This topic covers events and articles related to 2024 in music.

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Specific genres

• Classical
• Country
• Electronic
• Jazz
• Latin
• Heavy metal
• Hip hop
• R&B
• Rock
• K-pop
• J-pop

Albums released

Awards

Bands formed

• Geenius
• Me:I
• Number_i
• TWS

Soloist debuts

• Ayaka Nanase
• Cha Eun-woo
• Hina Suguta
• Hina Tachibana
• Hui
• Seola
• Shōya Chiba
• Ten

Bands disbanded

• Issues^[1]

Bands reformed

• 3 Inches of Blood
• A*Teens
• Have Heart
• Moose Blood
• No Doubt
• Orange 9mm
• Slayer
• Tak Matsumoto Group

Bands on hiatus

TBD

Deaths

January

• 2 – Chris Karrer, 76, German progressive rock guitarist (Amon Düül II)^[2]
• 3 – Tawl Ross, 75, American funk guitarist (Funkadelic)^[3]
• 4
  • Ruy Mingas, 84, Angolan folk singer-songwriter and anthem composer^[4]
  • Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, Swedish folk pop singer (Ainbusk)^[5]
  • David Soul, 80, American-British pop singer^[6]
  • Glynis Johns, 100, British musical theater actress and singer^[7]
• 5
  • Larry Collins, 79, American rockabilly guitarist and songwriter (The Collins Kids)^[8]
  • Del Palmer, 71, English art rock singer-songwriter, bassist and sound engineer^[9]
• 6
  • Iasos, 76, Greek-born American new age keyboardist^[10]
  • Amparo Rubín, 68, Mexican folk singer-songwriter^[11]
• 7
  • Germana Caroli, 92, Italian pop singer^[12]
  • Tony Clarkin, 77, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter (Magnum)^[13]
• 8
  • Guy Bonnet, 78, French pop singer-songwriter^[14]
  • Serge Laprade, French-Canadian pop singer^[15]
  • Phill Niblock, 90, American avant garde composer^[16]
  • Gian Franco Reverberi, 89, Italian film composer^[17] (death announced on this date)
• 9
  • Diego Gallardo, 31, Ecuadorian folk singer-songwriter^[18]
  • Karel Janovický, 93, Czech-born British classical composer and pianist^[19]
  • Rashid Khan, 55, Indian Hindustani classical singer^[20]
  • James Kottak, 61, American hard rock drummer (Scorpions, Kingdom Come, Kottak)^[21]
• 10
  • Audie Blaylock, 61, American bluegrass singer and guitarist^[22]
  • Tamara Milashkina, 89, Russian opera singer^[23]
• 11
  • Annie Nightingale, 83, English radio disk jockey^[24]
  • Sigi Schwab, 83, German jazz guitarist^[25]
• 12
  • Bill Hayes, 98, American folk singer^[26]
  • David Lumsdaine, 92, Australian classical composer^[27]
• 13
  • Prabha Atre, 91, Indian classical singer^[28]
  • Jo-El Sonnier, 77, American country singer-songwriter and accordionist^[29]
  • Romuald Twardowski, 93, Polish classical composer^[30]
• 15 – K. J. Joy, 77, Indian film and classical composer^[31]
• 16
  • Peter Schickele, 88, American classical composer and musical satirist (P. D. Q. Bach)^[32]
  • Laurie Johnson, 96, English classical composer and swing bandleader^[33]
• 17
  • Serge Laprade, 83, Canadian pop singer^[34]
  • Gerd Uecker, 77, German opera director and music teacher^[35]
• 18
  • Katelele Ching'oma, 32, Malawian pop singer^[36]
  • Ivan Moody, 59, British classical composer and musicologist^[37]
  • Silent Servant, 46, Guatemalan-born American techno DJ^[38]
  • The Soft Moon, 44, American darkwave singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist^[39]
  • Yogesh Vaidya, 77, Nepalese folk singer^[40]
• 19
  • Georgi Kostov, 82, Bulgarian classical composer^[41]
  • Ewa Podleś, 71, Polish opera singer^[42]
  • Marlena Shaw, 81, American jazz and soul singer^[43]
  • Pluto Shervington, 73, Jamaican reggae singer^[44]
  • Mary Weiss, 75, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las)^[45]
• 20
  • Zoran Erić, 73, Serbian classical composer^[46]
  • Charis Kostopoulos, 59, Greek laiko singer-songwriter.^[47]
• 22
  • Neil Kulkarni, 51, British music journalist^[48]
  • Margo Smith, 84, American singer-songwriter^[49]
  • Sergei Yefremenko, 51, Russian ska singer and guitarist (Markscheider Kunst)^[50]
• 23
  • Melanie, 76, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist^[51]
  • Frank Farian, 82, German pop singer-songwriter and record producer (Boney M., Milli Vanilli, La Bouche, No Mercy)^[52]
  • Anders Sandberg, 55, Swedish eurodance singer (Rednex).^[53]
• 24 – Anders Lampe, 59, Danish pop rock guitarist (Bamses Venner)^[54]
• 25
  • Bruno Amstad, 59–60, Swiss jazz singer^[55]
  • Bhavatharini, 47, Indian playback singer and film music director^[56]
• 26
  • Dean Brown, 68, American jazz guitarist^[57]
  • Michel Hausser, 96, French jazz vibraphonist^[58]
  • Michael Watford, 80, American dance and house singer^[59]
• 27 – Lillebjørn Nilsen, 73, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter^[60]
• 28 – Albert Mayr, 80, Italian classical and experimental composer^[61]
• 29
  • Tony Cedras, 71, South African jazz multi-instrumentalist^[62]
  • Yuri Ilchenko, 72, Russian rock singer and guitarist (Mify, Zemlyane)^[63]
• 30 – Chita Rivera, 91, American musical theater singer and actress^[64]

