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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 1970s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died".. 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.
Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1952 [a] – August 26, 2004) was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single "Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2.
Laura Nyro (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; [1] born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer.She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and the 5th Dimension recording her songs.
Nicolette Larson was born in Helena, Montana. [4] [5] Her father's employment with the U.S. Treasury Department necessitated frequent relocation for the family.She graduated from high school in Kansas City, Missouri, where she attended the University of Missouri for three semesters and worked at waitressing and office jobs before beginning to pursue the musical career she had dreamed of since ...
25 famous Black singers and their most popular songs ... (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) – Credit: ... The “Godmother of Soul” is one of the most famous Black American female singers ever.
Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman's music career spanned the late 1970s through the early 1990s, and she was best known for her expansive contralto range. [3]
Three years after Manzie's death, McNair married Ben Strahan in 1979 in Las Vegas. [15] McNair and Strahan divorced in 1987. Her last marriage was to Charles Blecka in 2006, whom she was married to at the time of her death. McNair is the cousin of musician Curtis Knight. [16] [17]