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Specific genres[edit]

Albums released[edit]

Awards[edit]

59th Annual Grammy Awards (USA)
Record of the Year: "Hello" by Adele • Album of the Year: 25 by Adele • Song of the Year: "Hello" by Adele • Best New Artist: Chance the Rapper
18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards (USA/Latin America)
Record of the Year: "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee • Album of the Year: Salsa Big Band by Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta• Song of the Year: "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee • Best New Artist: Vicente García
2017 ARIA Music Awards (Australia)
Album of the Year: Go Farther in Lightness by Gang of Youths • Song of the Year: "Stranger" by Peking Duk feat. Elliphant• Breakthrough Artist: Night Thinker by Amy Shark
2017 Billboard Music Awards (USA)
Artist of the Year: Drake • New Artist of the Year: Zayn • Top Hot 100 Song: "Closer" by the Chainsmokers feat. Halsey • Top Billboard 200 Album: Views by Drake
2017 Brit Awards (UK)
British Album of the Year: Blackstar by David Bowie • British Single of the Year: "Shout Out to My Ex" by Little Mix • British Breakthrough Act: Rag'n'Bone Man • British Video: "History" by One Direction
Eurovision Song Contest 2017 (Europe)
"Amar pelos dois" by Salvador Sobral (Portugal)
48th GMA Dove Awards (USA)
Song of the Year: "What a Beautiful Name" written by Brooke Ligertwood and Ben Fielding • Songwriter of the Year: Bart Millard • Songwriter of the Year (Non-artist): Bernie Herms • Artist of the Year: MercyMe • New Artist of the Year: Zach Williams • Producer of the Year:Bernie Herms
59th Japan Record Awards (Japan)
Grand Prix: Influencer by Nogizaka46 • Best Song: several • Best New Artist: Tsubaki Factory
2017 Juno Awards (Canada)
Artist of the Year: Leonard Cohen • Album of the Year: You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen • Single of the Year: "Spirits" by The Strumbellas • Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Ruth B
2017 Mercury Prize (UK and Ireland)
Process by Sampha
2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards (South Korea, hosted in Vietnam, Japan and Hong Kong)
Artist of the Year: BTS • Album of the Year: The War by Exo • Song of the Year: "Signal" by Twice • Best Music Video: Spring Day by BTS
2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe)
Video of the Year: "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar • Artist of the Year: Shawn Mendes • New Artist: Dua Lipa
2017 MTV Video Music Awards (USA)
Video of the Year: "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar • Artist of the Year: Ed Sheeran • New Artist: Khalid
2017 New Zealand Music Awards (New Zealand)
Album of the Year: Melodrama by Lorde • Song of the Year: "Green Light" by Lorde • Breakthrough Artist: Aldous Harding
2017 NME Music Awards (UK)
Best Album: Wild World by Bastille • Best Track: "Tilted" by Christine and the Queens • Best New Artist: Dua Lipa • Best Live Band: The 1975 • Best Festival: Glastonbury Festival 2016
2017 Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
La Papessa by Lido Pimienta
2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music (USA)
Angel's Bone by Du Yun
The 5th V Chart Awards (China)
Top Male Artist : Lay with Lose Control • Top Female Artist : Li Yuchun with Sense of Presence • Top Group: TFBOYS with Protecting Home • Top New Artist: Xu Weizhou
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA)
Inductees: Joan Baez • Electric Light Orchestra • Journey • Pearl Jam • Tupac Shakur • Yes
26th Seoul Music Awards (South Korea)
Grand Prize: Exo • Best Album: Wings by BTS • Best Song: "Cheer Up" by Twice • Best New Artist: Blackpink, NCT 127, I.O.I

Bands formed[edit]

Soloist debuts[edit]

Bands reformed[edit]

Bands on hiatus[edit]