February

• 2
  • Steve Brown, 66, British classical composer^[65]
  • Wilhelmenia Fernandez, 75, American opera singer^[66]
  • Wayne Kramer, 75, American rock guitarist and songwriter (MC5)^[67]
• 3 – Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, Jamaican reggae bassist (Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Upsetters)^[68]
• 5 – Toby Keith, 62, American country singer-songwriter^[69]
• 6
  • Donald Kinsey, 70, American blues and reggae guitarist and singer (The Kinsey Report, The Wailers Band)^[70]
  • Seiji Ozawa, 88, Japanese classical conductor^[71]
• 7
  • Vaja Azarashvili, 87, Georgian classical composer^[72]
  • Henry Fambrough, 85, American R&B singer (The Spinners)^[73]
  • Mojo Nixon, 66, American psychobilly singer-songwriter^[74]
• 8 – Yuri Borzov, 70, Russian blues rock drummer (Mashina Vremeni)^[75]
• 9
  • Nikša Gligo, 77, Croatian musicologist^[76]
  • Damo Suzuki, 74, Japanese Krautrock singer (Can)^[77]
  • Jimmy Van Eaton, 86, American rock and roll drummer^[78]
• 11
  • Ladislav Burlas, 96, Slovak classical composer and musicologist^[79]
  • Randy Sparks, 90, American folk singer-songwriter (The New Christy Minstrels, The Back Porch Majority)^[80]
  • Mihai Amihalachioaie, 62, Moldovan accordionist and conductor^[81]
• 12
  • Tamás Deák, 95, Hungarian classical composer and conductor^[82]
  • Rudolf Jansen, 84, Dutch classical pianist^[83]
  • Juris Kulakovs, 65, Latvian rock keyboardist (Pērkons)^[84]
  • Steve Wright, 69, English radio disk jockey^[85]
• 13
  • Eddie Cheeba, 67, American hip hop DJ^[86]
  • Jussi Raittinen, 80, Finnish Rautalanka singer and guitarist^[87]
• 15 – Ian Amey, 79, English rock singer and guitarist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)^[88]
• 16
  • Etterlene DeBarge, 88, American gospel singer^[89]
  • Fritz Hinz, 68, Canadian hard rock drummer (Helix)^[90]
  • Reuben Jackson, 67, American jazz historian^[91]
  • Ben Lanzarone, 85, American television composer^[92]
  • Dexter Romweber, 57, American rockabilly guitarist (Flat Duo Jets)^[93]
  • Cynthia Strother, 88, American pop singer (The Bell Sisters)^[94]
• 18
  • Davlatmand Kholov, 73, Tajik Shashmaqam multi-instrumentalist^[95]
  • Hasina Mumtaz, 78, Bangladeshi pop singer^[96]
• 19
  • Stewart Robertson, 75, Scottish classical conductor^[97] (death announced on this date)
  • Bobby Tench, 79, British blues rock singer and guitarist (Humble Pie, The Jeff Beck Group, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, The Gass).^[98] (death announced on this date)
• 20
  • David Libert, 81, American sunshine pop singer and keyboardist (The Happenings)^[99]
  • Geoffrey Michaels, 79, Australian classical violinist and violist^[100] (death announced on this date)
• 21 – Vitalij Kuprij, 49, Ukrainian-American symphonic metal keyboardist (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ring of Fire)^[101]
• 22
  • John Lowe, 81, English skiffle pianist (The Quarrymen)^[102]
  • Roni Stoneman, 85, American bluegrass banjoist^[103]
• 23
  • Tina Rainford, 77, German pop singer^[104]
  • Shinsadong Tiger, 40, South Korean record producer^[105]
• 24 – Juana Bacallao, 98, Cuban guaracha singer^[106]
• 25
  • Bigidagoe, 26, Dutch rapper^[107]
  • Peter "Peetah" Morgan, 46, Jamaican reggae singer (Morgan Heritage)^[108]
• 26
  • Bhakta Raj Acharya, 81, Nepali Bhajan singer and composer^[109]
  • Pankaj Udhas, 72, Indian ghazal singer^[110]
• 28
  • Cat Janice, 31, American electropop singer-songwriter^[111]
  • Eugen Indjic, 76, Yugoslav born French-American classical pianist^[112]
• 29 – Eugen Šváb, 87, Slovak swing singer and percussionist^[113]

