Tuesday, March 19, 2013

19 Notable Singers Die Between March 1-17 (UPDATE)


Wikipedia's Deaths of 2013 site reveals a record breaking total of 19 notable Singers who passed away between March 1-17, note the following:

·         Jantje Koopmans, 89, Dutch singer.[12]
·         Jason Molina, 39, American singer-songwriter (Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co.), multiple organ failure.[24]
·         Bobby Smith, 76, American singer (The Spinners), complications of influenza and pneumonia.[28]
·         Jack Greene, 83, American country music singer ("Statue of a Fool", "There Goes My Everything"), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[47]
·         László Bódi, 47, Hungarian rock singer-songwriter (Republic), heart failure.[87]
·         Sripada Pinakapani, 99, Indian musician.[101]
·         Larisa Avdeyeva, 87, Russian opera singer.[110]
·         Georgette Plana, 95, French singer.[119]
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·         Maria Pakhomenko, 75, Russian singer, pneumonia.[154]
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·         Claude King, 90, American country music singer ("Wolverton Mountain").[175]
·         Jeffrey Skitch, 85, British opera singer and educator.[180]
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·         Chorão, 42, Brazilian musician (Charlie Brown Jr.).[191]
·         Stompin' Tom Connors, 77, Canadian country-folk singer ("The Hockey Song"), natural causes.[193]
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·         Fran Warren, 87, American singer ("Sunday Kind of Love") and actress (Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd).[244]
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·         Hà Thị Cầu, 85, Vietnamese xẩm singer.[245]
·         Müslüm Gürses, 59, Turkish singer and actor, complications from heart surgery.[253]
·         Bobby Rogers, 73, American soul singer and songwriter (The Miracles), complications from diabetes.[260]

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·         Jewel Akens, 79, American R&B singer ("The Birds and the Bees"), complications from back surgery.[285]
·         Magic, 37, American rap vocalist (Sky's the Limit), traffic collision.[297]


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UPDATE: 

6 more singers have passed away in March, making it a total of 25 as of March 20th!!  Note the following additions the Deaths in 2013 site:
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Eddie Bond died yesterday March 20th, note the etymology of Bond:  

bond (n.) Look up bond at Dictionary.comearly 13c., "anything that binds," phonetic variant of band (n.1). For vowel change, see long (adj.); also influenced by Old English bonda "householder," literally "dweller" 


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Note the following Singer Deaths for various months in 2012 (Feb, March, Dec), and 2013(Jan, Feb): 

  
Out of 416 Deaths in February 2012, 14 were Singers:

1 David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [15]
5 Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher. [76]
8 Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer. [116] (Italian)
    Jimmy Sabater, Sr., 75, American Latin musician. [123]
       Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer. [126]
11 Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), drowned. [162]
13 Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner). [175]
18 Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano singer, cancer. [262]
         Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications. [276]
22 Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator. [332] (Dutch)
24 Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction. [361] (Portuguese)
25 Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke. [372]
]29 Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack. [412]



Out of 458 Deaths in March 2012 , 13 were Singers:

1 Lucio Dalla, 68, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.[8]
2 Gérard Rinaldi, 69, French actor and singer (Les Charlots).[31] (French)

5 Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter (Sherman Brothers).[77]
6 Lucia Mannucci, 91, Italian singer.[84] (Italian)
7 Ramaz Urushadze, 72, Georgian footballer.[104] (Russian)
10 Domna Samiou, 83, Greek singer and traditional music researcher.[147]
13 Bodjie Dasig, 48, Filipino singer and songwriter, cancer.[189]
         Karl Roy, 43, Filipino singer (KapatidP.O.T.), cardiac arrest.[198]
22  Johnny McCauley, 86, Irish singer-songwriter.[316]
23 Eric Lowen, 60, American singer ("We Belong", "Everything I Wanted"), ALS[334]
24 Iqbal Bahu, 60, Pakistani singer, cardiac arrest.[338]
     Marion Marlowe, 83, American singer and stage actress, natural causes.[345]
     Nick Noble, 85, pop country singer ("The Tip of My Fingers", "Moonlight Swim").[347]



