Notable musicians and other music-related figures who have died this year:
Johnnie Walker (former BBC Radio 2 DJ known for hosting the “Sounds of the 70s” show)
Bob Bertles (Australia jazz musician)
Linda Lavin (Tony Award-winning actress-singer and star of TV’s “Alice”)
Reggie Ward (The S.O.S. Band guitarist)
OG Maco (“U Guessed It” rapper)
Dulce La Cantante (Mexican singer)
Marjorie Ann Cunningham (Jewel Gospel Singers)
Richard Perry (legendary producer behind Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” and other classics)
Casey Chaos (frontman and founding member of Amen)
Alfa Anderson (Chic vocalist)
Michael Brewer (Brewer & Shipley)
Jon Camp (Renaissance bassist)
Slim Dunlap (The Replacements guitarist)
Rodessa Barrett Porter (of the legendary Barrett Sisters gospel trio)
David Mallett (Maine singer-songwriter wrote “Garden Song”)
Zakir Hussain (Indian tabla master)
Tom George (founder and owner of TAG Publicity)
Ras Muffet (U.K. dub and soundsystem legend)
Miho Nakayama (J-pop singer and actress)
Samantha Lawrence (Wee Papa Girl Rappers)
Marvin Laird (Broadway and film composer and Bernadette Peters’ musical director)
Marshall Brickman (Oscar winner and Tony-nominated “Jersey Boys” writer)
Bob Bryar (former My Chemical Romance drummer)
Will Cullen (co-founder of Elephant 6 label and Olivia Tremor Control singer-guitarist)
Helen Gallagher (two-time Tony Award winning actress-singer)
Chuck Woolery (game-show host and singer)
Mike Pinera (wrote and sang Blues Image’s “Ride Captain Ride” and co-founded Ramatam)
Andy Paley (songwriter and producer of Brian Wilson’s 1988 album “Brian Wilson”)
J Saul Kane, aka Depth Charge (trip-hop producer)
Vic Flick (guitarist on James Bond theme song)
Colin “Smiley” Petersen (original Bee Gees drummer)
Dennis Byron (Bee Gees disco-era drummer)
Charles Dumont (composer of Édith Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien”)
Tommy Alverson (Texas country singer-songwriter)
Peter Sinfield (King Crimson co-founder/lyricist and producer)
James McMahon (former NME features editor and Kerrang! editor)
Shel Talmy (producer of early Who, Kinks and Bowie albums)
Roy Haynes (modern jazz drummer)
Lou Donaldson (jazz saxophonist)
Ella Jenkins (first lady of children’s music)
Linda LaFlamme (It’s a Beautiful Day co-founder, co-wrote “White Bird,” wife of leader David LaFlamme)
Sheila F. Holman (songwriter and wife of “Hey There Lonely Girl” singer Eddie Holman)
Tyka Nelson (R&B singer and sister of Prince)
Quincy Jones (legendary producer, musician and composer)
Steve Morse (longtime Boston Globe rock writer)
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead co-founder and bassist)
DJ Clark Kent (hip-hop producer)
Jack Jones (Grammy-winning singer best known for “The Love Boat” theme)
Edd Griles (directed music videos for Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” etc.)
Mimi Hines (actress-singer who replaced Barbra Streisand on Broadway in “Funny Girl”)
Paul Di’Anno (former Iron Maiden singer)
Mitzi Gaynor (actress-singer and star of “South Pacific”)
Barbara Dane (folk singer and champion of social justice movements)
Liam Payne (former One Direction member)
Ka (Brooklyn rapper)
Libby Titus (singer-songwriter, co-writer of”Love Has No Pride” and wife of Donald Fagen)
Jack Revill, aka Jackmaster (Scottish DJ)
El Taiger (Cuban urbano singer)
Johnny Neel (Allman Brothers Band keyboardist-songwriter)
Jack Ponti (producer-songwriter worked with Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, et al)
Nell Smith (musical prodigy best known for her collaboration with The Flaming Lips)
Cissy Houston (Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston)
Jack Colwell (Australian singer-songwriter)
Martin Lee (Brotherhood of Man singer)
Dave Allison (original Anvil guitarist)
Ken Page (Broadway’s original Lion in “The Wiz” and Old Deuteronomy in “Cats”)
Gavin Creel (Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals “Hello, Dolly!,” “Hair,” “Waitress,” “Into the Woods,” etc.)