March

• 1
  • Ernest Berger, 73, Czech-born British funk and disco drummer (Heatwave)^[114]
  • Don Wise, 81, American R&B saxophonist^[115]
• 2
  • Jim Beard, 63, American jazz rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)^[116]
  • Blues Boy Willie, 77, American blues singer and guitarist^[117]
  • W. C. Clark, 84, American blues singer and guitarist^[118]
• 3
  • Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer^[119]
  • Emmanuëlle, 81, Canadian pop singer^[120]
  • Oscar Ghiglia, 85, Italian classical guitarist^[121]
  • Günther Leib, 96, German opera singer^[122]
  • Amjad Parvez, 78, Pakistani semi-classical singer^[123]
  • Presto, 31, German rapper^[124]
  • Bill Ramsay, 95, American jazz saxophonist^[125]
  • Félix Sabal Lecco, 64–65, Cameroonian makossa and rock drummer^[126]
  • Makoto Shinohara, 92, Japanese classical composer^[127]
  • Brit Turner, 57, American country rock drummer (Blackberry Smoke)^[128]
• 4
  • B. B. Seaton, 79, Jamaican ska and rocksteady singer (The Gaylads)^[129]
  • Amnon Weinstein, 84, Israeli violin luthier^[130]
• 5
  • Linda Balgord, 64, American musical theater actress and singer^[131]
  • Debra Byrd, 72, American soul singer and vocal coach^[132]
  • Brahim Fribgane, Moroccan jazz oud player and percussionist (La Mar Enfortuna)^[133] (death announced on this date)
• 6 – Dimos Moutsis, 85, Greek Éntekhno singer-songwriter and composer^[134]
• 7
  • Pedro Altamiranda, 88, Panamanian salsa singer^[135]
  • Joe Cutajar, 83, Maltese pop singer (Helen and Joseph).^[136] (death announced on this date)
  • Françoise Garner, 90, French opera singer^[137]
  • Steve Lawrence, 88, American pop singer^[138]
• 8
  • Abdou Cherif, 52, Moroccan pop singer^[139]
  • Ernie Fields Jr., 89, American jazz saxophonist^[140]
  • George Newson, 91, English electronic and avant-garde composer and pianist^[141]
  • Ľubomír Stankovský, 72, Slovak pop rock singer and drummer (Modus)^[142]
• 9
  • Malcolm Holcombe, 68, American alternative country singer-songwriter^[143]
  • Vince Power, 76, Irish music festival promoter^[144]
  • Guy Touvron, 74, French classical trumpeter^[145]
• 10
  • Blake Harrison, 48, American grindcore sampler (Pig Destroyer, Hatebeak)^[146]
  • Paul Nelson, American blues guitarist^[147]
  • T. M. Stevens, 72, American rock bassist (The Pretenders, Vai)^[148]
  • Marc Tobaly, 74, Moroccan-born French rock guitarist (Les Variations)^[149]
  • Karl Wallinger, 66, Welsh alternative rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (The Waterboys, World Party)^[150]
• 11
  • Boss, 54, American rapper^[151]
  • Eric Carmen, 74, American power pop singer-songwriter (Raspberries)^[152] (death announced on this date)
  • Pete Rodriguez, 91, American Latin boogaloo pianist and bandleader^[153]
• 12
  • Michael Knott, American Christian rock singer-songwriter (Lifesavers Underground)^[154]
  • James Whitbourn, 60, British classical composer and conductor^[155]
  • Russ Wilson, 62, Canadian alternative rock bassist (Junkhouse)^[156]
• 13
  • Dick Allix, 78, British pop rock drummer (Vanity Fare)^[157]
