B. Smyth (Instagram photo) | Entertainment Tonight | R&B singer B. Smyth has died. He was 28 years old. The singer’s brother, Denzil Smith, revealed in an emotional video on Instagram that B. Smyth, born Brandon Smith, died Thursday morning from respiratory failure after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He added that while the musician was in the ICU, fans brought him a lot of smiles by creating social media challenges for his latest single, ‘Twerkaholic Part 2.’
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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November 2022
22: Erasmo Carlos, 81, Brazilian singer-songwriter (“Sentado à Beira do Caminho”), kidney disease; Pablo Milanés, 79, Cuban singer-songwriter.
21: Wilko Johnson, 75, English guitarist (Dr. Feelgood), songwriter (“Roxette”), and actor (Game of Thrones).
20: Joyce Bryant, 95, American singer, dancer and civil rights activist; David Ornette Cherry, 64, American musician, asthma attack; DJ Sumbody, South African amapiano* musician and record producer, shot; Riho Sibul, 64, Estonian singer and guitarist (Ultima Thule).
* Amapiano (Zulu for “the pianos” is a style of house music that emerged in South Africa in 2012. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterized by synths and wide percussive basslines. It is distinguished by high-pitched piano melodies, Kwaito basslines, low tempo 1990s South African house rhythms and percussions from another local subgenre of house known as Tribal house. || https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amapiano
19: Nico Fidenco, 89, Italian singer and composer (Bury Them Deep, Supermen Against the Orient, Black Emanuelle); Danny Kalb, 80, American blues guitarist (The Blues Project).
18: Michael Hampe, 87, German theatre and opera director, and academic, general manager of the Cologne Opera (1975–1995); Ned Rorem, 99, American composer (Miss Julie, Bertha, Air Music), Pulitzer Prize winner (1976); Serhiy Stepanenko, 58, Ukrainian bass guitarist (Komu Vnyz).
17: Azio Corghi, 85, Italian composer (Divara – Wasser und Blut) and musicologist; B. Smyth, 28, American singer and songwriter, pulmonary fibrosis; Tomáš Svoboda, 82, French-born Czech-American classical composer and pianist.
16: Mick Goodrick, 77, American jazz guitarist, complications from Parkinson’s disease.
15: Jin Tielin, 82, Chinese vocal coach, president of the China Conservatory of Music (1996–2009).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022
R&B Singer B. Smyth Dies at 28 From Pulmonary Fibrosis // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
