Category: Obituaries

  Accordionist Miguel Ahumada died yesterday in Valledupar (Colombia) of a heart attack. He was one of the top vallenato accordionists in Colombia and was…

One of the most popular Argentine folk singers, Mercedes Sosa, died today in Buenos Aires of liver disease. She was 74. Mercedes Sosa was born…

Mary Travers, part of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died at a Danbury, Connecticut hospital on Wednesday, succumbing after a long battle…

Argentine percussionist Ramiro Musotto died September 11 of 2009 in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) of pancreas cancer. He was 45. Ramiro Musotto was born in…

Guitarist and inventor, known throughout the musical world for changing the very sound of music with the electric guitar and innovative recording techniques, Les Paul…

Revered Hindustani singer Gangubai Hangal has died at a hospital in her home city of Hubli in Karnataka state (India). Hospitalized for a respiratory and…

Sarawakian musician Uchau Bilung, a master of the sape (a lute from the island of Borneo) died July 5, 2009. Two years ago, Mr. Bilung…

One of the masters of Hindustani classical music, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, died June 18 in San Anselmo (California) of a kidney ailment. The sarod…

The composer and percussionist Jesús Alfonso Miró, musical director of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas died last June 3 at the age of 60 years in…