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† 3. Februar 1959, the day the music died
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† 4. Februar 1982, "the godfather of punk"
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† 4. February 2009, Erick Lee "Lux Interior" Purkhiser, the rockabilly-punk-voice of the cramps died at age of 62
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Gary Moore † february 6, 2011…legendary blues rock guitarist and singer, founding member of Thin Lizzy… thanx vi@earbender
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† king tubby was shot on february 6, 1989
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joe cuba, the father of Latin boogaloo, † February 15, 2009
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nat king cole † february 15, 1965
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Thelonious Monk † February 17, 1982
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the only true voice of AC/DC - Bon Scott, † 19 February 1980...be careful if you drink, puke and sleep
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charles trenet, † 19 February 2001....a french classics
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Sebastian “Sebi” Hackert, producer † february 21, 2009
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john fahey, † february 22, 2001
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ofra haza...† february 23, 2000...(she has sung the female chorus part in this song)
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Jeff Healey, † march 2, 2008
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Serge Gainsbourg, † march 2, 1991
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Dusty Springfield, † march 2, 1999
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Yvonne Fair, † March 6, 1994
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Blind Joe Reynolds, † March 10, 1968...This song would later find fame when it was recorded by Cream for their 1967 album Disraeli Gears
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Mary Ann Fisher, † march 12, 2004
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Lyn Collins, † march 13, 2005
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Mikey Dread † march 15, 2008 (jamaican singer & producer) he produced and performed on several songs on The Clash 1980 album Sandinista!
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Alain Bashung † march 14, 2009 (one of the driving force of the french music)
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...Tammi Terrell † march 16, 1970
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Tampa Red, "The Guitar Wizard" † march 19,1981
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Klaus Dinger, ✶ march 24, 1946 ; † march 21, 2008
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Nikki Sudden † march 26, 2006
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Ian Dury † march 27, 2000
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Emmett Miller † march 29, 1962....american artist known for his falsetto and yodel-like voice
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Derrick Plourde, † march 30, 2005 drummer and founding member of the punkrock band lagwagon
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Maurice Jarre, † march 29, 2009 ..was a french composer & conductor, best known for his film scores Lawrence of Arabia (1962) & Doctor Zhivago (1965
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Marvin Gaye, † april 1, 1984
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Jeffrey Lee Pierce, † march 31, 1996, he was one of the founding members of the 1980s L.A. punk band The Gun Club
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Hideaki Sekiguchi, † march 31, 2005, bassist and founding member of the japanese noise-punk band Guitar Wolf
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Paul Atkinson, † april 1, 2004, guitarist in the english rock band The Zombies
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Buddy Rich, † april 2, 1987 ...one of the best jazz drummer
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Edwin Starr, † april 2, 2003
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Frank Tovey, † 3. April 2002, an influential british avantgarde electronic musician. in 1980 Depeche Mode was the opening act on his tour.
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Sarah Vaughan † april 3, 1990...The Divine One, one of the best female jazz singer
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Kurt Weill, † April 3, 1950
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Kurt Cobain † april 5, 1994, during this song was played in the radio, I survived a serious car crash in 2003
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Layne Staley † april 5, 2002 At AiC' last concert with layne on july 3, 1996, they closed with "Man in the Box"…the lyrics by layne
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Babatunde Olatunji † april 6, 2003 (nigerian drummer)1959 Olatunji released jin-go-lo-ba. 1969,Carlos Santana had a major hit with his cover version
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Cedella Marley Booker, † april 8, 2008...a singer and writer and the mother of Bob Marley
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Dustin Fletcher , april 8, † 2004 ...Bassist - was a member of Moloko
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Laura Nyro, † april 8, 1997 ...timeless music
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Dave Prater † april 9, 1988
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Phil Ochs † april 9, 1976 ... us protest songwriter
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June Pointer, † april 11, 2006
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Peg Leg Howell, † april 11, 1966
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Jacques Prévert, † april 11, 1977..."Les feuilles mortes" lyrics by Jacques Prévert and wonderful vocals by Juliette Gréco
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Josephine Baker † april 12, 1975
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Johnnie Johnson, † april 13, 2005…the inspiration for this song is Johnnie Johnson who played the piano and composed several songs with Chuck Berr
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Eddie Bo,† march 18,2009.he was known for his blues,soul & funk & released more single records than anyone else in New Orleans. thx vi @steveshelley
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Lil Green, † april 14, 1954 ...she died to early in age of 34
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Pete Farndon, † april 14, 1983...bassist and founding member of the Pretenders
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Joey Ramone † april 15, 2001 ...singer and founding member of the Ramones
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Rose Maddox † april 15, 1998 ...the grandmother of rockabilly
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Danny Federici † April 17, 2008...most known as the longtime organ, glockenspiel and accordion player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
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Henry Allen † april 17,1967 was a jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstron
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Felix Pappalardi † april 17, 1983 bass,rhythm guitar,piano,vocals of us hard rock band Mountain and the producer of the last 3 records of Cream
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Eddie Cochran † april 17, 1960
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Bernard Edwards † april 18, 1996...bass player and record producer and a founding member of Chic
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Martin Hannett † april 18, 1991 ... producer of Joy Division and an important producer of the "New Wave" era in the 80s
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Savannah Churchill † april 19, 1974 …she was a successful american singer of jazz and blues music in the 1940s and 1950s
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Stan Levey † april 19,2005.one of the strongest drummers of his generation,played on over 1400 recs w/t big names in the music business at that time
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Steve Marriott † april 20, 1991 ...singer and guitarist of the Small Faces and Humble Pie
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Nina Simone † april 21, 2003
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Al Wilson † april 21, 2008
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Sandy Denny † april 21,1978 british singer & songwriter,she was the female voice on Led Zeppelin song "The Battle of Evermore" from the album "IV"
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Earl Hooker † april 21, 1970 ...he was a cousin of the blues legend John Lee Hooker
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Lobby Loyde † April 21, 2007 ... songwriter-guitarist and an australian rock icon
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Don Pullen † april 22, 1995 ...was an american jazz pianist. overall, he is on over 90 LPs and CDs to listen
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Pete Ham † april 23, 1975 ...singer, guitarist and founding member of the british band Badfinger
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Cleanhead Gimura † april 23, 1995 ... singer and was a member of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
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Nick deVito † april 23, 2003 ...singer and guitarist, was a member of The Variatones who became The 4 Lovers
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Johnny Thunders † april 23,1991...PunkRocker..."Hey Johnny, can you see to us? We don't forget! We will tell everybody so that you live forever"
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Otis Spann † april 24, 1970...Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist
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Bobby „Boris“ Pickett † april 25, 2007 the song was played in the beginning and at the end of the simpson's Valentine's Day episode "I love Lisa
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Roger & Larry Troutman † april 25, 1999..singer & conga player of ZAPP.Roger was shot by his brother Larry and he killed himself after that
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Frank Jürgen „Eff Jott" Krüger † april 26, 2007 …singer,guitarist and founding member of german 80s "Neue Deutsche Welle" band IDEAL
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William „Count“ Basie † april 26, 1984 …without the sound of the Count would be the world of big bands today inconceivable
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Carmine Coppola † april 26,1991. composer who contributed the musical scores in The Godfather I-III,Apocalypse Now by his son Francis Ford Coppola
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Barry Gray † april 26, 1984 british musician/composer,most famous for his score to Thunderbirds, a futuristic marionette puppetry series in 1960s
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Scott Williams † april 26,2004...bassist of one of the most influential grindcore/metal band Soilent Green from New Orleans, founded in 1988
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Valerie Olukemi A"Kemi"Olusanya † april 25 1999.a leading drum&bass DJ of the 1990s,co-founder of Metalheadz & part of femaleJungleDuo Kemistry&Stor
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Al Hirt † april 27, 1999...us-trumpeter.Green Hornet's theme based on Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, 2003 it was used in Kill Bill
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Vicky Sue Robinson † april 27, 2000... theatre & film actress & singer. in 1976 the track became a landmark for the disco revolution that followed
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Z.Z. Hill † april 27, 1984 …was an american blues,soul, r&b singer. In 1982 his album "Down Home Blues" sold in excess of one million copies
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Tommy Caldwell † april 28, 1980 …was the bass player and original frontman for the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1980
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Percy Heath † april 28, 2005.jazz bassist.his playing became the quintessence of a style that suited the complex demands of a modern jazz ensemble
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Ken Curtis † april 29, 1991 …was an us country singer & actor best known for his role as Festus Haggen on western series, Gunsmoke(Rauchende Colts
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Cisco Houston † april 29,1961…was an american folk singer, he was the background partner of Woody Guthrie, they recorded and toured together
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Leroy Carr † april 29,1961 was a blues singer,songwriter & pianist who developed a laid-back crooning technique.he influenced many notable artists
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Ritsuko Okazaki † may 5, 2004…was a japanese singer-songwriter and author known for her contribution to various anime series such as Fruits Basket
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Don Drummond † may 6, 1969 …ska trombonist and founding member of The Skatalites
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Marlene Dietrich † may 6, 1992 …singer and actress, the first german movie-star in hollywood
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Steve Bender † may 7, 2006…singer and composer, he was a founding member of the german disco group Dschinghis Khan, created in 1979
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Nigel Preston † may 7, 1992 …was a british drummer for Theatre of Hate, Sex Gang Children and The Cult
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Roland L. Chambers III † may 8, 2002 guitarist, composer, producer, was a member of The Realtos, The Romeos and MFSB (Mother,Father,Sister,Brother)
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Larry Levine † may 8, 2008 …audio engineer,known for his work w/ Phil Spector,he received in 1966 the Grammy for best engineered Record for this s
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Viola Wills † may 6, 2009 …was an american pop singer and disco diva
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Floyd Council † may 9, 1976 …american blues guitarist and singer. the band Pink Floyd was named after him and Pink Anderson
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Alice Faye † may 9, 1998… american actress and singer
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James E. Myers may 9, 2001 he used the pseudonym "Jimmy DeKnight" for co-wrote in 1954 "RockAroundTheClock"w/Max Freedman,he wrote more than 300songs
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Brenda Fassie † may 9, 2004 …south african pop singer widely considered a voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid
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Mike Furber † may 10, 1973 …was the boyish lead singer of the 60s Brisbane band The Bowery Boys
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Shel Silverstein † may 10, 1999 …poet, songwriter, he wrote this song for Johnny Cash: "the most cleverly written song I´ve ever heard"
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Clara Rockmore † may 10, 1998 generally considered to be the most accomplished performer ever of the theremin(Sergejewitsch Termen patented in 1928)
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Bob Marley † may 11, 1981 In his grave there is a bible,his guitar,branch of Ganja & a ring, which he got from Haile Selassie "money can't buy life"
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Douglas Adams † may 11,2001 english author, dramatist,musician 'Restaurant a/t end of the Universe' was inspired by the sound explosion in this song
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John Whitehead † may 11, 2004 ...american singer, songwriter, he was the half part of the 70s r&b duo McFadden & Whitehead
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Noel Redding † may, 11 2003 ...english bassist, best known as the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Zhang Ju † may 11,1998 ...bassist and a member of Tang Dynasty, the first heavy metal band in china
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Herbie Rich † may 12, 2004 ...played keyboards and saxophone and sang, was a member of The 7-Wonders and The Electric Flag
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Perry Como † may 12, 2004 ...for this song he received the first gold record ever awarded by the recording industry association of america
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Johnnie Wilder Jr. † may 13, 2006 ...was the co-founder and lead vocalist of the 1970s disco funk group Heatwave
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Chet Baker † may 13, 1988 ... was an american jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer, known for his relaxed, even melancholy cool music
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Whispering Jack Smith † 13 may 1950 ...was a popular baritone singer and pianist in the 1920s and 1930s
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Humberto Cane † may 13, 2000 ...influential cuban musician, was a member of Sonora Matancera, Conjunto Azul, Conjunto Yeyo y Cane,Trio Los Panchos
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Frank "The Voice" Sinatra † may 14,1998...one of the most influential figures of popular music of the 20th Century.. he only (co)wrote 7 songs
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Keith Relf † may 14,1976...was the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds
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Eduardo Benavente † may 14,1983...spanish singer and guitarist, founding member and leader of the great spanish wave-punk band Parálisis Permanente
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June Carter Cash † may 15, 2003 singer,songwriter, actress, comedienne,author,a member of the Carter Family & the second wife of singer Johnny Cash
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Sammy "Mr. Wonderful" Davis Jr. † may 16,1990 one of the greatest us entertainer,member of rat pack,he got awards for more than 20movies & 40 albums
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Marv Johnson † may 16,1993 was an us r&b soul singer, most notable for performing on the first record to ever come from what became Motown Records
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Django Reinhardt † may 16,1953 a belgian gypsy jazz guitarist,one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative & distinctive playing
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Johnny Guitar Watson † may 17, 1996 he created a unique guitarsound mixed the feel & instrumental technique of the blues w/ bass-heavy sound of funk
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Alex Nelson † may 17, 2004 …he was a guitarist for Los Angeles shock metal band Lizzy Borden during the mid ’80s
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Augustus Pablo † may 18, 1999 ...was a jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer
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Elvin Jones † may 18, 2004 ...was a member of the John Coltrane quartet, one of the most influential jazz drummers of the post-bop era
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Ian Curtis † may 18, 1980...was the vocalist & lyricist,guitarist & keyboardist of the unforgettable band Joy Division
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Susannah McCorkle † may 19, 2001.widely acclaimed as one of the top jazz-pop vocalist of our time,she was noted for her repertoire of over 3000 songs
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Nelly Uchenna Ikpeze (Uchendu) † may 19, 2005 ...actress, singer and musician, "the golden voice of nigeria"
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Renato Carosone † may 20, 2001...was a modern performer of the so-called canzone napoletana, naples' song tradition
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Manuel Fernandez † may 20, 1967 ...organist and was a founding member of Los Bravos
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Alejandro De Michele † may 20,1983 ...argentine singer, was a member of Pastoral
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Rudy Lewis † may 20, 1964 ...was a singer for The Drifters
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Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal † may 20, 2000 ...was a french flutist, he is considered one of most important players of the 20th Century
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Vaughn Monroe † may 21, 1973 …was an american singer, trumpeter & one of the most popular singing bandleader in the 1940s/50s
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Billy Walker † may 21, 2006 ...countrysinger and guitarist, in 1955 he engaged a young musician named Elvis Presley for the support act of his tour
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Tubby T † may 22, 2008 …uk garage and reggae singer
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Inka Zemánková † may 23, 2000 …czech jazz & swing singer in 1930/40s
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Jimmy Fernandez † may 23, 1994 …was the bassist for Society Line and The God Machine
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Will Sin (William Sinnott) † may 23, 1991 …was a member of The Shamen,an experimental electronic music band, formed in Aberdeen in 1985
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Gene Clark † may 24, 1991 …was an american singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds
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Duke Ellington † 24 may, 1974 …he is one of the most influential figures in jazz,he's one of the 20th century's best known band leader & composer
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Roy Brown † 25 May 1981 ...was an american blues singer and a pioneer of rock'n'roll
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Jeremy Michael Ward † may 25, 2003 ...he created many of the soundscapes for The Mars Volta, De Facto, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
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Sonny Sharrock † may 25, 1994 ...he was one of the first free jazz guitarist, was a member of Bill Laswell's Last Exit
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Desmond Dekker † may 25, 2006 ...was a jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer–songwriter and one of the most popular musicians within jamaica
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Bradley Nowell † may 25, 1996 singer, he died at 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's self-titled major label debut
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Mickaël Chamberlain † may 25, 2005 ...bassist and founding member of the french alternative group Dolly
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Jay Bennett † may 24, 2009 ...guitarist,engineer,producer,singer-songwriter,founding member of Titanic Love Affair,member of Wilco from 1994 - 2001
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Jimmie Rodgers † may 26, 1933 was a country singer in early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling,also known as "The Blue Yodeler"
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William Powell † may 26,1977... was a soul/R&B tenor singer and founding member of The O'Jays
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Henry ‘HT’ Thompson † may 26, 2004 ...was a member of The Seven Souls,formed in L.A. 1964,another band member was Bob Welch(Fleetwood Mac)
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Luciano Berio † may 27, 2003 italian composer,he was a pioneer in electronic music, best known for his series for solo instruments "Sequenza I -XIVb"
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Cathy Berberian † March 6, 1983 was an american composer, mezzo-soprano singer, she interpreted contemporary avant-garde music & also the beatles
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Niccolò Paganini † may 27, 1840 ...the devil's violin virtuosi
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Horondino José da Silva "Dino 7 Cordas" † may 27, 2006 .. brazilian guitarist.he is considered one of the most important artists on 7-string guitar
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Mary Lou Williams † may 28, 1981...was an us jazz pianist, composer & arranger, she wrote & arranged for such greats as Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman
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Jimmy Rowles † may 28, 1996 ...was an american jazz pianist who was best known as an accompanist for Billie Holiday,Peggy Lee,Ella Fitzgerald....
