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2017 in music

Index 2017 in music

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2017 in music. [1]

637 relations: A Tribe Called Quest, Aamir Zaki, AC/DC, Adele, Adrenaline Mob, Al Hurricane, Al Jarreau, Alberto Zedda, Aldous Harding, Alessandro Alessandroni, Alexander Tikhanovich, Alice Cooper, Allan Holdsworth, American Head Charge, Amoral (band), Amy Shark, Andrea Jürgens, Angel's Bone, April Wine, ARIA Music Awards of 2017, As I Lay Dying (band), Asia (band), Audioslave, Auriel Andrew, Autograph (American band), Avenger (British band), Aviad Cohen, Ángel Parra, İbrahim Erkal, Baby Huey & the Babysitters, Bade Fateh Ali Khan, Bahimiron, Barbara Weldens, Bari Siddiqui, Bart Millard, Bastille (band), Bea Wain, Beachwood Sparks, Belton Richard, Ben Riley, Ben Speer, Bern Nix, Bernie Herms, Big Dumb Face, Bill Deal and the Rhondels, Bill Dowdy, Bill Paxton, Billy Joe Walker Jr., Billy Mize, Black Flag (band), ..., Black Sabbath, Blackstar (album), BNK48, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bob Wootton, Bobby Freeman, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, Boston (band), Brontide, Brooke Fraser, Bruce Hampton, Bruce Langhorne, Buck Hill (musician), Buddy Greco, Bunny Sigler, Butch Trucks, Camera Obscura (band), Can (band), Carnivore (band), Casey Jones (musician), Catapult (band), CeDell Davis, Celtic Frost, Chairlift (band), Chance the Rapper, Charles Bradley (singer), Chester Bennington, Chicago (band), Chimaira, Chiquito de la Calzada, Chris Cornell, Chris Murrell, Christine (Christine and the Queens song), Christine and the Queens, Chuck Berry, Chuck Loeb, Chuck Mosley, Cibo Matto, Cinderella (band), Clem Curtis, Climax (band), Clive Brooks, Closer (The Chainsmokers song), Clotilde Rosa, Clyde Stubblefield, Coal Chamber, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Company of Thieves (band), Continental Europe, Corrosion of Conformity, Cuba Gooding Sr., Curly Seckler, Czerwone Gitary, D'Angelo, D. L. Menard, Daddy Yankee, Damian (musician), Daniel Licht, Danny Spooner, Dark Sermon, Dave Evans (bluegrass), Dave Hlubek, Dave Matthews Band, Dave Valentin, David Axelrod (musician), David Bowie, David Cassidy, David Peel (musician), Dead by Sunrise, Dead Moon, Deke Leonard, Della Reese, Despacito, Dick Contino, Dick Noel, Disclosure (band), Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Don Warden, Don Williams, Donovan Wolfington, Drake (musician), Drive (band), Du Yun, Dua Lipa, Dundertåget, E-Dubble, Eagles (band), Eamonn Campbell, Earl Lindo, Ed Sheeran, Edi Fitzroy, Egg (band), Egil Kapstad, Eighteen Visions, Elastica, Eliza Clívia, Elkin Ramírez, Elliphant, Erik Cartwright, Erkki Kurenniemi, Errol Dyers, Eurovision Song Contest 1960, Evan Johns, Evolver One, Exhorder, Faith No More, Fats Domino, Felt (band), Flash and the Pan, Foggy Mountain Boys, Foghat, Fourplay, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Paul, Fred Cole (musician), Friendzone, Fun (band), Gaetano Bardini, Game Theory (band), Gang of Youths, Geoff Mack, Geoff Nicholls, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, George Young (rock musician), Geri Allen, Gil Ray, Gizmodrome, Glastonbury Festival 2016, Glen Campbell, Gloria Ann Taylor, Go Farther in Lightness, Goatlord (band), Goldy McJohn, Gong (band), Gord Downie, Grady Tate, Graham Wood (musician), Grandaddy, Grant Hart, Green Light (Lorde song), Greg Trooper, Gregg Allman, Guitar Gable, Hail of Bullets, Halsey (singer), Hampton Grease Band, Hawkwind, Hüsker Dü, Heart (band), Heatwave (band), Heaven's Basement, Heavy Load (band), Hello (Adele song), Highway Sisters, HIM (Finnish band), Hiromi Hayakawa, Hiroshi Kamayatsu, History (One Direction song), Holger Czukay, Horace Parlan, Horacio Guarany, House vs. Hurricane, Huang Feili, Humble (song), Ikutaro Kakehashi, In Dying Arms, Instant Funk, J. Geils, Jaki Liebezeit, James Brown, James Cotton, Jamiroquai, Janis Hansen (singer), Jarmila Šuláková, Jawbreaker (band), Jerry Adriani, Jerry Lewis, Jerzy Kossela, Jethro Tull (band), Jim Fuller (musician), Jim Nabors, Jimmy Copley, Jimmy Dale (musician), Jimmy Dotson, Jimmy LaFave, Jimmy Nalls, Joanna Brouk, Joey Powers, John Abercrombie (guitarist), John Blackwell (musician), John Boudreaux, John Coates Jr., John Shifflett, John Wetton, Johnny and the Hurricanes, Johnny Hallyday, Johnny Winter, Jon Hendricks, Jonathan Moore (musician), Joni Sledge, Josh Todd and the Conflict, Joy Fleming, Juno Awards of 2017, Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya, Kaoma, Karnataka (band), Katatonia, Katie Lee (singer), Katy Bødtger, Keely Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Kenny Shields, Kevin Mahogany, Khalid (singer), Kim Jong-hyun (singer), King Crimson, Kittie, Konono Nº1, Kraken (band), Laila Sari, Larry Clinton, Larry Coryell, Larry Elgart, Larry Marshall (singer), Lars Diedricson, Laudir de Oliveira, Leo Welch, Leon Ware, Leonard Cohen, Les B.B., Les Brers, Letlive, Lido Pimienta, Light This City, Lighthouse (band), Lil Peep, Linkin Park, Lionheart (Hardcore punk band), Little Barrie, Little Mix, Loalwa Braz, Lonnie Brooks, Lorde, Lou Reed, Louis Roney, Luis Fonsi, Luiz Melodia, Lyle Ritz, Madina Lake, Mahi Beamer, Malcolm Young, Man (band), Mandala (band), María Martha Serra Lima, Marilyn Manson (band), Marilyn Tyler, Marionette (band), Mark Selby (musician), Martin Eric Ain, Martini Ranch, Matt Holt, Maurice Peress, Mazzy Star, Mel Tillis, Meliah Rage, Melissa Bell (singer), Melodrama (Lorde album), Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, Memo Morales, MercyMe, Michael Johnson (singer), Michael Parks, Michael Prophet, Mick Softley, Mike Kellie, Mindless Behavior, Miss A, Mitch Margo, Mobb Deep, Molly Hatchet, Montgomery Gentry, Mott the Hoople, Mudcrutch, Muhal Richard Abrams, Mundell Lowe, MX Machine, My Indigo, Nachtmystium, Nashville Grass, Negură Bunget, Nevermore, New Lost City Ramblers, NME Awards 2017, Norihiko Hashida, Norro Wilson, Nothingface, Ohio Players, One Direction, Orbital (band), Outrageous Cherry, Paapa Yankson, Parliament-Funkadelic, Pat DiNizio, Paul Buckmaster, Paul O'Neill (rock producer), Peking Duk, Pentti Glan, Pericoma Okoye, Pete Kuykendall, Pete Overend Watts, Pete Shotton, Peter Sarstedt, Peter Skellern, Phil Garland, Pierre Henry, Pinegrove (band), Plastics (band), Pleymo, Polo Hofer, Poured Out, Powerflo, Process (Sampha album), Prodigy (rapper), PWR BTTM, Quartz (metal band), Rachel's, Rag'n'Bone Man, Ralph Carney, Rata Blanca, Ray Phiri, Richard Dobson, Rikard Wolff, Rina Matsuno, Ritchie Adams, Robert Dahlqvist, Robert De Cormier, Robert Knight (musician), Robert Miles, Robert Popwell, Robert Walker (musician), Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Roland Corporation, Ronnie Butler, Ronnie Davis, Rory O'Donoghue, Rosa Speer, Rosalie Sorrels, Rose Marie, Rosie and the Originals, Rosie Hamlin, Roswell Rudd, Rubén Blades, Rudy Rotta, Ruth B., Sadus, Salsa Big Band, Sampha, Sanctuary (band), Sandra Reemer, Saucy Sylvia, Savatage, Saxa (musician), Sérgio Mendes, Scott Putesky, Sea Level (band), Segun Bucknor, Shadia, Shawn Mendes, Shinee, Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku, Shout Out to My Ex, Sib Hashian, Simon Holmes (guitarist), Sister Sledge, Sixty Watt Shaman, Skip Prokop, Sleeper (band), Slipknot (band), Snowstorm (band), Soft Machine, Sonny Burgess, Sonny Geraci, Sons of Apollo, Soul II Soul, Soul Survivors (band), Soulhat, Soundgarden, Source of Labor, Spawn of Possession, Speer Family, Spirits (The Strumbellas song), Spooky Tooth, Stabilizers, Staind, Stan Boreson, Starbuck (band), Steam (band), Steely Dan, Steppenwolf (band), Steps (pop group), Steve Lang, Steve Wright (bassist), Stone Temple Pilots, Stornoway (band), Stranger (Peking Duk song), Streetheart (band), Sugarland, Sunny Murray, Sven-Erik Magnusson, Sven-Ingvars, Svend Asmussen, Sweathog, Sylvester Potts, Sylvia Moy, Tamara Miansarova, Temple of the Dog, Textures (band), Thara Memory, The 1975, The Afghan Whigs, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beat (British band), The Blue Diamonds (duo), The Cab, The Carnival (band), The Chainsmokers, The Chameleons, The Contours, The Coup, The Crusaders, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dubliners, The Easybeats, The Fireflies, The Folk Crusaders, The Foundations, The Gaslight Anthem, The Greg Kihn Band, The Hellacopters, The Hummingbirds, The Icarus Line, The Itals, The J. Geils Band, The J.B.'s, The Jones Girls, The Joystrings, The Karl Hendricks Trio, The KLF, The LeRoi Brothers, The Lollipop Shoppe, The Loud Family, The Maccabees (band), The Main Ingredient (band), The Marcels, The Miracles, The Murmaids, The New Power Generation, The Only Ones, The Outsiders (American band), The Pagans, The Paupers, The Poster Boy, The Quarrymen, The Rampage from Exile Tribe, The Rascals, The Roches, The Saints (Australian band), The Saturdays, The Sea Within, The Skyliners, The Smithereens, The Spiders (Japanese band), The Streets, The Strumbellas, The Surfaris, The Tennessee Three, The Tennors, The Three Sounds, The Tokens, The Tragically Hip, The Union Underground, The Wrecking Crew (music), Them (band), Thor (band), Those Darlins, Those Who Fear, Thunder Express, Timeline of musical events, Tin Huey, Toby Smith, Tom Paley, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tommy Allsup, Tommy Keene, Tommy Page, Tommy Tate (musician), Tony Särkkä, Tony Terran, Toshio Nakanishi, Tower of Power, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Trap Them, Traveling Wilburys, Tripping Daisy, Tulsa Pittaway, Tuxedomoon, Twenty One Pilots, U.K. (band), Valerie Carter, Vallenfyre, Vanna (band), Vant (band), Verasy, Vespaiola, Vicente García (musician), Views (album), Vin Garbutt, Vital Remains, Viva Brother, Vodka Collins, Walter "Junie" Morrison, Walter Becker, Wanna One, Warbringer, Warrel Dane, Warren "Pete" Moore, Watershed (South African band), Wayne Cochran, We Are the Ocean, Wendy and Bonnie, What a Beautiful Name, White Miles, Wild World (album), Wilfried (singer), William Control, William Onyeabor, Willie Pickens, Wilson das Neves, With Confidence, Women in music, Wonder Girls, Wycliffe Noble, Xerath, Xscape (group), Xutos & Pontapés, Y&T, Yellowcard, You Want It Darker, Your Memorial, Zach Williams (musician), Zayn Malik, Zbigniew Wodecki, 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, 2 Live Crew, 2017 Billboard Music Awards, 2017 Brit Awards, 2017 in African music, 2017 in American music, 2017 in Asian music, 2017 in British music, 2017 in Canadian music, 2017 in classical music, 2017 in country music, 2017 in Danish music, 2017 in European music, 2017 in Finnish music, 2017 in heavy metal music, 2017 in hip hop music, 2017 in Icelandic music, 2017 in Japanese music, 2017 in jazz, 2017 in Latin music, 2017 in Norwegian music, 2017 in Philippine music, 2017 in rock music, 2017 in Scandinavian music, 2017 in South Korean music, 2017 in Swedish music, 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards, 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, 2017 New Zealand Music Awards, 2017 Polaris Music Prize, 2017 Pulitzer Prize, 25 (Adele album), 48th GMA Dove Awards, 59th Annual Grammy Awards. 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A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop collective formed in 1985 and originally composed of MC and main producer Q-Tip,.