Kris Kristofferson (legendary singer-songwriter/actor)
Hugh Prestwood (country songwriter)
Paul Bakija (Reagan Youth guitarist)
Catherine “Cat” Glover (dancer and backup vocalist for Prince)
Freddie Salem (former Outlaws singer-guitarist)
Benny Golson (jazz saxophonist-composer)
Roger Palm (drummer played on ABBA’s biggest hits)
Luis Leguia (longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist and pioneer of carbon fiber instruments)
Kathryn Crosby (singer and widow of Bing Crosby)
Caterina Valente (multilingual singer-guitarist)
Zulya Kamalova (ARIA award-winning singer)
John Nady (inventor of the wireless guitar and microphone)
JD Souther (singer-songwriter co-wrote Eagles’ “New Kid in Town” and “Best of My Love”)
Billy Edd Wheeler (country songwriter wrote “Jackson” and “Coward of the County”)
Kenny Hyslop (Simple Minds drummer)
Gabriel “The Gun” Gonzalez (trumpet player and original member of No Doubt)
Tito Jackson (guitarist and founding member of The Jackson 5)
Tommy Cash (singer and brother of Johnny Cash)
Billy Sherrill (engineer on recordings for Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney, The Chicks, The Marshall Tucker Band, et al)
Frankie Beverly (R&B/soul legend and leader of Maze)
Ben Thapa (co-founder of vocal group G4, which finished second in the debut season of “The X Factor” in 2004)
Herbie Flowers (British bassist played on “Walk On the Wild Side,” “Space Oddity,” “Rock On,” etc., and was a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky)
Will Jennings (Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist wrote or co-wrote “My Heart Will Go On,” “Up Where We Belong,” “Tears in Heaven,” etc.)
Screamin’ Scott Simon (Sha Na Na)
Jimmy Gilmer (“Sugar Shack” singer and music publisher)
Sérgio Mendes (Brazilian music legend)
Rich Homie Quan (Atlanta rapper)
Peter Kubik (founding guitarist for Austrian black metal band Abigor)
James Darren (teen idol singer and actor)
Danielle Moore (Crazy P)
Pat Lewis (Motown backup singer)
Pete Wade (Nashville A-team guitarist)
Fatman Scoop (Grammy-winning DJ-rapper)
Steve Silberman (journalist and author of “Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads”)
Derrick Mehaffey (Northern Ireland country music star)
Patricia Carey (opera singer and mother of Mariah Carey)
Catherine Ribeiro (French singer)
Dewi “Pws” Morris (Welsh actor-singer)
Joe Chambers (The Chambers Brothers)
Laura Littardi (Italian jazz vocalist)
Jack Russell (Great White singer)
Greg Kihn (singer-songwriter, best known for “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song”)
Peter Marshall (singer-actor and longtime host of “The Hollywood Squares”)
Justin Riley (aka rapper BeatKing)
Aduke Gold (Nigerian gospel singer)
Eoin French (Irish singer-musician known as Talos)
Charles R. Cross (music journalist who wrote Kurt Cobain biography and founded the Bruce Springsteen magazine “Backstreets”)
Sylvester Hopkins (The Five Satins)
Maurice Williams (“Stay” singer-songwriter)
Shaun Martin (Snarky Puppy)
Pieter Verpaalen (former Textures vocalist)
Onyeka Onwenu (Nigerian singer-songwriter)
Chino XL (rapper-actor)
Pat Collier (producer and former bassist for The Vibrators)
Martin Phillips (frontman and founder of The Chills)
The Nelons (three members of family gospel group die in plane crash)
Dick Asher (music industry pioneer and anti-payola crusader)
Jim Busta (polka bandleader)
John Mayall (blues-rock legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee)
Toumani Diabaté (Malian master of the kora)
Bill Crook (former Spiritbox bassist)
Abdul “Duke” Fakir (last of the original Four Tops)
Sandy Posey (“Single Girl” singer from the 1960s)
Jerry Miller (Moby Grape guitarist)
Evelyn Thomas (disco and hi-NRG legend)
Jerry Fuller (songwriter-producer wrote and/or produced “Travelin’ Man,” “Young Girl,” “Show and Tell,” etc.)
