Billy Bryans, winner of Canada’s prestigious Juno Award and a respected world music promoter, died peacefully in Toronto yesterday, April 23rd, at the age of…
Luis Abreu, one of the musicians of the legendary Cuban rumba group Los Papines, died Tuesday, April 17th in Havana. He was 73 years old.…
One of the country’s leading folk singers, Domna Samiou, passed away late on Saturday, leaving behind an irreplaceable gap in traditional Greek music and culture.…
Our Spanish colleague, Araceli Tzigane of Radio Nacional de España (RNE) – Radio Exterior, reports that Spanish singer Benjamín Escoriza, former vocalist of Radio Tarifa,…
Haitian musician Frisner Augustin passed away on February 28th, 2012 at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince (Haiti). He died of a brain hemorrhage. Frisner Augustin…
Covered by state television, thousands of fans gathered, along with friends, family and government officials, on Sunday at the Farouk Cemetery in Khartoum, Sudan to…
African American, “old time” stringband musician Joe Thompson passed away Monday, February, 21, 2012 due to declining health according to family. He was 93. Mr.…
Jaime Sabater Sr., better known as Jimmy Sabater died in New York City on February 8th, 2012. Jimmy Sabater was a legendary Latin music vocalist…
Piper and bagpipe maker Xosé Manuel Seivane Rivas, patriarch of the renowned Seivane family died today in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). He was 90 years…
The Grammy award winning blues, soul, jazz and gospel singer Etta James, best known for the sultry track “At Last,” passed away at California’s Riverside…