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Pages in category "Musicians killed in aviation accidents or incidents" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2020.
Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was an German-born American impresario and rock concert promoter . In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [ 2] He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit ...
Ritchie Valens. Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), [ 3] better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his breakthrough. [ 4]
Jim Croce. James Joseph Croce ( / ˈkroʊtʃiː / KROH-chee; [ 1] January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to write, record and perform ...
Car crash [ 28] Aston "Family Man" Barrett. Bob Marley and the Wailers. 77. February 3, 2024. Miami, Florida, US. Heart failure after a series of strokes [ 29] Toby Keith. Country singer-songwriter.
Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904; [citation needed] disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. [ 1] His civilian band, Glenn Miller and His ...
List of deaths in rock and roll. Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related ...