Musicians and singers who died in June 2025

The internationally renowned Welsh opera singer Stuart Burrows has died aged 92 following a short illness. Born in Cilfynydd in Rhondda Cynon Taf, he performed for the first time with the Welsh National Opera in 1963 and went on to sing at world famous La Scala in Milan.… via bbc

Soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo has died at the age of 85. Cruz-Romo was born on Feb. 12, 1940, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and went on to study at the Mexico City Conservatory.… via operawire

Derek A.E. Fuhrmann, an ASCAP Pop Award recipient and co-writer of Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, Gone, Gone,” has died. He was 44. Fuhrmann died June 27 in Nashville following a battle with cancer, publicist Harlan Boll announced. … via hollywoodreporter

The musician Anísio Mello Júnior, singer of the openings of ‘Dragon Ball’, dies at the age of 60 The artist also served as bassist, music producer, composer and writer. The cause of death has not been disclosed.… via globo

Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of “Mission: Impossible” and film scores including “Cool Hand Luke,” “Dirty Harry” and “Bullitt,” died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93.… via variety

Shortly after noon on Thursday, June 26, he learned of the death of Hiroshi Claudio Ishida Ruiz, better known as “Occasional Talento,” one of Bolivia’s most outstanding artists. This was his journey and legacy.… via urgente

They took a “slow and steady” path to stardom, but once they reached it, The Whispers became one of the most beloved soul music vocal groups of all time. Tonight we mourn the passing of group co-founder, Walter Scott, who died after a six month battle with cancer. He was 81.… via soultracks

Bobby Sherman, a singer and actor who became a quintessential shaggy-haired teen idol of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 81.… via variety

“He died of a heart attack during the night,” said Libert Subirana, who was a flutist and saxophonist in Harmonium, in an interview.… via lapresse

Rebekah Del Rio, a singer-songwriter who achieved cinematic legend with her performance of “Llorando” in David Lynch‘s 2001 opus “Mulholland Drive,” died June 23 at her residence in Los Angeles. She was 57 years old.… via variety

Legendary trumpeter Feya Faku who passed away on Monday, 23 June. MZANSI’S legendary trumpeter and flugelhornist Fezile “Feya” Faku passes away.… via snl24

Founding member of the classic UK rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, their guitarist, singer, songwriter Mick Ralphs, has died at the age of 81. A statement posted to Bad Company’s official website announced his death, with no other details. Ralphs had a stroke just after what would be his final performance with the band at London’s O2 Arena in 2016 and had been bedridden ever since, the statement said.… via weheartmusic

June 23, 2025 died Yuri Parfyonov – trumpeter of the group “Autsu Didn”, composer and Honored Artist of Russia. The cause of death is not specified, the musician was 79 years old.… via nashe

Pete Doherty has shared a statement following the death of former Babyshambles guitarist Patrick Walden at the age of 46. Last night, the band announced the sad news on social media.… via metro

Cavin Yarbrough, half of the 1980s R&B duo Yarbrough & Peoples, has died at the age of 72. The singer-musician-producer passed away on Thursday (June 19) owing to complications from heart disease. “He was the love of my life, my protector. Now he’s my guardian angel,” Yarbrough’s wife and longtime music partner, Alisa Peoples, said in a statement.… via billboard

Blue band member James Prime has passed away aged 64, his band has announced.
The keyboard player helped form the band in 1985 alongside Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling.… via thenational

It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of the distinguished Russian born pianist Nelly Akopian Tamarina, who died on 19 June 2025, following a long illness… via imgartists

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Original lead singer of The Searchers dies aged 84. A trailblazer of the Merseybeat era, Ronnie “Shorty Rogers” Woodbridge, who played a pivotal role in shaping Liverpool’s thriving music scene in the 1960s and 70s, has sadly passed away. … via walesonline

Lysstrup is known as an artist, folk singer, guitarist, composer and author.
He has released a number of folk albums, children’s records and written several books. The deceased, aged 76, has also written plays.… via vg

Lou Christie, the singer-songwriter who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 with the lush “Lightnin’ Strikes” and had another top 20 hit that year with the (for its time) sexually explicit “Rhapsody in the Rain,” died Wednesday. He was 82.… via hollywoodreporter

Today, 18 June, after a short serious illness in Tallinn at the age of 67, the excellent cellist Teet Järvi died (22 April 1958 / 18 June 2025).… via postimees

It was always Charlie Burrell’s plan to move to Colorado. The kid from Detroit loved the mountains and wanted to live in Denver, the place his mom was born. It was also the bassist’s dream to play with the San Francisco Symphony.… via cpr

Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94 Widely regarded as the ‘musicians’ musician’ Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano works during a much-garlanded career spanning 60 years… via theguardian

Exponant of jazz in Brazil, Hélio Delmiro dies at 78 years old Guitarist and guitarist, who was diabetic and faced kidney problems, released the album ‘Certain Things’ on setreaming at the end of May… via globo

Legendary R&B vocalist and ‘Tell Him’ hitmaker Patti Drew passed away on June 16, 2025, but her music and spirit will never fade. Hey Soul family—today we lost one of the voices that carved out R&B history. Patti Drew, best known for her silky take on the 60s classic “Tell Him,” died on June 16, 2025, at the age of 80. I did not see a lot of information about this legend online so I looked through the SOUL Newspaper files to pull some information to celebrate her legacy.… via soulpublications

The percussionist, drummer, composer, poet and visual artist Sven-Åke Johansson has died. He was born in Mariestad, Västergötland in 1941 and lived in Berlin since the late 1960s. During the early 1960s he became a member of the trumpeter Gunnar Fors quintet with Bengt Lindquist on tenorsax, Ivar Lindell bass and Bobo Stenson piano. Recordings with the group were released on the album Gone With The Wind (Olof Bright Records, 2016).… via orkesterjournalen