  • John Blunt, British rock drummer (The Searchers)^[158] (death announced on this date)
  • Sylvain Luc, 58, French jazz guitarist^[159]
  • Sadi Mohammad, 70, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer and composer^[160]
  • Aribert Reimann, 88, German classical composer and pianist^[161]
• 14
  • Lamara Chkonia, 93, Georgian opera singer^[162]
  • Frank Darcel, 65, French post-punk guitarist (Marquis de Sade)^[163]
  • Byron Janis, 95, American classical pianist^[164]
  • K. K. Kabobo, 64, Ghanaian highlife singer and guitarist^[165]
  • Jean-Pierre Marty, 91, French classical pianist and conductor^[166]
  • Angela McCluskey, 64, Scottish alternative rock singer-songwriter (Wild Colonials)^[167]
• 15 – Hans Blum, 95, German schlager singer-songwriter^[168]
• 17
  • Cola Boyy, 34, American disco multi-instrumentalist^[169]
  • Sandra Crouch, 81, American gospel singer^[170]
  • Steve Harley, 73, British glam rock singer-songwriter (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel)^[171]
• 18
  • Jimmy Hastings, 85, British progressive rock multi-instrumentalist (Caravan, Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North)^[172]
  • Khalid, 60, Bangladeshi pop singer^[173]
  • Kevin Toney, 70, American jazz fusion pianist and composer (The Blackbyrds)^[174]
• 19 – Greg Lee, 53, American ska and reggae singer (Hepcat)^[175]
• 20
  • Faramarz Aslani, 79, Iranian folk singer and guitarist ^[176]
  • George Darko, 73, Ghanaian burger-highlife singer-songwriter and guitarist^[177]
  • Gene Elders, 80, American country fiddler (Ace in the Hole Band)^[178]
  • Cocky Mazzetti, 87, Italian pop singer^[179]
• 21 – Laurens van Rooyen, 88, Dutch classical pianist and composer^[180]
• 23
  • Igor Ozim, 92, Slovenian classical violinist^[181]
  • Maurizio Pollini, 82, Italian classical pianist^[182]
• 24
  • Vincent Bonham, 67, American funk singer (Raydio)^[183] (death announced on this date)
  • Def Rhymz, 53, Surinamese-Dutch rapper^[184]
  • Péter Eötvös, 80, Hungarian opera composer^[185]
• 25
  • Humphrey Campbell, 66, Surinamese-Dutch pop singer^[186]
  • Chris Cross, 71, English new wave bassist and keyboardist (Ultravox, Tiger Lily)^[187]
  • Maurice El Médiouni, 95, Algerian jazz pianist^[188]
• 26
  • Clare Elliott, New Zealand punk singer (Suburban Reptiles)^[189]
  • Chandra Kumara Kandanarachchi, 76, Sri Lankan playback singer^[190]
  • Slađana Milošević, 68, Serbian new wave singer-songwriter^[191]
  • George Nicolescu, 74, Romanian pop singer^[192]
• 27 – La Castou, 75, Swiss pop singer^[193]
• 28 – Marian Zazeela, 83, American experimental music singer and tanpura player^[194]
• 29 – Gerry Conway, 76, English folk rock drummer and percussionist (Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Cat Stevens, Pentangle).^[195]
• 30
  • Mark Spiro, 66–67, American songwriter and record producer^[196] (death announced on this date)
  • Vanhlupuii, 77, Indian Mizo multi-genre singer^[197]
• 31 – Casey Benjamin, 45, American jazz multi-instrumentalist (Robert Glasper Experiment)^[198]