Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of deaths in popular music 2010 Succeeded by 2011: Name Age Date Location ... Lead Singer for The Capris: 69: December 30, 2010: Cancer Bobby Farrell Boney M: 61:
The following is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who died in the 2010s decade. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Walter Horn Jr. (August 13, 1943 – April 14, 2010), known by the stage name Mississippi Slim, was an American blues singer and performer. [1] Horn was born in Shelby and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. In the early 1960s he worked as a tractor driver while singing in local clubs, and in 1968 moved to Chicago to pursue a singing career. [2]
Son House Mississippi John Hurt, 1964 Blind Lemon Jefferson Lonnie Johnson, 1941 Lead Belly Robert Jr. Lockwood, 1982 Sara Martin and Sylvester Weaver Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1972 Jay McShann in Edinburgh, c.1995 Memphis Minnie, 1930 Buddy Moss in Georgia prison camp, 1941 Ma Rainey Jimmy Rushing, 1946 Bessie Smith, 1936 Mamie Smith Henry Townsend, 1983 Ethel Waters, 1943 Curley Weaver Big ...
Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of music's great one-shot acts with the classic ballad "Stay," has died. Williams died ...
Calvin Leavy (April 20, 1940 – June 6, 2010) was an American soul-blues and electric blues singer and guitarist. [1] [2] He had a hit single in 1970, when "Cummins Prison Farm" peaked at number 40 on the US Billboard R&B chart and stayed on the chart for five weeks. [3]
Avicii was found dead in the afternoon hours of April 20, 2018, according to a statement from his rep. His tragic death came two years after he announced his retirement from touring in March 2016.
Theodore DeReese Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina. [2] [3] [4] Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially rose to musical fame as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.