Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths

Photo: Georgia Holt | The asterisk after the musician’s name indicates that we’ve put the Wikipedia bio in for your easy reference. If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com

December 2022
10: John Aler, 73, American lyric tenor; J. J. Barnes, 79, American R&B singer; Sulochana Chavan, 89, Indian Marathi singer (Sawaal Majha Aika!); Tracy Hitchings, 60, English singer (Landmarq), cancer; Georgia Holt*, 96, American singer and actress (Watch the Birdie, Grounds for Marriage), subject of Dear Mom, Love Cher; Tshala Muana, 64, Congolese singer (La Vie est Belle, Aya of Yop City); Aziouz Raïs, 68, Algerian chaabi singer; Kihnu Virve, 94, Estonian folk singer.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Holt

9: Jovit Baldivino, 29, Filipino singer (Pilipinas Got Talent) and actor, intracranial aneurysm; Herbert Deutsch*, 90, American composer, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer; Qamar Gula, 70, Afghan singer, cancer; Ruth Madoc, 79, British actress (Hi-de-Hi!, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Britain), and singer.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Deutsch

8: Djalma Corrêa, 80, Brazilian musician and composer; Yitzhak Klepter, 72, Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist (The Churchills, Kaveret); Leno], 73, Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer.

7: Roddy Jackson, 80, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and pianist.

6: Jet Black*, 84, English drummer (The Stranglers); Carmen Jara, 85, Spanish copla singer; Hamish Kilgour, 65, New Zealand musician (The Clean, Bailter Space); Edino Krieger, 94, Brazilian composer and conductor.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022

Photo: Cher letting her mom Georgia Holt wear her Kennedy Center Award
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