Musicians and singers who died in August 2021

Originally hailing from Patna, Tommy has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell and Don Williams.
… via cumnockchronicle.com

Mahotella Queens founding member Nobesuthu Mbadu has died at the age of 76.
Family spokesperson Vanessa Tloubatla confirmed to Sowetan that Mbadu died at Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, due to kidney failure.
… via sowetanlive.co.za

Gospel music legend Lee Williams, whose group The Spiritual QC’s have enthralled audiences with their soulful spiritual songs for more than five decades, has died. He was 75.
… via djournal.com

John Drake, a bandmate of Ted Nugent from their days in the Midwest band the Amboy Dukes, died on Sunday, August 29, 2021, at age 74, at Seasons Hospice in Naperville, Ill
… via bestclassicbands.com

Ron Bushy, the steadfast drummer for hard rock group Iron Butterfly who appeared on the group’s 1968, 17-minute rock opus “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died Sunday at the age of 79
… via rollingstone.com

The pianist and composer Francesc Burrull has died at 86 years, one of the pioneers of jazz in Catalonia and arranger of the great names of the Catalan song.
… via ccma.cat

Legendary singer and guitarist, Sir Victor Uwaifo is dead.
A close source to the family confirmed this to The Nation on Saturday.
… via thenationonlineng.net

The Polish soprano, whose repertoire embraced a colossally wide range of music and periods, has died at the age of 91.
… via gramophone.co.uk

Today, late 90’s R&B singer and songwriter Sam Salter passed away at the age of 46.
No more information has been released by his family.
… via urbanbridgez.com

Marcus Birks, rapper of the band Cappella, which became popular in the 90s, has died. Birks died of coronavirus disease at just 40 years of age.
… via iltalehti.fi

Drummer Kenny Malone, a prolific session player who played on hits for Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard and many others, has died. He was 83.
… via independent.co.uk

Popular and veteran leftist singer JB Tuhure has died on Thursday. He was 78.
… via onlinekhabar.com

Tabla virtuoso Pt Subhankar Banerjee, an accomplished soloist and collaborator with some of the biggest names in Indian classical music and international fusion, passed away on Wednesday after a two-month battle with post-Covid complications.
… via independent.co.uk

The band confirmed on social media Dave Harper, who was in his 40s, died in hospital on Wednesday night.
A tweet from the band said they were “heartbroken” to hear about his death and described him as “an unforgettable legend”.
… via bbc.com

The legendary singer from the Minang realm, Elly Kasim, passed away, Wednesday (25/8/2021) early in the morning, at the age of 76 years
… via langgam.id

Pierre Dutot, he great teacher, figure of the CNSM of Lyon, died of an illness. Those who knew him today mourn a solar, benevolent personality, who “always had a thousand projects”.
… via francemusique.fr

Headliner of the Blues en Loire festival which he was due to close on Saturday August 21 in La Charité-sur-Loire, before canceling at the last moment, the French “Monsieur blues”, Patrick Verbeke, died the next day.
… via lejdc.fr

Oliver John Wisdom is popularly known by his stage name as Olli Wisdom has sadly passed away at the age of 63.
… via latestnewssouthafrica.com

Born on June 21, 1936 in Marseille in the Panier district, the young Charles Burles dreamed of being a tenor: a wish that came true, since he would become one of the most magnificent French light tenors, and undoubtedly one of the last representatives of this singing school
… via forumopera.com

UB40 legend Brian Travers has sadly died of cancer at the age of 62.
The sax player was a much-loved figure in Birmingham and the band performed their first gig at the Hare & Hounds pub, in Kings Heath, in 1979.
… via birminghammail.co.uk

Eric Wagner, singer for doom band THE SKULL and originally of TROUBLE, has passed away just days after he was hospitalized with COVID pneumonia.
… via birminghammail.co.uk

Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo player Bill Emerson passed away on August 21 from complications of pneumonia. He died surrounded by his family at 83 years of age.
… via bluegrasstoday.com

Bassist Peter Ind, who has died at the age of 93, had a fascinating career. He played on the Birth of the Cool sessions
… via londonjazznews.com

On August 20th, American DJ Ian Carey, best known for his house tracks, died at 46. It is a sad day in dance music as Carey became an important icon within electronic culture since his start in the 90s
… via weraveyou.com

At age 82, Salbera Larry Harlow died in a New York hospital
… via weraveyou.com

José María Cámara was one of the key men in the Spanish record industry during the 80s, 90s and much of the first decade of the 21st century, when he concentrated his fiery talent on musical theater
… via elmundo.es

Jagjit Kaur, veteran singer and wife of late music composer Khayyam, passed away on Sunday following age-related illness. She was 93.
… via outlookindia.com

Composer, teacher, and writer Hugh Wood died on August 14, his publisher Chester Music Limited announced.
… via theviolinchannel.com

Tributes have been paid to Charli Britton, drummer of the Edward H. Dafis band, who died at the age of 68.
… via bbc.com

Jerry Fujio (26 June 1940 – 14 August 2021) was a Japanese singer, actor and tarento.
… via wikipedia.org

The name of Brigitte Maillard is not unknown to ABP readers and subscribers. For a long time she wrote a poetry column here for a long time and regularly published articles on the books she loved.
… via abp.bzh

Keith Patchel, whose music career spanned from punk guitarist to avant-garde composer, recently died at his building on the Lower East Side. He was 65.
… via thevillagesun.com

R. Murray Schafer, the eminent Canadian composer, writer and acoustic ecologist who popularized the term “soundscape,” died on Aug. 14 following a struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 88.
… via cbc.ca