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Aamir Zaki

Aamir Zaki (April 8, 1968 – June 2, 2017) was a Saudi born Pakistani guitarist-songwriter, Zaki is considered by many as one of the most influential guitarist in the Pakistan’s history.

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AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Adrenaline Mob

Adrenaline Mob is a heavy metal supergroup formed in early 2011 by singer Russell Allen, guitarist Mike Orlando and drummer Mike Portnoy.

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Al Hurricane

Alberto Nelson Sanchez (July 10, 1936 – October 22, 2017), known professionally as Al Hurricane, was an American singer-songwriter, dubbed "The Godfather" of New Mexico music.

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Al Jarreau

Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and musician.

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Alberto Zedda

Alberto Zedda (2 January 19286 March 2017) was an Italian conductor and musicologist whose specialty was the 19th-century Italian repertoire.

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Aldous Harding

Aldous (Hannah) Harding (born 1990) is a self-described "gothic folk" singer-songwriter from Lyttelton, New Zealand.

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Alessandro Alessandroni

Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer.

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Alexander Tikhanovich

Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich (Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Ціхановіч; 13 July 1952 – 28 January 2017) was a Soviet and Belarusian pop singer, former member of the ensemble Verasy.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer.

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American Head Charge

American Head Charge is an industrial metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Amoral (band)

Amoral was a metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1997.

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Amy Shark

Amy Louise Billings (born 1986), who performs as Amy Shark, is an Australian indie pop singer-songwriter and producer from the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Andrea Jürgens

Andrea Elisabeth Maria Jürgens (15 May 1967 – 20 July 2017) was a German schlager singer.

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Angel's Bone

Angel's Bone is an opera by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek in one act that follows the plight of two angels discovered on earth who are forced into spiritual and sexual slavery at the hands of a financially troubled couple.

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April Wine

April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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ARIA Music Awards of 2017

The 31st Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) are a series of award ceremonies which include the 2017 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and the ARIA Awards.

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As I Lay Dying (band)

As I Lay Dying is an American metalcore band from San Diego, California.

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Asia (band)

Asia are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1981.

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Audioslave

Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2001.

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Auriel Andrew

Auriel Andrew (1947 – 2 January 2017) was an Indigenous Australian country musician of the Arrernte people of Central Australia.

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Autograph (American band)

Autograph is an American rock band from Pasadena, California.

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Avenger (British band)

Avenger are a heavy metal band from Newcastle, England.

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Aviad Cohen

Aviad Cohen (March 11, 1975 – October 17, 2017) born in Tel Aviv, Israel and raised in Brooklyn, New York was an American singer and songwriter best known for his song "In Da Shul" (a parody of 50 Cent's song "In Da Club") while performing under the moniker "50 Shekel." He came to believe in Yeshua (Jesus) as the Jewish Messiah in 2004 and subsequently recorded Christian/Messianic techno and instrumental music under his given name.

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Ángel Parra

Luis Ángel Cereceda Parra, known as Ángel Parra (27 June 1943 – 11 March 2017), was a Chilean singer and songwriter, son of Violeta Parra and Luis Cereceda Arenas, brother of Isabel Parra.

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İbrahim Erkal

İbrahim Erkal (10 October 1966; Narman, Erzurum – 11 May 2017; Ümraniye, Istanbul) was a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and actor.

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Baby Huey & the Babysitters

Baby Huey & the Babysitters was a soul band hailing from Gary, Indiana.

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Bade Fateh Ali Khan

Ustad Bare Fateh Ali Khan (اُستاد بڑے فتح علی خان), (1935 – 4 January 2017) was amongst the foremost Khyal vocalists in Pakistan, and a leading exponent of the Patiala Gharana (stylistic lineage).

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Bahimiron

Bahimiron was an American black metal band based in Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Barbara Weldens

Barbara Weldens (1981 or 1982 – 19 July 2017) was a French singer-songwriter.

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Bari Siddiqui

Bari Siddiqui (বারী সিদ্দিকী; 15 November 1954 – 24 November 2017) was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, flutist and folk musician.

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Bart Millard

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the leader of the band MercyMe.

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Bastille (band)

Bastille (stylised as BΔSTILLE) are a British indie pop band formed in 2010.

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Bea Wain

Beatrice Ruth Wain (April 30, 1917 – August 19, 2017) was an American Big Band-era singer and radio personality born in the Bronx, New York City.

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Beachwood Sparks

Beachwood Sparks are an American alternative country band from Los Angeles.

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Belton Richard

Belton Richard (October 5, 1939 – June 21, 2017) was an American Cajun accordionist and vocalist known for his baritone vocal range.

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Ben Riley

Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. (July 17, 1933 – November 18, 2017) was an American jazz drummer known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Kenny Barron, and as member of the group Sphere.

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Ben Speer

Ben Lacy Speer (June 26, 1930 – April 7, 2017) was a singer, musician, music publisher, and record company executive.

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Bern Nix

Bern Nix (September 21, 1947 – May 31, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Bernie Herms

Bernhard "Bernie" Herms (born March 26, 1972) is a Canadian Christian musician, who is mainly a music producer, songwriter and composer.

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Big Dumb Face

Big Dumb Face is an American metal musical project noted for its comedic lyrics and shifts in style, encompassing multiple genres of music, including grindcore, death metal, funk, country, disco, reggae, psychedelia and pop.

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Bill Deal and the Rhondels

Bill Deal & the Rhondels were formed in 1959, retrieved October 29, 2013.

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Bill Dowdy

Bill Dowdy (August 15, 1932 – May 12, 2017) was an American jazz musician and teacher.

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Bill Paxton

William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and director.

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Billy Joe Walker Jr.

Billy Joe Walker Jr. (February 29, 1952 – July 25, 2017) was an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist.

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Billy Mize

William Robert Mize (April 29, 1929 – October 29, 2017) was an American steel guitarist, band leader, vocalist, songwriter, and TV show host.

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Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Blackstar (album)

★ (pronounced Blackstar) is the 25th and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie.

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BNK48

BNK48 (read B.N.K. Forty-eight) is a Thai idol group and the third international sister group of Japan's AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48 and China's SNH48.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Bob Wootton

Robert "Bob" Wootton (March 4, 1942 – April 9, 2017) was an American guitarist.

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Bobby Freeman

Robert Thomas "Bobby" Freeman (June 13, 1940 – January 23, 2017, Ace Records.co.uk; retrieved February 13, 2017.) was an African-American rock, soul and R&B singer, songwriter and record producer from San Francisco, best known for his two Top Ten hits, the first in 1958 on Josie Records called "Do You Want to Dance" and the second in 1964 for Autumn Records, "C'mon and Swim".

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Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers

Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers were a Canadian soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Boston (band)

Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, who had their most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Brontide

Brontide were a British instrumental rock band formed in 2008, featuring members who have also played in I Was a Cub Scout, La Roux, Rolo Tomassi, and Dua Lipa's band.

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Brooke Fraser

Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser (born 15 December 1983), is a New Zealand singer and songwriter best known for her hit single "Something in the Water", released in 2010.

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Bruce Hampton

Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician.

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Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne (May 11, 1938 – April 14, 2017) was an American folk musician.