Bands disbanded[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

1 – Memo Morales (79), Venezuelan rumba singer
2 – Auriel Andrew (69), Indigenous Australian country singer
4 – Bade Fateh Ali Khan (82), Pakistani classical music and Khyal singer
6 – Sylvester Potts (78), American R&B singer (the Contours)
7 – Jerzy Kossela (74), Polish rock guitarist (Czerwone Gitary)
8 – Peter Sarstedt (75), British folk pop singer
10 – Buddy Greco (90), American jazz singer and pianist
11 – Tommy Allsup (83), American rock and roll guitarist
13
- Horacio Guarany (91), Argentine folklore singer
- Richie Ingui (69), American soul singer (Soul Survivors)
14 – John Boudreaux (80), American jazz and soul drummer
15 – Greg Trooper (61), American alternative country singer and songwriter
16
- William Onyeabor (70), Nigerian funk singer-songwriter
- Steve Wright (66), American power pop bassist and songwriter (The Greg Kihn Band)
18 – Mike Kellie (69), British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones)
19 – Loalwa Braz (63), Brazilian pop and lambada singer (Kaoma)
20
- Ronald "Bingo" Mundy (76), American singer (The Marcels)
- Joey Powers (82), American pop singer
- Tommy Tate (71), American soul singer
21
- Karl Hendricks (46), American alternative rock singer (The Karl Hendricks Trio)
- Walter "Junie" Morrison (62), American funk keyboardist (The Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic)
- Maggie Roche (65), American folk singer (The Roches)
22
- Jaki Liebezeit (78), German experimental rock drummer (Can)
- Pete Overend Watts (69), British glam rock bassist and singer (Mott the Hoople, British Lions)
23 – Bobby Freeman (76), American pop and R&B singer
24
- Gil Ray (60), American power pop drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family)
- Butch Trucks (69), American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band, Les Brers)
25 – Ronnie Davis (66), Jamaican reggae singer (The Tennors, The Itals)
27 – Stan Boreson (91), American comedian, accordionist and singer
28
- Guitar Gable (79), American blues singer and guitarist
- Geoff Nicholls (68), British rock musician and keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz)
- Alexander Tikhanovich (64), Belarusian pop singer (Verasy)
29 – Elkin Ramírez (54), Colombian hard rock singer (Kraken)
30 – James Laurence (27), American hip hop musician and producer (Friendzone) (death announced on this date)
31
- Deke Leonard (72), British progressive rock guitarist (Man)
- John Wetton (67), British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter (Asia, King Crimson)

February[edit]

1 – Robert Dahlqvist (40), Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer (The Hellacopters, Thunder Express, Dundertåget)
4 – Steve Lang (67), Canadian rock bassist (April Wine)
5
- David Axelrod (85), American jazz musician and producer
- Sonny Geraci (70), American pop and rock singer (Climax, The Outsiders)
7 – Svend Asmussen (100), Danish jazz violinist
8
- Rina Matsuno (18), Japanese pop singer (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku)
- Tony Särkkä (44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist
11 – Jarmila Šuláková (87), Czech folk singer
12
- Al Jarreau (76), American jazz singer
- Damian (52), British pop singer
13
- Trish Doan (31), American heavy metal bassist (Kittie) (death announced on this date)
- E-Dubble (34), American rapper
16 – Pericoma Okoye (81), Nigerian traditional music singer
17
- Peter Skellern (69), English easy listening singer-songwriter and pianist
- Dave Yorko (73), American rock and roll guitarist (Johnny and the Hurricanes)
18 – Clyde Stubblefield (73), American funk and soul drummer (James Brown, The J.B.'s)
19 – Larry Coryell (73), American jazz fusion guitarist
20 – Huang Feili (99), Chinese classical music conductor
23
- Horace Parlan (86), American jazz pianist
- Leon Ware (77), American funk singer and songwriter
25
- Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist (Drive)
- Toshio Nakanishi (61), Japanese new wave guitarist (Plastics)
- Bill Paxton (61), American new wave keyboardist (Martini Ranch) and actor

