan Mehryari, confirmed the death to Newsbeat, saying the artist, real name Dashawn Robertson, had taken his own life…
The Dallas rapper was arrested in 2020 on a murder charge in connection with the shooting of 18-year-old Khalil Walker
… via bbc.com

Hugo Bakker, first organist of the Sint-Maartenskerk in Zaltbommel, has died unexpectedly. He just turned 35.
… via bd.nl

Papão laments the death of Dominguinhos do Estácio, who sang tribute to the club
… via globo.com

The renowned singer Luisa Molina died at dawn this Sunday due to Covid-19, reported her daughter and artistic friends. The composer from Potosí had been admitted to the Cotahuma Hospital since the previous week
… via paginasiete.bo

The WRCJ family is mourning the death of Motown Trumpeter and Bandleader Johnny Trudell, who passed away May 29
… via wrcjfm.org

The singer, honored artist Zohra Abdullayeva died.
It should be noted that Zohra Abdullayeva has been suffering from a serious disease for a long time
… via apa.az

Jimi Bellmartin, winner of ‘The Voice Senior’ in 2018, died after a short illness. That confirms his family to Omroep Brabant
… via rtlnieuws.nl

At the age of 83, a former long-term soloist of the National Theater Opera Die Bohuslav Maršík died
… via operaplus.cz

At the age of 30, Bulgarian actress and singer Lorin Kambourova left the life of the age. Shortly before the death of the star of American horror films fell into the hospital with the inflammation of the lungs
… via kultuur.err

Singer-songwriter Patrick Sky, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk music community in the mid-’60s, died May 27, 2021, in Asheville, N.C.
… via bestclassicbands.com

Khosla had tested positive for the virus recently and was admitted to the COVID Hospital at the SCBMCH. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the healthcare facility.
… via sambadenglish.com

Baluarte and author of hits as ‘agonizes, but does not die’, Sambista was diagnosed with Covid, when he was already hospitalized at the National Cancer Institute. Body will be cremated at a restricted ceremony this Friday (28)
… via globo.com

Søren Holm, the frontperson of Danish indie-pop band LISS, died Tuesday (May 25), the band said in a statement this morning. He was 25
… via pitchfork.com

In the 1950s and ’60s, Ms. Warren made sex the central subject of her nightclub routines, and of popular comedy albums like “Knockers Up!”
… via nytimes.com

Early Tuesday morning, the beloved actor and singer (baritone) Tõnu Kilgas died at the age of 66 after a serious illness.
… via kultuur.err

Aldo Forbice, historical presenter of Zapping on Radio1, died
… via rainews.it

The funeral service of Trompies member Mojalefa Emmanuel ‘Mjokes’ Matsane is underway in Soweto on Saturday.
Matsane passed away after he was involved in a car accident in the early hours of Sunday, 23 May 2021.
… via ewn.co

Actor Lorrae Desmond, a two-time Logie winning matriarch of Australian showbiz, has died at the age of 91.
… via smh.com.au

Popular music composer Raam Laxman, known for composing music for films like Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun among others, passed away on Saturday.
… via indianexpress.com

Noted Khasi singer Rana Kharkongor passed away on May 21, 2021
… via theshillongtimes.com

Famous Egyptian comedian Samir Ghanem died aged 84 on Thursday after having contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Egyptian media reported.
… via arabnews.com

Zion was a stage 4 colon cancer survivor who continued pursuing his passion for music despite his medical condition. He fought cancer thrice and became a multi-awarded singer-songwriter.
… via msn.com

The Sindicato Rupestre Twitter account reported the death of Veracruz composer Roberto González at the age of 68. The reason for his death is still unknown, however, months ago it was revealed that he was facing a fight against cancer.
… via infobae.com

Roger Hawkins, one of the most influential, accomplished and danceable drummers in American music history, has died. Hawkins was 75.
… via al.com

Ray Hadley has paid tribute to Australian country singer Johnny Ashcroft OAM who passed away on Wednesday aged 94.
… via 2gb.com

Lesbian and women’s music legend Alix Dobkin has died at age 80.
Dobkin died Wednesday “due to complications from a brain aneurysm and stroke,” Chicago’s Windy City Times reports.
… via advocate.com

Information about the death of Mikhail Mikhailovich Dutchak has just been made public on the FB page of the Lviv National Opera named after Solomiya Krushelnitskaya.
… via kyiv.ua

Martin Turnovský’s life came to an end at the age of 93, and from 1992 to 1996 he was the chief conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK. He came from the family of a Prague lawyer and pianist, a disciple of Alexander Zemlinsky
… via klasikaplus.cz

The indispensable name of Ankara play air, Oğuz Yılmaz, who writes and composes fun songs, is 53 years old and originally from Ankara. Oğuz Yılmaz, who sings the song Uğur Böceğim with his daughter named Sude
… via haberankara.com

Yoshi Wada’s death was announced by his son and musical collaborator Tashi, who said: “I’m totally heartbroken to share that my father Yoshi Wada, my hero, passed away unexpectedly this week.”
… via post-punk.com