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Buck Hill (musician)

Roger Wendell "Buck" Hill (February 13, 1927 – March 20, 2017) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

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Buddy Greco

Armando Joseph "Buddy" Greco (August 14, 1926 – January 10, 2017) was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist, who had a long career in the US and UK and was good friends with the Rat Pack, an American group of entertainers.

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Bunny Sigler

Walter "Bunny" Sigler (March 27, 1941 – October 6, 2017) was an American R&B singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who did extensive work with the team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and was instrumental in creating the "Philly Sound" in the early 1970s.

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Butch Trucks

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer.

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Camera Obscura (band)

Camera Obscura is a Scottish indie pop band from Glasgow.

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Can (band)

Can was a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany, in 1968 by the core quartet of Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums).

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Carnivore (band)

Carnivore is an American heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York founded by singer and bassist Peter Steele, and was formed out of the breakup of the Brooklyn metal group Fallout in 1982.

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Casey Jones (musician)

Casey Jones (July 26, 1939 – May 3, 2017) was an American drummer who recorded with blues artists such as Albert Collins, appearing on his Frostbite and Ice Pickin' albums and Johnny Winter appearing on Winters Serious Business, Guitar Slinger, True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story albums.

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Catapult (band)

Catapult were a Dutch glam rock band active between 1973 and 1979.

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CeDell Davis

Ellis CeDell Davis (June 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost were a Swiss extreme metal band from Zürich.

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Chairlift (band)

Chairlift was an American synthpop band.

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Chance the Rapper

Chancelor Jonathan Bennett (born April 16, 1993), known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and philanthropist from the West Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Charles Bradley (singer)

Charles Edward Bradley (November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2017) was an American singer, signed to the Daptone Records label under the Dunham Records division.

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Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968 before shortening the name in 1970.

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Chimaira

Chimaira was an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio.

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Chiquito de la Calzada

Gregorio Esteban Sánchez Fernández (28 May 1932, Málaga – 11 November 2017, Málaga), known as Chiquito de la Calzada, was a Spanish flamenco singer and actor, although he was more famous as a stand-up comedian.

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Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter.

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Chris Murrell

Byron Christopher Murrell (December 18, 1956 – June 18, 2017) was an American jazz and gospel singer who has toured as the featured vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra and has made appearances with the Roger Humphries Big Band.

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Christine (Christine and the Queens song)

"Christine", also released under the titles "Cripple" and "Tilted", is a song by Héloïse Letissier who records under the name Christine and the Queens.

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Christine and the Queens

Héloïse Letissier (born 1 June 1988), known by her stage names Christine and the Queens and, since 2018, Chris, is a French singer, songwriter and producer.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Chuck Loeb

Charles Samuel "Chuck" Loeb (December 7, 1955 – July 31, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist and a member of the groups Steps Ahead and Fourplay.

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Chuck Mosley

Charles Henry Mosley III (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, who was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988.

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Cibo Matto

Cibo Matto (Italian for "crazy food") was a band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994.

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Cinderella (band)

Cinderella was an American rock band formed in 1982 from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Clem Curtis

Clem Curtis (born Curtis Clements; 28 November 1940 – 27 March 2017) was a Trinidadian British singer, who was the original lead vocalist of sixties soul group The Foundations.

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Climax (band)

Climax was an American band formed in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, most noted for their 1971-1972 hit song "Precious and Few", which peaked at #3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on ''Cashbox'' magazine's Top 100 singles chart.

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Clive Brooks

Clive Colin Brooks (28 December 1949 – 5 May 2017) was a dummer, best known for his work in the English progressive rock band Egg.

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Closer (The Chainsmokers song)

"Closer" is a song by American DJ duo The Chainsmokers, featuring American singer Halsey.

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Clotilde Rosa

Maria Clotilde Belo de Carvalho Rosa Franco (11 May 1930 – 24 November 2017), known as Clotilde Rosa, was a Portuguese harpist, music educator and composer.

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Clyde Stubblefield

Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown.

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Coal Chamber

Coal Chamber was an American nu metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1993.

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Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit

Col.

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Company of Thieves (band)

Company of Thieves is an American indie rock group from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Continental Europe

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.

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Corrosion of Conformity

Corrosion of Conformity (also known as C.O.C.) is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina formed in 1982.

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Cuba Gooding Sr.

Cuba Gooding Sr. (April 27, 1944 – April 20, 2017) was an American singer and actor.

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Curly Seckler

John Ray Sechler, known as Curly Seckler, (December 25, 1919 – December 27, 2017) was an American bluegrass musician.

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Czerwone Gitary

Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music.

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D'Angelo

Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo (pronounced di-Angelo), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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D. L. Menard

Doris Leon "D.

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Daddy Yankee

Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez (born February 3, 1977), known by his stage name Daddy Yankee, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, and record producer.

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Damian (musician)

Damian Davey (born Damian Baker; 30 September 1964 – 12 February 2017), better known by the mononym Damian, was an English pop musician, best known for his 1989 hit "The Time Warp", a cover version of the original track from The Rocky Horror Show.

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Daniel Licht

Daniel James Licht (March 13, 1957 – August 2, 2017) was an American soundtrack composer and musician, best known for writing the score of Showtime TV drama series Dexter.

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Danny Spooner

Danny Spooner (16 December 1936 – 3 March 2017) was a traditional folk singer and social historian.

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Dark Sermon

Dark Sermon was an American blackened death metal band from Tampa, Florida currently signed to eOne Music in North America and Nuclear Blast Records in Europe.

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Dave Evans (bluegrass)

William "Dave" Evans (July 24, 1950 - June 26, 2017) was a tenor singer, banjo player, composer, and bluegrass band leader.

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Dave Hlubek

David Lawrence "Dave" Hlubek (August 28, 1951 – September 2, 2017) was the lead guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet.

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Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band, also known by the acronym DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991.

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Dave Valentin

David Joseph Valentin (April 29, 1952 – March 8, 2017) was an American Latin jazz flautist.

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David Axelrod (musician)

David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy (April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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David Peel (musician)

David Peel (born David Michael Rosario; August 3, 1942 – April 6, 2017) was a New York City-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, George Cori and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band.

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Dead by Sunrise

Dead by Sunrise (formerly known as Snow White Tan) was an American rock supergroup formed in 2005 by Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington.

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Dead Moon

Dead Moon was an American punk rock band from 1987 to 2006, formed in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Deke Leonard

Roger Arnold "Deke" Leonard (18 December 1944 – 31 January 2017) was a Welsh rock musician, "serving a life sentence in the music business".

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Della Reese

Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades.

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Despacito

"Despacito" (English: "Slowly") is a song by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee from Fonsi's upcoming studio album.

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Dick Contino

Dick Contino (born Richard Joseph Contino; January 17, 1930 – April 19, 2017) was an American accordionist and singer.

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Dick Noel

Richard "Dick" Noel (May 30, 1927, Brooklyn, New York – October 20, 2017, Escondido, California) was an American band vocalist, jingle singer, and radio and television performer.

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Disclosure (band)

Disclosure are an English electronic music duo consisting of brothers Howard (born 11 May 1994) and Guy Lawrence (born 25 May 1991).

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone.

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Don Warden

Don Warden (March 27, 1929 – March 11, 2017) was an American country musician and manager best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton.

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Don Williams

Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Donovan Wolfington

Donovan Wolfington were an American punk rock band which formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 2011.

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Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur.

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Drive (band)

Drive was a five-piece progressive metal, power metal, heavy metal, and hard rock band formed in Houston, Texas, United States by Rick Chavez.

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Du Yun

Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵, born June 18, 1977) is a Chinese born international composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist.

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Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa (born 22 August 1995) is an English singer, songwriter, and model.

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Dundertåget

Dundertåget (English: Thunder Train) is a Swedish rock band, originally formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Robert Dahlqvist in 2004 as Thunder Express as a side project while playing in The Hellacopters.

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E-Dubble

Evan Sewell Wallace, best known by his stage name E-Dubble (often stylized e-dubble, or shortened to e-dub) (November 1, 1982 – February 13, 2017) was an American rapper from Philadelphia.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Eamonn Campbell

Eamonn Campbell (29 November 1946 – 18 October 2017) was an Irish musician who was a member of The Dubliners from 1987 until his death.

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Earl Lindo

Earl Wilberforce "Wire" Lindo (7 January 1953 – 4 September 2017), sometimes referred to as Wya, was a Jamaican reggae musician.

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Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran, (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor.

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Edi Fitzroy

Fitzroy Edwards (17 November 1955 – 4 March 2017), better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy, was a Jamaican reggae singer, active from 1975 but best known for his work during the dancehall era.

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Egg (band)

Egg were an English progressive rock band formed in January 1969.

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Egil Kapstad

Egil Kapstad (6 August 1940 – 13 July 2017) was a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

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Eighteen Visions

Eighteen Visions is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States, formed in October 1995.

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Elastica

Elastica were an English alternative rock band that played punk rock, post-punk and new wave-influenced music.

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Eliza Clívia

Eliza Clívia (November 14, 1979 - June 16, 2017) was a Brazilian singer of electronic forró.

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Elkin Ramírez

Elkin Ramírez (26 October 1962 – 29 January 2017) was a Colombian singer-songwriter, and leader of the band Kraken.

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Elliphant

Ellinor Miranda Salome Olovsdotter (born 8 October 1985), known professionally as Elliphant, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and rapper.

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Erik Cartwright

Erik Cartwright (July 10, 1950 – July 9, 2017) born in New York, New York was an American rock guitarist best known for playing with Foghat.

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Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki Juhani Kurenniemi (10 July 1941, Hämeenlinna, Finland – 1 May 2017, Helsinki) was a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed.

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Errol Dyers

Errol Dyers (29 March 1952 – 21 July 2017) was a South African musician, composer and guitarist and pioneer of Cape jazz/goema.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Evan Johns

Evan Johns (July 12, 1956 – March 11, 2017) was an American guitarist specializing in a variety of music, including rockabilly.

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Evolver One

Evolver One is a South African rock band.

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Exhorder

Exhorder is an American heavy metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Fats Domino

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter.

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Felt (band)

Felt were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1979 in Water Orton, Warwickshire and led by the mononymous Lawrence.

