1999 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 2 – Rolf Liebermann (88), composer
  • January 21 - Charles Brown, (76), blues singer and pianist
  • January 22 - Gabor Carelli (83), operatic tenor
  • January 23 – "Prince" Lincoln Thompson (49), reggae musician
  • February 3 – Gwen Guthrie (48), singer
  • February 4 – Kenneth C. Burns (68), country musician
  • February 12 – Toni Fisher (67), singer
  • February 14 - Buddy Knox (65), singer and songwriter
  • February 15
    • Lamont "Big L" Coleman (24), rapper (gunshot)
    • Agnes Bernelle (75), actress and singer
  • February 16 – Necil Kâzım Akses (90), Turkish composer (date of death from this contemporary newspaper)
  • March 2 - David Ackles (62), singer/songwriter
  • March 3 – Dusty Springfield (59), singer (breast cancer)
  • March 4 – Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor
  • March 7 - Lowell Fulson (77), blues guitarist and songwriter
  • March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director
  • March 13 – Bidu Sayão (97), Brazilian opera singer
  • March 26 – Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer (cardiac arrest)
  • March 28 - Freaky Tah (27), rapper (Lost Boyz) (shot)
  • March 29 – Joe Williams (80), jazz singer
  • April 1 - Jesse Stone (97), R & B musician and songwriter
  • April 3 – Lionel Bart (68), songwriter and composer
  • April 6 – Red Norvo (91), jazz musician
  • April 14 – Anthony Newley (67), songwriter, actor and singer
  • April 16 – Skip Spence (52), musician (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer
  • April 25
    • Roger Troutman (47), R&B singer (gunshot wounds)
    • Larry Troutman (54), R&B percussionist (suicide after killing younger brother)
    • Kemi Olusanya (35), British drum and bass duo Kemistry & Storm (freak highway accident)
  • April 26 – Adrian Borland (41), English singer, songwriter, guitarist (The Sound) (suicide)
  • April 27
    • Al Hirt (76), New Orleans trumpeter
    • Maria Stader (87), operatic soprano
  • April 30 – Darrell Sweet (51), drummer (Nazareth), heart attack
  • May 8 - Leon Thomas (61), jazz singer
  • May 14 – William Tucker, guitarist, Ministry, suicide by slitting own throat
  • May 17 - Bruce Fairbairn (49), producer
  • May 18 - Augustus Pablo (44), reggae producer and instrumentalist (collapsed lung)
  • May 26 – Paul Sacher (93), Swiss conductor
  • June 5 – Mel Tormé, (73), singer
  • June 15 – Fausto Papetti, (76), Italian saxophonist
  • June 16 - Screaming Lord Sutch (58), UK musician
  • June 21 – Kami, (26), Japanese drummer for Malice Mizer, subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • June 27 – Sven Einar Englund, (83), Finnish composer
  • July 1
    • Dennis Brown (42), reggae singer
    • Guy Mitchell (72), pop singer
  • July 3 – Mark Sandman, (46), alternative rock musician, member of Morphine, heart attack
  • July 6
    • Benny Bell, (93), musician
    • Joaquín Rodrigo (97), Spanish composer
  • July 11 – Helen Forrest (82), big band singer
  • July 13 - Louise Caselotti (88), operatic mezzo-soprano
  • July 17 – Kevin Wilkinson (41), drummer (suicide by hanging)
  • July 27 - Harry "Sweets" Edison (83), jazz trumpeter
  • July 29 - Anita Carter (66), country and folk singer
  • August 3 – Lesley Pitts (30), music publicist
  • August 20 – Bobby Sheehan (31), bassist for Blues Traveler (drug overdose)
  • August 25 – Rob Fisher (42), keyboardist and songwriter (cancer)
  • September 8 - Moondog (83), avant-garde musician
  • September 10
    • Beau Jocque (46), zydeco musician
    • Alfredo Kraus (72), opera singer
  • October 4 – Art Farmer (71), jazz trumpeter
  • October 6 – Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer
  • October 9 – Milt Jackson (76), jazz vibraphonist
  • October 10 – Robert Wright (90), songwriter and librettist
  • October 12 - Frank Frost (63), blues harmonica player
  • October 15 - Josef Locke (82), Irish tenor
  • October 16 – Ella Mae Morse, (75), singer
  • October 19 – Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter
  • October 26
    • Hoyt Axton (61), country music singer/songwriter (heart attack)
    • Rex Gildo (63), German singer
  • October 28 – Robert Linn (74), composer and teacher
  • November 8 - Lester Bowie (58), jazz trumpet player and composer
  • November 18 – Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician
  • December 3 – Scatman John (57), pop musician
  • December 6 – Todd Barnes (34), T.S.O.L.
  • December 10 – Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band (drug-related heart failure)
  • December 17 – Grover Washington Jr. (66), American saxophonist
  • December 18 - Joe Higgs (59), reggae musician
  • December 20 - Hank Snow (85), country music artist
  • December 26 – Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer

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