Italian music great Franco Battiato.died early on Tuesday in his home in the Sicilian town of Milo, his family said.
The much-loved singer-songwriter was 76.
… via ansa.it

The famous Uruguayan guitarist Oscar Cáceres passed away yesterday in Paris at the age of 92: “He had a passion for Brazil and his music”, records Herminio Bello de Carvalho, 86, a composer and great cultural activist who hosted the guitarist in many of his visits to Brazil.
… via globo.com

Neal Ford, frontman for the pioneering Houston rock band Neal Ford and the Fanatics, died Monday at age 78.
… via houstonchronicle.com

Nicolas Ker, leader of the French rock band Poni Hoax, died at the age of 50, we learned, Monday, May 17, from the press service of his label. The cause of his death has not been specified.
… via lemonde.fr

Amarendra Mohanty, a well-known Odia music director and performer, died at the age of 63 on Monday, May 17 while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Odisha after testing positive for COVID-19
… via republicworld.com

Kevin Birth Bueno, funk singer known as Mc Kevin, died last night (16), at the age of 23, after falling from the 5th floor of a hotel in Barra da Tijuca, in the western area of Rio de Janeiro.
… via cnnbrasil.com.br

Modern Telugu poet and film lyricist Adrusthta ​​Deepak (71) passed away on Saturday night. He died of a heart stroke and breathed his last at private hospital in Kakinada
… via sakshi.com

Serbian singer and composer Djordje Marjanovic died in Belgrade at the age of 89. As reported on Saturday by the Blic edition, the cause of death of the artist was the consequences of infection with the coronavirus
… via tass.ru

Singer Jacky van Dam (real name: Jaap Plugers), the interpreter of the Feyenoord club song, passed away this morning in Rotterdam. Plugers turned 83.
… via nos.nl

The Ferenc and Kossuth Prize-winning composer Sándor Balassa, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA), an artist of the nation, a versatile figure of contemporary Hungarian music, a music director and an educator, who died in the 87th year of his life
… via magyarhirlap.hu

On May 14, Ester Mägi (10.01.1922-14.05.2021), a member of the Estonian Composers’ Union, died at the age of 99.
… via kultuur.err.ee

Yesterday, Thursday, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmed Mansour, the Sheikh of Al-Jaashen district, Dhi Al-Safal District in Ibb Governorate, died at the age of 91.
… via tahdeeth.net

Norman Simmons, a pianist, composer, arranger and educator whose multidimensional jazz career featured a series of high-profile associations with singers — like Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Joe Williams and Anita O’Day — died on Thursday in Mesa, Ariz.
… via wbgo.org

We are sad to report that Jack Terricloth, who has led Brooklyn’s unpidgeonholable World/Inferno Friendship Society for 25 years, has died at age 50.
… via brooklynvegan.com

Bob Koester, longtime owner of Chicago’s legendary Jazz Record Mart and founder of the Delmark Records label, died Wednesday at 88.
… via suntimes.com

Renowned supporting actor Maran, who had acted in films like Ghilli and Kuruvi, died of Covid-19 today morning. He was admitted to Chengalpet Government hospital two days ago for treatment. However, today (May 12), he succumbed to the disease
… via indiatoday.in

People’s Artist of Russia, former leading soloist of the Bolshoi Opera Company, Vladimir Redkin, died at the age of 66, Katerina Novikova, press attaché of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
… via ria.ru

The singer and baritone Arturo Testa died on Wednesday in Milan at the age of 89. He was famous in ’59 at the Sanremo Festival
… via corriere.it

Attila Demény Kálmán Nádasdy and Ferenc Erkel Prize-winning composer, opera director and pianist died. Attila Demény left the ranks of the living this morning, our family told our newspaper.
… via szabadsag.ro

Singer Bernard Lachance, known on social media for his refusal to take his HIV medication and his denial of the existence of COVID-19, died Tuesday morning
… via lapresse.ca

Internationally renowned Egyptian musician Abdo Dagher died earlier today, Egypt’s Music Syndicate revealed.
… via ahram.org

Gerardo Orviz Iglesias, innovative interpreter of Asturian song, dies
… via elcomercio.es

He was called “Sweden’s only real crooner”, but it was musicians he called himself and not singers.
Svante Thuresson passed away on May 10, 2021 at the age of 84.
… via sverigesradio.se

We have been notified of the death yesterday of Pauline Tinsley, a stalwart of British opera companies who enjoyed a lively career in Italy, Germany and the US. Pauline was 93.
… via slippedisc.com

Singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Luis Vagner died at the age of 73 on Sunday (9)
… via globo.com

It is with the deepest regret that we inform you that on May 8, 2021, at the age of 100, the Honored Worker of Arts of Russia, Doctor of Arts, Professor of the Department of Music Theory Tatyana Sergeevna Bershadskaya died.
… via conservatory.ru

Trombonist and composer Curtis Fuller, a pivotal figure on his instrument since the ’50s and a beloved mentor, passed away May 8. He was 88
… via npr.org

Veteran playback singer G. Anand succumbed to COVID-19 on Thursday evening. Infected with the virus a few days ago, his oxygen saturation fell to 55 and a timely ventilator could not be provided, which lead to his death.
… via thehindu.com