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Flash and the Pan

Flash and the Pan were an Australian new wave musical group (essentially an ongoing studio project) formed in 1976 by Harry Vanda and George Young; both are former members of the Easybeats and were a production and songwriting team as Vanda & Young.

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Foggy Mountain Boys

The Foggy Mountain Boys were an American bluegrass band.

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Foghat

Foghat is an English rock band formed in London in 1971.

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Fourplay

Fourplay is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Frankie Paul

Paul Blake (19 October 1965 – 18 May 2017), better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist.

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Fred Cole (musician)

Frederick Lee Cole (August 28, 1948 – November 9, 2017) was an American rock singer and guitarist who played with several bands since the 1960s, most notably The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, and Pierced Arrows.

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Friendzone

Friendzone was an American instrumental hip hop duo based in East Bay, California.

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Fun (band)

Fun (stylized as fun.) are an American indie pop group based in New York City.

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Gaetano Bardini

Gaetano Bardini (8 October 1926 – 3 November 2017) was an Italian tenor.

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Game Theory (band)

Game Theory was a power pop band founded in 1982 by singer/songwriter Scott Miller, combining melodic jangle pop with dense experimental production and hyperliterate lyrics.

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Gang of Youths

Gang of Youths are an Australian indie rock group from Sydney.

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Geoff Mack

Albert Geoffrey McElhinney OAM (20 December 1922 – 21 July 2017), better known as Geoff Mack, was a country singer-songwriter and aircraft mechanic.

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Geoff Nicholls

Geoffrey James "Geoff" Nicholls (28 February 1948 – 28 January 2017) was a British musician and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, until 2004.

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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), also referred to since his death as Dr G Yunupingu, was an Indigenous Australian musician.

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George Young (rock musician)

George Redburn Young (6 November 194622 October 2017) was a Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Geri Allen

Geri Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Gil Ray

George Gilbert "Gil" Ray (September 17, 1956 – January 24, 2017) was an American rock drummer, guitarist, and vocalist, best known for his recordings in the 1980s and 1990s as a member of the bands Game Theory and The Loud Family.

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Gizmodrome

Gizmodrome is a rock supergroup formed in Italy in 2017.

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Glastonbury Festival 2016

The 2016 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts took place between 22 and 26 June.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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Gloria Ann Taylor

Gloria Ann Taylor (September 13, 1944 – December 8, 2017),.

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Go Farther in Lightness

Go Farther in Lightness is the second studio album by Australian alternative band Gang of Youths.

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Goatlord (band)

Goatlord was an extreme metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Goldy McJohn

John Raymond Goadsby (May 2, 1945 – August 1, 2017), known as Goldy McJohn, was a Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf.

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Gong (band)

Gong are an international progressive rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style.

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Gord Downie

Gordon Edgar Downie (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017) was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist.

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Grady Tate

Grady Bernard Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer with a distinctive baritone voice.

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Graham Wood (musician)

Graham Wood (15 September 1971 – 19 July 2017) was an Australian jazz pianist and educator.

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Grandaddy

Grandaddy is an American indie rock band from Modesto, California.

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Grant Hart

Grant Vernon Hart (March 18, 1961 – September 13, 2017) was an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü.

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Green Light (Lorde song)

"Green Light" is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde, from her second studio album Melodrama (2017).

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Greg Trooper

Greg Trooper (January 13, 1956 – January 15, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, whose songs have been recorded by many artists, including Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Vince Gill.

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Gregg Allman

Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Guitar Gable

Gabriel Perrodin (August 17, 1937 – January 28, 2017), known as Guitar Gable, was an American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop musician.

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Hail of Bullets

Hail of Bullets was a Dutch old school death metal supergroup from Rotterdam.

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Halsey (singer)

Ashley Nicolette Frangipane (born September 29, 1994), known professionally as Halsey, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Hampton Grease Band

The Hampton Grease Band was an American rock band, beginning as a blues rock group in the late 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü were an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.

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Heart (band)

Heart is an American rock band that first found success in Canada and later in the United States and worldwide.

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Heatwave (band)

Heatwave was an international funk/disco band formed in 1975.

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Heaven's Basement

Heaven's Basement were a British rock band formed in 2008 and signed with Red Bull Records.

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Heavy Load (band)

Heavy Load is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm.

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Hello (Adele song)

"Hello" is a song by English singer Adele, released on 23 October 2015 by XL Recordings as the lead single from her third studio album, 25 (2015).

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Highway Sisters

Highway Sisters is a country music duo based in the state of Texas.

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HIM (Finnish band)

HIM (sometimes stylized as H.I.M.) was a Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki, Finland.

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Hiromi Hayakawa

Marla Hiromi Hayakawa Salas (October 19, 1982 – September 27, 2017), known professionally as Hiromi Hayakawa, was a Mexican actress and singer who began her music career as a contestant in the reality show La Academia.

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Hiroshi Kamayatsu

was a Japanese singer and guitarist born in Tokyo.

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History (One Direction song)

"History" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction.

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Holger Czukay

Holger Czukay (born Holger Schüring; 24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017) was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

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Horace Parlan

Horace Parlan (January 19, 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – February 23, 2017, Korsør, Denmark) was an American hard bop and post-bop pianist and composer.

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Horacio Guarany

Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo, better known as Horacio Guarany (May 15, 1925 – January 13, 2017), was one of the main Argentine folklore singers, and a writer.

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House vs. Hurricane

House Vs.

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Huang Feili

Huang Feili was a Chinese conductor and musical educator.

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Humble (song)

"Humble" (stylized as "HUMBLE.") is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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Ikutaro Kakehashi

, also known by the nickname Taro, was a Japanese engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.

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In Dying Arms

In Dying Arms was an American deathcore band from Baltimore, Maryland.

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Instant Funk

Instant Funk were an American 1970s and 1980s disco band, best known for their disco classic, "I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)".

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J. Geils

John Warren Geils Jr. (February 20, 1946 – April 11, 2017), known professionally as J. Geils or Jay Geils, was an American guitarist.

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Jaki Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit (born Hans Liebezeit; 26 May 1938 – 22 January 2017) was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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James Cotton

James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz-funk band from London, formed in 1992.

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Janis Hansen (singer)

Janis Sue Klinger (née Hansen) (October 10, 1942 – October 4, 2017) was an American singer and author.

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Jarmila Šuláková

Jarmila Šuláková (27 June 1929 – 11 February 2017) was a Czech folk singer and occasional actress.

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Jawbreaker (band)

Jawbreaker is an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996, and again since 2017.

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Jerry Adriani

Jerry Adriani (Jair Alves de Sousa; 29 January 1947 – 23 April 2017) was a Brazilian singer, musician and actor.

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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian, director, screenwriter, producer, headliner and author.

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Jerzy Kossela

Jerzy Kossela (né Kosela; 15 July 1942 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish guitarist, vocalist and founding member of the bands Electron, Niebiesko-Czarni, Pięciolinie and Czerwone Gitary.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jim Fuller (musician)

James Evans Fuller (June 27, 1947 – March 3, 2017) was the lead guitarist and co-songwriter of 1960s rock band The Surfaris.

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Jim Nabors

James Thurston Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian.

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Jimmy Copley

James Frank Copley (29 December 1953 – 13 May 2017) was an English rock drummer.

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Jimmy Dale (musician)

Jimmy Dale (23 October 1935 – 20 May 2017) was a British-born Canadian arranger, composer, conductor, organist, and pianist.

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Jimmy Dotson

James Dent Dotson (October 19, 1933 – March 26, 2017), sometimes known as Jimmy "Louisiana" Dotson, was an American blues singer, guitarist and drummer.

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Jimmy LaFave

Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician.

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Jimmy Nalls

Jimmy Nalls (born James Albert Nalls III; May 31, 1951 – June 22, 2017) was an American guitarist mostly known as a founding member of the jazz fusion band Sea Level.

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Joanna Brouk

Joanna Brouk (February 20, 1949 – April 28, 2017) was an American electronic composer who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Joey Powers

Joseph S. "Joe" Ruggiero (December 7, 1934 – January 20, 2017), who performed as Joey Powers, was an American former pop singer and songwriter whose record "Midnight Mary" reached No.

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John Abercrombie (guitarist)

John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.

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John Blackwell (musician)

John Blackwell Jr. (September 9, 1973 – July 4, 2017) was an American contemporary R&B, funk, jazz, fusion, and pop drummer, best known for his work with Prince.

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John Boudreaux

John Mortimer Boudreaux, Jr. (December 10, 1936, New Roads, Louisiana – January 14, 2017, Los Angeles) was an American drummer who was active in jazz, soul, and rhythm & blues idioms.

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John Coates Jr.

John Francis Coates Jr. (February 17, 1938 – November 22, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

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John Shifflett

John M Shifflett (March 22, 1953 – April 27, 2017) was an American jazz musician, player of the double bass and also an arranger, composer, and educator, with his last teaching job at San Jose State University.

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John Wetton

John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter.

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Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock and roll band from Toledo, Ohio, that had a number of hits, especially in the UK, in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Jon Hendricks

John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer.

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Jonathan Moore (musician)

Jonathan Moore (April 21,1969 - March 8, 2017), also known by his stage name, Wordsayer, was a rapper, DJ and producer born in Seattle, WA.

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Joni Sledge

Joan Elise Sledge (September 13, 1956 – March 10, 2017) was an American singer–songwriter, actress and producer.

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Josh Todd and the Conflict

Josh Todd & The Conflict is an American hard rock band formed by Buckcherry members Josh Todd (vocals) and Stevie D (guitarist).

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Joy Fleming

Joy Fleming (born Erna Raad; 15 November 1944, Rockenhausen – 27 September 2017, Sinsheim), aka Erna Libenow, was a German singer best known for her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975.

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Juno Awards of 2017

The Juno Awards of 2017, honouring Canadian music achievements, were presented in Ottawa, Ontario the weekend of 1–2 April 2017.

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Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya

Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (11 September 1970 – 7 March 2017) was an Indian folk singer and researcher.

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Kaoma

Kaoma was a French-Brazilian pop group made up of former members of the band Touré Kunda: Chyco Dru (bassist), Jacky Arconte (guitarist), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (producer and keyboardist), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion), Fania (vocals), and Loalwa Braz (lead singer), Chico and Roberta (dancers).

