Famed musician, bandleader and independent record label owner Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. died Monday, May 21, 2012 at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Illinois from…
Polka’s Eddie Blazonczyk Dies
Category: Obituaries
Father of Go-Go Chuck Brown Dies at 75
African-American musician Chuck Brown, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellow Chuck Brown, who pioneered a musical genre popular in the Washington…
Legendary Puerto Rican Salsa Singer Junior Gonzalez Dies at 63
Legendary salsa singer and sonero like no other, Junior Gonzalez, died May 10th of pancreas and liver complications. He was one of the greatest salsa…
Canadian Music Community Mourns the Passing of Musician and World Music Promoter Billy Bryans
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…
Cuban Percussion Master Luis Abreu Dies at 73
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.…
The ‘Dame’ of Greek folk music Domna Samiou dead, 84
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.…
Radio Tarifa’s Vocalist Benjamín Escoriza Dies at 58
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 Master Drummer Frisner Augustin Dies
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…
Sudanese Singer and Musician Mohammed Osman Wardi Dies
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…
North Carolina Fiddler and Folk Musician Dies
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.…