Bob Newhart (comedy legend whose debut album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” topped the U.S. chart for 14 weeks in 1960 and won him Grammy Album of the Year and Best New Artist)
Pinche Peach (Brujeria vocalist)
Happy Traum (Greenwich Village folk singer and Bob Dylan collaborator)
Bob Booker (writer and producer of the Grammy-winning comedy album “The First Family”)
Bernice Johnson Reagon (founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock)
Douglass Faker (founder of Intrada Records)
Heather Wood (The Young Tradition)
Richard Simmons (fitness icon had a platinum-selling album in 1982)
Jim Rotondi (hard-bop trumpeter)
Dave Loggins (“Please Come to Boston” singer-songwriter)
Shelley Duvall (actress-singer starred in “Nashville,” “Popeye,” “Annie Hall” and “The Shining” and recorded two Christmas albums)
Joe Bonsall (The Oak Ridge Boys)
Joe Egan (Stealers Wheel)
Mary Martin (veteran artist manager and A&R executive who championed Keith Urban)
Rusty Golden (singer-songwriter and son of Oak Ridge Boys’ William Golden)
Martin Mull (actor, comedian and musician)
Kinky Friedman (singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist)
Rob Stone (co-founder of music publication The Fader)
Shifty Shellshock (Crazy Town frontman)
Joe Scaife (“Achy Breaky Heart,” “Redneck Woman” producer)
Terri Lynn Kathey (gospel and blues singer)
James Chance (“no wave” singer-saxophonist)
Dave Ferguson (fiddler with Country Gazette)
Dario G (dance music producer)
Buzz Cason (singer-songwriter co-wrote “Everlasting Love”)
Adam Lewis (bassist and founding member of Fenix TX)
Angela Bofill (R&B/jazz singer)
Jeremy Tepper (program director of SiriusXM’s “Outlaw Country” channel)
Johnny Canales (Tejano singer and TV host)
Mark James (songwriter wrote “Suspicious Minds,” “Always On My Mind” and “Hooked on a Feeling”)
John Schweers (country songwriter)
Françoise Hardy (influential French singer-actress)
Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson (The Selecter frontman)
Enchanting (rapper)
Dr. Velásquez (Colombian hitmaker and reggaeton pioneer)
Tony Bramwell (music mogul was The Beatles’ tour manager and was credited for discovering Queen)
Palle Danielsson (Swedish bassist was a member of Keith Jarrett’s European Quartet)
Janis Paige (Broadway and film actress-singer)
Brother Marquis (2 Live Crew)
Colin Gibb (Black Lace singer)
Amy Winslow (artist manager for Guided by Voices, Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon, et al)
Richard M. Sherman (with his brother, Oscar-winning songwriter co-wrote songs for “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle Book,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” etc.)
