Oud player Salomon Amzallag, better known as Samy Al-Maghribi, died March 9, 2008. Born in Morocco in 1922, he soon became a well-known figure in Andalusian…
Sephardic Music Master Samy Al-Maghribi Dies in Canada
Category: Obituaries
Spanish Folk Singer Maria Dolors Laffitte Dies at 59
Maria Dolors Laffitte, a leading figure in Catalan and Occitan folk music, died February 15 at Hospital Josep Trueta in Girona (Spain). She was 59.…
Raymond Kane Dies at 82
Slack key guitarist Raymond Kane, winner of a 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Folk Heritage Fellowships, died February 27. Kane, who was 82, had been…
Flamenco Legend Gaspar de Utrera Dies at 75
One of Flamenco’s most iconic figures, Gaspar de Utrera, died Tuesday, February 26, in Utrera (Sevilla province). He had been homebound for nearly a year…
French Singer Henri Salvador Dies at 90
French crooner Henri Salvador, born in Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1917, died this morning in his Paris home of an aneurysm, according to Polydor, his…
Tata Güines, Cuban Percussion Legend Dies at 77
Cuban percussion maestro, Tata Güines, died Monday, February 4 in Cuba of kidney failure and high blood pressure. Known as the "rey de los tambores"…
Ethiopian Singer Tigist Shibabaw of Bole 2 Harlem Dies in Bahar Dar
Ethiopian Singer Tigist Shibabaw died in Ethiopia last week. Details are not known as to the cause of death or the exact date of her…
Mbira Master Hakurotwi Mude Dies at 72
One of Zimbabwe’s most famous Shona singers and renowned mbira player, Hakurotwi Mude, died the second week of January. “With a heavy heart, we write…
Prominent Belizean Musician Andy Palacio Passes Away After Heart Attack and Stroke
Andy Palacio, an iconic musician and cultural activist in his native Belize and impassioned spokesperson for the Garifuna people of Central America, was declared dead…
Argentine Musician Eduardo Pinto Dies in Car Crash in Uruguay
Argentine multi-instrumentalist Eduardo Pinto died in a car crash January 7 while touring Uruguay. He was 28. Pinto was traveling with a fellow musician, Chilean charango…