March[edit]

1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu (78), Japanese rock singer (The Spiders, Vodka Collins)
2 – Gata Cattana (26), Spanish rapper
3
- Jim Fuller (69), American surf rock guitarist (The Surfaris)
- Lyle Ritz (87), American rock bassist and ukuleleist (The Wrecking Crew)
- Danny Spooner (80), British-born Australian folk singer
4
- Valerie Carter (64), American rock singer and songwriter
- Edi Fitzroy (61), Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer
- Tommy Page (46), American pop singer
6
- Ritchie Adams (78), American songwriter and singer (The Fireflies)
- Lars Diedricson (66), Swedish rock singer (Snowstorm)
- Alberto Zedda (89), Italian conductor and musicologist
7 – Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (46), Indian folk singer
8
- Dave Valentin (64), American jazz flutist
- Wordsayer (47), American rapper (Source of Labor)
10 – Joni Sledge (60), American R&B and disco singer (Sister Sledge)
11
- Evan Johns (60), American rockabilly guitarist (The LeRoi Brothers)
- Ángel Parra (73), Chilean folk singer
- Don Warden (87), American country slide guitarist
12 – Joey Alves (63), American hard rock rhythm guitarist (Y&T)
13
- Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, American funk singer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
- John Lever (55), British post-punk drummer (The Chameleons)
15
- Phil Garland (75), New Zealander folk singer
- Vicky (69), Colombian pop singer
16 – James Cotton (81), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
18 – Chuck Berry (90), American rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter
20
- Buck Hill (90), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
- Tony Terran (90), American rock and pop trumpeter (The Wrecking Crew)
21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa (42), black metal drummer (Negură Bunget)
22
- Sib Hashian (67), American rock drummer (Boston)
- Sven-Erik Magnusson (74), Swedish pop singer and guitarist (Sven-Ingvars)
23 – Sebastián (63), Argentine cuarteto singer
24
- Vincent Falcone (78), American pianist (Frank Sinatra) and conductor
- Pete Shotton (75), British skiffle percussionist and washboardist (The Quarrymen)
25 – Edward Grimes (43), American post-rock drummer (Rachel's)
26
- Alessandro Alessandroni (92), Italian film composer and classical guitarist
- Jimmy Dotson (83), American blues singer and songwriter
27 – Clem Curtis (76), Trinidadian-British singer (The Foundations)
28 – Terry Fischer (70), American pop singer (The Murmaids)
30 – Rosie Hamlin (71), American pop singer (Rosie and the Originals)

April[edit]

1
- Lonnie Brooks (83), American blues singer and guitarist
- Ikutaro Kakehashi (87), Japanese engineer, founder of Roland Corporation, manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
- Wycliffe Noble (91), British gospel singer (The Joystrings) and architect
3 – Brenda Jones (62), American singer (The Jones Girls)
5 – Paul O'Neill (61), American progressive metal composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage)
6 – David Peel (74), American folk singer and songwriter
7 – Ben Speer (86), American gospel singer (Speer Family)
8 – Keni Richards (60), American rock drummer (Autograph)
9
- Alan Henderson (72), Northern Irish rock bassist (Them)
- Bob Wootton (75), American country guitarist (The Tennessee Three)
10 – Banner Thomas (62), American hard rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
11
- J. Geils (71), American blues, rock and jazz guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
- Scotty Miller (65), American drummer (Instant Funk)
- Toby Smith (46), English acid jazz keyboardist, songwriter and producer (Jamiroquai)
12 – Barry "Frosty" Smith (71), American rock drummer (Sweathog, Soulhat)
14 – Bruce Langhorne (78), American folk singer
15
- Tim Goshorn, 62, American country rock guitarist and singer (Pure Prairie League)
- Allan Holdsworth (70), British jazz fusion guitarist (Gong, Soft Machine, U.K.)
- Matt Holt (39), American heavy metal singer (Nothingface)
- Sylvia Moy (78), American songwriter
19 – Dick Contino (87), American accordionist and singer
20 – Cuba Gooding Sr. (72), American soul and R&B singer (The Main Ingredient)
23 – Jerry Adriani (70), Brazilian rock singer
27
- Jeff Decker, Canadian heavy metal guitarist (Thor)
- John Shifflett (64), American jazz bassist
28 – Joanna Brouk (68), American electronic music composer