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Tony Ashton † may 28, 2001...was an english rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist
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Tan Sri P. Ramlee † may 29, 1973…malaysian actor, director, singer and songwriter, an icon of malay entertainment, he wrote over 300 songs
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Jeff Buckley † may 29,1997 us singer-songwriter.he died while trying to swim through a slackwater channel,in his clothes & singing "Whole Lotta Love"
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Oscar Brown Jr † may 29, 2005 …us singer, songwriter,playwright,poet,civil rights activist.he wrote at least 1000 songs,only 125 have been published
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Romy Schneider † may 29, 1982…austro-german-french actress & singer…the unforgotten and beautiful:Romy Schneider¡
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Sun Ra † may 30, 1993 composer,bandleader,as a jazz synthesizer & electric keyboard player,he ranks among one of the earliest & most radical pioneers
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Étienne Roda-Gil † may 31, 2004 …was a songwriter, screenwriter & anarchist… he wrote the lyrics for joe le taxi performed by Vanessa Paradis
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Billy Strayhorn † may 31, 1967 …was an us composer,pianist,arranger, best known for his work w/ Duke Ellington…Blood Count was his last composition
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Tito Puente † May 31, 2000 in the 1950s,he was at the height of his popularity,and helped to bring AfroCuban, Caribbean sounds to mainstream audiences
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Johnnie Taylor † may 31,2000..In 1961,by signing a record deal w/ SAR Rec.he began recording his first secular tunes incl“Rome" w/ help of Sam Cooke
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Ringo De Palma † june 1, 1990 …italian drummer, he was a member of italian punk/wave groups Litfiba & CCCP Fedeli alla linea
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David Ruffin † june 1, 1991 … was an american soul singer most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of The Temptations from 1964 to 1968
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Rocío Jurado † june 1, 2006 … was a spanish singer and actress, "La más grande"
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Bo Diddley † june 2, 2008 ...rock & roll singer,guitarist,songwriter. he was known for his technical innovations & his trademark rectangular guitar
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Anthony Quinn † june 3, 2001 actor.Sirtaki is a dance of greek created in 1964 for Zorba the Greek & for the greek dances little talented actor Quinn
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John Pike † june 3, 2007 ...drummer, was a founding member of Ra Ra Riot
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Georges Bizet † june 3, 1875...was a french composer and pianist of the romantic era. he is best known for the opera Carmen, composed in 1873-74
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Koko Taylor † june 3, 2009 ...was an american blues singer,she was known primarily for her rough powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings
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Stiv Bators june 3, 1990...was an us punk rock vocalist & guitarist, he is best remembered for his bands,The Dead Boys & The Lords of the New Church.
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Ronnie Lane † june 4, 1997 ...was an english singer, songwriter, bass player,was a member of the Small Faces (1965-69) and Faces (1970-72)
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Earl Grant † june 11,1970 …was an american easy listening pianist, hammond organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s
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Amalia Mendoza García "La Tariácuri" † 11 June 2001 …was one of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers whose career lasted over 40 years
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Ace Harris † june 11, 1964 …was an american jazz pianist & singer, worked with Erskine Hawkins and Blind John Davis
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Itamar Assumpção † june 12,2003 brazilian singer.belonged to the most important figures of Vanguarda Paulistana,the artistic avantgarde of São Paulo
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Bulat Schalwowitsch Okudschawa † june 12, 1997 singer,his songs are a mixture of russian poetic & folksong traditions & the french chansonnier style
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Lou Monte † june 12, 1989 In 1962,he released his first million-seller, "Pepino, the Italian Mouse" sung in a pastiche of both Calabrese and English
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György Ligeti † june 12,2006 was a hungarian composer,best known for pieces featured in the Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey,Shining,Eyes Wide Shut
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Benny Goodman † june 13, 1986 was an american jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader. "the king of swing"
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Freddie Gorman † june 13,2006 singer,songwriter & producer,co-wrote "Please Mr.Postman".a member of The Quailtones, The Fideletones & The Originals
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Roger Busdicker † june 13, 2006 …played saxophone and clarinet, worked with The Hal Leonard Orchestra - his ashes were buried in his clarinet
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John Campbell † june 13,1993 singer,guitarist.developed his own distinctive,rhythm&slideheavy style,based in some measure on music of Lightnin'Hopkins
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Jack Rootoo † june 13, 2008 guitarist, was a member of 80s us-punk/new wave band Lou Miami & The Kozmetix
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Ahmad Zahir † 14. Juni 1979 singer,composer from Afghanistan. he's considered an icon of the afghan music.he decisively influenced the persian music
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Rory Gallagher † 14 June, 1995 …was an Irish blues/rock guitarist. his albums have sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide
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Henry Mancini † june 14, 1994 a master of cultured musical seduction,a bonvivant&gentleman of the old school,loved good food,fine wine&elegant clothes
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Jimmy Knepper † june 14, 2003 was an us jazz trombonist, worked w/ Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Benny Goodman… member of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
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Volker Kriegel † 14 June 2003 german jazz guitarist& cartoonist.founding member o/t Utd Jazz&Rock Ens"For me it starts that I practice-unmethodically"
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Esbjörn Svensson † june 14,2008 one the most outstanding jazz pianist of the 21st century,opened new listeners for jazz w/ his influences of pop&rock
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Kai Davidson † june 14,2007.guitarist,bassist(The Hormones,The Joyriders)as a member of The Cataran,he played w/ Nirvana on their first UK tour in '89
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Wes Montgomery † june 15,1968.autodidact,jazz guitarist. developed a technique, in which he adoped the strings with his thumb & produced a soft sound
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Ella Fitzgerald † june 15,1996.one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century.in 1936 she recorded her first single „Love and Kisses“
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Meredith Willson † june15,1984 wrote the book,music&lyrics for Broadway musical The Music ManThe song was the only Broadway tune Beatles ever recorded
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Surinder Kaur † june 15, 2006 was an indian singer and songwriter.she dedicated a lifetime to the promotion of authentic punjabi music
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James Honeyman-Scott † june 16,1982 english rock guitarist,songwriter,founding member of The Pretenders.the song was written by Hynde & Honeyman-Scott
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Screaming Lord Sutch † juni 16,1999 was an english musician, a pioneer of shock-rock. during the 1960s,he was known for his horror-themed stage show
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Lonnie Johnson † juni 16,1970 us blues & jazz singer/guitarist, pioneered the role of jazz guitar & the first to play single-string jazz guitar solos
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Kristen Pfaff † june 16, 1994 was an american grunge bass guitarist, founding member of Palm and Janitor Joe , 1993/94 bassist for the Hole
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Charlie Mariano † june 16,2009 us jazz alto saxophonist, founding member of Utd Jazz+Rock Ens.,worked in '73 w/ embryo.plays on more than 300 albums
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Karl Mueller † june,17 2005...he was the bass player and a founding member of the Minneapolis rock band Soul Asylum
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Markus "Zimbl" Zimmer † june 18, 2006.german punk singer,in 1986,he founded the punk band The Bates.this song is my favorite Shakespears Sister cover
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Ian Loveday aka EON † june 17, 2009 ...british rave producer, was a pioneer in the genres of techno and house music
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Antonio Aguilar Barraza † june 19, 2007 was a mexican singer, actor,producer,writer.he made over 150 albums, sold 25 million copies & made 167 movies
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Carlo Savina † june 20, 2002…italian composer,conductor & arranger. he was the preferred conductor by Nino Rota (Ben Hur,El Cid,the Godfather,Tess)
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Lawrence Payton † june 20, 1997…singer and arranger for The Four Tops. he also created the smooth, sharp jazz/pop hamonies for the Four Tops
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Charles Smith † june 20, 2006…guitarist, founding member of Kool & the Gang Smith, he wrote Joanna,Take My Heart, co-wrote Celebration, Jungle Boogie
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Jim Ellison † june 20, 1996 was the vocalist and guitarist for chicago power pop trio Material Issue, formed in 1985
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Bert Kaempfert † juni 21, 1980 was a german orchestra leader & songwriter,the father of easy listening. he discovered the Beatles, arranged for Elvis
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John Lee Hooker † june 21, 2001 a blues legend, his style has been a unique real deep blues.at the age of 80, he received his third and fourth grammy
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Angus MacLise † june 21,1979 percussionist,actor,artist,founding member of Theatre of Eternal Music & Velvet Underground,worked in the Fluxus movement
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Georg Danzer † june 21, 2007…was an austrian singer-songwriter.engaged against social inequalities, racism & any form of societal discrimination
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Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow † june 21,1908 russian composer,"the main architect"of what's now recognized by the public as the russian style of composition
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Kami † june 21, 1999 was the drummer for the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from japan. he wrote this song in the months before his death
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Carson Parks † june 22, 2005...was an american songwriter, music publisher,musician and singer,best known for writing the hit song "Somethin' Stupid"
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Fred Astaire † june 22,1987 was an american film & Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer & actor.his career spanned a total of 76 years
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Maria Tănase † june 22, 1963 ...was a romanian singer of traditional and popular music. venerated as the romanian Édith Piaf
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Peter Laughner † june 22, 1977.was an american guitarist, songwriter and singer. founding member and guitarist of Pere Ubo and Rocket From The Tombs
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Ronald "Green Apples" Williams † june 22, 2000... was a member of Swiss Movement, The Orbiters and The Louisiana Purchase
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Boris Vian † june 23, 1959 was a french writer,musician,singer, critic,actor,inventor,engineer.he's regarded as a major protagonist of existentialism
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Emanuel Lasky † june 23, 2006 was us soul singer, released in september ‘63, Welfare Cheese was the first smell of success for detroit Thelma Records
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Natasja Saad † june 24,2007 danish-sudanese reggae, dancehall,hiphop singer.she won as the first non-jamaican the Irie FM Big Break Contest in Jamaica
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Nitty Gritty † june 24, 1991 was a jamaican singer, member of The Soulites
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Carlos Gardel † june 24, 1935 one of the most prominent figure of tango.best known for 3-min-tango recs & baritone voice & dramatic phrasing of lyrics
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Luke Jordan † june 25, 1952 …was a blues guitarist and vocalist, one of the most intriguing of the Piedmont blues players
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Hillel Slovak † june 25, 1988 was an israeli-american musician best known as the original guitarist & founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Johnny Mercer † june 25, 1976 american songwriter & singer,he wrote the lyrics to more than a 1000 songs incl. compositions f/ movies & broadway shows
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Michael Jackson † june 25,2009 former King of Pop,founder of the moon walk,he sold over 450 mio records his career started in 1972 w/"Got to be there"
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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole † june 26, 1997 hawaiʻian musician legend, he remains one of the major influences in hawaiʻian music over the last 15 years
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Alfredo Marceneiro † june 26, 1982 portuguese fado singer, 30 years,this was only part-time,earned his living as a carpenter,a milestone in fado music
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James "Son" Thomas † june 26, 1982 …was an american blues musician, one of the last great traditional mississippi delta blues musicians
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John Entwistle † june 27, 2002engl. bassist,songwriter, singer,artist,founding member of The Who,revolutionized the role of bassguitar in modern music
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GG Allin † june 28,1993 us punk rock performer,singer, songwriter best known for his blood & guts & defecating-on-stage live shows
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Tim Buckley † june 29, 1975 singer, drew from folk,psychedelic rock&progressive jazz to create a considerable body of adventurous work in his lifetime
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Boby Lapointe † june 29, 1972 …was a french singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words
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Horst Jankowski † june 29,1998 german jazzpianist, bandleader,in 1965 he composed the easy listening hit Schwarzwaldfahrt(A Walk In The Black Forest)
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Rosemary Clooney † june 29, 2002 …was an american pop & jazz singer and actress, completing 6 decades as one of america’s most beloved entertainers
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Elizabeth Cotten † june 29, 1987 us blues & folk musician,singer, songwriter.her signature,alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking"
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Jayne Mansfield † june 29, 1967…us actress & singer,one of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s.in 1965 she recorded 2 songs w/ jimi hendrix
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Bert Shefter † june 29, 1999 russian film composer,worked w/Paul Sawtell they did some scores f/ Russ Meyer (Faster Pussycat!Kill!Kill! & Motorpsycho)
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Chet Atkins † june 30, 2001 ..us country guitarist,producer,co-founder of nashville sound,his picking style brought him admirers outside country scene
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Frederic Mompou † june 30,1987..spanish catalan composer,pianist, his piano compositions are influenced by french impressionists,especially Erik Satie
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Richard "Pistol" Allen † june 30, 2002...was the primary recording session drummer for motown records' in-house Funk Brothers band
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Herbie Mann † july 1, 2003...was an american jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music, a popularizer of the jazz flute
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Obie Benson † july 1, 2005… soul, R&B singer,songwriter.he was best known as the bass of The Four Tops, he wrote Marvin Gaye's, "What's Going On"
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Lee Jackson † july 1,1979…blues musician,in the 40s, started his career in the South,ending his life as a regular performer in the Chicago blues scene
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Robert Mitchum † july 1, 1997 us film actor,author,composer & singer, co-wrote & composed the music for an oratorio which was produced by Orson Welles
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Dennis Brown † july 1, 1999 singer, "The Crown Prince of Reggae" recorded more than 75 albums,a pioneer of 'lovers rock',Bob Marley's favourite singer
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Erik Satie † july 1,1945…french pianist & composer,amongst the most important european composers of 20th cent.he inspired musicians like Zappa & Eno
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Rushton Moreve july 1, 1981…bassist for Steppenwolf in the late ’60s and again in '79,the cowriter of one of the band’s biggest hits,Magic Carpet Ride
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Earle Brown † july 2, 2002 a leading composer of us avant-garde,associated w/John Cage,Morton Feldman&Christian Wolff be known as the New York School
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Jim Morrison 'Mr. Mojo Risin' † july 3,1971…songwriter,poet,writer & charismatic singer of The Doors,one of the idolized person in rock'n'roll history
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Brian Jones † july 3,1969 …guitarist,forming member of Rolling Stones,he named the band Rolling Stones to pay tribute to"Rollin'Stone" by Muddy Waters
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Astor Piazzolla † july 4, 1992 …was an argentine tango composer. he revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango
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Rita „Syreeta“ Wright † july 6,2004 …us soul singer,she originally joined the Motown stable as a receptionist,however was later to become a performer
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Louis Armstrong † july 6, 1971 legendary jazz trumpeter & singer.he was born into a very poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana, the grandson of slaves
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Fred Neil † july 7, 2001 …a pioneer of folk rock & singer-songwriter, his influence was subtle but significant
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Rudi Carrell † july 7, 2006…was a dutch entertainer,actor,singer, one of the most sucessful television entertainer in germany
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Syd Barrett † july 7, 2006…singer,songwriter,guitarist,artist. he was a co-founder,name-giver and creative head of the band Pink Floyd
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Barry White † july 4, 2003 was an american record producer and singer-songwriter. got more than 100 gold records & sold more than 100 million records
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Haroon Shamsher † july 8,1999..DJ.w/ his brother Farook formed Joi,pioneers in asian underground scene, combining indian music w/ dub & drum 'n' bass
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Dani Baquet-Long † july 8, 2009...vocalist & multi-instrumentalist, was half of the husband-and-wife ambient duo, Celer
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Milan Williams † july 9, 2006 was an american keyboardist and a founding member of the Commodores.in 1974,he wrote the first hit record "Machine Gun".
