Music
Singers, songwriters, players and producers whose records became part of people's lives. 352 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Roxana Amed1963 – 2026 · Jazz singerShe carried the songs of Argentina into the language of jazz.
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Peggy King1930 – 2026 · SingerPretty Perky Peggy King, the bright voice and warm smile of 1950s American television.
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Nev1968 – 2026 · SingerThe Turkish singer and songwriter behind "Zor", who gave classical Turkish songs a new voice.
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Judith Blegen1941 – 2026 · Opera singer (soprano)Silvery voiced soprano who charmed the Met for 21 seasons as Adina, Sophie and Susanna.
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Igor Arzuaga† 2026 · Singer-songwriterBasque singer and multi-instrumentalist who followed his own path through more than a dozen albums.
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Barbara Jay1932 – 2026 · Jazz singer (Ronnie Scott band vocalistThe girl singer who outlasted them all with Ronnie Scott, toured with Benny Goodman and kept Ella's songbook alive.
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Guruvayur Dorai1935 – 2026 · Mridangam playerMaster of the mridangam who kept time for the giants of Carnatic music for almost eighty years.
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Bakir Bayakhunov1933 – 2026 · Composer and music teacherKazakh composer and teacher, the first professional Dungan composer, who wrote seven symphonies.
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Geoffrey Chard1930 – 2026 · Operatic baritoneFrom Trust Mozart nights to Voss and the Coliseum, he gave Australian and British opera 140 roles and a craftsman's heart.
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Janice Dixon1956 – 2026 · Operatic sopranoNew York soprano who became Mannheim's Golden Voice, from Bess and the Marschallin to jazz.
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Kim Chung-ja1944 – 2026 · Mezzo-sopranoThe first Korean voice on a European opera stage, who gave her later years to the orphans of Karonga as Lusekelo.
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Andrey Gradovich† 2026 · GuitaristPetersburg guitarist of Jugendstil, Kolibri, and Dva Samolyota.
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Ricardo Soulé1950 – 2026 · MusicianFounder of Vox Dei; he set Genesis and Presente to rock and made Argentine song immortal.
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Náfer Durán1932 – 2026 · Vallenato accordionistRey Vallenato of 1976, brother of Alejo Durán, and first accordionist of Diomedes Díaz.
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Vline Buggy1929 – 2026 · French lyricistFrench lyricist of Belles! Belles! Belles!, Céline, Le Penitencier and hundreds of variété classics.
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Liu Huan1963 – 2026 · SingerChinese pop pioneer who sang You and Me at Beijing 2008 and never left the classroom.
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Krishna Mukerji† 2026 · Playback singerPlayback singer and Mukherjee family matriarch who quietly shaped Rani Mukerji's path.
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Indudhar Nirody1935 – 2026 · Hindustani classical vocalistAgra gharana vocalist who recorded Bhatkhande's 1,896 bandishes in his eighties.
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Jorge Palma1950 – 2026 · SingerPortuguese songwriter of Fragil and Encosta-te a Mim, voice of a generation.
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Gary "Angry" Anderson1947 – 2026 · Rock singerRose Tattoo frontman whose gravel voice, Suddenly ballad and youth advocacy shaped Australian rock.
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Rick Sollo1966 – 2026 · SingerSertanejo voice of Rick & Renner whose songs filled Brazil's dance floors for four decades.
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Carvin Jones1966 – 2026 · American blues guitaristLufkin-born Phoenix bluesman, King of Strings; 37 countries, 330 shows a year, heart on stage and off.
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Rudy Cheeks1950 – 2026 · MusicianProvidence's cool, cool satirist who made Motels, Young Adults and Phillipe and Jorge part of Rhode Island lore.
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Patrick Zelnik1946 – 2026 · Music executiveHe built Virgin France and Naive, and fought for Europe's independents.
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Kevin Spencer† 2026 · SingerFounding Dynasty voice and keyboardist who helped build the classic SOLAR sound.
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Marcus Andersson† 2026 · DrummerA big heart that kept Disfear's D-beat pulse for nearly three decades.
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Pete Byrne1952 – 2026 · SingerEnglish synth-pop voice of Naked Eyes and Always Something There to Remind Me.
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Tofig Bakikhanov1930 – 2026 · Azerbaijani composerA composer who carried mugham into the symphony and taught Baku's musicians for half a century.
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Jill Gomez1942 – 2026 · Operatic sopranoTrinidad-born soprano whose creamy voice lit Glyndebourne, Auvergne songs, and Powder Her Face
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Peter Katsis† 2026 · Music managerChicago-born music manager who took Ministry, Backstreet Boys, Korn and the Smashing Pumpkins from clubs to arenas.
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Tristam Nada1958 – 2026 · French singer and painterParis punk, Musulmans fumants painter, and Tristan of Bonne, bonne humeur ce matin.
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Fantan Mojah1976 – 2026 · Reggae singer and songwriterHail the King. A Rasta soldier who sang for faith, truth and upliftment.
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Mike Browning1964 – 2026 · Death metal drummer and vocalistDeath metal pioneer who co-founded Morbid Angel and sent Florida death metal into space with Nocturnus.
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S. Janaki1938 – 2026 · Playback singerJanaki Amma, the Nightingale of South India, whose voice carried every emotion in more than 48,000 songs across 20 languages.
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James Blood Ulmer1940 – 2026 · Jazz and blues guitaristHarmolodic guitar pioneer who fused free jazz, funk and blues into a sound that was his alone.
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Dee Palmer1937 – 2026 · ComposerThe arranger whose strings gave Jethro Tull its orchestral heart, and who lived her later years openly as herself.
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Nedra Talley Ross1946 – 2026 · SingerFounding Ronette whose voice and style helped define Be My Baby, and who later gave her song to her faith.
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Dolores Keane1953 – 2026 · Folk and traditional singerThe queen of the soul of Ireland. A voice like hers does not leave us, it lives forever.
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Neil Sedaka1939 – 2026 · SingerBrill Building singer-songwriter of Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Calendar Girl, and Laughter in the Rain
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Rob Hirst1955 – 2026 · DrummerThe beating heart of Midnight Oil. He drove the band from the back and wrote songs that still move Australia.
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Tony Dallara1936 – 2026 · Singer and actorItaly's first urlatore, whose voice carried Come prima and Romantica around the world.
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Lena Martell1940 – 2026 · Singer and television entertainerGlasgow's own star, who took One Day at a Time to number one and sang with a smile.
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D'Angelo1974 – 2025 · SingerThe godfather of neo-soul, whose Brown Sugar, Voodoo and Black Messiah changed R&B forever.
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Simon Seekoei1956 – 2026 · Pastor and gospel singerCape gospel pioneer whose songs, from We See a New South Africa to Here lei my, are still sung in churches.
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Oswaldinho do Acordeon1954 – 2026 · AccordionistMaster of the sanfona who carried forró from his father's São Paulo dance halls to Rock in Rio and the jazz stages of the world.
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Pyotr Starchik1938 – 2026 · BardHe sang banned poets in small rooms, and no psychiatric ward could silence him.
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Nigel Durham† 2026 · Heavy metal drummerSaxon's drummer on Destiny and a powerhouse of the British heavy metal scene.
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