May[edit]

1
- Bruce Hampton (70), American rock and jazz fusion singer and guitarist (Hampton Grease Band, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit)
- Erkki Kurenniemi (75), Finnish electronic music composer
2 – Kevin Garcia (41), American indie rock bassist (Grandaddy)
3
- Casey Jones (77), American blues drummer (Johnny Winter)
- C'el Revuelta, American punk rock bassist (Black Flag)
- Saxa (83), Jamaican ska saxophonist (The Beat)
4 – Katy Bødtger (84), Danish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1960)
5 – Clive Brooks (67), British progressive rock drummer (Egg)
9
- Michael Parks (77), American country singer and actor
- Robert Miles (47), Swiss-born Italian electronic dance record producer, composer and DJ
10
- Bonaldo "Burt" Bonaldi (90), American pop singer (The Gaylords)
- Pierre DeMudd (64), American trumpeter and singer (Dazz Band)
11 – İbrahim Erkal (50), Turkish folk singer
12 – Bill Dowdy (84), American jazz drummer (The Three Sounds)
13 – Jimmy Copley (63), British rock drummer
14 – Keith Mitchell, American dream pop drummer (Mazzy Star)
17 – Chris Cornell (52), American alternative rock singer and songwriter (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog)
18 – Frankie Paul (51), Jamaican dancehall singer
20
- Jimmy Dale (81), British-Canadian film and television composer
- Ace Still, American doom metal singer (Goatlord)
21
- Kenny Cordray (62), American rock guitarist and songwriter
- Jimmy LaFave (61), American folk singer and songwriter
- Tulsa Pittaway (42), South African indie rock drummer (Watershed, Evolver One)
22
- Rosa Speer (94), American gospel singer (Speer Family)
- Zbigniew Wodecki (67), Polish pop singer and violinist
25 – Saucy Sylvia (96), Canadian-born American comedy music singer and pianist
27
- Gregg Allman (69), American rock singer, songwriter and keyboardist (The Allman Brothers Band)
- Guillermo Sanchez, Argentinian heavy metal bassist (Rata Blanca)
29 – Arleen Lanzotti (73), American pop singer (The Delicates)
31 – Bern Nix (69), American jazz guitarist

June[edit]

2 – Aamir Zaki (49), Pakistani psychedelic rock guitarist
6
- Sandra Reemer (66), Dutch pop singer
- Vin Garbutt (68), British folk singer and songwriter
8 – Norro Wilson (79), American country music singer, songwriter and record producer
11 – Rosalie Sorrels (83), American folk singer and songwriter
12 – Geri Allen (60), American jazz pianist
16 – Eliza Clívia (37), Brazilian forro singer
17 – Thara Memory (68), American jazz trumpeter
18 – Chris Murrell (60), American gospel and jazz singer
20
- Prodigy (42), American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- Bo Wagner (72), American marimba player (Starbuck)
21 – Belton Richard (77), American Cajun accordionist
22 – Jimmy Nalls (66), American blues rock guitarist (Sea Level)
25 – Dave Evans (66), American bluegrass singer and banjoist
28
- Gary DeCarlo (75), American pop singer and songwriter (Steam)
- Nic Ritter (37), American thrash metal drummer (Warbringer)
- Dave Rosser (50), American alternative rock guitarist (The Afghan Whigs)
30 – Don Rea (88), American pop singer (The Gaylords)

