March 2017
7: Kamran Aziz, 85, Turkish Cypriot musician and pharmacist, pulmonary complications; Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya, 56, Indian folk singer, traffic collision.
6: Lars Diedricson, 55, Swedish singer (Snowstorm), songwriter (“Take Me to Your Heaven”) and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999; Robbie Hoddinott, 62, American guitarist (Kingfish); Alberto Zedda, 89, Italian conductor and musicologist.
5: Kurt Moll, 78, German opera singer.
4: Valerie Carter, 64, American singer-songwriter (Howdy Moon); Edi Fitzroy, 62, Jamaican reggae singer.
3: Misha Mengelberg, 81, Ukrainian-born Dutch jazz pianist and composer; Tommy Page, 46, American singer-songwriter (“I’ll Be Your Everything”) and music industry executive (Reprise Records, Billboard), suicide; Lyle Ritz, 87, American bassist and ukulelist.
1: Hiroshi Kamayatsu, 78, Japanese singer and guitarist (The Spiders), pancreatic cancer; Wally Pikal, 90, American musician.