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Jelly Roll Morton † july 10, 1941…us ragtime pianist, composer. he claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902
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Jackson do Pandeiro † july 10, 1982…was a brazilian percussionist, singer. one of the most important musicians of the Forró & a master of the Pandeiro
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Lovie Austin † july 10, 1972…was an american popular chicago bandleader, session musician, composer and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era
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Helen Forrest † july 11, 1999…jazz vocalists. she will be associated w/ a string of wartime hits, which captured the spirit of the times in america
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Frances Langford † july 11, 2005…us singer & entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio & also made film appearances over two decades
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George Gershwin † july 11,1937…pianist, composed for Broadway & classical concert hall,his songs became jazz standards recorded in numerous variations
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Mario Bauza † july 11, 1993…trumpeter,created the fusion of Afro-Cuban and jazz and helped launch the careers of Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie
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Herman Brood † july 11, 2001…was a dutch musician, painter and media personality. known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll"
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Rosco Gordon † july 11,2002 blues singer,created a style of piano playing,placed the accent on the off beats, and is cited as the foundation of reggae
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Chris Wood † july12,1983…saxophone,flute,keyboards. founding member of Steve Winwood's band Traffic.played w/ Hendrix in 1968 on Electric Ladyland
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Minnie Riperton † july 12, 1979…soulsinger-songwriter,member of Rotary Connection. blessed with an angelic five-octave vocal range
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Benny Carter † july 12,2003…jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer,arranger,bandleader.was a major figure in jazz from 1930s to 1990s
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James Bernard † july 12,2001 british film composer,scored many of hammer horror films of the 50s-70s.his music was distinct for its clashing harmonies
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Robert Burås † july 12, 2007…guitarist & songwriter in the Norwegian rock band Madrugada.he was also a founding member of the band My Midnight Creeps
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Compay Segundo † july 13,2003 cuban trova guitarist,composer.his most famous composition is Chan Chan, opening track on Buena Vista Social Club album
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Eddie Boyd † july 13,1994 blues piano player, born & raised in the Mississippi Delta,best known for his 1952 hit, ''Five Long Years'' a blues standard
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Arthur "Killer" Kane † july 13, 2004 ...bassist, founding member of the New York Dolls. he gained fame for his motionless performances
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Clarence White † july 14, 1973 guitarist & vocalist for The Byrds, co-Inventor of th b-bender guitar, a telecaster sounds like a pedal steel guitar
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Joe Harnell † july 14,2005 easy listening composer & arranger,film score & television composition The Bionic Woman,The Incredible Hulk, Alien Nation,V
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Léo Ferré † july,14 1993...french poet & musician, the anarchist of the chansonniers, one of the greatest composers and writers of french songs
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One Armed John Wrencher † july 15,1977...chicago blues singer & harmonica player. started his career at the maxwell street open air market
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Lance Krantz † july 15, 2001 ...drummer, was a founding member of californian punk band Detox
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Pete King † july 15, 1987...british drummer for the cologne "kölsch" rock band BAP and was a member of the british band After the Fire
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Camillo Felgen † july 16, 2005..luxembourgian singer,lyricist, DJ,television presenter,he translated 2 songs that The Beatles performed in Germany
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Jo Stafford † july 16,2008 us pop & jazz singer,whose career ran from the 30s to the 60s.she was the 1st woman to have a No 1 on the UK Singles Chart
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John Coltrane † july 17,1967…saxophonist.everything a man needs,said someone in a film by Jean-Luc Godard,was a cigarette and a solo by John Coltrane
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Billy Holiday † july 17,1959…a true artist of her day & rose as a social phenomenon in 1950s. her soulful unique voice made her an all-time superstar
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Roosevelt Sykes † july 17, 1983 was a prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player who influenced blues piano playing w/his rollicking thundering boogie
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Judy Clay † july,19 2001…us soul and gospel singer, she was half of the united states' first racially integrated duo, Billy Vera and Judy Clay
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Nico (Christa Päffgen) † july 18, 1988…german singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, she is renowned for her tenure in The Velvet Underground
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Adam Cox (voc) Jeremy Gage (dr) Matthew Fitzgerald (bs) † july 20, 2003...members of punkrock band The Exploding Hearts from portland, oregon
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Keith Godchaux † july 21,1980 ...was a keyboarder, member of the Grateful Dead,he played a provocative, jazz-influenced piano
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Tamara Danz † july 22, 1996...was the lead singer and lyricist of the DDR rock group Silly
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Sacha Distel † july 22, 2004...is a french, russian origin jazz guitarist, composer and singer, best known for his duets w/ J.Gréco,B.Bardot & F.Hardy
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Gar Samuelson † july 22,1999 original drummer for thrash metal band Megadeth, before megadeth he played in a jazz fusion band called The New Yorkers
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Rob Collins † july 22,1996 keyboarder,founding member of the Charlatans,his layered psychedelic organ playing added an important edge to bands sound
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Jessie Mae Hemphill † july 22, 2006 was a pioneering electric guitarist,songwriter,vocalist specializing in the primal, northern mississippi blues
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Piero Piccioni † july 23, 2004 ...was an Italian pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and prolific author of more than 200 film soundtracks
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Ron Miller † july 23, 2007...songwriter who attained many Top 10 hits written for Motown. this song is one of the most covered songs in pop history
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Serge Reggiani † july 23, 2004 italian-born french singer,painter & actor.brought the poetry of Rimbaud, Apollinaire & Prévert closer to the audience
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Max Varnier (aka Mad Max) † july 23, 2001... was the french vocalist for the french-german doom metal band Worship and member of Kult and Beer Vomit
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"Arletty" Léonie Bathiat † july 24, 1992…was a french fashion model, singer, and actress
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Peter Sellers † july 24,1980…british comedian,he recorded a cover of A Hard Day's Night,in style of Laurence Olivier's interpretation of Richard III
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Bob Gaddy † july 24, 1997…blues singer and pianist,Bob's piano and vocal styles are a mixture of blues, gospel and rhythm and blues
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Big Mama Thornton † july 25, 1984 …american rhythm & blues singer, songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952
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Willie Perryman aka Piano Red & Dr. Feelgood † july 25, 1985…blues musician, the song is considered one of the first rock ’n’ roll record (1950)
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Isaak Ossipowitsch Dunajewski † july 25, 1955… soviet composer & conductor. he was one of the first composers in the Soviet Union to start using jazz
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Osvaldo Pugliese † july 25, 1995…argentine tango pianist,orchestra leader & composer, a pioneer of tango, he began his professional career in 1920
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Albert Mangelsdorff † july 25, 2005…german trombonist,one of the innovators of german jazz after world war II,cofounder of United Jazz & Rock Ensemble
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Papa Charlie McCoy † july 26,1950mississippi delta blues guitarist,songwriter.member of Mississippi Sheiks.one of major blues accompanists of his time
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Brent Mydland † july 26, 1990…was the 4th keyboarder for the Grateful Dead.he was w/ the band for 11 years.he wrote this song in 1980
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Mary Wells † july 26, 1992…"The Queen of Motown" was an american singer who defined the early sound of Motown Records in the early sixties
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Laurindo Almeida † july 26, 1995 was a brazilian classical guitarist.he composed music for over 800 movies & TV series.
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Dom Um Romão † july 26, 2005…was a brazilian bossa nova jazz drummer, co-founder of the Copa Trio & member of the Weather Report
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Lilian Harvey † july 27,1968 british-german actress,singer.starred in the film Der Kongreß tanzt(31)her song"Das gibt's nur einmal"became an evergreen
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George Russell † july 27, 2009 ...us jazz pianist & music theorist, he is a hugely influential, innovative figure in the evolution of modern jazz
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Herb Rehbein † july 28,1979…german songwriter,co-wrote,"Strangers In The Night"his songs have been done by Sammy Davis Jr.,Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin
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Nick Lucas † july 28, 1982…singer,pioneer jazz guitarist,"the grandfather of the jazz guitar",whose peak of popularity lasted from 1920s to the 1930s
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Keith Green † july 28, 1982 …was an american gospel singer, songwriter, on this song Bob Dylan playing harmonica
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Eddie Hinton † july 28, 1995…us songwriter,his most well known song is "Breakfast in Bed" which has been recorded by Dusty Springfield and by UB40
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Jason Thirsk † july 29, 1996...bass player and founding member of the california punk rock band Pennywise
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Erich Kaestner † july 29,1974 german author,satirist, known f/ his humorous, socially astute poetry & children's literature.lyrics in this song by him
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Cass Elliot † july 29, 1974...american singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas
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Leopoldo "Polo" Sanchez † july 30, 1974...mexican singer and guitarist, was a member of Los Apson Boys
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Alexandra † july 31,1969…german singer,she performed songs in several languages besides German as well,including French, English, Russian & Hebrew
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Frida Boccara † august 1, 1996 …was a french singer. in 1969, she won w/ this song the eurovision song contest
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James Jamerson † august 2,1983…bassist on most 1960/70s Motown Records' hits. one of the most influential bassists & the father of modern bass guitar
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Michel Berger † august 2,1992…a central figure of France's pop music scene as a singer & as a songwriter f/artists like France Gall,F.Hardy,J.Hallyday
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti † 2 august,1997…was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician,composer,bandleader,founder of afrobeat music, human rights activist
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Billy Lee Riley † august 2, 2009…was an american rockabilly musician, singer, record producer and songwriter. he recorded "Trouble Bound" in 1956
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Arthur Lee † august 3, 2006 …was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the late 1960s and early 1970s rock band Love
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Jobriath † august 3,1983…glam rock singer from 1973 to 1974 was the first really openly gay rock star, he sang of sexual themes & posed as an alien
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Lee Newman † august 4,1995…producer,pioneer of european techno,member of english electronic music band G.T.O., founded w/ her husband Michael Wells
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Little Milton † august 4,2005…was an american blues and soul vocalist and guitarist
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Lee Hazlewood † august 4, 2007…us singer, songwriter record producer,he had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous resonance to his music
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Luther Perkins † august 5,1968 guitarist, renowned for his work as a member of the Tennessee 3 w/ Johnny Cash and their "boom-chicka" rhythmic style
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Marilyn Monroe † august 5, 1962…one of the most famous Hollywood icons of the 20th century, "I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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Klaus Nomi † august 6,1983…german singer,combined opera,30s german cabaret, 60s us pop & 21st cent. synthies. the image of hi-fashion futuristic alien
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Domenico Modugno † august 6,1994…italian singer,songwriter,this song,co-authored by him & F. Migliacci, became an enormous success worldwide as Volare
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Ibrahim Ferrer † august 6, 2005…afro-cuban singer & musician, member of Afro-Cuban All Stars & Buena Vista Social Club.
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Memphis Minnie † august 6,1973…guitarist,vocalist,songwriter. one of the most influential & pioneering female blues musicians & guitarists of all time
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Fereydoun Farrokhzad † august 6,1992singer & political opposition figure.was stabbed 40 times & beheaded w/a knife by iranian gov. intelligent service
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Rick James † august 6, 2004…us musician.was a popular R&B & funk singer in the late 1970s & 1980s. in 1991 he co-wrote MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This
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Willy DeVille † august 6, 2009…punk,rock & blues musician,singer & songwriter…he is one of my personal favorite artist…rock the heaven Willy ¡¡¡!!!
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Esther Phillips † august 7,1984…blues,R&B,soul,disco singer.her voice had an idiosyncratic, nasal quality that often earned comparisons to Nina Simone
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Mark Hickey † august 8, 2000…hardcore singer for Agression, part of the first wave of skatepunk bands to emerge from southern California in early '80s
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Dmitri Shostakovich † august 9,1975…russian composer,best known for film score of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut(1938 Suite for Variety Orchestra,Waltz 2)
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Giacinto Scelsi † august 9, 1988…italian composer,his music based around only one pitch,altered in all manners,through changes in timbre & dynamics
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Yodrak Salukjai † august 9, 2008…thai folk singer, the king of luk tung music.he released more than 500 albums containing more than 4000 songs
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Paul Samson † august 9,2002…guitarist,associated with the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, founder of Samson w/ Bruce Dickinson (IronMaiden) on vocals
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Jerry García † august 9,1995…one of its original founders, he performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (1965 to 1995)
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Leslie Kong † august 9,1971…chinese jamaican reggae record producer.he recorded Jimmy Cliff’s 1st record as well as Bob Marley’s earliest singles 1962
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Steve Perron † august 10,1973…singer,was a founding member of 60s garage psych band The Mind's Eye from San Antonio Texas,he wrote Francine for ZZ Top
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Paula Pierce † august 10,1991…singer for The Pandoras.her impetuous, self-confident & independent lifestyle was a model for Riot Grrrl bands in 1990s
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Isaac Hayes † august 10,2008…«Black Moses»songwriter and arranger,film score composer, a creator of ’70s Soul Style
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Percy Mayfield † august 11, 1984…songwriter, rhythm & blues artist w/ a smooth vocal style & famous for his song for Ray Charles "Hit the Road Jack"
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Mel Taylor † august 11, 1996…drummer for The Ventures from 1962-1996, he was known for a very aggressive, hard-hitting style of drumming
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Peg Leg Howell † august 11,1966…The nickname “Peg Leg” was acquired from an incident w/ a shotgun, where his brother-in-law allegedly shot his leg off
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John Loder † august 12,2005…engl. sound engineer, producer,member of Exit & Crass.engineer & producer f/ Jesus & Mary Chain,PJ Harvey,Fugazi,Ministry
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Luther Allison † august 12, 1997…blues guitarist.his dominant stage presence & his rock & funk guitar playing give his music to their own character
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Jean-Michel Basquiat † august 12, 1988…"SAMO" multi artist.part of the 80s neo-expressionist movement. member of the Gray
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John Cage † august 12, 1992…composer,artist „Knowing how to play instruments is fine, but knowing how to make music only belongs to the truly great.“
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King Curtis † august 13, 1971…tenor, alto & soprano saxophonist & session musician who played rhythm and blues, rock'n'roll, soul, funk and soul jazz
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Joe Tex † august 13,1982…soul singer in 60s-70s.his style of speaking over music,which he called 'rap',made him a predecessor of modern style of music
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Nino Ferrer † august 13, 1998…french-italian singer, actor & jazz musician.he wrote this classic song in 1969
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Peaches (Francine Barker) † august 13, 2005…soul singer,member of The Keynote,The Darlettes,The Sweet Things & was half of the duo of Peaches And Herb
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Jah Jerry Haynes † august 13, 2007…was a jamaican guitarist, in 1964 he was one of The Skatalites founders
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Les Paul † august 13, 2009…jazz guitarist.he was a guitar legend who not only invented the Les Paul guitar, he also developed multi-track recording
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Tony Williams † august 14,1992…was the lead singer for The Platters from 1953 to 1960
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Robert Calvert † august 14,1988…writer,performer,best known as the lead singer of Hawkwind from 1972-79 during he co-wrote hit single "Silver Machine"
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Bertolt Brecht † august 14,1956…"My favorite book?You'll laugh:the bible"…most influential german poet of the 20th century.founder of the Epic Theatre
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Jim Dickinson † august 15, 2009…producer,singer.keyboarder f/ Aretha Franklin,Rolling Stones(Wild Horses),Bob Dylan…produced Mudhoney,Willy DeVille…
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Elvis Presley † august 16, 1977…The King of Rock'n'Roll¡ John Lennon may have summed it up best when he said: "Before Elvis, there was nothing."