July[edit]

3 – Rudy Rotta (66), Italian blues rock guitarist
4 – John Blackwell, Jr. (43), American funk and R&B drummer (D'Angelo, The New Power Generation)
5 – Pierre Henry (89), French musique concrète composer
6
- Mick Bund, British post-punk bassist (Felt)
- Melvyn "Deacon" Jones (73), American soul keyboardist (Baby Huey & the Babysitters)
9 – Erik Cartwright (66), American blues rock guitarist (Foghat)
12
- Marc 'Blaash' Michaelson, American black metal drummer (Bahimiron)
- Tamara Miansarova (86), Russian pop singer
- Ray Phiri (70), South African jazz fusion singer and guitarist
13
- Simon Holmes (54), Australian jangle pop guitarist (The Hummingbirds)
- Egil Kapstad (76), Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
- Chris Wong Won (53), American rapper (2 Live Crew)
14
- Mahi Beamer (88), American-Native Hawaiian folk singer and pianist
- David Zablidowsky (38), American hard rock bassist (Adrenaline Mob, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
16 – Wilfried (67), Austrian pop singer
17 – Peter Principle (63), American post-punk bassist (Tuxedomoon)
19
- Barbara Weldens (35), French pop singer and songwriter
- Graham Wood (45), Australian jazz pianist
20
- Chester Bennington (41), American hard rock singer and songwriter (Linkin Park, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead by Sunrise)
- Andrea Jürgens (50), German schlager singer
21
- Errol Dyers (65), South African jazz guitarist
- Geoff Mack (94), Australian country singer and songwriter
- Kenny Shields (69), Canadian hard rock singer (Streetheart)
- Paapa Yankson (73), Ghanaian highlife singer
22
- Polo Hofer (72), Swiss pop singer
- Bobby Taylor (83), American soul singer (Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers)
25
- Michael Johnson (72), American country singer and songwriter
- Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (46), Indigenous Australian folk singer and guitarist
27 – Billy Joe Walker Jr. (64), American country music record producer
28 – D.L. Menard (85), American Cajun music singer
31 – Chuck Loeb (61), American jazz guitarist (Fourplay)

August[edit]

1 – Goldy McJohn (72), Canadian hard rock keyboardist (Steppenwolf)
2 – Daniel Licht (60), American film and television composer
4
- Luiz Melodia (66), Brazilian MPB singer
- Joe Romano 67, American bassist (The Fun and Games)
8 – Glen Campbell (81), American country music singer and songwriter
11 – Segun Bucknor (71), Nigerian soul and funk keyboardist and guitarist
19 – Bea Wain (100), American big band singer (Larry Clinton and His Orchestra)
20 – Jerry Lewis (91), American actor and pop singer
21 – Sonny Burgess (88), American rockabilly singer
22 – John Abercrombie (73), American jazz fusion guitarist
24
- Pete Kuykendall (79), American bluegrass banjoist
- Larry Marshall (75), Jamaican reggae singer
26 – Wilson das Neves (81), Brazilian bossa nova singer and percussionist
28 – Melissa Bell (53), British R&B and soul singer (Soul II Soul)
29 – Larry Elgart (95), American jazz bandleader and alto saxophonist
30 – Skip Prokop (73), Canadian rock and jazz fusion drummer (Lighthouse, The Paupers)

September[edit]