Veteran composer Vanraj Bhatia, who provided the soundtrack to India’s new age cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Mumbai. He was 93 and is understood to have been in poor health for some time.
… via variety.com

Singer and songwriter Genival Cassiano dos Santos, Cassiano, died this Friday (7) at the age of 77 in Rio. He had been hospitalized since the end of last month at Carlos Chagas State Hospital, in Marechal Hermes
… via globo.com

On May 7, it became known about the death of the People’s Artist of Russia Vladimir Kachan. He died at the age of 74.
… via tass.ru

Musician Jamal Salama died a short while ago, at the age of 75, inside Al Haram Hospital, after his health deteriorated in the past hours, as he was transferred to the hospital after being infected with the Coronavirus.
… via youm7.com

Bassist, composer and lyricist Braňo Alex died on Thursday, May 6, at the age of 55. He was one of the most prominent personalities of the Czech-Slovak punk rock scene.
… via novinky.cz

Renowned sitar player Prateek Chaudhuri has died due to COVID-19 related complications, almost a week after his father, music maestro Pandit Devbrata Chaudhuri succumbed to the virus
… via news18.com

M.J.C. Comagan, a visually impaired singer and founder of the Raaga Priya orchestra, died here in the city on Thursday. He was 48 and is survived by his wife and two children.
… via thehindu.com

The singer María Rosa Marquesano, who supported the Argentine music duo Los Marquesano with her husband Ramón Marquesano, died today at the age of 68 from coronavirus, Telam close to the interpreter informed Telam.
… via thehindu.com

Gone is one of the most beloved voices on the Bulgarian stage. Singer Vanya Kostova died at the age of 64. The sad news was confirmed by NOVA sources.
… via 24chasa.bg

Many Carinthian choirs have his songs in their repertoire. His own voice has now faded away forever. The well-known Kärntnerlied creator Walter Kraxner died on Thursday at the age of 94
… via kleinezeitung.at

Kathmandu, 23 April. Veteran singer and musician Premadhwaj Pradhan has passed away. He died at Basundhara-based Neuro Hospital today (Thursday) at around 1.45 pm
… via nayapage.com

Pervis Staples, a co-founding member of the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, died May 6th at his home in Dolton, Illinois. He was 85.
… via rollingstone.com

Tamil cinema is continuing to lose its gems in the past few months including SPB, Vivek, Thamira and K.V, Anand among others. This morning veteran comedy actor cum singer TKS Natarajan passed away due to an age-related illness. He was 87.
… via indiaglitz.com

On last Wednesday night Rodolfo García had vanished at home. And he must have been emergencyly intervened. Founder of almond and intimate friend of Luis Alberto Spinetta, the renowned drummer was 75 years old
… via infobae.com

British model and singer Nick Kamen, who appeared in the famous 1980s Levi’s launderette advert and was also considered a protege of Madonna, has died aged 59.
… via sky.com

Niso Yoshida sources (Kotogenji) were died at 3:23 pm on the 4th and in Hospital in Minami-Tahara-cho, Okinawa Prefecture for prostate cancer. He is 90 years old.
… via ryukyushimpo.jp

Henrik Ohlin, Basist in the Gothenburg Band Black Ingvars, has died.
“You left us far too early Henrik. Thanks for all the fantastic gig, musical wonders and all late nights,” writes the band on their Facebook page.
… via expressen.se

Elly Salomé (Vlissingen, March 3, 1922) is a Dutch pianist and former conservatory teacher and music revision.
… via peoplepill.com

Ed Ward — a respected music critic and scholar, former Rolling Stone editor, and author of several authoritative histories of the history of rock & roll — has died at the age of 72.
… via rollingstone.com

My obituary will go out with me anyway. I’m in no rush, but the prospect is biologically inescapable. This time I learned of the disappearance, on May 2, of Joel Chadabe, composer and teacher at NYU, to whom we owe, with David Zicarelli, the random composition software M. He founded the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
… via mediapart.fr

Fedja Rupel died at the age of 85, the flutist and pedagogue of Feed Rupel, a professor of Ljubljansko Academy of Music, who was a long-time member of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the previous member of the RTV Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra.
… via rtvslo.si

The musical composer and creator of the hit daytime TV series Countdown, Marcel Stellman, has died at the age of 96.
… via theguardian.com

Producer, songwriter, and recording artist Tommy West died on May 2, 2021, from complications associated with Parkinson’s disease. West, who was 78, is best known for co-producing three gold-selling albums for Jim Croce with longtime music/business partner Terry Cashman
… via bestclassicbands.com

Tragedy in the music world! Master Constantin Arvinte died. Considered an old friend and collaborator of the Madrigal Choir, it was called the “Patriarch of Romanian Music”.
… via fanatik.ro

Wondress Hutchinson , 56, of Charleston, SC Saturday May 1. Murray’s Mortuary of North Charleston. *DATE OF DEATH 5/1/2021*
… via postandcourier.com

According to MK, Plotkin died after the transferred coronavirus. At first, it seemed that the producer went to the amendment – before his birthday, which Mikhail celebrated on April 20, he was discharged.
… via ytro.ru