In Memoriam|

Sarah Dash LaBelle

Photo: Sarah Dash of LaBelle in 2014 (from Wikipedia) | Again, the number of deaths from COVID is astounding. Please get vaccinated. Truly may save your life. If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost this past week, please check out http://www.wikipedia.com

September 2021

22: Matthew Strachan, 50, English composer (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and singer-songwriter (Next Door’s Baby).

21: Richard H. Kirk, 65, English electronic musician (Cabaret Voltaire, Sweet Exorcist) and songwriter (“Yashar”); La Prieta Linda, 88, Mexican singer and actress (Valente Quintero).

20: Sarah Dash, 76, American singer (Labelle); Gary Eckstein, 73, Israeli blues rock singer; Claude Lombard, 76, Belgian singer (“Quand tu reviendras”); Julz Sale, English post-punk singer and guitarist (Delta 5), cancer; Warner Williams, 91, American blues musician (Little Bit A Blues).

19: András Ligeti, 68, Hungarian violinist and conductor; Mats Paulson, 83, Swedish singer-songwriter (“Barfotavisan”, “Visa vid vindens ängar”) and painter; Marina Tucakovic, 67, Serbian lyricist (“Ovo je Balkan”, “Nije ljubav stvar”, “Ljubav je svuda”), complications from cancer and COVID-19.

18: Julos Beaucarne, 85, Belgian singer, writer and actor (The Mystery of the Yellow Room).

16: Geir Johnson, 68, Norwegian composer and writer; George Mraz, 77, Czech-born American jazz musician (Quest, New York Jazz Quartet, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra); Jane Powell, 92, American actress (A Date with Judy, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Royal Wedding), singer and dancer.

15: Norman Bailey, 88, British-born American opera singer; Leonard Gibbs, 73, American percussionist, prostate cancer.

14: Guilherme Inês, 70, Portuguese composer and percussionist (Quarteto 1111); Vicente Zarzo Pitarch, 83, Spanish horn player and writer.

13: George Wein, 95, American festival promoter and jazz pianist, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

12: Don Maddox, 98, American country singer (Maddox Brothers and Rose).

11: Giulia Daneo Lorimer, 89, Italian violinist and singer; María Mendiola, 69, Spanish pop singer (Baccara); Gloria Warren, 95, American actress (Dangerous Money, Cinderella Swings It, Bells of San Fernando) and singer.

10: Michael Chapman, 80, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (True North); Rosalía Garrido, 77, Spanish singer and politician; Leonid Lyubovskiy, 84, Ukrainian-born Russian composer and professor, COVID-19; Roger Newell, 73, English bassist (Rainbow Ffolly, Rick Wakeman, Marty Wilde), aortic aneurysm.

9: Susan Anway, American singer (The Magnetic Fields); Tino Contreras, 97, Mexican jazz musician and composer; Amanda Holden, 73, British musician, librettist (Bliss) and translator; Jean-Paul Jeannotte, 95, Canadian operatic tenor and artistic director (Opéra de Montréal).

8: Uno Loop, 91, Estonian singer and musician; Robert Prizeman, 68, British composer; Pulamaipithan, 85, Indian lyricist (Kudiyirundha Koyil, Neengal Kettavai, Manjal Nila).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2021

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