# 2016 in music

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2016 in music.

## Specific locations

* African music
* American music
* Asian music
* Australian music
* Brazilian music
* British music
* Canadian music
* Chinese music
* Danish music
* European music (Continental Europe)
* Finnish music
* French music
* German music
* Icelandic music
* Indian music
* Irish music
* Japanese music
* Malaysian music
* Mongolian music
* North Korean music
* Norwegian music
* Philippine music
* Polynesian music
* Scandinavian music
* South Korean music
* Swedish music
* Taiwanese music
* Vietnamese music
* World music

## Specific genres

* Classical
* Country
* Electronic
* Jazz
* Latin music
* Heavy metal
* Hip hop
* Opera
* Pop
* Rock
* K-pop
* J-pop
* R&B

## Significant performances

* March 25 – British rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones become the first foreign rock band to perform in Cuba, which was documented in their 2016 concert film, The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon.

## Awards

* 58th Annual Grammy Awards
* Record of the Year: "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars • Album of the Year: 1989 by Taylor Swift • Song of the Year: "Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran • Best New Artist: Meghan Trainor
* Billboard Music Awards
* Artist of the Year: Adele • New Artist of the Year: Fetty Wap • Top Hot 100 Song: "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa • Top Billboard 200 Album: 25 by Adele
* 31st Golden Disc Awards
* Song of the Year: "Cheer Up" by Twice • Album of the Year: Ex'Act by Exo • Rookie Artist of the Year: Blackpink, Bolbbalgan4, I.O.I, NCT 127
* 58th Japan Record Awards
* Grand Prix: "Anata no Suki na Tokoro" (ja) by Kana Nishino • Best Singer: Masayuki Suzuki for "Melancholia" • Best New Artist: iKon • Best Song: several
* Mnet Asian Music Awards
* Artist of the Year: BTS • Album of the Year: Ex'Act by Exo • Song of the Year: "Cheer Up" by Twice • Best Music Video: "Whistle" by Blackpink
* MTV Video Music Awards
* Video of the Year: "Formation" by Beyoncé • Best Male Video: "This Is What You Came For" by Calvin Harris • Best Female Video: "Hold Up" by Beyoncé • New Artist: DNCE
* MTV Europe Music Awards
* Best Song: "Sorry" by Justin Bieber • Best Video: "Starboy" by the Weeknd • Best Female: Lady Gaga • Best Male: Shawn Mendes
* The 4th V Chart Awards
* Top Male Artist : Lu Han with Medals • Top Female Artist: Li Yuchun with "混蛋，我想你" (Idiot, I Miss You) • Top Group: TFBOYS with Adore • Top New Artist: Wang Qing & Feng Jianyu
* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
* Inductees: Cheap Trick • Chicago • Deep Purple • N.W.A • Steve Miller
* 26th Seoul Music Awards
* Grand Prize: Exo • Best Album: Wings by BTS • Best Song: "Cheer Up" by Twice • Best New Artist: NCT 127, I.O.I, Blackpink

## Bands formed

* 3B junior
* The Aces
* AOA Cream
* Astro
* The Band Camino
* Batten Girls
* BEJ48
* Bis
* Blackpink
* Bolbbalgan4
* BoybandPH
* Boys Generally Asian
* Chai
* Chelmico
* CocoSori
* Cosmic Girls
* Dreamcar
* DYGL
* The East Light
* Exo-CBX
* FEMM
* FlowBack
* Gang Parade
* GNZ48
* Gone Is Gone
* Gugudan
* Hanabie.
* The Hu
* Higher Power
* Hiragana Keyakizaka46
* I.B.I
* I.O.I
* I Dont Know How But They Found Me
* Imfact
* Japanese Breakfast
* June's Diary
* Kard
* Keyakizaka46
* KNK
* Lovelytheband
* Magdalena Bay
* The Magpie Salute
* Mamalarky
* Måneskin
* MASC
* Midland
* MOBB
* Momoland
* Musubizm
* Nation of Language
* National Youth Orchestra of China
* NCT
* NCT 127
* Nightly
* Nice As Fuck
* Nine Muses A
* Ocean Park Standoff
* Off On Off
* OnePixcel
* Pentagon
* PrettyMuch
* Prophets of Rage
* Poppin'Party
* Pyxis
* Reol
* Rock A Japonica
* SeeYouSpaceCowboy
* ShuuKaRen
* SF9
* Sinsaenum
* Sports Team
* Tempalay
* Terror Jr
* The Sixth Lie
* The World Standard
* Unnies
* Valley
* Victon
* VIMIC
* Voisper
* Vromance
* Why Don't We
* Yahyel
* Zenbu Kimi no Sei da.