1 – Mick Softley (77), British folk singer and songwriter
2 – Dave Hlubek (66), American rock guitarist and songwriter (Molly Hatchet)
3 – Walter Becker (67), American jazz rock guitarist, bassist and songwriter (Steely Dan)
4 – Earl Lindo (64), Jamaican reggae keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
5 – Rick Stevens (77), American R&B singer (Tower of Power)
6 – Holger Czukay (79), German experimental rock bassist (Can)
8
- Troy Gentry (50), American country singer (Montgomery Gentry)
- Don Williams (78), American country singer
11 – Virgil Howe (41), British alternative rock drummer (Little Barrie)
12
- Riem de Wolff (74), Dutch-Indonesian rock and roll singer (The Blue Diamonds)
- Josh Schwartz (45), American alternative country guitarist (Beachwood Sparks)
- Jessi Zazu (28), American garage rock singer and songwriter (Those Darlins)
13 – Grant Hart (56), American alternative rock singer, songwriter and drummer (Hüsker Dü)
17 – Laudir de Oliveira (77), Brazilian rock and jazz percussionist (Chicago)
18 – Mark Selby (56), American blues rock singer and guitarist
21 – Cees Bergman (65), Dutch glam rock singer (Catapult)
22
- Ammon Tharp (75), American soul singer and drummer (Bill Deal and the Rhondels)
- Eric Eycke (41), American heavy metal singer (Corrosion of Conformity)
23 – Charles Bradley (68), American soul singer
27
- CeDell Davis (91), American blues guitarist
- Joy Fleming (72), German pop singer
- Hiromi Hayakawa (34), Japanese-born Mexican pop singer
30 – Tom Paley (89), American folk guitarist and banjoist (New Lost City Ramblers)

October[edit]

2 – Tom Petty (66), American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Mudcrutch)
4 – Janis Hansen (74), American pop and bossa nova singer (Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66, The Carnival)
5
- Alvin DeGuzman, American post-hardcore guitarist (The Icarus Line)
- Rodrigo BVevino (42), British heavy metal singer (Avenger)
6 – Bunny Sigler (76), American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
7 – Jimmy Beaumont (76), American doo-wop singer (The Skyliners)
8 – Grady Tate (85), American jazz drummer and singer
16
- Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi (56), Congolese afro-pop lkembist (Konono Nº1)
- Iain Shedden (60), Australian punk rock drummer (The Saints)
17
- Gord Downie (53), Canadian rock singer and songwriter (The Tragically Hip)
18 – Eamonn Campbell (70), Irish folk singer and guitarist (The Dubliners)
21 – Martin Eric Ain (50), American-Swiss heavy metal bassist (Celtic Frost)
22
- Al Hurricane (81), American folk singer and songwriter
- Scott Putesky (49), American heavy metal guitarist (Marilyn Manson)
- George Young (70), British-born Australian rock guitarist and songwriter (The Easybeats, Flash and the Pan)
24
- Fats Domino (89), American rock and roll singer and pianist
- Larry Ray (63), American power pop guitarist (Outrageous Cherry)
27
- Mike Hudson (61), American punk rock singer (The Pagans)
- Dick Noel (90), American big band singer
28
- Bruce Black, American power metal drummer (Meliah Rage)
- Daichi Shimoda, Japanese deathcore vocalist (Victim of Deception)^[2]
29
- Muhal Richard Abrams (87), American free jazz pianist
- Billy Mize (88), American country singer and steel guitarist
- Keith Wilder (65), American funk singer (Heatwave)

November[edit]