Out of 535 Deaths in the 31 days of December 2012, 13 were Singers:

1 Dee Harvey, 47, American singer.[7]
3 Jeroen Willems, 50, Dutch actor and singer, cardiac arrest.[43]
5 Sammy Arena, 81, American singer, multiple organ failure.[67]
9 Jenni Rivera, 43, American-born Mexican banda and norteño singer, plane crash.[147]
11 Toni Blankenheim, 90, German opera singer.[175]
         Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist.[184]
12 Manas Chakraborty, 70, Indian singer.[191]
16 Sheila McKinley, 71, Scottish singer, cancer.[250]
19 Inez Andrews, 83, American gospel singer (The Caravans), cancer.[293]
20 Kamil Sönmez, 65, Turkish singer and actor, State Artist, cerebral hemorrhage.[322]
22 Marva Whitney, 68, American singer.[358]
24 Ray Collins, 76, American singer (The Mothers of Invention), cardiac arrest.[372]
26 Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me"), complications from a heart attack.[403]


Out of 531 Deaths in the 31 days of January 2013 there were 14 were Singers:

4  Sammy Johns, 66, American singer-songwriter ("Chevy Van", "America").[73]
     Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu, 62, Turkish singer.[85]
6  Bart Van den Bossche, 48, Belgian singer and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.[122]
10 George Gruntz, 80, Swiss jazz musician.[179]
11 Khushi Murali, 45, Indian pop singer, cardiac arrest.[199]
17 Lizbeth Webb, 86, English soprano and stage actress.[327]
25 Gregory Carroll, 83,  R&B singer (The Four Buddies, The Orioles) songwriter ("Just One Look").[437]
          Aase Nordmo Løvberg, 89, Norwegian opera singer.[444]


Out of 497 Deaths, in the 28 days of February 2013, 19 were Singers:

1  Cecil Womack, 65, American musician and singer.[11]
4   Reg Presley, 71, British singer (The Troggs) and songwriter ("Love Is All Around"), lung cancer.[56]
6   Mo-Do, 46, Italian musician ("Eins, Zwei, Polizei"), apparent suicide.[78]
14  Goldie Harvey, 29, Nigerian R&B and pop singer and television personality, intracerebral hemorrhage.[202]
16 John Ayldon, 69, British opera singer.[232]
     Tony Sheridan, 72, English rock and roll singer, early collaborator with The Beatles.[242]
17 Shmulik Kraus, 77, Israeli actor and pop rock singer, swine influenza.[254]
      Mindy McCready, 37, American country music singer (Ten Thousand Angels), suicide by gunshot.[258]
          Mike Westhues, 64, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.[262]
18 Damon Harris, 62, American soul and R&B singer (The Temptations), prostate cancer.[271]
21 Magic Slim, 75, American blues singer and guitarist.[328]
          Cleotha Staples, 78, American gospel singer (The Staple Singers), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[333]
22  Behsat Üvez, 53, Turkish singer and composer, lung cancer.[349]

24 Aniello De Vita, 72, Italian singer and cardiac transplant surgeon.[366]
         Virgil Johnson, 77, American doo-wop singer (The Velvets).[371]

26 Bob Frídl, 65, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer.[408]
         Naarghita, 74, Romanian Hindu music singer.[415] (death announced on this date)
27 Richard Street, 70, American singer (The Temptations), pulmonary embolism.[442]
28 Daniel Darc, 53, French singer (Taxi Girl), drug overdose.[452]

26 Leroy Bonner, 69, American funk singer and guitarist (Ohio Players), cancer.[451]
      Gour Khyapa, 65, Indian Baul singer, traffic collision.[456]
27 Pham Duy, 91, Vietnamese songwriter.[470]
30 Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, natural causes.[503]
          Ann Rabson, 67, American blues singer and musician (Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women), cancer.[508]

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