Musicians and singers who died in January 2024

Legendary Broadway performer Chita Rivera, star of “West Side Story,” “Chicago,” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” has died, according to her representative Merle Frimark. She was 91.
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Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, the wife of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson for nearly three decades, has died. She was 77.
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Mouring for the Italian singer-songwriter Umberto Tozzi. On 29 January 2024 Franco Tozzi, his eldest brother, died at the age of 79. He also had a great passion for music, which was a bit of a family affair.
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Rock musician Yuri Ilchenko has died, St. Petersburg journalist Vladislav Bachurov announced his death in his telegram.
Ilchenko was born on April 26, 1951 in Rostov-on-Don, and moved to Leningrad with his parents as a child.
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Jazz musician Tony Cedras has died.
His wife Tania confirmed the news to TshisaLIVE, revealing the artist died on Monday morning after a battle with chronic emphysema.
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“A sound is not just an element that can entertain or enjoy, it’s a fact that involves you and that could make you another person.” – Albert Mayr The link between music, time and daily life has always been at the center of the research of the famous South Tyrolean composer, who died on January 28, 2024.
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Lillebjørn Nilsen has died, aged 73, his record company says. He is remembered as one of the most prominent visesongers in Norway.
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Dean Brown, one of the most respected jazz guitarists of his generation, has died. Brown was born in 1955 in Châteauroux, France. He started playing the guitar at a young age and quickly became praised for his virtuoso playing and innovative approach to the instrument.
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Vibraphonist Michel Hausser died at the age of 96. A native of Colmar, Alsace, he had launched in the late 1950s a historic club in Paris: Le Chat qui pêche. Virtuoso of the be-bop, Michel Hausser, who was also accordionist, had played with Stéphane Grappelli and Quincy Jones.
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Chennai: Bhavatharini, the national award-winning playback singer known for her soulful voice, passed away at the age of 47 on Thursday, after losing a prolonged battle with cancer.
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The Danish musician Anders Lampe has died.
The guitarist was 59 years old.
He played with, among others, Bamses Venner and Stig Rossen, who kept Bamses’ repertoire alive as Stig & Vennerne after his colleague’s death.
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After a short, serious illness, the founder of the Bad Schwalbach International Opera Academy, which is well known in the Rheingau-Taunus district and beyond, has died. An obituary.
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Melanie, Singer Who Performed at Woodstock and Topped Charts With ‘Brand New Key,’ Dies at 76.
The singer, who wrote ‘Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)’ based on her experience at Woodstock, had been at work this month on a covers album.
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Musician Anders Sandberg, best known as the lead singer of the Swedish country group Rednex, died suddenly on Tuesday
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Frank Farian, the influential electronic music producer, composer and founder of the German/Caribbean disco funk ensemble Boney M, and the man behind the creation of the notorious pop duo Milli Vanilli. died Tuesday at 82
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In St. Petersburg, the vocalist of the band Marksheider Kunst, Sergei Efremenko, died in the Pokrovskaya hospital. The musician was 51 years old.
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Yesterday I woke up to the awful, awful news that my dear friend and long-time colleague Neil Kulkarni had died suddenly on Monday, aged 51.
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We are sad to pass on the news of the passing of Cynthia Garrison, known as one-third of the legendary soul music act The Three Degrees.
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Composer Zoran Erić died today at the age of 74.
The information about the death of composer Zoran Erić was confirmed by Tanjuga from the organization of the BEMUS festival.
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Haris Kostopoulos passed away on Saturday morning (20/1) at the age of 59 after fighting for his life. In particular, for a long time the singer suffered from cancer and was hospitalized in a private clinic.
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Mary Weiss, the lead vocalist of the Shangri-Las, has died at age 75.
Weiss’s death was confirmed to The Messenger by Miriam Linna, who runs the independent Norton Records label, which released Weiss’ final solo album, Dangerous Game, in 2007. “She was such a star to everyone in the rock ‘n’ roll business,” Linna said.
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Jazz legend Marlena Shaw has died at age 81, with the California Soul singer’s daughter announcing the sad news to fans on social media on Friday night
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On Jan. 19, 2024, Contralto Ewa Podleś passed away at the age of 71.
