2000 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 2 – Nat Adderley (68), jazz cornet and trumpet player
  • January 16 – Gene Harris (67), jazz pianist
  • January 19
    • Irra Petina (91), operatic contralto
    • Josh Clayton-Felt (32), singer-songwriter (choriocarcinoma)
  • January 22 – Carlo Cossutta (67), operatic tenor
  • February 3 – Alla Rakha (80), tabla player
  • February 4 – Doris Coley (59), vocalist (the Shirelles)
  • February 7
    • Big Punisher (28), rapper (heart attack)
    • Dave Peverett (56) (Foghat)
  • February 11 – Lord Kitchener (77), calypsonian
  • February 12 – Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), U.S. vocal artist
  • February 19 – Marin Goleminov (91), violinist and composer
  • February 23 – Ofra Haza (42), singer
  • February 29 – Dennis Danell (38), guitarist (Social Distortion)
  • March 1 – Dennis Danell (38), Social Distortion (brain aneurysm)
  • March 4 – Walter Dana (97), polka-music promoter
  • March 5 – Alexander Young (79), operatic tenor
  • March 7 – Pee Wee King (86), country musician and songwriter (heart attack)
  • March 20 – Gene "Eugene" Andrusco (38), actor, singer (brain aneurysm)
  • March 27 – Ian Dury (57), English rock musician (liver cancer)
  • April 27 – Vicki Sue Robinson (45), US disco singer (cancer)
  • May 13 – Cesare Valletti (77), operatic tenor
  • May 20 – Jean Pierre Rampal (78), flautist
  • May 31 – Johnnie Taylor (66), singer
  • June 1 – Tito Puente (77), Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa musician
  • June 7 – James Moore (44), gospel singer
  • June 14 – Paul Griffin (62), pianist
  • July 6
    • Ľudovít Rajter (93), Slovak composer and conductor
    • Władysław “Władek” Szpilman (88), Jewish-Polish pianist who survived the Holocaust
  • July 11 – Jaroslav Filip (51), Slovak musician, actor
  • July 15 – Paul Young (53), English singer and percussionist of Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics (heart attack)
  • July 24 – Oscar Shumsky (83), violinist
  • July 28 – Jerome Smith (KC and the Sunshine Band)
  • August 10 - Suzanne Danco (89), operatic soprano
  • August 13 – Nazia Hassan (34), iconic Pakistani singer (lung cancer)
  • August 25
    • Jack Nitzsche (63), arranger, producer, songwriter and composer
    • Allen Woody (44), bass guitarist
  • September 12 – Stanley Turrentine (66), jazz saxophonist
  • September 21 – Bengt Hambraeus (72), composer for organ
  • September 26 – Carl Sigman (91), songwriter
  • October 1 – Cub Koda (51), singer, guitarist and songwriter (Brownsville Station)
  • October 3 – Benjamin Orr (53), bassist, vocalist of The Cars
  • October 18 – Julie London (74), US singer and actress
  • October 21 – Frankie Crocker, radio DJ
  • October 27 – Winston Grennan (56), Jamaican drummer
  • October 28 – Carlos Guastavino (78), composer
  • October 30 – Steve Allen (78), comedian, composer, talk show host, author
  • November 8
    • Brian Boydell (83), Irish composer
    • Dick Morrissey (60), UK tenor saxophonist (cancer)
  • November 12 – Stanley Turrentine (64), US tenor saxophonist (stroke)
  • November 16
    • DJ Screw (29), hip-hop DJ (codeine overdose)
    • Joe C. (26), rapper
  • November 30 – Scott Smith (45), bassist (Loverboy) (lost at sea)
  • December 17 – Harold Rhodes (89), inventor of Rhodes piano
  • December 19
    • Rob Buck (42), guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (liver disease)
    • Milt Hinton (90), jazz double bassist
    • Pops Staples (85), gospel and R & B musician
  • December 18 – Kirsty McColl (41), English singer songwriter (swimming accident)
  • December 24 – Nick Massi (65), bass singer in The Four Seasons

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)