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Robert Johnson † august 16,1938…the most important blues singer that ever lived,"Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll".he played w/ the devil
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan † august 16,1997…singer of Qawwali,he had made a great impression on scene w/his mix of eastern poetic music w/ that of the west
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Pearl Bailey † august 17, 1990...american singer & actress,during the 1970s she had her own television show & she also provided voices for animations
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Paul Williams † august 17, 1973...baritone singer,choreographer. founding member and original lead singer of the Motown group The Temptations
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Heinz Hoff † august 17,1998 drummer.member of The Bots,socially engaged dutch folk rock group that was successful in both the netherlands & germany
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Elmer Bernstein † august 18, 2004...american film score composer, he wrote the music for over 200 major film and television scores
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Pervis Jackson † august 18, 2008...singer, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by the Spinners
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John Gilmore † august 19, 1995...was an american jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra
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Blind Willie McTell † august 19, 1959…he was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956
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LeRoi Moore † august 19, 2008...saxophonist best known as a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. he also co-wrote many of the band's songs
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Joe Dassin † august 20,1980...was an american/french singer-songwriter. by the early 1970s, dassin's songs were on the top of the charts in france
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Rio Reiser † august 20,1996…german rock musician and singer of the famous rock group Ton Steine Scherben.the most influenced musician of my life¡
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Bob Moog † august 21,2005…pioneer of electronic music,inventor of Moog synthesizer.the album Switched-On Bach by W.Carlos is a milestone in moog music
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Raul Seixas † august 21,1989…was a brazilian rock composer, singer, songwriter and producer.an icon of brazilian counterculture
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Wesley Willis † august 21, 2003…musician.his sheer excitement &unaffected honesty about every cultural phenomenon defined his music as truly punk rock
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Tomata du Plenty † august 21,2000…singer of the late 1970s synthpunk band The Screamers.also artist,performer & member of the Cockettes & Ze Whiz Kidz
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Jerry Finn † august 21,2008…record producer.best known for his work w/ Blink-182,Pennywise,AFI,Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio,Rancid, Green Day,Offspring
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Bruce Gary † august 22, 2006…drummer, founding member of The Knack, producer of archive Jimi Hendrix recordings
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Luc Ferrari † august 22, 2005…french composer,sound artist, pioneer of the Musique Concrète,was primarily known for his experiments w/ tape recorder
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David Rose † august 23,1990…songwriter,composer,best known f/“The Stripper”.he wrote music f/such tele programs as Bonanza,Little House on the Prairie
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Dwayne Goettel † august 23,1995…was keyboarder (1986–1995) for canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy.this song is a remix by Adrian Sherwood from 1987
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James Tenney † august 24,2006...composer, pianist and musicologist.pioneer in electronic and computer generated music
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Jack Nitzsche † august 25, 2000…arranger,composer,producer,session musician who was involved in many of the greatest pop recordings of the ’60s & ’70s
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Aaliyah † august 25, 2001…r & b singer, actress and model, sold over 24 million records worldwide
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John Nelson † august 25,2001… pianist f/ The Prince Rogers Trio.co-wrote,"Scandalous" & "Under The Cherry Moon" w/ & for his son Prince Roger Nelson
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Stan Kenton † august 25, 2001…was a popular jazz pianist & band leader who made his mark as part of the jazz scene of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s
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Laura Branigan † august 26, 2004...singer,songwriter,actress.1984, the album Self Control reaching the top ten & became her biggest international hit
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Denis D'Amour † august 26, 2005...guitarist, founding member of the canadian heavy metal band Voivod
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Tiny Topsy † august 1964…singer,a five foot,250-pound-plus entertainer, whose name was Otha Lee Moore Hall.her real name has been until 2008 a mystery
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Ellie Greenwich † august 26,2009…singer,songwrite,wrote some of the most enduring pop songs of the ’60s & ’70s,such gems as “Be My Baby”(The Ronettes)
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Lil Hardin Armstrong † august 27, 1971...jazz pianist,composer,arranger, singer,bandleader,the 2nd wife of Louis w/whom she collaborated in the 1920s
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Scott "La Rock" Sterling † august 27, 1987...was the original DJ for the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions, founded in 1986 w/ KRS-ONE and D-Nice
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Jesse Pintado † august 27,2006...mexican lead guitarist for Terrorizer & Napalm Death (1989-2004) a pioneer guitarist of grindcore
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Stevie Ray Vaughan † august 27,1990...singer & electric blues guitarist.his sound and playing style incorporated simultaneous lead and rhythm parts
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Ronnie Self † august 28,1981…singer.he had the look & sound of rockabilly,but his career was unsuccessful.only charted single was "Bop-A-Lena" in 1958
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Hilly Kristal † august 28, 2007…club owner & musician,was the owner of the iconic New York club,CBGB,which was one of the primordial germ cell of punk
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Lee Marvin † august 29, 1987…film actor. known for his gravelly voice.in 1969, he had a hit song w/ "Wand'rin' Star" from the western Paint Your Wagon
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Jimmy Reed † august 29,1976…blues guitarist, singer & songwriter.his songs have been covered by Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley & Hank Williams Jr.
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Chris Connor † august 29, 2009…cool jazz singer known for her distinctive singing style & her deep feelings of expression when she sings
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Sterling Morrison † august 30,1995…founding member of Velvet Underground, played electric guitar,occasionally bass guitar & singing backing vocals.
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Thomas “Papa Dee” Allen † august 30,1988…was a pianist, vibist & soprano saxophonist who is best remembered as a percussionist for funk rock band War
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Lionel Hampton † august 31, 2002…he started his career as a drummer in the late ’20s, he went on to become one of jazz’s premier vibraphonists
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R. L. Burnside † sept.1,2005 blues musician,in 1990s,he recorded w/ Jon Spencer,garnering crossover appeal & introducing his music to punk blues scene
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Jerry Reed † sept.1,2008...american country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter & actor who appeared in over a dozen films
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Ethel Waters † september 1, 1977...was an american blues and jazz vocalist and actress.she began her career in the 1920s singing blues
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Otto Luening † september 2, 1996 german-american composer,conductor,pioneer of tape music & electronic music.he belonged to musical avant-garde of USA
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Carter Albrecht † september 3, 2007…was an american musician, best known for his keyboard and guitar work in Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
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Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson † september 3, 1970…singer,primary composer of Canned Heat. He played guitar & harmonica, wrote most of the songs for the band
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Janis Martin † sept. 3, 2007… rockabilly & country singer. one of the few women working in the male-dominated rock & roll music field during the 1950s
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Moss Khumalo † september 4, 2006…played saxophone and piano, one of South Africa's foremost young jazz musicians
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Katie Webster † September 5, 1999…pianist, "The Swamp Boogie Queen".She is acknowledged as one of the most important blues artists of her generation
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Josh White † sept. 5,1969…"Father of American Folk Music" singer,guitarist,songwriter,civil rights activist.One Meatball sold 1million records in 1940
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Charlie Charles † September 5, 1990…drummer, founding member of 'The Blockheads'
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Luciano Pavarotti † september 6, 2007… italian operatic tenor, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time
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Hanns Eisler † sept. 6,1962…german-austrian composer.he worked w/Brecht.their Solidarity Song became a popular militant anthem sung in street protests
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Nicky Hopkins † sept. 6,1994…english pianist.he recorded & performed on some of the most important popular music recordings of the 1960s and 1970s
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Carl Crack † sept. 6, 2001…berlin-based techno artist best known for his membership in the digital hardcore band Atari Teenage Riot from 1992 to 2000
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Warren Zevon † september 7, 2003..rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his strange, sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics
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Erma Franklin † sept. 7,2002 r & b singer.she was the older sister of Aretha Franklin.best known recording was original version of "Piece Of My Heart"
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Keith Moon † sept. 7,1978 "Moon the Loon"drummer of The Who.he represented the youthful,zany side of rock & roll,better than anyone else on the planet
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Moondog † sept. 8,1999… blind composer,musician, cosmologist,poet,inventor of several musical instruments.he was known as "The Viking of 6th Avenue"
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Cowboy Wiggins † sept. 8,1989…founding member of Flash & the Furious 5.one of the1st mcs as he delivered a series of rough & ready rhymes to the beats
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Bill Monroe † september 9, 1996...The Father Of Bluegrass Music, he played guitar and mandolin and was a singer and songwriter
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Sandra Tilley † september 9, 1981...R&B & soul singer, known for being a member of Motown girl groups The Velvelettes & Martha and the Vandellas
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Norman "Dinky" Diamond † september 10, 2004...drummer for the L.A. band Sparks and The Four Squares
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown † sept. 10, 2005 blues musician, spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues,country,jazz,Cajun & R&B styles
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Leon Payne † september 11, 1969…"the Blind Balladeer" country music singer, songwriter, he wrote hundreds of songs, which were sung by other artists
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Joe Zawinul † sept.11,2007…austrian jazz keyboarder & composer.founding member of Weather Report.w/Miles Davis,he was 1 of the creators of fusion-jazz
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Peter Tosh † sept. 11, 1987…reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers.a trailblazer for the rastafari movement.this is the 1st song he sang
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Jim Carroll † sept.11, 2009…punk rocker,poet,author,male prostitute,heroin addict,one of the greatest basketball players New York City has ever known
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Johnny Cash † september 12, 2003…most influential musician of the 20th century.the Man In Black died on my 30th birthday & nothing remained the same¡
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Peter Tevis † september 13, 2006…was an american folk singer best remembered for his work on the soundtracks of composer Ennio Morricone
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Tupac Shakur † september 13, 1996…rapper.he sold 75 million albums.was initially a roadie & backup dancer for the hip hop group Digital Underground
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DubFreakz Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams † september 14, 2002…was an american blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and composer
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Furry Lewis † september 14,1981…blues guitarist,songwriter.the loss of a leg in a railroad accident in 1917 hastened his entry into professional music
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Perez Prado † september 14, 1989…was a cuban bandleader and composer. he is commonly referred to as the "King of the Mambo"
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Bill Evans † sept.15,1980 jazz pianists.his inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire,singing melodic influenced generations of pianists
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Johnny Hartman † september 15, 1983 jazz singer who is remembered for his smooth performances of jazz ballads,best known for his work w/ John Coltrane
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Rafael Méndez † september 15,1981…mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter.his technique give the illusion that he's not taking a natural breath while playing
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Johnny Ramone † sept.15,2004…guitarist,founding member of The Ramones.responsible for the typical Ramones-style leather jackets,Ramones-hairdo & jeans
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Prince Far I † sept. 15, 1983…reggae deejay,singer,producer.mentor figure to Adrian Sherwood.known for his unique deep bass voice & talking over style
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Rick Wright † sept.15,2008…as keyboardist & songwriter,helped create the pioneering psychedelic sound that made PinkFloyd 1 of world's greatest groups
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Maria Callas † sept.16,1977…1 of the greatest opera singers of 20th cent.her remarkable musical & dramatic talents led to her being hailed as LaDivina
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Víctor Jara † sept.15,1973…chilean poet,singer-songwriter,political activist.he's a symbol of struggle for human rights & justice across Latin America
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Izora Rhodes Armstead † september 16, 2004…singer,one half of the 1980s pop group the Weather Girls, best known for 1982 hit single "It's Raining Men"
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Marc Bolan † sept.16, 1977…english singer & songwriter of glam rock group T. Rex, this song features John Peel, who reads a Bolan-penned fairytale
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Norman Whitfield † sept.16,2008…producer,he's credited w/ helping to usher Motown sound from its smoother early days into the headier psychedelic era
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Mary Travers † september 16, 2009...is best remembered as one-third of the iconic folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary. formed in 1961
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Robin Tyner † september 17, 1991…singer, remains best known as lead singer for the american hard rock band MC5
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Richard Hite † september 17, 2001…bassist,was a member of Canned Heat,the brother of vocalist Bob Hite.he worked with The Pretty Things & Hammie Nixon
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Roy Milton † september 18, 1983…was an american R&B singer, drummer and bandleader.he recorded a total of 19 Top Ten R&B hits
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Will Shade † september 18, 1966… blues singer,guitarist, he played harp & bullfiddle, best known for his membership in the Memphis Jug Band
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Earl Van Dyke † september 18, 1992…best remembered as the 2nd keyboardist for the Funk Brothers,the legendary house band on so many great Motown hits
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Jimi Hendrix † sept.18,1970…The World's Greatest Guitarist "Music is my religion" one of the most creative & influential musicians of the 20th century
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Frank Lowe † september 19, 2003…was an american avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.former member of Sun Ra
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Mary Penick † sept. 19, 2004…better known as Skeeter Davis, was a country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s
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Willie Hutch † september 19, 2005…was an american singer, as well as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown record label during the 1970s
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Earl Palmer † sept.19,2008…drummer,the 1st to use word "funky"to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated &danceable
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Gram Parsons † sept. 19, 1973…singer, songwriter, guitarist,pianist.was a member of the International Submarine Band,Byrds & The Flying Burrito Bros
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Arthur Ferrante † sept. 19,2009…part of piano duo Ferrante & Teicher who scored hits during 60s & 70s.worked w/prepared pianos influenced by John Cage
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Curley James Weaver † september 20, 1962…was an american blues musician, best known as the Georgia Guitar Wizard
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Jim Croce † september 20, 1973…folk rock singer-songwriter. "I'm no missionary and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am."
