September 14th 1983 Southgate, London, England, July 23rd 2011 Camden, London, England

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including sou(sometimes labelled as blue-eyed soul),[4] rhythm and blues,[jazz and reggae.Winehous ...

August 2, 1951, June 3, 2011

Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger. His works include the US Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978) and the UK Top Five hit "Never Let ...

May 8, 1977, February 11, 2011

Paul Frappier (May 8, 1977 – February 11, 2011), better known by his stage name Bad News Brown (at times, also as BNB and Briz Brown), was a Montreal-based Canadian entertainer, musician, and hip hop MC of Haitian origin. He was well known for pairing the ...

April 29, 1928, June 12, 2011

Carl Edward Gardner (April 29, 1928 – June 12, 2011) was an American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters. Known for the 1958 song "Yakety Yak", which spent a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list, he was inducted int ...

July 26, 1940, December 6, 2011

obie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit records included "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965 and "Drift Away", which ...

May 30, 1945, January 26, 2011

Gladys Catherine Horton (May 30, 1945 – January 26, 2011) was an American R&B and pop singer, famous for being the founder and lead singer of the popular Motown all-female vocal group The Marvelettes. Born in Gainesville, Florida, she was raised in the ...

6 July 1939, 18 March 2011

Terence Harris MBE (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011), known as Jet Harris, was an English musician. He was the bass guitarist of the Shadows until April 1962, and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with the drummer Tony Meehan. Harris, the only ...

September 28, 1930, September 27, 2011

Johnny "Country" Mathis (September 28, 1930 – September 27, 2011) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is credited with penning more than 500 tunes over the course of his long career. John Mathis was born on September 28, 1930, in Ma ...

November 21, 1948, February 26, 2011

Mark Shalom Tulin (November 21, 1948 – February 26, 2011) was the bassist with The Electric Prunes. The Electric Prunes had hit singles with "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" and "Get Me To The World on Time". In particular, "I Had Too Much To Dream ...

April 4, 1966, March 8, 2011

Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr (April 4, 1966 – March 8, 2011) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, which he played with from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993. In 1983, Starr formed the heavy metal b ...

May 4th 1941, August 22nd 2011

Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011)and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946) were a husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording artists. Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York. Aft ...

3 July 1957, 25 April 2011

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was a British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. Styrene was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said in 1957 in Bromley, K ...

July 10, 1953, March 22, 2011

Zoogz Rift (born Robert Pawlikowski; July 10, 1953 – March 22, 2011) was an American musician, painter and professional wrestling personality. he Trouser Press describes Zoogz Rift as "an iconoclastic original" who is "as imaginative and stimulating as h ...