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Karnataka (band)

Karnataka were formed in 1997 by founding members, Ian Jones (bass/acoustic guitar), Jonathan Edwards (keyboards) and Rachel Jones (vocals).

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Katatonia

Katatonia are a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström.

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Katie Lee (singer)

Katie Lee (October 23, 1919 – November 1, 2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.

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Katy Bødtger

Katy Bødtger (28 December 1932 – 1 May 2017) was a Danish singer.

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Keely Smith

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), better known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.

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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Kenny Shields

Kenny Shields was a Canadian musician and the lead singer of rock band Streetheart, known for singing various hits, including “Action,” “Hollywood,” “Look in Your Eyes,” “What Kind of Love Is This,” and a cover of The Rolling Stones classic “Under My Thumb.”.

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Kevin Mahogany

Kevin Bryant Mahogany (July 30, 1958 – December 17, 2017) was an American jazz vocalist who became prominent in the 1990s.

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Khalid (singer)

Khalid Donnel Robinson (born February 11, 1998), known mononymously as Khalid, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Kim Jong-hyun (singer)

Kim Jong-hyun (April 8, 1990 – December 18, 2017), better known mononymously as Jonghyun, was a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, radio host, and author.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Kittie

Kittie (stylized as KiTTiE) is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in London, Ontario in 1996.

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Konono Nº1

Konono Nº1 is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kraken (band)

Kraken is a rock band founded in Medellín, Colombia, in 1983.

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Laila Sari

Hajjah Laila Sari (born Nur Laila Sari Jahrotuljannah; 4 November 1935 – 20 November 2017) was an Indonesian comedian and singer of rock and children's songs.

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Larry Clinton

Larry Clinton (August 17, 1909 – May 2, 1985) was an American musician, best known as a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader and arranger.

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Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist known as the "Godfather of Fusion".

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Larry Elgart

Lawrence Joseph Elgart (March 20, 1922 – August 29, 2017) was an American jazz bandleader.

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Larry Marshall (singer)

Larry Marshall (born Fitzroy Marshall), (17 December 1941 – 24 August 2017) was a Jamaican reggae singer, who recorded both as a solo artist and as part of the duos Larry & Alvin and Larry & Enid.

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Lars Diedricson

Lars "Dille" Diedricson (12 August 1961 – 6 March 2017) was a Swedish musician and songwriter living in Skara.

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Laudir de Oliveira

Laudir Soares de Oliveira (6 January 1940 – 17 September 2017) was a Brazilian musician and producer mostly renowned for his time as percussionist with the band Chicago.

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Leo Welch

Leo "Bud" Welch (March 22, 1932 – December 19, 2017) was an American gospel blues musician and guitarist.

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Leon Ware

Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American music artist, songwriter and composer.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Les B.B.

Les B.B. (pronounced leh beh beh) is a Canadian musical band from the province of Quebec.

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Les Brers

Les Brers is an American rock band formed by former members of The Allman Brothers Band.

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Letlive

Letlive, stylized letlive., were an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Lido Pimienta

Lido Pimienta (born 1986) is a Colombian Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Light This City

Light This City is an American melodic death metal band from the Bay Area of San Francisco, that has been active from 2002.

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Lighthouse (band)

Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario.

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Lil Peep

Gustav Elijah Åhr (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.

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Lionheart (Hardcore punk band)

Lionheart is an American hardcore band from Oakland, California.

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Little Barrie

Little Barrie are an English rock group.

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Little Mix

Little Mix are a British girl group formed in 2011 during the eighth series of the UK version of The X Factor.

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Loalwa Braz

Loalwa Braz Vieira (3 June 1953 – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.

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Lonnie Brooks

Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Lorde

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde (pronounced lord), is a singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Louis Roney

Louis Roney (January 26, 1921 – November 5, 2017) was a tenor inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Luis Fonsi

Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero (born April 15, 1978), known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and actor, best known for his 2017 worldwide hit song "Despacito", featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, which won a total of four Latin Grammy Awards.

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Luiz Melodia

Luiz Carlos dos Santos (7 January 1951 – 4 August 2017), more commonly known as Luiz Melodia, was a Brazilian actor, singer and songwriter of MPB, rock, blues, soul and samba.

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Lyle Ritz

Lyle Joseph Ritz (January 10, 1930 – March 3, 2017) was an American jazz ukulele musician who was a key part of the Hawaii ukulele genre.

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Madina Lake

Madina Lake is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 2005.

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Mahi Beamer

Edwin Mahiai (Mahi) Copp Beamer (December 5, 1928 – July 14, 2017) was a tenor falsetto singer, composer and hula dancer of Hawaiian ancestry.

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Malcolm Young

Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC.

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Man (band)

Man are a rock band from South Wales whose style is a mixture of West Coast psychedelia, progressive rock and blues.

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Mandala (band)

Mandala was a Canadian R&B and soul band from the 1960s.

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María Martha Serra Lima

María Martha Serra Lima (December 19, 1944 – November 2, 2017) was an Argentine canción melódica singer.

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Marilyn Manson (band)

Marilyn Manson is an American rock band formed by namesake lead singer Marilyn Manson and guitarist Daisy Berkowitz in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1989.

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Marilyn Tyler

Marilyn Tyler (born Mary Teitler; 5 December 1926 – 20 December 2017) was an American soprano and music pedagogue.

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Marionette (band)

Marionette was a Swedish melodic death metal band.

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Mark Selby (musician)

Mark Otis Selby (died September 18, 2017) was an American blues rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

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Martin Eric Ain

Martin Eric Ain (born Martin Stricker, July 18, 1967 – October 21, 2017) was best known for being the former bassist of the influential extreme metal band Celtic Frost.

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Martini Ranch

Martini Ranch was a new wave band conceived in 1982 by Andrew Todd Rosenthal.

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Matt Holt

Matthew Francis Holt (May 28, 1977 – April 15, 2017) was an American heavy metal singer, formerly of alternative metal band Nothingface and Kingdom of Snakes.

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Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress (March 18, 1930 – December 31, 2017) was an American orchestra conductor, educator and author.

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Mazzy Star

Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from remnants of the group Opal.

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Mel Tillis

Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Meliah Rage

Meliah Rage is an American power metal band from Boston, formed in 1987 by guitarist/songwriter Anthony Nichols.

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Melissa Bell (singer)

Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell (5 March 1964 – 28 August 2017) was an English singer.

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Melodrama (Lorde album)

Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer Lorde, released through Universal, Lava and Republic Records on 16 June 2017.

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Melvyn "Deacon" Jones

Melvyn "Deacon" Jones (December 12, 1943 – July 6, 2017) was an organist and founding member of Baby Huey & the Babysitters.

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Memo Morales

Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo (6 April 1937 – 1 January 2017) was a Venezuelan singer.

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MercyMe

MercyMe is an American contemporary Christian music band founded in Greenville, Texas.

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Michael Johnson (singer)

Michael Johnson (August 8, 1944 – July 25, 2017) was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Michael Parks

Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940 – May 9, 2017) was an American singer and actor.

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Michael Prophet

Michael George Haynes (3 March 1957 – 16 December 2017), known professionally as Michael Prophet, was a Jamaican roots reggae singer known for his "crying" tenor vocal style, whose recording career began in 1977.

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Mick Softley

Michael Softley (26 September 1939 – 1 September 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Mike Kellie

Michael Alexander Kellie (24 March 1947 – 18 January 2017) was an English musician, composer and record producer.

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Mindless Behavior

Mindless Behavior was an American boy band, best known for the singles "My Girl" and "Mrs. Right", produced by Walter Millsap.

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Miss A

Miss A (Hangul: 미쓰에이) was a South Korean girl group, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2010, consisting of Fei, Jia, Min, and Suzy.

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Mitch Margo

Mitchell Stuart Margo (May 25, 1947 – November 24, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep was an American hip hop music duo from Queens, New York.

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Molly Hatchet

Molly Hatchet is an American Southern hard rock band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1971.

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Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo founded by vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, both natives of Kentucky.

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople are an English rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid-1970s.

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Mudcrutch

Mudcrutch was an American southern and country rock band from Gainesville, Florida.

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Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium.

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Mundell Lowe

James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.

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MX Machine

MX Machine is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California.

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My Indigo

My Indigo is a musical project by Dutch singer and songwriter Sharon den Adel.

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Nachtmystium

Nachtmystium is an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick.

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Nashville Grass

The Nashville Grass was a bluegrass band founded by Lester Flatt in 1969, after the end of his partnership with Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys.

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Negură Bunget

Negură Bunget was a black metal band from Timișoara, Romania whose atmospheric sound incorporated elements of progressive metal and Romanian folk music.

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Nevermore

Nevermore was an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington, United States.

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New Lost City Ramblers

The New Lost City Ramblers, or NLCR, is a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival.

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NME Awards 2017

The NME Awards 2017 were held in London, England, on 15 February 2017, at the Brixton Academy and was hosted by English comedian Huw Stephens.

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Norihiko Hashida

was a Japanese singer-songwriter.

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Norro Wilson

Norris "Norro" Denton Wilson (April 4, 1938 – June 8, 2017) was an American country music singer-songwriter, producer, and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Nothingface

Nothingface was an American heavy metal band from Washington, D.C., formed in 1993.

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Ohio Players

Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s.

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One Direction

One Direction are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and, until his departure from the band in 2015, Zayn Malik.

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Orbital (band)

Orbital are an English electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, Kent, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll.

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Outrageous Cherry

Outrageous Cherry is an American psychedelic pop / power pop band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Paapa Yankson

Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson, known as Paapa Yankson (22 June 1944 – 21 July 2017) was a Ghanaian highlife singer, songwriter, and producer.

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Parliament-Funkadelic

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the individual bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.

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Pat DiNizio

Patrick Michael DiNizio (October 12, 1955 – December 12, 2017) was the lead singer, songwriter, and member of the band The Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Jim Babjak, Dennis Diken, and Mike Mesaros, from Carteret, New Jersey.

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Paul Buckmaster

Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning British artist, arranger, conductor and composer.

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Paul O'Neill (rock producer)

Paul O'Neill (February 23, 1956 – April 5, 2017) was an American music composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter.