Doug Ingle (Iron Butterfly singer and organist)
Bud Logan (Nashville record producer)
Pat Rolfe (one of the first women to head a major publishing company on Music Row)
Omar Geles (Latin Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter)
Charlie Colin (bassist and founding member of Train)
Peggi Blu (“Star Search” champion and vocal coach on “American Idol”)
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Polish composer won Academy Award for “Finding Neverland”)
Frank Ifield (Australian country singer-guitarist)
Franchino (pioneering Italian disco DJ and vocalist)
Jon Wysocki (drummer and founding member of Staind)
“Spider” John Koerner (of the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover)
Jimmy James (leader of Jimmy James and the Vagabonds)
Eric “ET” Thorngren (producer, engineer and mixer)
David Sanborn (jazz saxophone legend)
John Barbata (drummer for The Turtles, CSNY, Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
Conrad Kelly (former Steel Pulse drummer)
Dennis Thompson (drummer and last remaining member of MC5)
Steve Albini (musician and producer/engineer behind hit albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, et al)
Wayland Holyfield (country songwriting great, best known for “Could I Have This Dance”)
Susan Buckner (actress starred as Patty Simcox in “Grease” and was part of the all-girl group Fantasy and one-half of the musical duo Buckner & Pratt)
Gary Floyd (The Dicks)
Richard Tandy (Electric Light Orchestra keyboardist)
Duane Eddy (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist)
Tony Pigg (veteran New York City disc jockey)
MC Conrad (drum ‘n’ bass pioneer)
Robin George (guitarist-producer)
Frank Wakefield (bluegrass mandolin stylist)
Jean-Pierre Ferland (Quebec singing star)
Nick Daniels III (Dumpstaphunk bassist)
Jean-Pierre Ferland (Quebec singing star)
Mike Pinder (keyboardist and co-founder of The Moody Blues)
Chan Romero (rockabilly legend who wrote “The Hippy Hippy Shake”)
Alex Hassilev (The Limeliters)
Florian Chmielewski (Funtime Band accordion player)
Larry Page (English pop singer, producer and artist manager)
Fergie MacDonald (Scottish accordionist known as the “Ceilidh King”)
Michael Cuscuna (Grammy-winning producer and co-founder of Mosaic Records)
MC Duke (U.K. rapper and hardcore pioneer)
Tony Tuff (reggae and dancehall singer-songwriter)
Sir Andrew Davis (longtime conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra)
Mandisa (Grammy-winning singer and “American Idol” alum)
Jun Mhoon (music producer and adolescent drummer for The Staple Singers)
Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers Band singer-guitarist)
Arthur “Pooch” Tavares (lead singer of Tavares)
Graeme Naysmith (Pale Saints guitarist)
Ben Eldridge (banjo player and co-founder of Seldom Scene)
Rico Wade (Atlanta rap pioneer and Dungeon Family member)
Park Boram (K-pop singer)
Jon Card (Canadian punk rock drummer)
Max Werner (former Kayak vocalist)
Phil Nimmons (“Dean of Canadian Jazz”)
Clarence “Frogman” Henry (R&B singer-pianist)
C.J. Snare (FireHouse singer)
Albert “Tootie” Heath (jazz drummer and younger brother of Jimmy Heath and Percy Heath)
Keith LeBlanc (drummer played on pioneering early hip-hop records)
Rocket Norton (former Prism drummer)
Michael Ward (The Wallflowers / School of Fish)
George Ed Powell (founding member of Pure Prairie League)
Red Robinson (legendary Vancouver disc jockey)
John J. Tatgenhorst (arranger-composer arranged “Hang On Sloopy” for the Ohio State Marching Band and worked with John Williams)
Jean-Paul Vignon (French vocalist and actor)
John Sinclair (singer and former MC5 manager)
Chris Cross (Ultravox bassist)
Pat Molak (owner and preservationist of Gruene Hall)
Gerry Conway (British folk-rock drummer played with Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens)
Casey Benjamin (Robert Glasper Experiment)
Joe Blunt (former member of The Drifters)
Sandra Crouch (Grammy-winning gospel musician and twin sister of the late Andraé Crouch)
Maurizio Pollini (Grammy-winning Italian pianist)
Greg Lee (Hepcat singer)
Erv Woolsey (George Strait’s manager of nearly five decades)
Cola Boyy (indie singer and disability activist)
Pete Rodriguez (pioneering Latin pianist and bandleader best known for “I Like It Like That”)
