May is here and with it our round up of the music industry deaths in April. Last month saw far fewer, although still far too many, deaths than previous months with a ‘mere’ 48 joining the great gig in the sky.
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Caravelli, 88, French conductor and composer
Vladimir Orloff, 90, Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher
Ruth-Margret Pütz, 89, German coloratura soprano
2
Rick Elias, 64, American musician
Kim English, 48, American house and gospel singer-songwriter
3
Einar Iversen, 88, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
Maurice Pon, 97, French lyricist
4
Alberto Cortez, 79, Argentine singer and songwriter
Marilyn Mason, 93, American concert organist and academic
Tiger Merritt, 31, American singer and guitarist
5
Ib Glindemann, 84, Danish jazz composer and bandleader
Pastor López, 74, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
Samuel Pilafian, 69, American tuba player
Shawn Smith, 53, American singer, songwriter and musician
Davey Williams, 66, American avant-garde guitarist and music critic
Wowaka, 31, Japanese Vocaloid producer and vocalist
6
Jim Glaser, 82, American country music artist
7
Gino Stefani, 89, Italian jazz musician, musicologist, and semiologist
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Paul Severs, 70, Belgian singer
10
Earl Thomas Conley, 77, American country music singer-songwriter
11
Mus Mulyadi, 73, Indonesian singer
Ivan Ponomarenko, 73, Ukrainian opera singer
Gary Stewart, 62, American music executive and archivist (Rhino Records, Apple Inc.)
12
Dina, 62, Portuguese singer
Johnny Hutchinson, 78, English rock and roll drummer
13
Paul Raymond, 73, English keyboardist and guitarist
14
Rakhal Chandra Mohanty, 86, Indian music director and singer
15
Les Reed, 83, English songwriter
Joe Terry, 78, American rock and roll singer
16
Jörg Demus, 90, Austrian pianist
Kent Harris, 88, American songwriter and record producer
17
Frederick Hemke, 83, American saxophonist
18
Eddie Tigner, 92, American blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter
19
Martin Böttcher, 91, German composer, arranger and conductor
MC Sapão, 40, Brazilian singer
20
Amar Pal, 96, Indian folk singer
Wu Yili, 87–88, Chinese-Singaporean pianist
21
Yasmim Gabrielle, 17, Brazilian singer
Atli Heimir Sveinsson, 80, Icelandic composer
22
Heather Harper, 88, Northern Irish soprano
Dave Samuels, 70, American percussionist
23
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, 35, American soprano singer and presenter
24
Françoise Barrière, 76, French composer
Dick Rivers, 74, French rock and roll singer
Pedro de Saint Germain, 69, Brazilian singer, voice actor, and holistic therapist
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Phil McCormack, 58, American singer
Reijo Taipale, 79, Finnish singer
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Jack de Mello, 102, American composer
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