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Peking Duk

Peking Duk are an Australian electronic music duo made up of disc jockeys and music producers Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles.The name was created when they was dining at a Chinese restaurant eating Peking duck.

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Pentti Glan

Pentti "Whitey" Glan (July 8, 1946 – November 7, 2017) was a Finnish-Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed.

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Pericoma Okoye

Chief Pericoma Mezuo Okoye was a Nigerian singer, songwriter and traditionist.

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Pete Kuykendall

Peter "Pete" Van Kuykendall (January 15, 1938 – August 24, 2017) also known as Pete Roberts, was an American bluegrass musician, songwriter, discographer and a magazine and music publisher.

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Pete Overend Watts

Peter "Pete" Overend Watts (13 May 1947 – 22 January 2017) was an English bass guitar player and founding member of the 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople.

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Pete Shotton

Peter Shotton (4 August 1941 – 24 March 2017), commonly referred to as Pete Shotton, was an English businessman and former washboard player.

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Peter Sarstedt

Peter Eardley Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017), briefly billed early in his career as Peter Lincoln, was a British singer, instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter.

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Peter Skellern

Peter Skellern (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Phil Garland

Philip Humphrey Garland (c. 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician.

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Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry in January 2008 Pierre Georges Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer, considered a pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music.

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Pinegrove (band)

Pinegrove is an American band from Montclair, New Jersey, United States.

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Plastics (band)

Plastics, or The Plastics, were a short-lived Japanese new wave music group prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Pleymo

Pleymo is a French nu metal band formed by Mark Maggiori, Benoît Julliard, Fred Ceraudo, and Mathias Borronquet in Fontainebleau in 1997.

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Polo Hofer

Urs Alfred "Polo" Hofer (16 March 1945 – 22 July 2017) was a Swiss musician known for his work in the field of Swiss German pop and rock music.

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Poured Out

Poured Out are an American Metalcore band from Hollywood, Maryland, and they started making music together in 2014, playing hardcore punk and metalcore.

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Powerflo

Powerflo is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2016.

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Process (Sampha album)

Process is the debut studio album by British musician Sampha, released on 3 February 2017 by Young Turks.

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Prodigy (rapper)

Albert Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was an American rapper who was one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep with Havoc.

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PWR BTTM

PWR BTTM (pronounced Power Bottom) are an American queer punk duo formed in 2013 at Bard College by Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins.

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Quartz (metal band)

Quartz are a British heavy metal band.

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Rachel's

Rachel's were an American chamber music group that formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1991.

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Rag'n'Bone Man

Rory Charles Graham (born 29 January 1985), better known as Rag'n'Bone Man, is an English singer and songwriter, known for his deep, bass-baritone voice.

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Ralph Carney

Ralph Carney (January 23, 1956 – December 16, 2017) was an American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Rata Blanca

Rata Blanca (White Rat in English) is a heavy metal band from Argentina, formed in 1986.

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Ray Phiri

Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker, and South African guitarist nicknamed "Just Now" Phiri.

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Richard Dobson

Richard James Joseph Dobson II (March 19, 1942 – December 16, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Rikard Wolff

Jan Rikard Wolff (8 April 1958 – 17 November 2017) was a Swedish stage and screen actor and singer.

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Rina Matsuno

was a Japanese singer, model, actress and tarento who was a member of girl idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku.

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Ritchie Adams

Richard Adam Ziegler (December 15, 1938 – March 6, 2017), known professionally as Ritchie Adams, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Robert Dahlqvist

Robert Dahlqvist (16 April 1976 – 1 February 2017) was a Swedish guitarist and vocalist best known for his tenure with the rock band The Hellacopters.

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Robert De Cormier

Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. (January 7, 1922 – November 7, 2017) was an American musical conductor, arranger, and director.

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Robert Knight (musician)

Robert Knight (born Robert Peebles, April 24, 1945 – November 5, 2017) was an American singer, best known for the 1967 recording of the song "Everlasting Love".

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Robert Miles

Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 – 9 May 2017), known professionally as Robert Miles, was a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ.

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Robert Popwell

Robert Lee "Pops" Popwell (December 29, 1950 – November 27, 2017) was an American jazz-funk bass guitarist.

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Robert Walker (musician)

Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr. (February 19, 1937 – November 29, 2017) was an American blues musician who is known in the blues music world due to his "rock 'n' roll showmanship" and "flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations.".

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Roberto Delgado & Orquesta

Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, is a Panamanian salsa orchestra based in Panama City.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.

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Ronnie Butler

Ronald "Ronnie" Butler Sr., MBE (August 17, 1937 – November 19, 2017) was a famous Bahamian calypso and rake n scrape entertainer and singer.

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Ronnie Davis

Ronnie Davis (1950 – January 25, 2017) was a Jamaican reggae singer who was a member of The Tennors, The Itals, and the group Ronnie Davis & Idren.

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Rory O'Donoghue

Rory O'Donoghue (13 May 194913 December 2017) was an Australian actor and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970's ABC Television sketch comedy series The Aunty Jack Show, and for playing the guitar solo on Kevin Johnson's biggest hit "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)".

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Rosa Speer

Rosa Nell Powell (née Speer; September 22, 1922 – May 16, 2017) was an American southern gospel singer who sang with the well-known Speer Family.

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Rosalie Sorrels

Rosalie Sorrels (June 24, 1933 – June 11, 2017) was an American folk singer-songwriter.

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Rose Marie

Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career that ultimately spanned over nine decades — and included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television.

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Rosie and the Originals

Rosie and the Originals were an American 1960s musical group best known for their single "Angel Baby." Fronted by lead singer Rosie Hamlin, the group produced two singles (including "Angel Baby") for Highland Records and, like many other musicians of the era, ended up in protracted legal battles with their record label over royalties and credits.

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Rosie Hamlin

Rosalie "Rosie" Méndez Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals, best known for the 1960 song "Angel Baby", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only fifteen years old.

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Roswell Rudd

Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer.

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Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades (but in Panama and within the family), is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban, salsa, and Latin jazz genres.

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Rudy Rotta

Rudy Rotta (14 October 1950 – 3 July 2017) was an Italian blues guitarist who lived near Verona.

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Ruth B.

Ruth Berhe (born July 2, 1995), better known by her stage name Ruth B., is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta.

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Sadus

Sadus is an American thrash metal band from Antioch, California, active from 1984 to 2015, and again since 2017.

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Salsa Big Band

Salsa Big Band is a studio album by Panamanian singer Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, released on 29 April 2017 by Rubén Blades Productions.

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Sampha

Sampha Sisay (born 16 November 1988), who performs under the mononym Sampha, is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from Morden, South London, United Kingdom.

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Sanctuary (band)

Sanctuary is an American thrash metal band founded in Seattle, Washington, United States, in 1985.

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Sandra Reemer

Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was an Indo-Dutch singer and television presenter.

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Saucy Sylvia

Sylvia Cadeski (July 27, 1920 – May 25, 2017), known professionally as Saucy Sylvia, was a Canadian-born American comedian, classically trained pianist, singer, and radio personality.

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Savatage

Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by the Oliva brothers Jon and Criss in 1979 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

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Saxa (musician)

Saxa (born Lionel Augustus Martin; 5 January 1930 – 3 May 2017) was a Jamaican saxophonist famous for having performed with the British ska band The Beat.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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Scott Putesky

Scott Mitchell Putesky (April 28, 1968 – October 22, 2017), also known as Daisy Berkowitz, was an American musician, who was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the industrial metal band Marilyn Manson.

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Sea Level (band)

Sea Level was an American jazz fusion band from Macon, Georgia that mixed jazz, blues and rock and existed between 1976 and 1981.

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Segun Bucknor

Segun Bucknor (29 March 1946 – 11 August 2017) was a Nigerian musician and journalist active during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Shadia

Fatma Ahmed Kamal Shaker (فاطمة أحمد كمال شاكر), better known by her stage name Shadia, (شادية Shādiyya; 8 February 1931 – 28 November 2017) was an Egyptian actress and singer.

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Shawn Mendes

Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Shinee

Shinee (Korean: 샤이니; Japanese: シャイニー; stylized as SHINee) is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2008.

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Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku

are a Japanese girl idol group.

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Shout Out to My Ex

"Shout Out to My Ex" is a song by British girl group Little Mix.

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Sib Hashian

John Thomas "Sib" Hashian (August 17, 1949 – March 22, 2017) was an American musician, best known as a drummer for the rock band Boston.

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Simon Holmes (guitarist)

Simon Carter Holmes (28 March 196313 July 2017) was the singer and lead guitarist for the Australian indie rock bands, the Hummingbirds (1986–93) and Her Name in Lights (2003–05).

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Sixty Watt Shaman

Sixty Watt Shaman is an American rock band known for incorporating hard rock with blues, southern rock, doom rock, punk rock and metal influences, originally based out of Eldersburg, Baltimore County, Montgomery County, and Montgomery Village, Maryland.

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Skip Prokop

Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop (December 13, 1943 – August 30, 2017) was a Canadian drummer and band leader who was a driving force in Canadian rock music, creating seminal bands, including The Paupers.

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Sleeper (band)

Sleeper are an English Britpop band, fronted by Louise Wener and formed in London.

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Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa.

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Snowstorm (band)

Snowstorm was a rock band in Gothenburg, Sweden, founded in 1976 by Lars "Dille" Diedricson (vocals), Peter Nordholm (guitar), Torben Ferm (drums) and Micael Serenban (bass).

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.

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Sonny Burgess

Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess (May 28, 1929 – August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer.

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Sonny Geraci

Emmett Peter "Sonny" Geraci (November 22, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American musician and singer, best known as lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax.

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Sons of Apollo

Sons of Apollo is an American progressive metal supergroup formed in 2017 and composed of drummer Mike Portnoy, bassist Billy Sheehan, keyboardist Derek Sherinian, vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, and guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal.

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Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul are a British musical group formed in London in 1988.

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Soul Survivors (band)

The Soul Survivors are an American, Philadelphia-based, Soul Music and R&B group, founded by New York natives Richie and Charlie Ingui along with Kenny Jeremiah.

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Soulhat

Soulhat is an American rock band from Texas.

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Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.

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Source of Labor

Source of Labor was a rap band formed in 1989 in Seattle, Washington, consisting of Wordsayer, Negus I, DJ Kamikaze, and later, Vitamin D.