Byron Janis (renowned American classical pianist)
Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel)
Angela McCluskey (The Wild Colonials singer)
Shigeichi Negishi (the inventor of karaoke)
Michael Knott (Christian rock pioneer and co-founder of Tooth & Nail Records)
Anthony Walker (former Gap Band member)
Eric Carmen (Raspberries frontman and “All By Myself” singer)
Karl Wallinger (World Party)
Lichelle Laws (better known as pioneering gangster rapper BO$$)
T.M. Stevens (veteran funk-rock bassist)
Dege Legg (Grammy-nominated singer-guitarist, professionally known as Brother Dege)
Billy Nunn (member of Rick James’ Stone City Band and co-writer of “Mary Jane”)
Michael Reidy (Razz lead singer)
Malcolm Holcombe (Americana singer-songwriter)
Blake Harrison (former Pig Destroyer member)
Debra Byrd (Lady Flash member and vocal coach on “American Idol” and “The Voice”)
Don Lee Van Winkle (The American Dream)
Steve Lawrence (Grammy-winning singer and actor)
Jim Beard (Steely Dan keyboardist since 2008)
Ronnie King (co-founder and bassist of The Stampeders)
W.C. Clark (“Godfather of Austin Blues”)
Janice Burgess (creator of Nick Jr. animated musical series “The Backyardigans”)
Eleanor Collins (Canada’s First Lady of Jazz)
Brit Turner (Blackberry Smoke drummer)
Bob Heil (rock audio legend who created the Heil Talk Box, used by Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, et al)
Nina Avramides (longtime manager for Jimmy Buffett and other acts)
Cat Janice (TikTok singer)
“Peetah” Morgan (lead singer of Morgan Heritage)
Shinsadong Tiger (prominent K-pop songwriter)
Roni Stoneman (“First Lady of Banjo” and “Hee Haw” cast member)
Vitalij Kuprij (keyboardist toured with Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Rudolf Jansen (Dutch pianist)
Rita McKenzie (actress-singer and star of the long-running one-woman show “Ethel Merman’s Broadway”)
Etterlene DeBarge (gospel singer and matriarch of the DeBarge family)
Ben Lanzarone (composer behind music in such hit shows as “The Love Boat” and “Happy Days”)
Steve Wright (BBC Radio 2 disc jockey)
Ian “Tich” Amey (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
Dexter Romweber (Flat Duo Jets)
Randy Sparks (founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority)
Greg “Fritz” Hinz (Helix drummer)
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith (opera star)
Jimmy Van Eaton (early rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played at Sun Records)
Donald Kinsey (The Kinsey Report)
Derek McIntyre (Jamiroquai bassist)
Damo Suzuki (Can singer-musician)
Seiji Ozawa (legendary Japanese conductor)
Henry Fambrough (last surviving member of the Spinners)
Mojo Nixon (alt-rock singer-songwriter)
Toby Keith (country singer-songwriter)
Mallorca Lee (Ultra Sonic)
DJ Katapila (Ghanaian producer)
Aston “Family Man” Barrett (longtime bassist for Bob Marley and the Wailers)
Wayne Kramer (co-founder, guitarist and singer of MC5)
Chita Rivera (Tony-winning dancer, actress and singer)
Brian Griffin (music photographer)
Hinton Battle (Broadway actor and “Dreamgirls” star)
Melinda Wilson (wife and manager of Brian Wilson)
Melanie (pop/folk legend)
Margo Smith (country and gospel singer)
Susie Tennant (former Geffen Records executive who played a major role in the rise of Nirvana)
Frank Farian (founder and producer of Boney M and Milli Vanilli)
Norman Jewison (director of “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Moonstruck,” etc.)
Laurie Johnson (“The Avengers” composer)
Marlena Shaw (R&B singer best known for “California Soul”)
Mary Weiss (lead singer of The Shangri-Las)
Luis Vasquez (singer-songwriter known as the Soft Moon)
Pluto Shervington (reggae singer)
Peter Schickele (musical parodist behind “P.D.Q. Bach”)
Jo-El Sonnier (Louisiana Cajun and country legend)
Bill Hayes (“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” singer and longtime star of “Days of Our Lives”)
Audie Blaylock (bluegrass singer-bandleader)
James Kottak (drummer for Scorpions and Kingdom Come)
Tony Clarkin (Magnum guitarist-songwriter)
Larry Collins (Collins Kids)
David Soul (“Don’t Give Up On Us” singer, “Starsky & Hutch” star)
Del Palmer (Kate Bush’s longtime bassist and engineer)
Glynis Johns (“Mary Poppins” star who also first sang Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns”)