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Bruno Frenzel † september 21, 1983…guitarist, composer, founding member and one of the pillars of Birth Control
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Peter Kowald † sep.21,2002…german jazz double-bass player,collaborated w/ a large number of european & american free-jazz players during his career
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Jaco Pastorius † september 21,1987…american jazz bassist and composer,he is regarded as one of the most influential bass players
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Irving Berlin † september 22, 1989…composer,lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.he wrote Puttin' on the Ritz in 1929
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André Bourvil † september 23, 1970,…french actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès
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Rodolfo Biagi † september 24,1969…argentine tango pianist,composer,bandleader,started his musical career by playing background music for silent movies
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Natalya Pivovarov † sept. 24,2007…russian singer,founding member of Kolibri,founded in 1988,they combined elements of pop,post-punk, cabaret & chanson
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John"Bonzo"Bonham † sept. 25,1980…drummer of Led Zeppelin.his contributions to rock music were revolutionary, and his talent unmatched & irreplaceable
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Robert Palmer † sept. 26,2003…singer,best known for video featuring a clutch of gloss-lipped deadpan models posing as backing band to Addicted to Love
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Bessie Smith † sept. 26, 1937…singer "The Empress of the Blues",most popular female blues singer of 20s,a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists
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Betty Carter † september 26, 1998…was an american jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style
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Engelbert Humperdinck † september 27,1921…was a german composer, best known for his opera "Hänsel und Gretel" (1891)
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Ken “Dimwit” Montgomery † september 27, 1994…drummer, member of vancouver hardcore punk band, D.O.A. in the late ’70s and early ’80s
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Beau Velasco † september 27, 2009…drummer, founding member of electro-punk band, The Death Set, formed in australia in 2005 and Black Panda
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Miles Davis † september 28, 1991…jazz trumpeter, bandleader,composer.he was w/ his groups at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music
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Mickey Newbury † september 29, 2002…american songwriter.his songs have been recorded by hundreds of performers from a wide variety of musical genres
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Greg Ladanyi † sept. 29, 2009…engineer,producer who worked w/ some of the biggest acts of ’70s & ’80s,incl.Jeff Healey,Fleetwood Mac,Toto,The Church…
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James Dean † sept.30,1955…film actor & cultural icon.In 1963 Beach Boys wrote A Young Man Is Gone, in which they sing about life & death of James Dean
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Mary Ford † sept.30, 1977…singer,guitarist,the wife & musical partner of Les Paul,they sold over 6 million records in 1951 alone,scored 16 top-10 hits
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Bruce Palmer † october 1, 2004…canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield
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"Cousin Joe" Pleasant † october 2, 1989…was a blues and jazz singer,self-taught as a pianist and tap dancer, he began his musical career in 1945
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Ahmed Abdul-Malik † october 2,1993…double bassist,oud player.he's noted for integrating Middle Eastern & North African music styles in his jazz music
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Bola de Nieve † october 2, 1971…cuban singer-pianist, known for his ironic patter, subtle musical interpretation in French, English, Catalan, Italian
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Benjamin Orr † october 3, 2000…was the bass guitar player and one of the vocalists for the New Wave band The Cars
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Luis Jaime "Guero" González † october 3,1981…organ,band leader,founding member of the mexican rock band "Los Rockin Devil's"
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Woody Guthrie † october 3,1967…folk singer-songwriter,an icon of the protest movement of the small man,he was the megaphone of the proletarian america
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Mercedes Sosa † october 4,2009…argentine folk singer ''voice of Latin America''her music inspired opponents of south america's brutal military regimes
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Janis Joplin † october 4,1970…singer,songwriter,one of rock & roll’s &counterculture’s most passionate,influential,distinctive & revolutionary artists
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Art Farmer † october 4,1999…jazz trumpeter,flugelhorn player,he also played a flumpet, former member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band
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Natalino Otto † october 4, 1969…italian singer.he started the swing genre in italy.he recorded over two thousand songs during his career
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Johnny O'Keefe † october 6,1978…australian rock and roll singer in the 1950s, some of his hits include "Wild One" (1958),covered in 1986 by Iggy Pop
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Nelson Riddle † october 6, 1985…was an american bandleader, arranger and orchestrator, composed for movies and TV
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Mike Alexander † october 5, 2009…bassist for thrash metal band Evile,the group originally formed in 2000 as Metal Militia & morphed into Evile in 2004
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Mario Lanza † october 7, 1959…italian american tenor and hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s
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Johnny Kidd † october 7, 1966…lead singer for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, a british band that was building momentum just before the Beatles broke
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Pierangelo Bertoli † october 7, 2002…Italian singer-songwriter and poet. his works told mainly about environment,antimilitarism and social issues
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Jo Bruce † october 8,1997…keyboardist, member of The Afro Celt Sound System,worked /Peter Gabriel,Michael Brook,son of Cream bass player Jack Bruce
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B. J. Wilson † october 8,1990…english rock drummer.member of Procol Harum,he had a powerful, distinctive style - he sat very low behind his kit
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Roy Black † october 9, 1991…was a german schlager singer and actor
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Jacques Brel † october 9,1978…belgian singer-songwriter.the quality & style of his lyrics are highly regarded by many leading critics of popular music
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Milt Jackson †october 9,1999…vibraphonist, one of the finest performers on his instrument in the history of jazz.member of MJQ for more than 20 years
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"Che" Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna † october 9, 1967… revolutionary cult icon "Hasta la Victoria Siempre"
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Alton Ellis † october 10, 2008…jamaican musician,best known as one of the innovators of rocksteady music, "Godfather of Rocksteady"
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Eleanor Rigby † october 10, 1939…whether this Eleanor was the inspiration for the song or not, her tombstone has become a landmark to Beatles fans
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Édith Piaf † october 10, 1963…„La Môme Piaf“, french singer and cultural icon who is almost universally regarded as france's greatest popular singer
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Tex Williams † october 11, 1985… western swing musician, best known for his talking blues style
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Connee Boswell † october 11, 1976…inspired singers from Ella Fitzgerald to Wynonna Judd, sold over 75 million records & did it all from a wheelchair.
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Renato Russo † october 11, 1996…was the formal founder and leader of the brazilian rock band, Legião Urbana.bass player for punk band Aborto Elétrico
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Ricky Wilson † october 12, 1985…was the original guitarist and founding member of the rock band The B-52's
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Ray Conniff † october 12, 2002…composer, bandleader,he's a mainstay of easy listening music.he recorded over 100 albums & sold over 70 million albums
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Gene Vincent † october 12, 1971…singer, pioneer of rockabilly, he personified the wild, lusty, lower class side of the music as a touring artist
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Marguerite Monnot † october 12, 1961…was a french songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf
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Nancy Spungen † october 12, 1978…she was the girlfriend & "manager" of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious
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Dickie Peterson † october 12, 2009…bassist,singer for Blue Cheer, a psychedelic rock band that's considered by many to be the first “heavy metal” band
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Gus Chambers † october 13,2008…vocalist.member of The Squad.in 1993,he founded w/ Mit Dave Lombardo & Waldemar Sorychta the trash metal band Grip Inc.
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Al Martino † october 13, 2009…singer,actor.better known for his role in The Godfather as Johnny Fontane “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”
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Bing Crosby † october 14, 1977… singer,actor,his career stretched over more than half a century.one of the most popular musical acts in history
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Polaire (Emilie Bouchaud) † october 14, 1939…french singer,actress,she was famous for her tiny, corsetted waist, which was no greater than 14 inches
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Cole Porter † october 15, 1964…composer,songwriter.he wrote over 1500 songs.noted for his sophisticated bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms
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Gene Krupa † october 16, 1973…was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style
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Art Blakey † october 16,1990…drummer,band leader whose Jazz Messengers,he lead for 30 yrs,he has become synonymous w/hard drive & pulsating excitement
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Alberta Hunter † october 17, 1984…was a pioneering african-american popular singer whose path crosses the streams of jazz, blues and pop music
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Levi Stubbs † october 17, 2008…baritone singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Motown R&B group Four Tops
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Criss Oliva † october 17,1993…lead guitarist,co-founder of the band Savatage,his unique playing style won him many fans,incl Dave Mustaine of Megadeth
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Chris Acland † october 17, 1996…english musician, best known for being the drummer of the London based shoegazing and britpop musical ensemble, Lush.
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Joachim Nielsen † october 17, 2000… was a norwegian rock musician and poet. he was the frontman of Norwegian rock band Jokke & Valentinerne
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Frédéric Chopin † october 17, 1849…was a polish composer and virtuoso pianist.he was one of the great masters of Romantic music
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Julie London † october 18,2000…singer,actress. best known for her smoky, sensual voice, she was at her singing career's peak in 50s,recorded 32 albums
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Kazuhiko Kato † october 17, 2009…japanese singer,songwriter,producer,founding member of psychedelic folk rock band Folk Crusaders & Sadistic Mika Band
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Dee Dee Warwick † october 18, 2008… soul singer,she had to struggle with the shadow of a superstar sibling, Dionne Warwick
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Snooky Pryor † october 18,2006…harp player.pioneered the method of playing amplified harm. by cupping a microphone in his hands along w/ the harmonica
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Lucky Dube † october 18,2007…south african reggae musician. he recorded 22 albums in a 25-year period,was south africa's biggest selling reggae artist
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Charles Gounod † october 18,1893…french composer,Funeral March of a Marionette, became well known as the theme to tv series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe † october 18, 1977…members of the german militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF)
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Louisa Mark † october 17,2009…singer,this 1975 single helped her gain recognition as one of the leading females in the lovers rock sub-genre of reggae
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Hortense Ellis † october 19, 2000…was a jamaican reggae musician, best known as Jamaica's First Lady Of Songs
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Don Cherry † october 19,1995…trumpeter, his resume,both in the studio & on record, includes a who’s who of the greatest jazz musicians of ’60s & ’70s
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Eddie “Son” House † october 19,1988…was a pioneering Delta blues musician who was an immediate influence on the likes of Robert Johnson & Muddy Waters
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Glen Buxton † october 19, 1997…he's best remembered as the founding guitarist of Alice Cooper’s original band,he co-wrote several of Cooper’s hits
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Merle Traviso † october 20, 1983…country & western singer, songwriter,"Travis picking",a syncopated guitar style of finger picking, is named after him
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Shirley Horn † october 20,2005…singer,known f/her ability to get inside a lyric,transforming it into a deeply emotional & personal expression of jazz
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Ronnie Van Zant & Steve Gaines † october 20, 1977…were the lead vocalist & guitarist & founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd,they died by a plane crash
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Paul Raven † october 20, 2007…bassist, he replaced the original Killing Joke bassist Youth in mid 1982,he later played in the bands Prong & Ministry
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Barbecue Bob † october 21,1931…blues musician."Motherless Child…"in 1927 tells of the singer's lack of respect for & disenchantment w/women in general
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Bill Black † october 21, 1965…bassist, best known as the bassist of the first band of Elvis Presley, the Blue Moon Boys
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Jo Ann Kelly † october 21, 1990…was an english blues singer and guitarist. "the british queen of blues"
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Sandy West † october 21,2006…singer,songwriter.was the 1st female drummer to garner widespread popularity in rockmusic,founding member of The Runaways
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Maxene Angelyn Andrews † october 21, 1995…soprano singer, member of the american close harmony singing group The Andrews Sisters
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Paul Fox † october 21, 2007…guitarist,singer,founding member of the Ruts.when the original singer Malcolm Owen died the band continued w/Fox on vocals
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Shannon Hoon † october 21,1995…singer,songwriter of Blind Melon"I know we can't all stay here forever So I want to write my words on the face of today
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Elliott Smith † october 21, 2003…singer-songwriter,he suffered from depression, alcoholism & drug addiction,these topics often appeared in his lyrics
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Vic Mizzy † october 17, 2009… film & TV composer,best remembered for the scores he wrote for television and film during the ’50s and ’60s
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Liam Maher † october 20, 2009…lead singer for Flowered Up, a London based rock band who achieved some success during the early ’90s
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Lee Leonard † october 23, 1976…was an R&B singer who, with Shirley Goodman, performed as Shirley & Lee during the 1950s
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Al Jolson † october 23, 1950…singer, comedian, actor. he enjoyed performing in blackface makeup – a theatrical convention in the early 20th century.
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"Mother Maybelle" Carter † october 23, 1978… country musician."The Queen of the Autoharp"founding member of the Carter Family,which was formed in 1927
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Danny Dill † october 23, 2008…country songwriter, best known for his 1959 tune, "Long Black Veil," written with Marijohn Wilkin
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Rene Ferrer Enríquez † october 24,1962…mexican singer and composer, was a member of Los Blue Caps, Los Salvajes and Los Play Boys.
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John Peel (John Ravenscroft) † october 25, 2004… english music legend & the most influential radio DJ , a trendsetter in music for nearly to 40 years
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Wilbert Harrison † october 26,1994…singer, pianist, guitarist, harmonica player.he wrote "Let's Stick Together" in '62,covered by Bryan Ferry in 1976.
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Jim Reese † october 26, 1991…guitarist, he was a member of The Bobby Fuller Four
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Rex Gildo † october 26, 1999…german Schlager singer & actor, best known as Mr. clean of german Schlager & his "Hossa Hossa"
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Oliver Nelson † october 27, 1975…jazz saxophonist,composer,best known for his jazz standart "Stolen Moments" & tv score for The Six Million Dollar Man
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Steve Peregrin Took † october 27, 1980…english drummer, percussionist, bass player, vocalist & guitarist. founding member of Tyrannosaurus Rex
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Xavier Cugat † october 27, 1990…catalan bandleader, arranger,cartoonist. a key personality in the spread of latin music in united states popular music
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Taylor Mitchell † october 27,2009…an up-and-coming singer songwriter who was just beginning to build her career when her life was tragically cut short
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Marijohn Wilkin † october 28,2006…country songwriter,co-wrote "The Long Black Veil" & "I Just …"became a hit for Ann-Margret & was covered by Beatles
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Pamela Birch † october 28, 2009…british singer & guitarist, founding member of the 1st rock and roll girlgroup "The Liverbirds"
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Michael Holliday † october 29, 1963…was a british singer, popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s
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Barbara Pittman † october 29,2005…her claim to fame rests on both a few of singles she cut during 50s at sun studio & her childhood friendship w/Elvis
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Georges Brassens † october 29, 1981…singer-songwriter, known for his elegant songs & articulate lyrics,one of france's most accomplished postwar poets
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Duane Allman † october 29,1971…guitarist,cofounder of The Allman Brothers Band,one of the greatest guitarists of all time,a slide guitar player legend
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"Pops" Foster † october 29, 1969…jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass.he also played the tuba & trumpet professionally
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Norton Buffalo † october 30, 2009…singer, songwriter,who is mostly associated w/ the Steve Miller Band w/ whom he played harmonica for over 3 decades
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Jam-Master Jay † october 30, 2002…the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-D.M.C..played keyboards, bass, & live drums on all of Run-D.M.C's albums
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John Dougherty † october 31,1997…was the bassist for Flipper (1992-1997) an influential punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1979
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Yma Sumac † november 1, 2008…peruvian soprano.best known for her extreme vocal range over 4-6 octaves & her song "Ataypura" in the Coen's Big Lebowski
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Nathaniel Mayer † november 1, 2008…r&b singer who started his career in the early 1960s, he had a raw, highly energetic vocal style & wild stage show
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Jimmy Carl Black † november 1, 2008…drummer,vocalist for The Mothers of Invention."Hi Boys and Girls,I'm Jimmy Carl Black,I'm the Indian of the group"
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Tommy Johnson † november 1, 1956… the 1st known blues musician’s to claim that he sold his soul to the devil,Canned Heat took their name from his song
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Mississippi John Hurt † november 2, 1966…country blues singer & guitarist.he sang in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked guitar accompaniment
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Robert Biberti † november 2, 1985…german bass vocalist, founding member of the vocal ensemble Comedian Harmonists from berlin
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Mort Shuman † november 3,1991…singer,pianist,songwriter,w/ Doc Pomus one of the most important rock'n'roll writing teams of the late-50s and early-60s
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Paul Mauriat † november 3,2006…french orchestra leader,came to prominence during the ’50s as musical director for Charles Aznavour & Maurice Chevalier
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Lonnie Donegan † november 3,2002…King of Skiffle,he's often cited as a large influence on the generation of british musicians who became famous in 60s
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Fred "Sonic"Smith † november 4,1994…legendary guitarist,best known as founding member of the band MC5.he later went on to form Sonic's Rendezvous Band
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Oran "Hot Lips" Page † november 5, 1954…jazz trumpeter, singer, bandleader, he was known as a scorching soloist and powerful vocalist
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Bobby Hatfield † november 5, 2003…singer,one of the Righteous Brothers singing duo.Unchained Melody is one of the most recorded songs of 20th century
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Arthur Tatum † november 5, 1956…jazz pianist & virtuoso.he was nearly blind.he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time
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Edgard Varèse † november 6,1965…composer.in 1931,Ionisation written for 13 percussionists,opened a new era of rhythm.it's a manifestation of modernity
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Dickie Goodman † november 6, 1989…one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music,this song is considered to be the earliest example of a mashup
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Bill Murcia † november 6, 1972…was the original drummer for legendary New York Dolls.alongside David Johansen,Rick Rivets,Johnny Thunders,Arthur Kane
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Tracy Pew † november 7, 1986…bassist,best remembered as the bassist for late ’70s /early ’80s australian post punk goth rock band, The Birthday Party
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Bully Buhlan † november 7,1982…was a german jazz and "schlager" singer, pianist, composer and actor
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James Booker † november 8, 1983…was a jazz, new orleans rhythm and blues and soul pianist
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Guy Speranza † november 8, 2003 …singer, best known as New York-based metal band Riot's original frontman from '76-'81.he sang on their first 3 albums
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Jerry Fuchs † november 8, 2009…drummer, he played with LCD Soundsystem,!!!,Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT,The Juan MacLean & Maserati
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Yves Montand † november 9, 1991…singer & actor,w/ his melodious,melancholy vocals he represented the french lifestyle of the '50s & '60s
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Carmen McRae † november 10, 1994…singer, composer, pianist, and actress. considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century
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Miriam Makeba † november 10, 2008…legendary "Mama Africa", south african singer and civil rights activist. best known for her song "Pata Pata"
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Morton Stevens † november 11, 1991…was an american film score composer, he wrote the music for TV's, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke and Police Woman
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Mitch Mitchell † november 12, 2008…drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.he pioneered a style of drumming,which would later become known as fusion
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Franck Pourcel † november 12, 2000…french composer,band leader.he composed w/ Paul Mauriat & Raymond Lefèvre the hit Chariot created by Petula Clark
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Carlo Rustichelli † november 13, 2004…italian film composer.he wrote over 250 compositions for film & television
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Russell “Ol’ Dirty Bastard” Jones † november 13, 2004…vocalist,was one of the founding members of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan
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Rainer Baumann † november 14, 2007…german guitarist & composer, member of the early 70ies krautrock band Frumpy from hamburg
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Charley Jordan † november 15, 1954…St. Louis blues singer, songwriter and guitarist,he was known for a unique style that drew on his rural roots
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Ken Laymance † november 15, 2006…guitarist, singer for mid 60s high school band "Billy And The Kids",later a radio dj (DJ Kenny Mac) in ukraine
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JD. Sumner † november 16,1998…singer,known f/ his deep voice.wrote more than 700 songs.featured on most of Elvis’ studio recordings between 1971 & '77
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Derek B † november 16, 2009…rapper,producer,remixer.one of the first UK hip-hop stars to enjoy chart success and an influence on future urban artists
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John Glascock † november 17,1979…bassist:Jethro Tull('75-'79)The Juniors('62-'64),The Gods('65-'69)Head Machine(70),Toe Fat(69-70)Chicken Shack(71-72)
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Bim Sherman † november 17, 2000…jamaican singer. "reggae's sweetest voice". his music combining influences from all around the world, notably india
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Junior Parker † november 18, 1971…memphis blues singer He is best remembered for his unique voice which has been described as honeyed & velvet-smooth
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Cab Calloway † november 18,1994…scat singer, whose band was one of the most popular big bands of the ’30s & ’40s. a pioneer of the „Moonwalk“
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Osvaldo Fresedo † november 18, 1984…argentine tango musician,bandleader, composer "El Pibe de la Paternal“
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Cy Coleman † november 18, 2004…composer,songwriter, jazz pianist."The Best is Yet to Come"was the last song that Sinatra sang in public on 2/25/1995
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Doug Sahm † november 18, 1999…singer, songwriter,one of the most important figures in Tex-Mex.founder & leader of the 60s band The Sir Douglas Quintet
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Danny Whitten † november 18,1972…guitarist,songwriter best known for his work w/ Neil Young and Crazy Horse.Neil wrote this song about danny in 1971
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Kevin DuBrow † november 19, 2007…rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1973 until his death
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Jenny Ross † november 20, 2005…keyboard, vocalist…was a member of the english post-punk band Section 25
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Chris Whitley † november 20, 2005…singer,songwriter. Whitley's career spanned a wide range of styles, from pop, grunge and jazz to avant-garde noise
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Matthew Ashman † november 21, 1995…guitarist, member of Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow
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Chris Larkin † november 21, 2007…keyboardist, songwriter, member of Kenn Kweder And The Secret Kidds and The Vels
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Hadda Brooks † november 21, 2002…pianist,vocalist,composer. she was billed as "Queen of the Boogie"
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Michael Hutchence † november 22,1997…australian singer-songwriter for INXS “Some silken moment goes on forever and we're leaving broken hearts behind”
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Aljoscha Rompe † november 23,2000…punk singer,he founded in 1983 the DDR punk band "Feeling B" w/ Paul Landers(gtr), Flake Lorenz(key),later Rammstein
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Klaus Kinski † november 23,1991…german actor and performer "I decide who offends me"
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Freddie Mercury † november 24, 1991…british indian singer, frontman of the rock band Queen.one of the greatest rock singers of the 1970s and 1980s
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Nick Drake † november 25, 1974…was an english singer-songwriter legend, best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumn tinged songs
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Robert H-Bomb Ferguson † november 26,2006…singer,pioneer of the '50s rock'n'roll sound,sang & played piano in a flamboyant style,wearing colorful wigs
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Polo Montañez † november 26,2002…cuban singer,songwriter.known as the Guajiro Natural because of his humble personality & songs about the peasant life
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Mat Arluck † november 26,2009…was the guitarist for chicago metal band, Sweet Cobra.
