Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…
January 2017
4: Mike Gaborno, 51, American musician (Manic Hispanic), liver cancer; Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 88, Indian sitar player; Bade Fateh Ali Khan, 82, Pakistani singer, lung disease; Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor; Vlastimir Trajkovic, 69, Serbian composer.
2: Auriel Andrew, 69, Australian country musician; Barbara Fei, 85, Hong Kong opera singer.
1: Stuart Hamilton, 87, Canadian musician and broadcaster, prostate cancer; Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
December 2016
30: Allan Williams, 87, owner of the Jacaranda club where the Beatles first played.
28: Pierre Barouh, 82, French actor, writer and musician (A Man and a Woman), infarction; Knut Kiesewetter, 75, German jazz musician, singer-songwriter and producer; Debbie Reynolds, 84, American actress (Singin’ in the Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Irene) and singer, stroke.