Category: Obituaries

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…

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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"…

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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…

View More Ethiopian Singer Tigist Shibabaw of Bole 2 Harlem Dies in Bahar Dar

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…

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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…

View More Prominent Belizean Musician Andy Palacio Passes Away After Heart Attack and Stroke

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…

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Chilean charango virtuoso Valdo Delgado died in a car crash January 7 while touring Uruguay. He was 41. Delgado was traveling with fellow musician, multinstrumentalist…

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World Music Central brings you the list of musicians, scholars and music industry professionals who left us in 2007. January Del Reeves, 74, country music…

View More Music World Obituaries 2007

Tom Terrell’s sister, Bevadine, informed family and friends today that Tom’s battle with cancer ended this morning, November 29, at 5:05am. “I’m happy to say…

View More World Music Journalist Tom Terrell Loses Battle with Cancer