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Spawn of Possession

Spawn of Possession was a technical death metal band from Kalmar, Sweden, founded in 1997.

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Speer Family

The Speer Family was a Southern gospel family musical group.

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Spirits (The Strumbellas song)

"Spirits" is a song by Canadian indie folk band The Strumbellas.

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Spooky Tooth

Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active between 1967 and 1974.

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Stabilizers

The Stabilizers were an American pop/rock duo from Erie, Pennsylvania, founded in the mid-1980s by musicians Dave Christenson (lead vocals) and England-born Rich Nevens (guitars and occasional keyboards).

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Staind

Staind is an American rock band formed in 1995.

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Stan Boreson

Stan Boreson (May 5, 1925 – January 27, 2017), the "King of Scandinavian Humor," was an American comedian, accordionist and singer from Everett, Washington.

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Starbuck (band)

Starbuck was a rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974 by keyboardist/vocalist/record producer Bruce Blackman and marimba player Bo Wagner.

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Steam (band)

Steam was a pop-rock music group best known for the 1969 number one hit song "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City.

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Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by core members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals) in 1972.

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Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972.

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Steps (pop group)

Steps are a British dance-pop group consisting of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian "H" Watkins.

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Steve Lang

Steve Lang (born Stephen Keith Lang; March 24, 1949 – February 4, 2017) was a Canadian musician best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984.

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Steve Wright (bassist)

Steve Wright (1950-January 16, 2017) was a bass guitarist best known for his work with The Greg Kihn Band.

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Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots (often abbreviated as STP) are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert DeLeo (bass, backing vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitars), and Eric Kretz (drums).

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Stornoway (band)

Stornoway were a British alternative indie folk band from the Cowley area of Oxford.

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Stranger (Peking Duk song)

"Stranger" is a song by Australian electronic music duo Peking Duk featuring Swedish singer Elliphant.

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Streetheart (band)

Streetheart is a Canadian rock band, originally from Regina, Saskatchewan but now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Sugarland

Sugarland is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles (lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin).

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Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (September 21, 1936 – December 7, 2017) was one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.

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Sven-Erik Magnusson

Knut Sven-Erik Magnusson (13 October 1942 – 22 March 2017) was a Swedish singer and musician known for being the lead singer of the band Sven-Ingvars that during their sixty-year history played many different types of popular music, and was at times regarded as a dansband. The band had its last tour during the summer of 2016 with their last show on 21 August that year in Blekinge.

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Sven-Ingvars

Sven-Ingvars is a Swedish pop/rock group from Slottsbron, Sweden.

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Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking".

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Sweathog

Sweathog was an American rock band.

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Sylvester Potts

Sylvester Potts was a singer and composer as well as an off and on member of The Contours and a one time member of The Four Sonics.

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Sylvia Moy

Sylvia Rose Moy (September 15, 1938 – April 15, 2017) was an American songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group.

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Tamara Miansarova

Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova (née Remnyova, Тамара Григорьевна Миансарова; 5 March 1931 – 12 July 2017) was a Soviet and Russian lyric sopranopop singer and professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, best known for her hit May There Always Be Sunshine.

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Temple of the Dog

Temple of the Dog was an American rock supergroup that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.

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Textures (band)

Textures were a Dutch progressive metal band, formed in 2001.

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Thara Memory

Thara Memory was a trumpeter and educator from Eatonville, Florida.

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The 1975

The 1975 are an English rock band originating from Manchester.

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The Afghan Whigs

The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Beat (British band)

The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as The English Beat and in Australia as The British Beat) is a band founded in Birmingham, England, in 1978.

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The Blue Diamonds (duo)

The Blue Diamonds were a Dutch 1960s rock and roll duo, best known for their million-selling chart-topping single, "Ramona".

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The Cab

The Cab is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The Carnival (band)

The Carnival was an American pop group formed by percussionist José Soares and vocalist Janis Hansen, both formerly of Sergio Mendes' Brasil '66.

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The Chainsmokers

The Chainsmokers are an American DJ and production duo consisting of Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart.

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The Chameleons

The Chameleons were an English post-punk band formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1981.

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The Contours

The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records.

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The Coup

The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California.

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The Crusaders

The Crusaders was an American jazz fusion group that was popular in the 1970s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders before shortening its name in 1971.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan was an American metalcore band formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey, in 1997.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The Easybeats

The Easybeats were an Australian rock band that formed in Sydney, Australia, in late 1964, and disbanded at the end of 1969.

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The Fireflies

The Fireflies were an American doo-wop group from Long Island, New York, from the late 1950s to early 1960s.

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The Folk Crusaders

, also known as simply, was a Japanese folk group, popular in Japan in the later half of the 1960s.

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The Foundations

The Foundations were a British soul band, active from 1967 to 1970.

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The Gaslight Anthem

The Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 2006.

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The Greg Kihn Band

The Greg Kihn Band is an American rock band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright.

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The Hellacopters

The Hellacopters are a Swedish garage rock band that was formed in 1994 by Nicke Andersson (vocals and guitar), Andreas Tyrone "Dregen" Svensson (guitar), Kenny Håkansson (bass) and Robert Eriksson (drums).

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The Hummingbirds

The Hummingbirds were an Australian indie pop and jangle pop band from Sydney, Australia, who formed in 1986 from Bug Eyed Monsters.

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The Icarus Line

The Icarus Line was an American post-hardcore band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

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The Itals

The Itals are a Jamaican reggae vocal group formed in 1976 by Alvin "Keith" Porter, Lloyd Ricketts, and Ronnie Davis (currently a member of The Tennors), all of whom had previously also recorded as solo artists.

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The J. Geils Band

The J. Geils Band was an American rock band formed in 1968, in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist John "J." Geils.

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The J.B.'s

The J.B.'s (sometimes punctuated The JB's or The J.B.s) was the name of James Brown's band from 1970 through the early 1980s.

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The Jones Girls

The Jones Girls were an American R&B vocal trio of sisters from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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The Joystrings

The Joystrings (originally credited as The Joy Strings) were a 1960s UK Christian music group led by classically trained keyboard player and singer Joy Webb, an officer (now retired) in the Salvation Army.

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The Karl Hendricks Trio

The Karl Hendricks Trio was a rock band from Pittsburgh.

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The KLF

The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs and The Timelords and by other names) were a British electronic band of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The LeRoi Brothers

The LeRoi Brothers are an American rock band from Austin, Texas.

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The Lollipop Shoppe

The Lollipop Shoppe was an American garage rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1966.

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The Loud Family

The Loud Family was a San Francisco-based power pop band formed in 1991 by songwriter and guitarist Scott Miller, who previously led the 1980s band Game Theory.

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The Maccabees (band)

The Maccabees were an English indie rock band, formed in 2004 in London.

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The Main Ingredient (band)

The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1972 hit song "Everybody Plays the Fool".

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The Marcels

The Marcels was an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Murmaids

The Murmaids were an American one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached No.

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The New Power Generation

The New Power Generation, also known as The NPG, was the backing band of musician Prince from 1990 to 2013.

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The Only Ones

The Only Ones are an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 and originally disbanded in 1982.

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The Outsiders (American band)

The Outsiders were an American rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, that was founded and led by guitarist Tom King.

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The Pagans

The Pagans were an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, United States, that was originally active from 1977 to 1979.

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The Paupers

The Paupers were a Canadian psychedelic rock band from Toronto, Ontario who recorded between 1965 and 1968.

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The Poster Boy

The Poster Boy were a Hungarian indie rock band from Budapest, Hungary.

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The Quarrymen

The Quarrymen (also written as "the Quarry Men") are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960.

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The Rampage from Exile Tribe

The Rampage, officially known as The Rampage from Exile Tribe, is a J-pop vocal and dance group formed by talent agency LDH and signed to Avex's Rhythm Zone.

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The Rascals

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.

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The Roches

The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) were a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.

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The Saints (Australian band)

The Saints are a rock band, originating in Brisbane, Australia founded by Chris Bailey (singer-songwriter, later guitarist), Ivor Hay (drummer), and Ed Kuepper (guitarist-songwriter) in 1974.

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The Saturdays

The Saturdays are a British-Irish girl group based in London, England.

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The Sea Within

The Sea Within are an international rock supergroup formed in 2017 by Swedish guitarist and singer-songwriter Roine Stolt, bassist Jonas Reingold and guitarist Daniel Gildenlöw, German drummer Marco Minnemann, and American keyboardist Tom Brislin.

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The Skyliners

The Skyliners are an American doo-wop group from Pittsburgh.

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The Smithereens

The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States.

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The Spiders (Japanese band)

The Spiders were a Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo in 1961, as one of the leading groups of the Group Sounds genre.

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The Streets

The Streets is an English alternative hip hop music group from Birmingham, England, led by the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner.

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The Strumbellas

The Strumbellas are a Canadian rock band, whose music has been described as alternative country, indie rock, and "gothic folk".

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The Surfaris

The Surfaris were an American surf rock band formed in Glendora, California in 1962.

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The Tennessee Three

The Tennessee Three was the backing band for singer Johnny Cash for nearly 25 years; he was known especially for his country music and rockabilly genre, although he won awards in numerous categories.

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The Tennors

The Tennors were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal group in the 1960s and '70s.

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The Three Sounds

The Three Sounds (also known as The 3 Sounds) were an American jazz piano trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973.

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The Tokens

The Tokens are an American male doo-wop-style vocal group and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York.

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The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, are a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, currently consisting of guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay.

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The Union Underground

The Union Underground is a nu metal band based out of San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and early 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.

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Them (band)

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.

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Thor (band)

Thor (stylized as THOR) is a heavy metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Those Darlins

Those Darlins was a rock and roll band from Nashville, Tennessee active between 2006 and 2016.

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Those Who Fear

Those Who Fear, also known as TWF, was an American Christian metal band hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who were established in 2005.

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Thunder Express

Thunder Express was started as a sideproject by Robert Dahlqvist from the Swedish rock band The Hellacopters on guitars and vocals together with Robert Pehrsson from the metal band Death Breath on guitars, former Diamond Dogs drummer Jesper Karlsson along with bassist Jens Lagergren of Hello Saferide and I Are Droid.

