“Pete” Burns (5 August 1959 – 23 October 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and television personality. He founded the pop band Dead or Alive in 1980, in which he was vocalist and songwriter, and who rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”. Laurent Pardo was a French bass guitarist, violoncellist, and background singer. He was best known for playing in the rock band of US-singer Elliott Murphy. Daasebre Gyamenah was a Ghanaian highlife musician who became very popular for his debut Kokooko (1999) which featured Lord Kenya. Kokooko was the first major fusion of hiplife and highlife in Ghana. He was attributed to many titles including contemporary highlife music legend and ace highlife singer. Micky Fitz, 57, British punk singer of The Business : an English Oi! band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. The band lasted for four decades until their frontman Micky Fitz died from cancer in December 2016. Martin Stone (11 December 1946, Woking, Surrey – 9 November 2016, Versailles, France) was an English guitarist and rare book dealer. Stone played in many groups, including Junior’s Blues Band, Stone’s Masonry, Almost Presley, The Action, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Snakefinger, Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Les Soucoupes violentes… He continued to play, backing Marianne Faithfull in her live performances. Holly Dunn (August 22, 1957 – November 14, 2016) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Dunn recorded for MTM Records between 1985 and 1988, Warner Bros. Records between 1988 and 1993, and River North Records between 1995 and 1997. She released 10 albums and charted 19 singles, plus two duets on the Hot Country Songs charts. Two of her single releases, “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me” and “You Really Had Me Going”, went to number one. Mose Allison (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. Jules Eskin (October 20, 1931 – November 15, 2016) was an American cellist who was the principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Philadelphia. With conductor Seiji Ozawa, he is known for solo performances of well-known works by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, and Beethoven. Headley Bennett OD (29 May 1931 – 21 August 2016), also known as Deadly Headley, was a Jamaican saxophonist who performed on hundreds of recordings since the 1950s. Since the 1960s, Bennett has worked as a session musician in Jamaica, playing in the Studio One house band as well as in Lynn Taitt’s band The Jets, The Mighty Vikings, and in The Revolutionaries. Huguette Dreyfus (30 November 1928 – 16 May 2016) was a French harpsichordist. In 1958, Dreyfus won the Geneva international harpsichord competition, becoming a prominent figure of ancient Renaissance and Baroque music and of the revival of the harpsichord in France. Melhem Barakat (15 August 1945 – 28 October 2016), also known as Melhim Barakat, or by his fans as Abou Majd was a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and melodist. He started his career back in the 1960s. Barakat has arguably established a genre of his own in both the way he sings and composes, which made him one of the most esteemed and popular stars in Lebanon. Rey Caney (30 December 1926 – 23 February 2016), was a Cuban singer, guitarist and tresero. Born in Santiago de Cuba, he led Cuarteto Patría for some time; this famous group is now led by Eliades Ochoa. In the middle 1950s, he took over Compay Segundo’s place in the duo Los Compadres, the other partner being his elder brother Lorenzo Hierrezuelo. He and his brother sang together for thirty years. He also sang and played with many other groups, and finally came back to Santiago de Cuba to lead the Vieja Trova Santiaguera, one of the top groups in Cuba’s second city. Réagissez à cet article / Comment this article commentaires / comments