1
- Katie Lee (98), American folk singer
- Scott Wily, American death metal singer (Vital Remains)
2 – María Martha Serra Lima (72), Argentinean bolero singer
3
- Gaetano Bardini (91), Italian opera singer
- Naomi Sego (86), American gospel singer (The Sego Brothers and Naomi)
5
- Robert Knight (72), American soul singer
- Louis Roney (96), American opera tenor
7
- Paul Buckmaster (71), British rock and orchestral arranger and conductor
- Robert De Cormier (95), American folk arranger
- Pentti Glan (71), Finnish rock drummer (Mandala, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper)
9 – Fred Cole (69), American garage rock singer and guitarist (The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon)
10 – Chuck Mosley (57), American alternative rock singer (Faith No More)
11 – Chiquito de la Calzada (85), Spanish flamenco singer
12 – Chad Hanks (46), American metal bassist (American Head Charge)
15
- Bonnie Flower (63), American sunshine pop singer (Wendy and Bonnie)
- Lil Peep (21), American rapper
16 – Michael "Dik Mik" Davies (73), British space rock keyboardist (Hawkwind)
17 – Rikard Wolff (59), Finnish pop singer and actor
18
- Ben Riley (84), American jazz drummer
- Malcolm Young (64), Australian hard rock guitarist (AC/DC)
19
- Ronnie Butler (80), Bahamanian calypso singer
- Warren "Pete" Moore (79), American R&B singer (The Miracles)
- Della Reese (86), American gospel singer
- Mel Tillis (85), American country singer
20 – Laila Sari (82), Indonesian children's music singer
21
- David Cassidy (67), American pop singer and actor
- Wayne Cochran (78), American soul singer and songwriter
22 – Tommy Keene (59), American power pop singer and songwriter
23
- John Coates Jr. (79), American jazz pianist
- Jon Hendricks (96), American jazz singer
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky (55), Russian opera singer
24
- Mitch Margo (70), American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Tokens)
- Clotilde Rosa (87), Portuguese classical harpist
- Bari Siddiqui (63), Bangladeshi folk singer and flautist
26 – Patrick Bourgeois (54), Canadian rock singer and guitarist (Les B.B.)
27 – Robert Popwell (66), American rock and jazz bassist (The Young Rascals, The Crusaders)
28 – Shadia (86), Egyptian pop singer
29 – Robert Walker (80), American blues guitarist
30
- Jim Nabors (87), American actor and singer
- Zé Pedro (61), Portuguese new wave guitarist (Xutos & Pontapés)

December[edit]

2
- Norihiko Hashida (72), Japanese folk singer and songwriter (The Folk Crusaders)
- Mundell Lowe (95), American jazz guitarist
5 – Johnny Hallyday (74), French rock singer
7 – Sunny Murray (81), American free jazz drummer
8 – Gloria Ann Taylor (73), American soul singer
12
- Pat DiNizio (62), American power pop singer and guitarist (The Smithereens)
- Willie Pickens (86), American jazz pianist
13
- Dave Christenson (54), American new wave singer (Stabilizers)
- Warrel Dane (56), American heavy metal singer (Sanctuary, Nevermore)
- Rory O'Donoghue (68), Australian rock and pop guitarist
16
- Ralph Carney (61), American rock and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Tin Huey)
- Richard Dobson (75), American country singer and songwriter
- Michael Prophet (60), Jamaican reggae singer
- Keely Smith (89), American jazz singer
17 – Kevin Mahogany (59), American jazz singer
18 – Kim Jong-hyun (27), South Korean K-pop singer and songwriter (Shinee)
19
- Jim Forrester (43), American hard rock bassist (Sixty Watt Shaman)
- Leo Welch (85), American gospel blues singer and guitarist
21
- Roswell Rudd (82), American free jazz trombonist
- Marilyn Tyler (91), American opera singer
22 – Pam the Funkstress, American hip hop DJ (The Coup)
25 – Nao (56), Japanese heavy metal vocalist (United)
28
- Rose Marie (94), American actress, singer and comedienne
- Curly Seckler (98), American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist (Foggy Mountain Boys, Nashville Grass)
31 – Maurice Peress (87), American conductor and music educator

Musical films[edit]

What We Started

References[edit]

^ Leeson, Josh (25 March 2019). "The Jezabels focus energies on creative not commercial ambitions". The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
^ "Victim of Deception ヴォーカルのDaichiが急逝". 激ロック. November 3, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-11-11.

[1] Leeson, Josh (25 March 2019). "The Jezabels focus energies on creative not commercial ambitions". The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 14 March 2021.

[2] "Victim of Deception ヴォーカルのDaichiが急逝". 激ロック. November 3, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-11-11.

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January[edit]

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March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

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