Barry Vercoe, composer and music scientist, founded MIT’s electronic music efforts and helped shape the Lab’s efforts in digital synthesis and machine listening and learning. But his biggest impact came outside the academy: as the inventor of Csound, he took the original innovations of Max Mathews and made them accessible to everyone. The live coding scene that followed has transformed the practice of coding sound into a new form of musical performance.… via cdm

Musician and song producer Gusti Irwan Wibowo aka Gustiwiw was announced dead on Sunday (15/6). The news was shared by celebrities, including comedian Ananta Rispo who co-remarked on social media. Rispo announced the sad news as well as wishing Gusti’s departure. However, until now there is no further information related to the news of the grief.… via cnnindonesia

The musician and composer Bira Presidente died on Saturday night (14) at the age of 88. The information was confirmed by Grêmio Recreativo Cacique de Ramos, which, in a note on social networks, regretted the death of its founder due to complications related to prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s.… via folha

Kollangudi Karuppayee, who was known as an actress and folk singer in Tamil cinema, passed away at the age of 99.
She acted in the popular film Aan Paavam starring Pandiarajan, where she played the role of VK Ramasamy’s mother and Pandiarajan’s grandmother.… via dtnext

The family of multi-talented stage and film actor Victor “Cocoy” Laurel has revealed that he died of cardiac arrest arising from multiple organ failure. He passed away on Saturday, June 14, at the age of 72.… via com

Toronto punk pioneer Steven Leckie of the trailblazing band the Viletones has died. His exact cause of death hasn’t been made public, but journalist Alan Cross noted on his blog that Leckie had been living with multiple sclerosis, and was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023.… via exclaim

Tribute to Jeannine Dion Guérin – Jeanne Champel Grenier and Jean Dornac I did not have the chance to meet Jeannine, but we had an email, regular, friendly, wonderful correspondence. I discovered a woman with a quick mind despite her 90th birthday, a woman with a big heart, an exceptional poet. … via couleurs-poesies-jdornac

I’m very sad to hear that legendary London bassist Dill Katz has passed away. Dill was a really great musician and generous connector of people. I did my very first gig in London with him when I was aged 18 or 19, then still a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.… via ukjazznews

The South African jazz world has lost one of its greatest pioneers. Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo, the internationally acclaimed drummer and last surviving member of the Blue Notes sextet, died at age 85.… via news24

Guitarist and singer John Plain was 73. He died on Thursday after a long illness, the British punk band The Boys announced on their Facebook page. Norwegian Stein Groven, known as Casino Steel, played with Honest John Plain in The Boys from 1975, and from 2007 also in The Last Rock ’N’ Roll Band, which included Petter Baarli of the Backstreet Girls.… via abcnyheter

In an already tough week, the hitmaker, pop visionary, and leader of The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. His family announced the death on social media but did not provide a cause, nor any specific details.… via weheartmusic

Douglas McCarthy, vocalist and founding member of industrial/EBM group Nitzer Ebb, has died. He was 58. The news came via the band’s official socials … via brooklynvegan

The multi-genre legend that took us higher and let everyday people all dance to the music, has passed–Sly Stone, the hugely influential, socially conscious, eccentric and often troubled singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who had numerous hits on multiple genre charts during the late 1960’s and early ’70s with his band the Family Stone, passed away at the age of 82 in Los Angeles. … via weheartmusic

Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with the poet Dylan Thomas reciting his story “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” and that led to today’s multibillion-dollar audiobook industry, died on Monday at home in Baltimore, Md. She was 95. … via nytimes

In memory of our dear Axel The good boy you always were – towards family, friends, mother and father. Your last drum solo was too short, we can’t believe you’re gone. … via vareminnesider

Tenor Vladislav Gorai, a soloist with the Odesa National Opera, died on Sunday while engaged in a volunteer mission in the northern region of Sumy bordering Russia, opera officials said.… via reuters

Ariel Kalma, the pioneering French new age musician, electronic composer, and multi-instrumentalist, has died. The news was confirmed in a statement from record label Rvng Intl.… via pitchfork

Dominican singer-songwriter Cheo Zorrilla, renowned for his talent and legacy in romantic music, died recently after suffering a stroke.… via diariolibre

The artist from the Republic of Moldova, Denis Lupu, known to the public under the stage name “Jucătoru”, has passed away in Italy, reports Noi.md.… via noi

We received the sad news that the German tenor Klaus Koenig died on June 7th. He was one of the most important tenors of his generation, especially in the heroine repertoire.… via operamagazine

Cuban musician José Luis Quintana Fuentes, popularly known as Changuito, considered one of the most important percussionists in the history of the island’s music, died this Friday in Havana at the age of 76.… via lavanguardia

Renowned Highlife legend, Mike Ejeagha, known for transforming Igbo folklore and proverbs into captivating music, has passed away at the age of 95.… via vanguardngr

The posting by legendary R&B band Atlantic Starr this morning hit us like a ton of bricks: It’s with great sadness that we have to post the passing of Wayne Lewis June 5, 2025… via soultracks

In St. Petersburg at the age of 71 died Anatoly Gunitsky – one of the founders of the group “Aquarium” (known also under the nicknames George and the Old Rocker). This was announced by Boris Grebenshchikov, who created together with Gunitsky “Aquarium” in 1972.… via svoboda

We are sad to report that Bishop Norman Hutchins, best known for the Gospel hit “God’s Got a Blessing (With My Name On It!)” has passed away at the age of 62.… via svoboda