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The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 2000s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Preston died on June 6, 2006, in Scottsdale, Arizona. [2] Preston's funeral was held June 21, 2006. At the funeral, which lasted almost three hours, Joe Cocker sang, Little Richard spoke, and a brass band played a version of "Amazing Grace". Other musical performers included the Temptations' lead vocalist Ali Woodson and singer Merry Clayton. A ...
Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), [3] [4] known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single " Wonderful Life ", which was an international hit the next year.
Upon McFerrin's death, the African-American tenor, George Shirley, wrote, "Robert McFerrin Sr.'s heart was that of a giant; as one of the world's greatest singers and courageous pioneers, he instilled within me and countless other black males the resolve to pursue our destinies as performers in the profession of grand opera. In spite of the ...
Impact and Influence of Black Singers from the 1950s. ... 2006 in New York City. King died on May 14 2015. He would have been 94-years old today. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images) ...
Rawls was born in Chicago on December 1, 1933, and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B. Wells projects on the city's South Side.He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older, and Curtis Mayfield.
Colin Gibb, the singer who represented the UK at Eurovision with British pop band Black Lace in 1979, has died just days after retiring, aged 70.. With Black Lace, the Leeds-born musician rose to ...
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music ... (1933–2006): soul, funk; Oscar Brown ... Black Rob: Hip hop; ...