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Timeline of musical events

This page indexes the individual year in music pages.

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Tin Huey

Tin Huey is an American experimental rock and new wave band from Akron, Ohio, United States, that formed in the mid/late 1970s.

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Toby Smith

Toby Grafftey-Smith (29 October 1970 – 11 April 2017), known professionally as Toby Smith, was an English musician, most famous for being the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Jamiroquai from 1992 until his departure in 2002.

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Tom Paley

Allan Thomas "Tom" Paley (March 19, 1928 – September 30, 2017) was an American guitarist, banjo and fiddle player.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (alternately Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida.

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Tommy Allsup

Thomas Douglas Allsup (November 24, 1931 – January 11, 2017) was an American rockabilly and swing musician.

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Tommy Keene

Tommy Keene (born Thomas Clay Keene; June 30, 1958 – November 22, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critically acclaimed rock & roll/power pop songs in the 1980s.

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Tommy Page

Thomas Alden Page (May 24, 1970 – March 4, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1990 hit single "I'll Be Your Everything" and was later a music industry executive.

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Tommy Tate (musician)

Thomas Lee Tate (September 29, 1945 – January 20, 2017), known as Tommy Tate, was an American soul singer and songwriter, who had three hits on the R&B chart in the 1970s.

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Tony Särkkä

Tony Särkkä (15 December 1972 – 8 February 2017), who went by the stage name It, was a Swedish multi-instrumentalist of Finnish/native American descent who has played in many black metal bands.

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Tony Terran

Anthony "Tony" Terran (May 30, 1926 – March 20, 2017) was an American trumpet player and session musician.

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Toshio Nakanishi

, also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Japanese musician and graphic designer who was best known as the founding member of new wave band Plastics in 1976.

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Tower of Power

Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded around 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team.

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Trap Them

Trap Them were an American hardcore punk band based in Boston, Massachusetts and Seattle, Washington.

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Traveling Wilburys

The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.

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Tripping Daisy

Tripping Daisy is a neo-psychedelic pop rock band that was formed in Dallas, Texas, USA, by lead singer/guitarist Tim DeLaughter in 1990 along with Jeff Bouck (drums), Wes Berggren (guitar) and Mark Pirro (bass).

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Tulsa Pittaway

Tulsa Pittaway (born Tulsa Theodore Pittaway; December 9, 1974 – May 21, 2017) was a South African musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Tuxedomoon

Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States.

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Twenty One Pilots

Twenty One Pilots (stylized as twenty one pilots, and sometimes as twenty øne piløts) is an American musical duo originating from Columbus, Ohio.

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U.K. (band)

U.K. were a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980.

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Valerie Carter

Valerie Carter (born Valerie Gail Zakian Carter; February 5, 1953 – March 4, 2017) was an American R&B, Rock and Pop singer-songwriter.

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Vallenfyre

Vallenfyre are a British death metal band founded in Halifax as a side project by Paradise Lost's chief songwriter and lead guitarist Gregor Mackintosh in 2010 as tribute to his father's death in December 2009.

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Vanna (band)

Vanna was an American hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which was formed in 2004.

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Vant (band)

Vant (stylised as VANT) are a British punk rock band formed in 2014 by frontman and songwriter Mattie Vant.

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Verasy

Verasy (Верасы) was a musical band created in Belarus (then Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union) in 1971.

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Vespaiola

Vespaiola is a white Italian wine grape variety planted primarily in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy where it is often dried to produce passito style dessert wines.

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Vicente García (musician)

Vicente García Guillén (born March 30, 1983) is a Dominican musician, singer and composer.

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Views (album)

Views is the fourth studio album by Canadian rapper Drake.

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Vin Garbutt

Vincent Paul Garbutt (20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017) was an English folk singer and songwriter.

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Vital Remains

Vital Remains is an American death metal band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 1988.

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Viva Brother

Viva Brother are an English rock band from Slough, England.

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Vodka Collins

Vodka Collins is a Tokyo based Japanese-American rock band, formed in 1971.

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Walter "Junie" Morrison

Walter "Junie" Morrison (1954 – January 21, 2017) was an American musician and record producer.

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Walter Becker

Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Wanna One

Wanna One is a South Korean boy band formed by CJ E&M through the 2017 series Produce 101 Season 2.

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Warbringer

Warbringer is an American thrash metal band formed in 2004.

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Warrel Dane

Warrel Dane (born Warrel G. Baker; March 7, 1961 – December 13, 2017) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the metal bands Sanctuary and Nevermore.

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Warren "Pete" Moore

Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore (November 19, 1938 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members.

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Watershed (South African band)

Watershed is a South African Pop-Rock band, which was founded in Johannesburg in 1998.

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Wayne Cochran

Talvin Wayne Cochran (May 10, 1939 – November 21, 2017) was an American soul singer, known for his outlandish outfits and white pompadour hairstyle.

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We Are the Ocean

We Are the Ocean were a four-piece English rock band from Loughton, Essex, consisting guitarist, vocalist Liam Cromby, bass guitarist Jack Spence, guitarist Alfie Scully and drummer Tom Whittaker.

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Wendy and Bonnie

Wendy and Bonnie Flower were American singing sisters, who recorded the album, Genesis, in 1969 for Skye Records, which was produced by Gary McFarland.

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What a Beautiful Name

"What a Beautiful Name" is a song by Australian praise and worship group Hillsong Worship.

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White Miles

White Miles is an Austrian rock duo founded in 2011, which consists of singer/guitarist Medina Rekic and drummer/singer Hansjörg Loferer.

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Wild World (album)

Wild World is the second studio album by British indie pop band Bastille, released on 9 September 2016.

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Wilfried (singer)

Wilfried (born Wilfried Scheutz; 24 June 1950 – 16 July 2017) was an Austrian singer-songwriter and actor.

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William Control

William Control was an American electronic music project founded in 2008 in Seattle, Washington.

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William Onyeabor

William Onyeabor (26 March 1946 – 16 January 2017) was a Nigerian funk musician and businessman.

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Willie Pickens

Willie Pickens (April 18, 1931 – December 12, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.

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Wilson das Neves

Wilson das Neves (June 14, 1936 – August 26, 2017) was a Brazilian percussionist and singer from in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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With Confidence

With Confidence are an Australian pop punk band from Sydney, formed in 2012.

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Women in music

Women in music describes the role of women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists and other musical professions.

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Wonder Girls

Wonder Girls was a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.

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Wycliffe Noble

Charles Wycliffe Noble OBE FRIBA FRSA (12 June 1925 - 1 April 2017) was a musician and architect known for his work with the Joystrings and in making public buildings accessible to the disabled.

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Xerath

Xerath were a British heavy metal band from England.

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Xscape (group)

Xscape, styled XSCAP3, is an American female R&B, vocal quartet from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Xutos & Pontapés

Xutos & Pontapés are a Portuguese rock band, which got together in 1978, in Almada, Portugal, four years after the Carnation Revolution restored most freedoms to the country.

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Y&T

Y&T (originally known as Yesterday & Today) is an American hard rock/heavy metal band formed in 1974 in Hayward, California.

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Yellowcard

Yellowcard was an American rock band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and were based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000.

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You Want It Darker

You Want It Darker is the fourteenth and final studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on October 21, 2016, by Columbia Records, 19 days before Cohen's death.

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Your Memorial

Your Memorial was an American Christian metalcore band from the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

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Zach Williams (musician)

Zachary Stephen "Zach" Williams is a Grammy-award winning American Christian rock artist from Jonesboro, Arkansas.

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Zayn Malik

Zain Javadd "Zayn" Malik (زین جواد ملک; born 12 January 1993), recording mononymously as Zayn, is an English singer and songwriter.

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Zbigniew Wodecki

Zbigniew Wodecki (6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter.

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18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards

The 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on November 16, 2017 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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2 Live Crew

The 2 Live Crew is an American hip-hop group from Miami, Florida.

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2017 Billboard Music Awards

The 2017 Billboard Music Awards was held at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 21, 2017.

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2017 Brit Awards

The 2017 Brit Awards was held on 22 February 2017 and was the 37th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.

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2017 in African music

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2017 in American music

The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2017 in music in the United States.

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2017 in Asian music

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2017 in British music

This is a summary of the year 2017 in British music.

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2017 in Canadian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that are expected to happen in 2017 in music in Canada.

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2017 in classical music

This page is for major events and other topics related to the year 2017 in classical music.

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2017 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 2017.

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2017 in Danish music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2017 in Danish music.

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2017 in European music

2017 in continental European music in geographical order.

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2017 in Finnish music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2017 in Finnish music.

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2017 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2017.

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2017 in hip hop music

This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2017.

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2017 in Icelandic music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2017 in Icelandic music.

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2017 in Japanese music

The year 2017 in Japanese music.

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2017 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2017.

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2017 in Latin music

This is a list of notable events in Latin music (music from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, Latin Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2017.

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2017 in Norwegian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2017 in Norwegian music.

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2017 in Philippine music

The following is a list of notable events that are related to Philippine music in 2017.

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2017 in rock music

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2017.

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2017 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2017.

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2017 in South Korean music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2017 in music in South Korea.

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2017 in Swedish music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2017 in Swedish music.

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2017 MTV Europe Music Awards

The 2017 MTV EMAs (also known as the MTV Europe Music Awards) were held at The SSE Arena in Wembley, London, United Kingdom, on 12 November 2017.

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2017 MTV Video Music Awards

The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 27, 2017 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, honoring music videos released between June 25, 2016 and June 23, 2017.

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2017 New Zealand Music Awards

The 2017 New Zealand Music Awards was the 52nd holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical recording artists based in or originating from New Zealand.

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2017 Polaris Music Prize

The 2017 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 18, 2017.

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2017 Pulitzer Prize

The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2016 calendar year.

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25 (Adele album)

25 is the third studio album by English singer Adele, released on 20 November 2015 by XL Recordings and Columbia Records.

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48th GMA Dove Awards

The 48th Annual GMA Dove Awards presentation ceremony was held on Sunday, October 17, 2017 at the Allen Arena located in Nashville, Tennessee.

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59th Annual Grammy Awards

The 59th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on February 12, 2017.

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References

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