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Many musicians have been murdered during their active career. Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in ...
Musical director/Keyboardist for Reba McEntire's road band: 28: March 16, 1991: Otay Mountain, San Diego, California, U.S. Plane crash [55] Paula Kaye Evans Back-up Singer for Reba McEntire's road band: 33: March 16, 1991: Otay Mountain, San Diego, California, U.S. Plane crash [55] Michael Thomas Guitarist for Reba McEntire's road band: 34 ...
[3] [4] [5] In 2020, XXL wrote that of 77 rapper deaths they examined, more than 40 remain unsolved, including the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G., and the 1999 murder of Big L.
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 1980s.
[4] 1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the "bullet catch" trick. One of the six marksmen had mistakenly loaded his rifle with a live bullet. 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York, during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River. He had ...
March 4, 1979: lymphatic leukemia: Freddy Owens Saxophonist for Bill Deal and the Rhondels: 29: March 4, 1979: Richmond, Virginia, U.S. Shot to death Roy Montrell: 51: March 16, 1979: Amsterdam, Netherlands: Drug overdose Zenon De Fleur Guitarist for The Count Bishops: 27: March 17–18, 1979: Car crash and subsequent medical complications Joe ...
Pop Smoke was gunned down by a 15-year-old shooter who ambushed the Brooklyn rapper with a group of teens bent on stealing the singer’s diamond-studded Rolex, a detective testified Friday. The ...
Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home from a music venue, at age 27. [2]