April 2021

[09 Apr 2021] DMX, 50, American rapper (“Party Up (Up in Here)“, “X Gon’ Give It to Ya“, “Where the Hood At?“) and actor (Cradle 2 the Grave), heart attack following drug overdose.

[04 Apr 2021] Ralph Schuckett, 73, American rock keyboardist (Utopia, Todd Rundgren) and composer (Pokémon: The First Movie)

[02 Apr 2021] Quindon Tarver, 38, American R&B singer, traffic collision.

March 2021

[28 Mar 2021] Malcolm Cecil, 84, British musician (Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Blues Incorporated) and record producer (Talking Book).

[26 Mar 2021] Brett Bradshaw, American drummer (Faster Pussycat)

[24 Mar 2021] Jessica Walter, 80, American actress (Arrested Development, Archer, Play Misty for Me), Emmy winner (1975)

[23 Mar 2021] Don Heffington (American drummer for Watkins Family Hour), 70, leukemia

[20 Mar 2021] Dan Sartain (American musician), 39

[18 Mar 2021] Paul Jackson (American bassist with The Headhunters), 73

[17 Mar 2021] Matt Miller (American keyboardist for Titus Andronicus), 34

[17 Mar 2021] Corey Steger (American guitarist for Underoath), 42, traffic collision

[15 Mar 2021] Doug Parkinson (Australian singer for Fanny Adams, The Life Organisation), 74

[14 Mar 2021] Reggie Warren (American R&B singer for Troop), 52

[11 Mar 2021] Ray Campi (American rockabilly double bassist), 86

[08 Mar 2021] James MacGaw (French guitarist for Magma), brain cancer

[07 Mar 2021] Lars Göran Petrov (Swedish singer for Entombed), 49, bile duct cancer

[05 Mar 2021] Michael Stanley (American guitarist), 72, lung cancer

[04 Mar 2021] Alan Cartwright (English bassist with Procol Harum), 75, stomach cancer

[02 Mar 2021] Mark Goffeney (American guitarist), 51

[02 Mar 2021] Bunny Wailer (Jamaican reggae singer with The Wailers), 73, stroke

[01 Mar 2021] Ralph Petersen Jr. (American drummer with The Jazz Messengers), 58, cancer

February 2021

[28 Feb 2021] Ian North (American punk and new wave musician with Milk ‘N’ Cookies), 68, heart attack.

[26 Feb 2021] Bob James (American rock singer-songwriter with Montrose), 68, stomach ulcer.

[23 Feb 2021] Sean Kennedy (Australian bassist with Deez Nuts, I Killed the Prom Queen), 35, suicide.

[20 Feb 2021] Gene Taylor (American pianist with Canned Heat, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds), 68

[19 Feb 2021] James Burke (American singer with The Five Stairsteps), 70, pneumonia

[05 Feb 2021] Christopher Plummer (Canadian actor), 91

[04 Feb 2021] Matt Harris (American bassist for The Posies)

[04 Feb 2021] Gil Saunders (American singer with Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes)

[03 Feb 2021] Jim Weatherly (American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter of “Midnight Train to Georgia”), 77

[02 Feb 2021] Aaron Wegelin (American drummer for Elf Power)

[01 Feb 2021] Dustin Diamond (American actor from Saved by the Bell), 44, cancer

January 2021

[30 Jan 2021] Double K (American rapper with People Under the Stairs), 43

[30 Jan 2021] SOPHIE (Scottish singer), 34, accidental fall

[23 Jan 2021] Jonas Gangwa (American trombonist), 83

[21 Jan 2021] Randy Parton (American country singer, brother of Dolly Parton), 67, cancer

[18 Jan 2021] Jimmie Rodgers (American singer), 87, kidney disease and COVID–19

[13 Jan 2021] Sylvain Sylvain (American guitarist for New York Dolls, The Criminals), 69

[13 Jan 2021] Tim Bogert (American bassist with Beck, Bogert, Appice and Vanilla Fudge), 76, cancer

[11 Jan 2021] Mark Keds (British vocalist for Senseless Things), 50

[08 Jan 2021] Ed Bruce (American country singer/songwriter), 81

[08 Jan 2021] Michael Fonfara (Canadian keyboardist with The Electric Flag, Rhinocerous, Lou Reed, and Downchild Blues Band), 74, cancer

[07 Jan 2021] Jamie O’Hara (American country singer with The O’Kanes), 70, cancer

[04 Jan 2021] Alexi Laiho (Finnish guitarist with Children of Bodom), 41

[03 Jan 2021] Gerry Marsden (English singer with Gerry & The Pacemakers), 78