Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a three-time Grammy winner, Pride, was not the first country performer to cross racial lines: Harmonica player Deford Bailey was an early featured artist on the Grand…
Hal Ketchum has died at age 67. The country singer’s wife, Andrea, shared the news on his Facebook page on Tuesday. “With great sadness and grief, we announce that Hal passed away peacefully last night at home due to complications of Dementia,”…
Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country in the 1930s and ’40s, including in the Jim Crow South. This touring could be the start of a familiar story of racism on the road. But Woods’…
(CNN)John Prine, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose homespun, witty, and insightful country-folk tunes influenced legions of musicians in a career that spanned five decades, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was 73. His publicist tells CNN, “Yes,…
Bill Withers (Bill William Withers Jr.) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985 with hit songs as “Lean On Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” Bill Withers, the acclaimed 1970s soul singer behind hits Ain’t No…
Superstar singer, Celine Dion’s mother, died on Friday, 17 January 2020, at the age of 92 years. She was popularly known to many, especially in Quebec, Canada, as Maman Dion. The singer’s mother was born Thérèse Tanguay and was a Canadian television personality. Maman Dion was…
Edward Seaga the man who lead Jamaica politics from 1980 to 1989, and was also the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1974 to 2005 when he retired from active politics, has died at 89 on his birth.…
Gregg Allman, the organist and singer for the Allman Brothers Band, which helped spawn the genre of southern rock, has died. He was 69. Allman’s death was announced in a statement posted to his website on Saturday. Allman “passed away…
Musician John Warren Geils Jr., guitarist and founder of the J. Geils Band known for such hits as Love Stinks, Freeze Frame and Centerfold, has died in his Massachusetts home at 71. Groton, Mass., police said officers responded to Geils’s home around 4…
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Phil Chess, the co-founder of Chess Records, passed at 95 on October 18, 2016. His impact on the music industry is immeasurable, as Chess Records played a crucial role in shaping the sound of American music in the 20th century.…