Considered one of the great Polish singers of her generation, she had a career that took her to all the great theaters in the world including the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
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‘Ram Goat Liver’ singer Pluto Shervington has died. Reggae singer, Pluto Shervington, has died.
A source confirmed to The Gleaner that he passed away minutes before 11 o’clock this morning in hospital in Florida.
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Identified by the coroner as 46-year-old John “Juan” Mendez — a noted Los Angeles techno DJ also who recorded under the name Silent Servant, whose death was confirmed by his management, according to reports
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Musician and onetime Bay Area resident Luis Vasquez — who was the principle creative force behind post-punk/darkwave project the Soft Moon — died in Los Angeles early Friday at age 44, according to the LA County coroner.
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Veteran singer and musician Yogesh Vaidya passed away on Thursday. He was 77.
According to the family, Vaidya breathed his last at 12:30am on Friday while being rushed to the Sundhara-based Kathmandu Valley Hospital.
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The composer, conductor, priest, musicologist and Gramophone reviewer Ivan Moody has died aged 59.
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Mylène Farmer in mourning: death of Slim Pezin, her musician and long-time friend
The guitarist and arranger André Pezin, known as “Slim”, died at the age of 78.
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Former Semperoper artistic director Gerd Uecker is dead
From 2003 to 2010 he was Dresden’s artistic director, and now the Saxon State Opera is mourning the death of Gerd Uecker.
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The charming singer and famous animator Serge Laprade has died. This was confirmed by her friend and relationshipist Tony Langelier on Thursday morning. The 83-year-old singer was admitted to palliative care on Monday, January 15, due to a recurrence of his cancer.
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Great musician, comedian and satirist Peter Schickele has died at his home in Bearsville, New York. And as the world says farewell to one of the most talented and admired parodists of the last century, a favourite Beethoven performance is being shared anew.
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Composer Laurie Johnson, who provided some of Britain’s best loved television themes and film music, has died at the age of 96.
Johnson’s memorable themes include The Avengers, The Professionals, Animal Magic, and This is Your Life.
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Malayalam film music director K.J. Joy passed away at the age of 77 at his Chennai residence. The veteran musician passed away around 2:30 a.m. on Monday. Reportedly, Joy had been bedridden following a stroke.
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The Australian composer David Lumsdaine has died
After composing and teaching in the UK for three decades, Lumsdaine returned to Australia and became one of the most notable recordists of birdsong.
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Grammy Award-winning Cajun and country artist Jo-El Sonnier has passed away at the age of 77. The news comes following his performance in Llano, Texas, where he suffered a major heart attack.
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This morning, at the age of 93, Romuald Twardowski, an outstanding Polish composer and long-time pedagogue of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, died. Initiator of the prestigious international Festival of Orthodox Church Music “Hajnówka”.
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Legendary classical singer Prabha Atre passed away following a brief illness at a private hospital here on Saturday, family sources said. Prabha was 91 and had complained of some breathing issues
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Structating for two years and with rare courage against the disease, Bruno Ducol, composer, pianist and pedagogue, left us at the age of 74, leaving on his piano his last opus unfinished with a presciential title, “Between gaze and silence”, a vocal piece on poems by François Cheng.
… via resmusica

Audie Blaylock, life long bluegrass singer and bandleader, passed away unexpectedly earlier this week at his home in Auburn, IN. He was 61 years of age.
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Bill Hayes, a legend of daytime TV and longtime star of “Days of Our Lives,” died Friday at age 98.
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Farewell to the composer Tony Iglio, had also been the goalkeeper of the Napoli of Jeppson and Pesaola.
He was 90 years old. Over his career he composed 1,500 songs finished in many soundtracks as for Scorsese’s “Mean Streets,” he collaborated with Chet Baker
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Broadcaster and journalist Annie Nightingale has died.
A pioneering figure in British media, news of her passing was confirmed a few moments ago in an official statement. Annie Nightingale passed away following a short illness, she was 83 years old.
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Mike Taylor has lost his battle with cancer.
One of Australia’s most successful A&R executives, who, for many years was the highest-flying American-born and raised professional in the Australian music industry, succumbed to his years-long health problems following a return to his homeland, sources tell The Music Network.