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Barbara Acklin † november 27,1998…soul singer and successful songwriter during the ’60s and ’70s. her biggest hit was "Love Makes a Woman" in 1968
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Don Butterfield † november 27, 2006…jazz tuba player.played on recordings for a variety of artists & on tv & film soundtracks including Godfather II
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Günter Noris † november 27,2007…german bandleader,"musical secret weapon"of the uniformed men brought them to the swing,founder of Bundeswehr bigband
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Lotte Lenya † november 27,1981…austrian singer and actress.she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill
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Arthur Honegger † november 27,1955…swiss composer, member of Les Six.his orchestral work Pacific 231 is a interpretation of the sound of a locomotive.
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Al Alberts † november 27,2009…singer who came to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the 1950s pop vocal group, the Four Aces.
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Jerry Edmonton † november 28, 1993…drummer for the rock band, Steppenwolf."The Pusher" & "Born to be wild", were used in the 1969 movie Easy Rider.
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Frédéric Chichin † november 28, 2007…french multi instrumentalist, songwriter. member of the duo Les Rita Mitsouko w/ Catherine Ringer, formed in 1980
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George Harrison † november 29,2001… guitarist,singer-songwriter,film producer,lead guitarist f/The Beatles,member of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys
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Bess Lomax Hawes † november 27,2009…guitarist,singer for the politically charged Almanac Singers, a folk group that included Woody Guthrie,Pete Seeger
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Kathy Acker † november 30, 1997…experimental novelist, prose stylist, postmodernist & sex-positive feminist writer.collaborated w/ The Mekons in 1996
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Bobbi Brat † november 30,1988…punk singer, well-known on the california punk scene in late 70s & early 80s, she fronted the goth-punk band, Red Scare
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Munetaka Higuchi 樋口 宗孝 † november 30, 2008…drummer of the heavy metal band, Loudness.the first japanese heavy metal act signed in the united states
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Lee Dorsey † december 1, 1986…R&B singer,he's referenced in the Beastie Boys' song lyrics for "Sure Shot...everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey"
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Magic Sam † december 1, 1969…blues musician, known for his distinctive tremolo guitar playing,he made his first own makeshift guitars from cigar boxes
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Darío Moreno † december 1,1968…turkish-jewish singer,composer, lyricist & guitarist,who attained fame and made a remarkable career centered in France
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Tyrone Taylor † december 1,2007…reggae singer,the raspy voiced crooner was popularly known for the self produced hit “cottage in negril” in early 80s
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Odetta Holmes † december 2,2008…singer,actress,guitarist, songwriter,human rights activist,often referred to as The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement
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Kevin Coyne † december 2,2004…singer,composer,had rejected in '71 the offer to become the new singer of the Doors,because he didn't like leather pants
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Mariska Veres † december 2, 2006…dutch lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue, best known for their biggest hit, "Venus" in 1970
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Martin Tamburovich † december 2,2003…vocalist for The Reactionaries.formed the band in '78 w/his San Pedro classmates D.Boon,Mike Watt,George Hurley
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Michael Hedges † december 2, 1997… composer and acoustic guitaris,twho is mostly remembered for his stellar acoustic guitar work
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David Blue † december 2, 1982…folk singer songwriter, actor, his most famous song, “Outlaw Man” was covered by the Eagles on their Desperado album
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Eric Woolfson † december 2, 2009…scottish lead singer, songwriter, lyricist, executive producer, pianist, and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project
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Al "TNT" Braggs † december 3,2003…singer, musician and songwriter,a member of The Forever Fabulous Chickenhawks
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Phil Medley † december 3,1997…songwriter notable for his composition "Twist & Shout", co-wrote w/Bert Russell.the song was made famous by the Beatles
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Frank Zappa † december 4,1993…composer,guitarist,producer, his career spanning more than 30 years,one of the most significant figures in music history
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Karlheinz Stockhausen † dec. 5,2007…composer.one of the 1st to understand the creative importance of electronic sound in 20th cent. contemporary music
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Jack Rose † december 5,2009…guitarist,founding member of Pelt,he incorporated elements of drone,ragtime,folk,blues& eastern classical into his playing
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Lucienne Boyer † december 6, 1983…was a french female singer, best known for the song "Parlez-Moi D'Amour" written by Jean Lenoir in 1930
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Pavlos Sidiropoulos † dec. 6,1990…greek rock musician during 70s & 80s…dedicate to 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos killed by police † 12-6-2008
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Aziz Mian † december 6,2000…one of Pakistan's most famous traditional Qawwals.he's responsible for longest commercially released Qawwali,over 115 min
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Danny Williams † december 6, 2005…was a south african pop singer.best known for the number one hit w/ his cover version of "Moon River" in 1961
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"Leadbelly" Hudson William Ledbetter † december 6, 1949…folk & blues musician,notable for his strong vocals & his virtuosity on the 12-string guitar
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Roy Orbison † dec.6,1988…one of the great rock'n'roll voices,sang heartbroken ballads & bluesy rockers alike,running up a formidable hit streak in 60s
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Hanns Dieter Hüsch † dec. 6,2005…author,songwriter,one of the most productive & successful representatives of literary cabaret in germany in 20th cent
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Darby Crash † december 7, 1980…punk singer,he co-founded w/ Pat Smear The Germs.their music was influential to many later punk & alternative rock acts
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Jay McShann † december 7, 2006…blues, jazz and swing bandleader, pianist and singer.his kind of music became known as "the Kansas City sound"
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John Lennon † dec.8,1980…as the most daring & outspoken of the Beatles,he helped shape the agenda of 60s socially & politically,no less than musically
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José Nicolás Libertella † dec.8, 2004…also known as "Pepe Libertella" was an important Italo-Argentine bandoneon player,bandleader,arranger & composer
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Antônio Carlos Jobim † dec.8,1994…songwriter, composer, arranger, singer,pianist/guitarist.a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style
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Martha Tilton † dec. 8, 2006…popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recordings w/ Benny Goodman.was sometimes introduced as The Liltin' Miss Tilton
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Rubén González † december 8,2003…cuban pianist,member of the Buena Vista Social Club, one of the most important pianists of the cuban music style Son
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Big Walter "Shakey" Horton † december 8, 1981…was an american blues harmonica player.one of the most influential harmonica players in history of blues
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John Mills Sr † dec. 8,1967…member of vocal quartet The Mills Brothers The brothers' father,John Mills Sr. joined the group when John Jr. died in 1936
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Hollywood Fats † december 8, 1986…was a blues guitarist,he worked w/ musicians like Jimmy Witherspoon, JB Hutto, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters,
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Mary Hansen † december 9, 2002…guitarist, singer, member of Stereolab. joined Stereolab as 2nd vocalist in 1992, occasionally she sang lead vocals
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Patty Donahue † december 9, 1996…was the american lead singer of the 1980s experimental new wave band from Akron, Ohio, The Waitresses
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Henning Christiansen † december 10, 2008…was a danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement
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Henry Cowell † dec.10,1965…composer,music theorist, pianist,Professor at ColumbiaUniversity in New York.his students included John Cage & Lou Harrison
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Clifton Chenier † december 12, 1987…singer and accordionist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun & Louisiana Creole music,w/ R&B, jazz & blues influences
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Libertad Lamarque † december 12, 2000…argentine actress, singer.queen of melodramas. she filmed first argentine film w/ sound ¡Tango! in 1933.
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Ian „Stu“ Stewart † dec.12, 1985…keyboardist,cofounder of The Rolling Stones.dismissed from the line-up,but he remained as road manager & piano player
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Harry Barris † december 13,1962…singer,composer,he composed "I Surrender Dear" w/ lyrics by Gordon Clifford.it was first performed by Bing Crosby 1931
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Homesick James † december 13, 2006…blues musician, he developed a self-taught style of slide guitar through playing at local dances in his teens
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Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky † december 13, 2002…canadian rock musician. he played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful
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Chuck Schuldiner † december 13, 2001…singer, songwriter, rhythm and lead guitarist of the band Death.musical genre innovator.the father of Death Metal
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Maurice Emmanuel † december 14, 1938…french composer,he composed three operas, two symphonies and a symphonic poem, a suite française & an overture
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Dinah Washington † december 14, 1963…blues, R&B and jazz singer.became one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century
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Ike Turner † december 12, 2007…musician, producer and band leader, he is likely best remembered however, for his work with one-time wife, Tina Turner
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Kurt Winter † december 14, 1997…was a songwriter and guitarist who replaced Randy Bachman in the Guess Who in 1970
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Davey Graham † december 15, 2008…was an influential british acoustic guitarist who came to prominence during the british folk revival of the 1960s
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Glenn Miller † december 15, 1944…trombonist, composer,bandleader in the swing era. he was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943
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Rufus Thomas † december 15, 2001…r&b,funk singer,scored several hit singles during the ’50s & ’70s. known for his comical songs & colorful stage dress
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Sylvester James † december 16, 1988…disco and soul singer, who had hits in the late ’70s with “Dance” “You Make Me Feel” and “Can’t Stop Dancing”
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Jackie Mittoo † december 16, 1990…jamaican keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. he was a founding member of The Skatalites
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Stuart Adamson † december 16, 2001…guitarist,vocalist,songwriter. founded the scottish punk band The Skids in '77,later the Big Country & The Raphaels
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Camille Saint-Saëns † dec.16, 1921…french composer, organist,conductor,pianist.best known for his great zoological fantasy The Carnival of the Animals
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Don Ellis † dec.17,1978…jazz trumpeter,drummer, composer,bandleader,film composer,among other works contributing a score to 71's The French Connection
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Grover Washington Jr. † december 17, 1999…jazz-funk,soul-jazz saxophonist,co-founder & one of the most important stylists of the smooth jazz genre
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Gilbert Bécaud † december 18, 2001…french chansonnier, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances
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Michael Clarke † december 19, 1993…drummer, best known as the drummer for the 1960s rock music group The Byrds from 1964 to 1967
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Kirsty MacColl † december 18, 2000…english singer-songwriter. she scored several pop hits from early 80s to early 90s_this is my favorite xmas song¡
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May Singhi Breen † dec.19, 1970…The Ukulele Lady, it was through her efforts that ukulele arrangements appear on all printed copies of popular music
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Charlie Burse † december 20, 1965… blues musician best known for his skill w/ the ukulele. member of Memphis Jug Band & Memphis Mudcats
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Bobby Darin † december 20, 1973…singer, actor. he performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country
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Hank Snow † december 20, 1999…country musician.Elvis Presley,Rolling Stones,Ray Charles,Johnny Cash,Emmylou Harris,among others have covered his music
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André Jolivet † december 20,1974…composer,founded avantgarde group of french composers "Jeune France", which saw itself as a reaction to neoclassicism
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Brittany Murphy † december 20, 2009…actress, in 2006, Murphy and Paul Oakenfold released the club hit single "Faster Kill Pussycat"
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Albert King † december 21,1992…blues guitarist,singer."The Velvet Bulldozer" one of the "3 Kings of the Blues Guitar"along w/B. B. King & Freddie King
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Dave Dudley † december 22, 2003…was a popular country singer who is best remembered for his truck-driving themed records.
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Hans Koller † december 22, 2003…was one of the best known austrian Jazz musicians and an abstract painter.