New Zealand hip hop artist Todd Williams has died.
Williams, also known by his rapping alias Louie Knuxx, died while running in Melbourne around 10.30am on Friday. He was 42.
… via stuff.co.nz

Violist Vladimir Mendelssohn has died of a rapidly progressing illness. He was a renowned international soloist, chamber musician, teacher and festival director.
… via thestrad.com

Jean-Pierre Pichard, first director of the Interceltique festival in Lorient, is dead
He was going to be 76. Jean-Pierre Pichard, founder and director of the Interceltique festival in Lorient from 1972 to 2007, died of cancer this Friday, August 13
… via france3-regions

It is with deep sorrow that we regret to announce the death of our beloved leader, Enrique Chalar. Pil left us physically this afternoon suddenly at his home in Lima, Peru, as a result of a cardiorespiratory arrest, at the age of 62
… via infonews.com

Fez Whatley, a shock jock and comedian best known as half of the radio show “The Ron and Fez Show,” died Friday night of heart failure. He was 57.
… via thewrap.com

Celebrated Bay Area rapper, Stephen Gaines, who went by the stage name “Baba Zumbi” with Bay Area hip-hop group Zion I, has died. He was 49.
… via eastbaytimes.com

Ronnell Bright, a jazz pianist and composer who accompanied many of the finest female jazz vocalists of the album era, including Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne, Lorez Alexandria and Anita O’Day and subbed for Count Basie on several albums and tours, died on August 12.
… via stuff.co.nz

News has come that a phenomenal voice is gone. Singer-songwriter Caroline Peyton, who’d lived in the Nashville area since the early 1990s, died Aug. 11 at age 69.
… via nashvillescene.com

Singer/guitarist Roy Gaines has passed away at the age of 84. Born in Waskom, Texas, Roy Gaines started out playing piano in the style of Nat “King” Cole at an early age, switching to guitar at the age of 14
… via americanbluesscene.com

Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti died at the age of 75 in Montecarlo. This was announced by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma which received the news from family members.
… via repubblica.it

Mike Finnigan, a keyboardist, vocalist, and session musician who performed with an impressive array of artists including Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Jimi Hendrix, has died
… via operawire.com

Don Jones, a soundman and stuntman who went on to write and direct the low-budget films Schoolgirls in Chains, Sweater Girls and The Forest, had died. He was 83.
… via hollywoodreporter.com

The long-serving conductor of two great choruses, Stephen Wilkinson died this morning at home and with all his wits about him at the age of 102.
… via slippedisc.com

Twitter-discovered music sensation Killer Kau and amapiano artist Mpura have died.
Sources confirmed to TshisaLIVE that the pair were involved in a fatal car accident, on their way to a gig.
… via dispatchlive.co

Art star, Siti Sarah Raissuddin, 37, breathed her last at 5.13am at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital
… via utusan.com

Hip hop and R&B producer Chucky Thompson has passed away. Young Guru broke the news on Monday (Aug. 9) while paying homage to the beat maker, who paved the way for his career.
… via revolt.tv

Pierre Sprey, who owed his French first name to his birth in Nice, was a very unique figure in the world of aeronautics.
… via aerobuzz.f

Walter Yetnikoff, a colorful record label executive who led CBS Records as president/CEO from 1975 to 1990 — when its roster was stacked with superstars like Michael Jackson
… via variety.com

Dennis Thomas—longtime saxophonist and an original member of Kool & the Gang—has died, as the band shared on social media earlier today.
… via pitchfork.com

Born in London in 1931, Johnny Worth had written songs for the likes of Petula Clark, Englebert Humperdink, Barbra Streisand and Sammy Davis Jr.
… via musicweek.com

Wang Wenjuan, a performing artist of Yue opera and a master of Yue opera, passed away at 0:25 this morning at the age of 95
… via min.news

Razzy Bailey, the ’80s country hitmaker behind “Midnight Hauler,” “Loving Up a Storm” and five other No. 1s, died Wednesday (Aug. 4) at his home in Goodlettsville, Tn
… via wideopencountry.com

Anders Pettersson started in Lasse Stefanz in 1971, just a couple of years after the band was formed in Gärds Köpinge outside Kristianstad.
… via aftonbladet.se

Joseph “Jo Jo” Bennett, an influential member of Canada’s reggae scene and a respected teacher, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, his friends told CBC News.
… via cbc.ca

Allan “Blaze” Blazek, a respected rock ‘n’ roll engineer and producer of albums by the Eagles, the Who, Joe Walsh, the J. Geils Band, Elvin Bishop, Johnny Winter, REO Speedwagon
… via variety.com

DJ and producer Kelli Hand, who as K-Hand was a prolific, versatile and much-admired figure in Detroit’s dance music scene, has died aged 56
… via theguardian.com

Honored cultural worker, professor, founder of the department of pop vocal at KazNAA named after Zhurgenov Lucie Tuleshov has passed away, Tengrinews.kz reports.
… via tengrinews.kz

Popular playback singer Kalyani Menon, mother of cinematographer-filmmaker Rajeev Menon, breathed her last on Monday in a private hospital in Chennai
… via hindustantimes.com

Polish bass Kazimierz Kowalski has died at the age of 70.
Born in Łódź, Poland, Kowalski studied voice at the Academy of Music with Antoni Majak
… via operawire.com

The Gino Renni comedian died at age 78 as the Coronavirus painting was complicated by the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment almost two months ago
… via telam.com