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On January 10, 2024, People’s Artist of the USSR, opera singer Tamara Andreevna Milashkina died at the age of 90.
Music critic Sergei Bulanov reported this on his Telegram channel.
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According to Metal Sludge, veteran rock drummer James Kottak, who is best known for his work with SCORPIONS and KINGDOM COME, has died. He was 61 years old.
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On Tuesday, January 9, People’s Artist of Ukraine, musician and singer Vitaly Bilonozhko, who together with his wife Svetlana founded the Melody of Two Hearts family creativity festival, died. This was announced by the Burin City Council.
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Music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan, who was undergoing treatment at a Kolkata-based hospital for prostate cancer, died at a Kolkata hospital this afternoon, officials said.
The classical singer was 55.
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The Guayaquil musician Diego Gallardo, known as Aire del Golfo, died on the afternoon of this January 9, 2024 from a stray bullet on Avenida del Bombero, in Guayaquil, in the context of the wave of violence that overflowed after the attack.
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Mar Mar Aye, a nationally renowned vocalist in the Myanmar music landscape, passed away yesterday at her residence in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America.
Mar Mar Aye was 82 years old at the time of her demise.
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Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock’s death are available at present. He was 90.
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The Provençal singer-songwriter Guy Bonnet died during the night from Sunday to Monday. Three of his songs represented France in the Eurovision contest (1968, 1970 and 1983).
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Gian Franco Reverberi, composer and musician, exponent of the Genoese school, as well as brother of Gian Piero, also a musician, has died at the age of 89 in Genoa. The artist Mario Lavezzi broke the news
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Magnum guitarist, songwriter and founding member Tony Clarkin has sadly died aged 77, his family have confirmed.
A statement issued to Magnum’s social media channels reads: ‘On behalf of the family it is with profound sadness that daughter Dionne is sharing the news of the passing of Tony Clarkin.
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Famous artist Yüksel Uzel passed away
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Germana Caroli, a successful singer, passed away at the age of 93 in the nursing home in the Bolognese. His successes remain, from the classics reinterpreted to the great two-part successes with Nicola Arigliano. A life of notes, applause and emotions.
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Composer and musicologist Viktor Ekimovsky passed away at the age of 76.
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Amparo Rubín, famous Mexican singer-songwriter who conquered crowds with Timbiriche, dies
Among her most remembered songs are ‘I run, I fly, I accelerate’, ‘Compás dewaite’ and ‘Víctima o thief’
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The New Orleans Opera board of directors and staff announced the passing of General and Artistic Director Emeritus, Maestro Robert Lyall, on January 5, 2024. Highly regarded as a beacon in the world of music, Maestro Lyall valiantly battled cancer since April 2023, facing complications in recent weeks.
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Del Palmer, who played bass on virtually all of Kate Bush’s albums – and was romantically involved with Kate for a long time – died yesterday, his family have announced.
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Musician and composer Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingas passed away this Thursday, aged 84, due to illness, in Lisbon, Portugal, JA Online confirmed with sources close to the family.
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Marie Nilsson Lind is dead
The Ainbus singer turned 62: “An endless sadness”
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Theater artist, director, singer and educator Ayla Algan passed away at the age of 86. Algan’s funeral will be buried in Aşiyan Cemetery after the funeral prayer that will be performed after the noon adhan at Teşvikiye Mosque on Saturday.
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David Soul, the actor-singer who famously starred as Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the beloved TV series Starsky & Hutch and scored a Number One hit with the soft rock ballad “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died at the age of 80.
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Treating prostate cancer two years ago, samba performer Quinho do Salgueiro, one of the most notable personalities of Rio Carnival, died late this Wednesday night (3) at the age of 66. He was admitted to the Evandro Freire Hospital, on Ilha do Governador, north of Rio.
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When you talk about herb rock, the name Amon Düül must not be missing. Founded in 1967 in Munich from the student movement, they still stand for an experimental and stylistic sound. Chris Karrer was there from the beginning.
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Czech music teacher Oldřich Semerák has died
On January 1, 2024, Oldřich Semerák, composer, trombonist and music teacher, died.
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