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Joe Strummer † december 22,2002…co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of The Clash, arguably the most influential band on modern rock
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Dale Boon † december 22, 1985…guitarist & vocalist of punk rock icons Minutemen,their eclectic & experimental attitude was pioneering alternative rock
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Eddie Hazel † december 23, 1992…was a pioneering funk guitarist best remembered for his work w/ Parliament and Funkadelic
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Peter „Piet“ Janssens † dezember 24,1998…german musician and composer, co-founder of music genre "Sacro Pop"
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Johnny Ace † december 25, 1954…r&b singer during the early ’50s. his first gig of prominence came when he joined B.B. King’s band
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Robert Ward † december 25, 2008…blues and soul guitarist.he played the guitar w/ a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from the Magnatone amplifier
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Bryan MacLean † december 25, 1998…songwriter and guitarist best known for his work in the ’60s psychedelic garage rock band "Love", formed in 1965
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Dean Martin † december 25, 1995…italian-american singer,film actor & comedian,who was one of the biggest names in entertainment,member of the Rat Pack
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Eartha Kitt † december 25, 2008…actress, singer, cabaret star. her exotic presence on film made her a pop culture icon who is beloved to this day
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James Brown † dec. 25, 2006…r&b performer like no other:The Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother No 1,Mr. Dynamite,The Hardest Working Man In Show Business
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Vic Chesnutt † december 25, 2009…singer-songwriter, he’s one of those rare talents that was rightfully called a songwriter’s songwriter
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Curtis Mayfield † dec. 26, 1999…a pioneering soul & funk musician,a voice for civil rights during ’60s.known for his anthemic music w/The Impressions
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Hoagy Carmichael † december 27, 1981 …composer,he wrote three of the most recorded songs in history: Stardust, Georgia on My Mind & Heart and Soul
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Delaney Bramlett † dec. 27, 2008…was one of popular music’s greatest unsung heros.he produced, played w/ or wrote songs for a who’s who of rock music
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Chris Bell † dec. 27, 1978…guitarist,singer,songwriter who is best remembered as a founding member of the highly influential power pop band Big Star
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Pierre Delanoë † december 27, 2006…french songwriter,he wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark,Gilbert Becaud
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Heinz Kiessling † december 27, 2003…german musician, conductor, composer, producer, best known from his work for popular films & television programs
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Rudi Schuricke † december 28, 1973…german singer & actor in the 1930/40s, member of the Spree Revellers and the Schuricke Terzett
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Maurice Ravel † december 28, 1937…french composer of impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral,instrumental textures & effects
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Freddie King † dec. 28,1976…guitarist,singer.one of "3 Kings of Electric Blues" he had a 20 year career,became established as an influential guitarist
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Dennis Wilson † dec. 28,1983…Beach Boys "They say I live a fast life.Maybe I just like a fast life…It won’t last forever,either.But the memories will"
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James "The Rev" Sullivan † dec. 28, 2009…drummer,back-up vocalist for the Avenged Sevenfold,lead vocalist in the avant-garde metal band Pinkly Smooth
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Tim Hardin † dec. 29, 1980…singer-songwriter.his 1966s debut album is a milestone in popmusic,"If I Were a Carpenter" is one of the most covered songs
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Florian Fricke † dec.29, 2001…electronic music pioneer,member of Popol Vuh.his recordings w/Moog III left an indelible mark on german electronic music
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Paul Whiteman † december 29, 1967…bandleader,his 1st record "Whispering"(1920) sold nearly 2 million copies,became the 1st million seller in pop music
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Goree Carter † december 29, 1990…singer,guitarist, best known for his 1949 single "Rock Awhile",has been cited as one of the 1st rock'n'roll record
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Arsenio Rodríguez † dec.30,1970…cuban musician,developed the son montuno & other afro-cuban rhythms in the 1940s and 50s.the true creator of the mambo
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Willie Brown † december 30, 1952…was an american delta blues guitarist and singer
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Richard Rodgers † december 30, 1979…american composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals
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Rowland S.Howard dec. 30, 2009…australian guitar genius & songwriter,best known for his use of electric guitar audio feedback in The Birthday Party
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Miki Zone † december 31,1986…guitarist and songwriter,was a member of The Fast and Man 2 Man
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Ricky Nelson † december 31, 1985…singer, instrumentalist, composer, and actor.he placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973
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Hank Williams † january 1,1953…singer,an icon of country music,one of the most influential songwriters of 20th century.pioneer of the honky tonk style
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Buck Ram † january 1, 1991…songwriter, producer, arranger. best known for his work w/ The Platters, he wrote their biggest hits
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Maurice Chevalier † january 1, 1972…french actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer
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Lhasa de Sela † january 1, 2010…mexican singer and songwriter,she sang in spanish, english and occasionaly, but beautifully, in french
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Alexis Korner † january 1,1984…blues musician,"the Founding Father of British Blues".a major influence on the sound of the british music scene in 60s
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Townes Van Zandt † january 1,1997…country-folk singer-songwriter, performer, and poet."one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation"
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Gregory Slay † january 1, 2010…was the drummer for birmingham, alabama alternative rock band, Remy Zero, formed in 1989
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Ron Asheton † january 1, 2009…guitarist,founding member of The Stooges.his fuzzy guitars helped define a sound that was the blueprint for punk rock
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Erroll Garner † january 2,1977…jazz pianist,composer known for his swing playing & ballads.best-known composition, Misty, has become a jazz standard.
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Juan García Esquivel † january 3, 2002…mexican band leader, "The King of Space Age Pop" he combined elements of lounge music and jazz w/ Latin flavors
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Phil Lynott † january 4, 1986…was the lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter for the popular ’70s irish rock band, Thin Lizzy
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Pino Calvi † january 4, 1989…italian pianist and soundtrack composer for films and TV series
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Paul Chambers † january 4,1969…one of the most influential jazz bassists of 20th century. a prominent figure in many rhythm sections during 1950/60s
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Teddy Grace † january 4, 1992…was an american jazz vocalist. she became a professional singer in 1931
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Ada Falcón † january 4,2002…argentine tango dancer,singer, actress,best known f/her tango work w/Francisco Canaro.made over 200 recordings in 1920/30s
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R.D.Burman † january 4,1994…bollywood composer.revolutionized the filmi music.his style & techniques continue to be followed by the composers of today
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Sandro de America † january 4, 2010…argentine singer,actor. “father of spanish rock”,the 1st latino performer to sell-out Madison Square Garden
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Charles Mingus † january 5,1979…jazz bassist,composer.known for his activism against racism.one of the most important composers and performers of jazz
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Buzz Busby † january 5, 2003…bluegrass musician."father of D.C. bluegrass". best known for his 1957 rockabilly single "rock 'n' roll fever"
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Daphne Oram † january 5,2003…one of the central figures in development of british experimental electronic music.the creator of the "Oramics" technique
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Sonny Bono † january 5,1998…singer,he wrote,arranged & produced a number of hit records w/singles like "I Got You Babe","The Beat Goes On","Bang Bang"
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Willie Mitchell † january 5,2010…producer,arranger,best remembered as the esteemed producer who helped develop the Memphis soul sound of ’60s & beyond
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Dizzy Gillespie † january 6,1993…jazz trumpet virtuoso & gifted improviser,bandleader,composer, major figure in the development of bebop & modern jazz
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Michel Petrucciani † january 6, 1999…one of the best jazz pianist. in 1986, at age 21,he became the 1st french musician to sign w/ the Blue Note Label
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Lou Rawls † january 6, 2006…soul,jazz singer,actor"the funkiest man alive" he had a wide vocal range,best known f/an unmistakable,mentholated baritone
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Sneaky Pete Kleinow † january 6,2007…pedal steel player.member of Flying Burrito Brothers.one of the 1st pedal steel players to work in a rock context
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Johnnie Mae Matthews † january 6,2002… singer,producer."Godmother of Detroit Soul"was one of the first black women to actively own a recording company
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Cyril Davies † january 7,1964…one of the 1st british blues harmonica players.founding member of british influential 60s r&b group "Blues Incorporated"
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Larry Williams † january 7, 1980…rock'n'roll singer, songwriter,pianist,best known for writing & recording some rock'n'roll classics from 1957 to 1959
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James Carr † january 7, 2001…soul singer,came to prominence during the mid-1960s.he has often been recognized as one of that era's greatest vocalists
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David McWilliams † january 8, 2002…northern irish singer, songwriter, and guitarist. he landed three albums in the UK albums chart in the mid 1960s
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Ron Goodwin † january 8, 2003…british composer and conductor. best known for his Miss Marple theme in the 1960s, he worked on more than 60 film scores
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Sara Carter † january 8, 1979…country music musician.she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in 1920/30s
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Stephen Clark † january 8, 1991…co-lead guitarists for british hard rock band Def Leppard up until his death in 1991
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Tyrone "Crusher" Green † january 8, 2002…drummer, was a member of Wilson Pickett's band, The Midnight Movers for 35 years
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Willa Mae Buckner † january 8,2000…blues singer “The Snake Lady” showcasing herself as a blues singer,burlesque stripper, contortionist,fire swallower
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Kurt Schwitters † january 8,1948…german Dadaist,he worked in several genres & media;poetry,sound,painting,sculpture,graphic design,installation art
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Georges "Georgius" Guibourg † january 8, 1970…was a french singer, author, writer, playwright, and actor,author of more than 1,500 songs
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Dave Dee † january 9, 2009…english singer,songwriter,frontman for 1960s band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.co presenter of the german Beat-Club
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Silas Hogan † january 9, 1994…louisiana swamp blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player
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Joe Farrell † january 10, 1986…jazz saxophonist, flutist. best known for his albums on CTI records, member of Chick Corea's Return To Forever in 1971
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Bryan Gregory † january 10, 2001…guitarist, founding member of The Cramps.known for his oozing guitar sound, long hair w/ a skunk stripe over his eye
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Kenny Pickett † january 10, 1997…singer of the Creation.they had an action-packed stage show where Pickett painted canvasses and then set fire to them
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Mano Solo † january 10, 2010…french singer, artist."Freedom or death - I'll have them both!" he declares in one of his openly autobiographical song
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Chester Arthur Burnett "Howlin' Wolf" † january 10, 1976… blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. one of the most influential blues musicians
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Fabrizio De André † january 11,1999…singer-songwriter.he's regarded as 1 of the best italian singers & composers, especially in his hometown of Genoa
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Pete Candoli † january 11,2008…swing,jazz trumpeter.became a favorite collaborator of many influential musicians,including Henry Mancini,Frank Sinatra
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Jimmy Griffin † january 11, 2005…singer, guitarist, songwriter w/the '70s band Bread,they were a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock"
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Spencer Dryden † january 11, 2005…dummer, who was best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Dinosaurs
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Micky Finn † january 11, 2003…percussionist and sideman to Marc Bolan in his band Tyrannosaurus Rex, and later, the 1970s glam rock group, T.Rex
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Heiner Pudelko † january 11, 1995…singer,frontman of german band Interzone.their selftitled debut album in 1981 is a milestone in german music history
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Mick Green † january 11, 2010…guitarist.he's best known playing with Johnny Kidd & The Pirates,in 2008, he performed regularly w/the Van Morrison band
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Maurice Gibb † january 12, 2003…singer-songwriter.best known as a member of the trio the Bee Gees,formed with his brothers Robin and Barry
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Alice Coltrane † january 12, 2007…jazz pianist,harpist,composer.wife of John Coltrane.her piano playing was dense w/ arpeggios that suggested the harp
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Michael Brecker † january 13, 2007…saxophonist.was among the most influential jazz musicians since 1960s.his discography contains more than 900 albums
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Donny Hathaway † january 13, 1979…one of the most influential soul singer,best known for his duets in the 1970s with Roberta Flack
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André Kostelanetz † january 13, 1980…orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music
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Jay Reatard † january 13, 2010…garage punk musician from Memphis.released recordings as a solo artist & as a member of The Reatards and Lost Sounds
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Teddy Pendergrass † january 13,2010…soul singer.he first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes,before a successful solo career
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Juan d'Arienzo † january 14, 1976…argentine tango musician, arranger,bandleader, composer, also known as "El Rey del Compas"
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Daniel Balavoine † january 14,1986…french singer,songwriter. "king of french synthesized pop music"
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Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze † january 14,1999…british ethnic electronica and experimental musician
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Bobby Charles † January 14, 2010…songwriter.never learned to play an instrument & couldn't read music notes,penned a number of early rock'n'roll hits
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Junior Wells † january 15, 1998…blues vocalist,harmonica player,famous f/playing w/Muddy Waters,Buddy Guy,Bonnie Raitt,The Rolling Stones,Van Morrison
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Les Baxter † january 15, 1996…composer.best known for his 1950s exotic space age pop albums,he also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the tv show Lassie
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Harry Nilsson † january 15, 1994…songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s
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Yabby You † january 12, 2010…jamaican reggae singer and producer who came on the scene during the 1970s
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Noro Morales † january 16, 1964… puerto rican pianist and one of the most popular latin bandleaders of the 1940s and 1950s
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David Seville † january 16,1964… singer,songwriter.1958 his no-1-hit "Witch…" was the 1st experiment w/speeding an audio track to a high-pitched voice
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Will "Dub" Jones † january 16, 2000…r&b singer for The Coasters & The Cadets.best known f/his bass vocals on Coasters' hits Yakety Yak & Charlie Brown
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Atul Gautam † january 16, 2005…tabla player, an incredible virtuoso and a complex maestro of rhythm, member of nepali folk band Sukarma
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Stompie Mavi † january 17, 2008…african jazz musician
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Marko „Busch'n“ Busch † january 17, 2005…vocalist, bassist and founding member of german political punk rock group "Dritte Wahl", founded in 1988
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Billy Stewart † january 17, 1970…singer,his improvisational technique of doubling-up,scatting words & trilling his lips made his style unique in 1960s
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Czesław Niemen † january 17, 2004…was one of the most important and original polish singer-songwriters and rock balladeers
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Junior Kimbrough † january 17, 1998…a juke joint blues legend from Mississippi
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Uwe Nettelbeck † january 17,2007…writer,journalist,creator & producer of krautrock band Faust,changed the face of german rock music in the early 1970s
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Rex Gregory † january 18, 2008…bassist for Zakary Thaks, a garage band from corpus christi, texas, formed in the mid 1960s
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Brent Liles † january 18, 2007…was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981 - 1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange from 1988 - 1992
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Kate McGarrigle † january 18, 2010…canadian folk singer-songwriter,performed as a duo w/her sister Anna.she's the mother Martha & Rufus Wainwright
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Andy Palacio † january 19, 2008…was a belizean iconic musician, he was a leading activist for the Garínagu and their culture
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Carl Perkins † january 19, 1998…rockabilly musician, recorded most notably at Sun Records in Memphis,during 1950s.one of the architects of rock & roll
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Wilson Pickett † january 19, 2006…was a soul performer and songwriter who would be responsible for some of the genre’s greatest recordings
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Denny Doherty † january 19, 2007…singer, songwriter. he was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas
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Elis Regina † january 19, 1982…"Furação" "Pimentinha"…one of the most important brazilian singers of her time.
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David Newman † january 20,2009…saxophonist,played w/ Ray Charles for 12 yrs.known f/his hard bop style that has influenced generations of saxophonists
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Édith Lefel † january 20, 2003…french singer born in french guyana.a popular zouk-love singer,Zouk-love is a genre of popular french west indian music
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Whistlin' Alex Moore † january 20, 1989…was an american blues pianist, singer and whistler.
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Joe Ptacek † january 20, 2010…co-founder & lead singer f/ death-metal band Broken Hope.pioneer of the guttural style of death metal w/ growling vocals
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Jackie Wilson † january 21,1984…singer who came to be known as “Mr. Excitement” during a career that spanned from the ’50s until tragedy struck in '75
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Steve Wahrer † january 21, 1989…original drummer of the Trashmen, Wahrer’s main contribution to the band, “Surfin’ Bird” became a top 10 hit in 1964.
