Months in 2006: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 1 of 1
Jul 30th - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 100 of 104
Jan 1st - Bryan Harvey,
American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
Jan 6th - Lou Rawls,
American singer (b. 1933)
Jan 19th - Wilson Pickett,
American singer (b. 1941)
Jan 24th - Fayard Nicholas,
American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
Jan 27th - Gene McFadden,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Feb 8th - Elton Dean,
English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
Feb 8th - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
Feb 10th - J Dilla,
American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
Feb 11th - Jockey Shabalala,
South African singer (b. 1943)
Feb 14th - Shoshana Damari,
Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
Feb 14th - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
Feb 14th - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
Feb 17th - Ray Barretto,
Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
Feb 17th - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
Feb 22nd - Anthony Burger,
American musician and singer (b. 1961)
Mar 1st - Johnny Jackson,
American musician (b. 1951)
Mar 2nd - Milton Katims,
American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
Mar 6th - King Floyd,
American musician (b. 1945)
Mar 7th - Ali Farka Touré,
Malian musician (b. 1939)
Mar 10th - Anna Moffo,
American soprano (b. 1932)
Mar 17th - Bob Blue,
American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
Mar 18th - Dan Gibson,
musician (b. 1922)
Mar 23rd - Cindy Walker,
American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
Mar 25th - Rocío Dúrcal,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
Mar 25th - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
Mar 26th - Nikki Sudden,
British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
Mar 28th - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh,
Irish musician (b. 1922)
Mar 31st - Jackie McLean,
American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
Apr 5th - Gene Pitney,
American singer (b. 1941)
Apr 11th - June Pointer,
American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
Apr 11th - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
Apr 12th - Dr. Rajkumar,
Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)
May 1st - Big Hawk,
American rapper (b.1969)
May 1st - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
May 5th - Naushad Ali,
Indian composer (b. 1919)
May 7th - Machiko Soga,
Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
May 10th - Soraya,
Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
May 11th - Yossi Banai,
Israeli singer (b. 1932)
May 13th - Johnnie Wilder,
Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
May 14th - Lew Anderson,
American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
May 19th - Freddie Garrity,
English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
May 21st - Katherine Dunham,
American dancer (b. 1909)
May 21st - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
May 25th - Desmond Dekker,
Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
May 31st - Lula Mae Hardaway,
American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)
Jun 1st - Rocío Jurado,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
Jun 2nd - Vince Welnick,
musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
Jun 6th - Billy Preston,
American musician (b. 1946)
Jun 6th - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)
Jun 9th - Drafi Deutscher,
German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
Jun 12th - György Ligeti,
Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
Rocker Syd Barrett (Jul 7th)
Jul 7th - Syd Barrett,
original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
Jul 9th - Milan Williams,
American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
Jul 17th - Sam Myers,
American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
Aug 3rd - Arthur Lee,
American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
Aug 3rd - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
Aug 11th - Mike Douglas,
American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
Aug 16th - Jon Nödtveidt,
Swedish musician (b. 1975)
Aug 18th - Fernand Gignac,
Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
Aug 20th - Claude Blanchard,
French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
Aug 21st - Ustad Bismillah Khan,
Indian musician (b. 1916)
Aug 22nd - Bruce Gary,
American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
Aug 23rd - Maynard Ferguson,
Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
Aug 27th - Jesse Pintado,
Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
Sep 2nd - Willi Ninja,
dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
Sep 4th - Astrid Varnay,
Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918)
Sep 9th - Richard Burmer,
American composer and musician (b. 1955)
Sep 19th - Chuck Rio,
American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
Sep 20th - Armin Jordan,
Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
Sep 20th - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
Sep 21st - Boz Burrell,
English rock musician (b. 1946)
Sep 23rd - Sir Malcolm Arnold,
English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
Sep 23rd - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)
Sep 29th - Jan Werner Danielsen,
Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
Oct 14th - Jared Anderson,
American bassist (b. 1975)
Oct 14th - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
Oct 16th - Tommy Johnson,
American tubist (b. 1935)
Oct 18th - Anna Russell,
English music satirist (b. 1911)
Oct 28th - Marijohn Wilkin,
American songwriter (b. 1920)
Nov 3rd - Paul Mauriat,
French musician (b. 1925)
Nov 8th - Basil Poledouris,
American film score composer (b. 1945)
Nov 10th - Gerald Levert,
American singer (b. 1966)
Nov 17th - Flo Sandon's,
Italian singer (b. 1924)
Nov 17th - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
Nov 21st - Robert Lockwood,
Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
Nov 23rd - Betty Comden,
American lyricist (b. 1917)
Nov 23rd - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
Nov 24th - Juice Leskinen,
Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
Nov 25th - Leo Chiosso,
Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
Nov 25th - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
Nov 30th - Elhadi Adam,
Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
Dec 2nd - Mariska Veres,
Dutch singer (b. 1947)
Dec 3rd - Logan Whitehurst,
American musician (b. 1977)
Dec 7th - Jay McShann,
American musician (b. 1910)
Dec 8th - Martha Tilton,
American singer (b. 1915)
Dec 12th - Kenny Davern,
American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
Dec 16th - Taliep Petersen,
South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
Dec 16th - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
Dec 22nd - Galina Ustvolskaya,
Russian composer (b. 1919)
Dec 22nd - Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)
