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