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Lamar Williams † january 21, 1983…bassist for the Allman Brothers Band from 1972 to 1976. he also played in the post-Allman Brothers’ group, Sea Level
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Walter Kubiczeck † january 21, 2009…composer, bandleader.wrote & arranged soundtracks in the GDR,best known f/ tv-series "Das unsichtbare Visier"1979
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Peggy Lee † january 21,2002…singer,she wrote music f/ films,acting,creating conceptual record albums,poetry,jazz,art songs & other genres in 7 decades
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Claire Waldoff † january 22, 1957…german singer. she was a famous cabaret singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s.
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Tommy Tucker † january 22, 1982…blues singer-songwriter and pianist.best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers"
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Aristotelis “Telly” Savalas † january 22, 1994…actor, singer, whose career spanned 4 decades.best known for title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak
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Rhett Forrester † january 22, 1994…was the lead singer of New York-based band Riot from 1981 until 1984.
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Billy Mackenzie † january 22, 1997…scottish singer.founding member of the new wave band the Associates, he collaborated w/ B.E.F.& YELLO & Apollo440…
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Charlie Cooper † january 22, 2010…member of electronic duo, Telefon Tel Aviv,w/Joshua Eustis. formed in 1999, the group released three albums
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Noel “Helno” Rota † january 22,1993…lead singer of french rock band,Les Negresses Vertes,backing vocalist in 1980s for french punk group Bérurier Noir
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Richard Berry † january 23, 1997…composer, singer. pioneer of rhythm & blues. in 1955,he wrote “Louie Louie” that would later recorded over 1000 times
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Edward "Kid" Ory † january 23, 1973…was a jazz trombonist and bandleader, one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz
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Thomas A. Dorsey † january 23, 1993…"the father of gospel music" "Take My Hand…"performed by Mahalia Jackson was a favorite of Martin Luther King Jr
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Terry Kath † january 23, 1978…lead guitarist, singer and founding member of pop-rock-jazz-fusion band Chicago, formed in 1967
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Allen Collins † january 23,1990…founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd,his unique playing guitar&writing songs,were important factors f/success of the band
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Lincoln Thompson † january 23, 1999…jamaican singer, musician,songwriter w/ the reggae band the Royal Rasses.known for his high falsetto singing voice
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Trish Keenan † january 14, 2010…singer & founding member of Broadcast,formed in 1995, one of the purest, most elegant pop voices of the last 15 years
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Donald R. Hooker † january 24, 2009…singer, songwriter, his 1st album "The Truth" (1972) is truly a forgotten gem of the 70s psychedelic folk rock era
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Pernell Roberts † january 24, 2010…actor,singer.best known for his role as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza
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Jonathan Larson † january 25, 1996…composer and playwright. best known for his musicals "Rent" and "tick, tick... BOOM!"
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Karen Young † january 26,1991…singer,best known f/ her disco hit "Hot Shot".the song was later used as a sample in Daft Punk's song "Indo Silver Club"
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Stevie Plunder † january 26, 1996…guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as founding member and guitarist for australian rock band The Whitlams
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Donnie Elbert † january 26,1989…soul singer who had a prolific career from the mid 1950s to the late 1970s.best known for his powerful falsetto voice
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Kenny Clarke † january 26, 1985…drummer,helped to define bebop drumming.the 1st to shift the time-keeping rhythm from the bass drum to the ride cymbal
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Mahalia Jackson † january 27, 1972… gospel singer.w/ her powerful, distinct voice, she became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world
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Jim Capaldi † january 28, 2005…english drummer and songwriter. he co-founded the psychedelic rock band Traffic w/ Steve Winwood
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Billy Powell † january 28, 2009…keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. he was discovered when he played the intro piece to "Free Bird" at a high school prom
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Willie Dixon † january 29, 1992…blues double-bassist,singer, songwriter.his songs were covered by some of the biggest artists of the more recent times
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Eric Ronald Griffiths † january 29, 2005…original guitarist of The Quarrymen,an english skiffle band, some of whose early members founded The Beatles
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John Martyn † january 29,2009…singer,guitarist.his voice which is steeped in pleasure & pain, joy & fear & love & hate,expresses emotion like no other
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Benjamin Smoke † january 29, 1999…a haggard southern drag queen singer, w/ a punk appearance, the voice of Tom Waits and the spirit of a philosopher
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Lightnin’ Hopkins † january 30,1982…guitarist,his guitar style & sly mix of humor & tradition mixing to make him 1 of the most popular blues performer
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Bob Thiele † january 30, 1996…producer,composer,in 1967, he wrote the lyrics of the classic "What a Wonderful World"
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Slim Harpo † january 31, 1970…one of the masters of the blues harmonica,the riff from his hit "Shake Your Hips" was used in the ZZ Top hit "La Grange"
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Cozy Cole † january 31,1981…jazz drummer,he worked w/ many of the greats in jazz,he's cited as an influence by many contemporary rock drummers
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Pauley Fuemana † january 31,2010…songwriter,singer of the music duo, OMC.the song has been cited as the biggest selling record from a New Zealand act
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Dewey Martin † january 31, 2009…first-rate drummer who supplied the attack behind the songs of Stephen Stills and Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield
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Hildegard Knef † february 1, 2002…german actress, singer and writer.one of the most important actresses of post-war germany.
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Richey Edwards (†) february 1, 1995…was rhythm guitarist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers
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Paul Baloff † february 2, 2002…singer,best remembered as a two-time lead singer of thrash metal band Exodus
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Joe Hunter † february 2, 2007…pianist in motown records' in-house studio band,1 of the original Funk Brothers,band director from '59 until '64
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Alla Rakha † february 3, 2000…indian tabla player.he was a frequent accompanist of Ravi Shankar.he popularized the art of tabla worldwide
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The Big Bopper † february 3, 1959…disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star
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Ritchie Valens † february 3, 1959…singer, songwriter, guitarist. rock and roll pioneer,Valens' recording career lasted only eight months
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Buddy Holly † february 3, 1959…pioneer of rock and roll.……– 1 year over w/ my series "† The Day the Music Died †". for more check my playlist…thanx¡¡¡
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Malcolm McLaren † april 8, 2010…former manager of Sex Pistols & New York Dolls.a guiding force behind punk.one of pop culture's most colourful figures
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Steve Reid † april 13, 2010…legendary drummer.played w/Fela Kuti,Miles Davis,SunRa,James Brown.during the 2000s,he performed w/Kieran Hebden(Four Tet)
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Peter Steele † april 14, 2010…lead singer,bassist,composer for Type O Negative & Carnivore & Fallout. a bass-baritone heavy voice became his trademark
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Devon Clifford † april 18, 2010…was the drummer for popular canadian dance punk band, You Say Party! We Say Die!
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Keith Elam "Guru" † april 19, 2010…rapper and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr. in 1993, Guru released the brilliant Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 album
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Walter Sear † april 29, 2010…composer,tuba,theremin player,synth pioneer, that ran the respected Sear Sound recording studio in NY for over 3 decades
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Will Owsley † april 30, 2010…singer,songwriter,engineer,was Amy Grant’s touring guitarist for 16 years,member of the '90s power pop band the Semantics
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Francisco Aguabella † may 7, 2010…afro-cuban percussionist,performed w/ Frank Sinatra,Tito Puente,Dizzy Gillespie,Carlos Santana,Cal Tjader,the Doors
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Lena Horne † may 9, 2010…popular & influential jazz vocalist and actress who broke many color barriers over a career that spanned nearly seven decades
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Ronnie James Dio † may 16,2010…heavy metal vocalist(Black Sabbath,Rainbow,Elf,Heaven & Hell,Dio)he popularized the "mano cornuto" in heavy metal music
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Bobbejaan Schoepen † may 17, 2010…belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian,a pioneer in european country music.best known as the belgium cowboy
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Herb Ellis † march 28, 2010…jazz guitarist. best known for his work w/ the Oscar Peterson Trio,played w/Jimmy Dorsey and Ella Fitzgerald
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Larry Cassidy † february 28, 2010…singer and bassist and frontman of the english post-punk & proto-techno band Section 25, formed in 1977
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Ron Banks † march 4, 2010…singer,founding member of detroit soul vocal group, the Dramatics,formed in 1962
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Etta Cameron † march 4, 2010…danish jazz singer, since the early 70's she has played a major role on the danish and european jazz scene
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Mark Linkous † march 6,2010…singer,songwriter,member of Sparklehorse & Dancing Hoods.after Vic & Jay already the 3rd great voice of our time leaves us
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Hank Jones † may 16,2010…pianist,jazz legend,recorded over 60 albums,worked w/Coltrane,Ella Fitzgerald.accompanied Marilyn Monroe in her birthday song
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Lolly Vegas † march 4, 2010…was the founding lead singer and guitarist for Redbone, formed in 1969
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Johnny Alf † march 4, 2010…an influential brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova
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Jean Ferrat † march 13, 2010…french author, poet, singer, whose communist views saw many of his compositions banned from broadcast in the 1960s.
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Lesley Duncan † march 12, 2010…singer-songwriter,best known for her work w/Dusty Springfield,Elton John,Pink Floyd,Alan Parsons Project during the 70s
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Andrew Wood † march 19, 1990…The Man of Golden Words.was the lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone, and earlier the singer & bassist of Malfunkshun
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John Ciambotti † march 24, 2010…bass player for 70s Bay Area rock band Clover, which backed Elvis Costello on his debut album "My Aim is True"
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Peter Herbolzheimer † march 27, 2010…the best german jazz arranger,trombonist,composer,bandleader.founder of the bigband "Rhythm Combination & Brass"
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Oneil Edwards † may 26, 2010…member of jamaican dancehall group, Voicemail.brought together at a local talent show in 1999.
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Dennis Hopper † may 29, 2010…actor,filmmaker & artist.the coolest 'middle finger' ever.1983,he sat in a chair w/ 6 sticks of dynamite & light the fuse
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Little Benny (Anthony Harley) † may 30, 2010…washington trumpet player,played a key role in the city’s funk & go-go scene.was a member of Rare Essence
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Jackson Kaujeua † may 27, 2010…was a namibian musician, composer and gospel singer, and a veteran of the namibian struggle for independence
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Ali-Ollie Woodson † may 30, 2010… R&B singer,best remembered as singer for the Temptations.his terms w/ the group were from '84 to '86 & '88 to '96
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Brian Duffy † may 31, 2010…fashion photographer,best known for his fashion photography of the 60/70s & for his cover shots for 3 David Bowie albums
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Stuart Cable † june 7, 2010…the original drummer for the british alternative rock band, Stereophonics. drummer for new welsh band, Killing for Company
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Marvin Isley † june 6, 2010…bassist for the Isley Brothers.he formed the crucial hook in the undulating '70s hit "Fight The Power"
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Crispian St. Peters † june 8, 2010…english pop singer-songwriter, best known for his two mid ’60s, “You Were On My Mind” and “The Pied Piper”
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Stella Nova (Steve New) † may 24, 2010…guitarist & singer for the Rich Kids, worked w/ a number of british punk rock/new wave bands in 70s & early 80s
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Ken Brown † june 9, 2010…perhaps best remembered as the guitarist in the Quarrymen who was to some, the main reason the Beatles ever formed
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Bill Dixon † june 16,2010…freeJazz trumpet legend,composer,professional musician for over 60 years,one of the most reliable exploratory voices in jazz
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Garry Shider † june 16,2010…guitarist,vocalist for Parliament-Funkadelic.best known for laying down some of the funkiest guitar lines in music history
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Larry Jon Wilson † june 21, 2010…country singer, songwriter w/ a funk attitude who found some success during the ’70s when he released four albums
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Pete Quaife † june 24, 2010…musician,artist,author.best known as the founding bassist for one of the most influential british invasion bands,the Kinks
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Fred Anderson † june 24, 2010…tenor saxophonist legend, owner of Chicago's jazz club Velvet Lounge and mentor to a generation of jazz musicians
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Rammellzee † june 29, 2010…influential New York graffiti pioneer, hip hop legend.he was a mysterious freak of the highest order…long live RAMM:ELL:ZEE
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Harvey Fuqua † july 6, 2010…R&B legend, songwriter,producer, founder of the Moonglows,one of the key figures of Motown Rec.early mentor of Marvin Gaye
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Robbie Jansen † july 7, 2010…south african musician,pioneer of cape jazz.his history in music reflects the history of coloured people under apartheid
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Sugar Minott † july 10, 2010…jamaican reggae pioneer, producer,his records are considered some of the biggest influences on reggae’s dancehall scene
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Fred Carter Jr. † july 17,2010…guitarist,composer,played on some of the biggest hits by Roy Orbison,Muddy Waters,the Band,Bob Dylan,Simon & Garfunkel…
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Harry Beckett † july 22, 2010…recognized as one of europe’s leading jazz trumpet players and one of the leaders of the british free jazz scene
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Phillip Walker † july 22,2010…blues guitarist,singer,who over the course of 50 years played w/Little Richard,Clifton Chenier,Lonnie Brooks,Etta James…
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Melvin Bliss † july 26, 2010….soul singer,in 1973, he released “Synthetic Substitution”,one of the most sampled songs in music history
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Abbey Lincoln † august 14, 2010…jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress, whose fierce voice and commitment to civil rights reinvented jazz singing
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Robert Wilson † august 15, 2010…founding bassist for influential funk group, the Gap Band. formed in 1967 by brothers Robert, Charlie & Ronnie Wilson
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Christoph Schlingensief † august 21, 2010…my fave artist and idol is gone…a sad day for me and the world of art¡
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George D. Weiss † august 23, 2010…songwriter who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of midcentury pop music, recorded by some of the biggest stars
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Solomon Burke † october 10,2010…"the king of soul",he wrote "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" in 1964 & it was later featured in movie Blues Brothers
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Peter Hofmann † 29 nov. 2010…german tenor,rock singer,best known for his role as Siegmund in Chéreau's centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Mike Starr † march 8, 2011…original bassist in the best grunge band "Alice in Chains", w/ whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993
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Lloyd Knibb † may 12, 2011…godfather of jamaican drumming, founding member of the Skatalites, the inventor of the ska beat
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Gil Scott Heron † may 27, 2011…musician, poet, helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression & spoken-word
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Amy Winehouse † july 23, 2011…one of the most talented soul singer of recent years "I didn't go out looking to be famous, I'm just a musician"…so sad¡
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Conrad Schnitzler † august 4, 2011…was an institution in the german electronic music scene for 30 years.he studied w/ Beuys. member of Tangerine Dream
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Marshall Grant † august 6, 2011…bassist & back-up singer for Johnny Cash's original backing duo, the Tennessee Two and later, the Tennessee Three
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Johnny Otis († jan.17, 2012) & Etta James († jan. 20, 2012)…the godfather of Rhythm & Blues & his nice niece left us and bequeathed us wonderful music
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Nils Koppruch † october 10, 2012…german singer-songwriter.member of Fink.he gave the german indie scene the simplicity back without to trivialize it
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Ray Manzarek † may 20, 2013…was an american musician, singer,producer,film director,writer, and the legendary co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors
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Lou Reed † October 27, 2013…irreplaceable rock icon…so sorry to hear his passing, a huge shock
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Big Bank Hank † november 11, 2014…the bronx-born rapper was one of hip-hop's first pioneers as one third of the Sugarhill Gang
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Edgar Froese † 20 January 2015…founder of electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream.“There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address"
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Diane Charlemagne † 28 oct. 2015…legendary dance music singer…in my Drum & Bass era, her voice has sweetened my time…so sad news
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David Bowie † 10 january 2016…we lost the most perfect musical hero.he changed our lives. without him, the world is less colorful…so sad so fuckin sad
