Musicians Who Died in December 2019

Dec 5 Jerry Naylor, American country music and rock vocalist (Crickets), dies at 80

Juice WRLD (1998-2019)

Dec 8 American rapper and singer-songwriter (All Girls Are the Same, Lucid Dreams), dies at 21 of a seizure at Chicago airport caused by toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine

Dec 9 Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer (Roxette - Must Have Been Love), dies after a long illness at 61
Dec 12 Danny Aiello, American stage and screen actor (Moonstruck; Do The Right Thing; Broadway Danny Rose), and singer dies at 86
Dec 12 Jack Scott, Canadian rock and roll singer-songwriter ("My True Love"), dies of congestive heart failure at 83
Dec 13 Emil Richards [Radocchia], American session and touring vibraphonist and percussionist (George Shearing; Frank Sinatra; Lalo Schifrin; Frank Zappa; George Harrison; Harry Partch; Shadowfax), dies at 87
Dec 13 Roy Loney, American rock singer (Flamin' Groovies, 1965-71), dies of multiple organ failure at 73
Dec 15 Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer ("Mon Pays"), and actress (Act of the Heart), dies at 91
Dec 18 Abbey Simon, American concert pianist, and pedagogue, dies at 99
Dec 18 Hugh McKenna, British rock keyboardist (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band), dies of cancer at 70
Dec 18 Kenny Lynch, British pop-rock singer ("You Can Never Stop Me Loving You"; "Up On A Roof"), dies of cancer at 81
Dec 25 Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor (Dresden State Opera, 1962-2000), dies at 84 [1]
Dec 26 Jerry Herman, American musical theater composer (Hello, Dolly!; Mame; La Cage aux Folles), dies at 88
Dec 27 (Beryl) "Jack" Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), dies at 88
Dec 27 Art Sullivan [Marc Liénart van Lidth de Jeude], Belgian pop singer-songwriter ("Un océan de caresses"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
Dec 27 Garrett List, American classical and jazz composer and trombonist (Julliard Ensemble), dies at 76
Dec 28 Erzsébet Szőnyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 95
Dec 28 Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer, pianist, and politician (Minister of Culture,1993-96), dies of cancer at 72
Dec 29 Norma Tanega, American folk and pop singer-songwriter, guitarist ("Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"; "You're Dead"), percussionist, and painter, dies of colon cancer at 80
Dec 31 Christian Kellens, Belgian jazz trombonist, dies at 94