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MusicJohnny Young
1947 – 2026 · Singer; songwriter; musician; record producer; disc jockey; television presenter and producer; radio presenter; entrepreneur (Lewis-Young Productions; Johnny Young Talent Schools)
“Goodnight Australia: joy, songs, and Young Talent Time.”
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MusicDave Marsh
1950 – 2026 · Music journalist; author; radio host; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee member
“Detroit rock critic who wrote Springsteen into history and argued for justice as hard as he argued about records.”
🕯 49 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1
MusicFrankie Miller
1930 – 2026 · Country singer-songwriter; later auto salesman; late-career recording artist
“Family man first: Texas voice of Blackland Farmer, Bronze Star veteran, friend to legends.”
🕯 59 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1
MusicJanie Bradford
1939 – 2026 · Songwriter; Motown receptionist then Jobete Music writer relations executive; HAL Awards founder/producer; scholarship fund executive director; Twinn Records co-founder
“Motown's early lyric voice; Money's couplet; HAL's family keeper.”
🕯 90 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3
MusicIleana Cotrubaș
1939 – 2026 · Operatic soprano; teacher / coach; author
“She sought truth in song, not polish: Mimì and Violetta for the ages.”
🕯 44 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2
MusicMiguel Zavaleta
1955 – 2026 · Singer, songwriter, keyboardist, bandleader; occasional actor
“Sueter's voice who made Amanece en la ruta immortal.”
🕯 39 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 6
MusicGene Bertoncini
1937 – 2026 · Jazz guitarist; educator; studio musician; nylon-string specialist
“Nylon-string jazz poet whose architectural ear made standards glow with quiet fire.”
🕯 48 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 4
MusicAbdullah Ibrahim
1934 – 2026 · Pianist; composer; bandleader; multi-instrumentalist; educator/academy founder (M7); Cape jazz pioneer
“Cape Town's piano voice; exile anthem maker; Mandela's Mozart.”
🕯 48 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 4
MusicFrancesco Guccini
1940 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter (cantautore); writer/novelist; occasional actor; comics writer; dialectologist; former Italian teacher (Dickinson College Bologna)
“Storyteller of everyday life, from Via Emilia to the West.”
🕯 69 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 3
MusicEdith Barr
1936 – 2026 · Singer (musica criolla / Peruvian Creole music); television host; occasional film performer
“Peru's Flor Morena who carried criolla song from La Victoria to the Waldorf and the Pope.”
🕯 60 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 6
MusicHe Yong
1969 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter; guitarist; Chinese rock / self-styled punk musician; composer; poet
“Beijing rock pioneer who asked if there was hope, then sang the Bell and Drum Towers home.”
🕯 64 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2
MusicRuben Rada
1943 – 2026 · Musician, singer, composer, percussionist (tamboriles); actor; television host and coach (La Voz Uruguay / Kids); children's entertainer (Rubenrá)
“Uruguay's candombe beat pioneer who made Montevideo swing the world with drums, humour and heart.”
🕯 68 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 3
MusicFrank Beard
1949 – 2026 · Musician; drummer; songwriter (band credits); ranch owner
“Texas shuffle keeper of ZZ Top, the man with no beard, whose backbeat kept the little ol' band on top.”
🕯 0 · ✍️ 0 · 📷 3
MusicChuck Berry
1926 – 2017 · Musician
“Roll over Beethoven.”
🕯 155 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 5
MusicGeorge Michael
1963 – 2016 · Singer and songwriter
“You gotta have faith.”
🕯 142 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 5
MusicOlivia Newton-John
1948 – 2022 · Singer and actress
“Let's get physical.”
🕯 137 · ✍️ 11 · 📷 5
MusicBrian Wilson
1942 – 2025 · Musician, The Beach Boys
“God only knows what I'd be without you.”
🕯 201 · ✍️ 13 · 📷 5
MusicLiam Payne
1993 – 2024 · Singer, One Direction
“Strip that down.”
🕯 275 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 5
MusicQuincy Jones
1933 – 2024 · Record producer and composer
“Not one drop of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me.”
🕯 362 · ✍️ 15 · 📷 5
MusicHarry Belafonte
1927 – 2023 · Singer, actor and activist
“Day-O.”
🕯 201 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 5
MusicTony Bennett
1926 – 2023 · Singer
“I left my heart in San Francisco.”
🕯 114 · ✍️ 15 · 📷 5
MusicSinéad O'Connor
1966 – 2023 · Singer; songwriter; activist
“Nothing compares to you.”
🕯 158 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 9
MusicOzzy Osbourne
1948 – 2025 · Singer, Black Sabbath
“The Prince of Darkness.”
🕯 240 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 5
MusicLudwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827 · Composer
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
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MusicWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791 · Composer
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
🕯 163 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 5
MusicLuciano Pavarotti
1935 – 2007 · Operatic tenor
“Nessun dorma.”
🕯 204 · ✍️ 15 · 📷 5
MusicLouis Armstrong
1901 – 1971 · Jazz trumpeter and singer
“What a wonderful world.”
🕯 172 · ✍️ 11 · 📷 4
MusicElla Fitzgerald
1917 – 1996 · Jazz singer
“The First Lady of Song.”
🕯 184 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 5
MusicFrank Sinatra
1915 – 1998 · Singer and actor
“I did it my way.”
🕯 128 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 5
MusicJohnny Cash
1932 – 2003 · Singer and songwriter
“The Man in Black.”
🕯 239 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 5
MusicLeonard Cohen
1934 – 2016 · Singer, songwriter and poet
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
🕯 212 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 4
MusicTina Turner
1939 – 2023 · Singer
“Simply the best.”
🕯 156 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 5
MusicAretha Franklin
1942 – 2018 · Singer
“The Queen of Soul.”
🕯 239 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 5
MusicBob Marley
1945 – 1981 · Musician
“One love, one heart.”
🕯 110 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 5
MusicKurt Cobain
1967 – 1994 · Musician, Nirvana
“Come as you are.”
🕯 121 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 5
MusicAmy Winehouse
1983 – 2011 · Singer and songwriter
“I'm not a girl trying to be a star. I'm just a girl who sings.”
🕯 143 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 5
MusicElvis Presley
1935 – 1977 · Singer and actor
“The King of Rock and Roll.”
🕯 147 · ✍️ 11 · 📷 5
MusicWhitney Houston
1963 – 2012 · Singer and actress
“The Voice.”
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