## Soloist debuts

* 645AR
* Agust D
* Alex the Astronaut
* Asaka
* Ayaka Sasaki
* Billie Eilish
* Bobby
* Celeste
* Danna Paola
* Danny Worsnop
* Dean
* Dermot Kennedy
* Derrick Monasterio
* Dodie
* Ella Mai
* Elo
* Enisa Nikaj
* Era Istrefi
* Eunji
* Fei
* Finneas
* Gemma
* Grandson
* Gretta Ray
* Gun
* Hash Swan
* Hòa Minzy
* Hyoyeon
* Jang Dongwoo
* JC de Vera
* Jessica Jung
* Jessie Reyez
* Jenyer
* Jimin
* Jorja Smith
* Joy Crookes
* Jungah
* Jung Seung-hwan
* Justhis
* Jvcki Wai
* Kanna Hashimoto
* Kiana Ledé
* Kim Sejeong
* Kwak Jin-eon
* Kwon Jin-ah
* Laura Marano
* Lee Hyun-woo
* Liza Soberano
* Lolo Zouaï
* Louis Tomlinson
* Luna
* Mino
* Mint
* Momoka Ariyasu
* Mone Kamishiraishi
* Nana Ou-yang
* Niall Horan
* Noah Cyrus
* Olivia O'Brien
* PH-1
* Punchnello
* Raye
* Raveena Aurora
* Ricky Montgomery
* Ryeowook
* Sam Kim
* Sandeul
* Shenseea
* Sofia Carson
* Suga
* Subin
* Tini
* Taichi Mukai
* Tessa Violet
* Thunder
* Tiffany
* Tom Grennan
* Uru
* Yesung
* Yezi
* Ylona Garcia
* Yoochun
* Woohyun
* Zayn

## Bands reformed

* ABBA
* At the Drive-In
* Abandon All Ships
* The Anniversary
* Arab Strap
* Bash & Pop
* Belly
* Blake Babies
* A Different Breed of Killer
* Eric B. & Rakim
* Galactic Cowboys
* Game Theory
* G.R.L
* Guided by Voices
* Jet
* Le Tigre
* Letters to Cleo
* Misfits (featuring Glenn Danzig)
* Nasty Savage
* The Number Twelve Looks Like You
* Pendulum
* Piebald
* P.S. Eliot
* Rainbow
* Sechs Kies
* A Thorn for Every Heart
* The Revolution
* The Righteous Brothers
* Spice Girls – GEM
* Super Furry Animals
* Temple of the Dog
* A Thorn for Every Heart
* Thursday
* Tickle Me Pink
* The Union Underground
* The Vapors
* Wolf Parade
* The Zutons

## Bands on hiatus

* Camera Obscura
* Chiodos
* Coal Chamber
* Man Overboard
* Middle Class Rut
* One Direction
* We Are the In Crowd
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs

## Bands disbanded

* 2NE1
* 3rdeyegirl
* 4Minute
* Agalloch
* Allo Darlin'
* Aiden
* Bane
* Blood on the Dance Floor
* Bolt Thrower
* Boom Boom Satellites
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
* Dead or Alive
* Dream
* Eagles
* Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
* The Enemy
* Fearless Vampire Killers
* Finch
* For Today
* Funeral for a Friend
* FVK
* Giant Sand
* Girugamesh
* G.L.O.S.S.
* Gnashing of Teeth
* Gossip
* Graveyard
* I, the Breather
* Jack Ü
* Joey + Rory
* Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
* La Ley
* A Lighter Shade of Brown
* Lionheart
* Lush
* Majical Cloudz
* Marion
* Matchbook Romance
* Maybeshewill
* Mischief Brew
* Motion City Soundtrack
* Mudvayne
* Nektar
* Nomeansno
* P.M. Dawn
* The Presidents of the United States of America
* Rainbow
* Sally Shapiro
* Thee Satisfaction
* School of Seven Bells
* SMAP
* Sockweb
* Sorry About Dresden
* Spirit of the West
* The Stooges
* Suicide
* Trailer Choir
* Transit
* Twisted Sister
* Viola Beach
* Wodensthrone
* You, Me, and Everyone We Know
* Youth Lagoon

## Deaths
### January

* 1
** Gilbert Kaplan, (74), American conductor and businessman, cancer.
** Mark B, (45), British hip-hop record producer.
** Gilberto Mendes, (93), Brazilian composer.
* 2 – Rino Salviati, (93), Italian singer, guitarist and actor.
* 3
** Paul Bley (83), Canadian jazz pianist.
** Jason Mackenroth (46), American rock drummer (Rollins Band, Mother Superior), prostate cancer.
* 4
** Long John Hunter, (84), American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
** Achim Mentzel, (69), German musician and television presenter.
* 5
** Pierre Boulez, (90), French composer and conductor.
** Nicholas Caldwell, (71), American R&B singer (The Whispers).
** Hanna-Marie Weydahl, (93), Norwegian pianist.
* 7
** Kitty Kallen, (94), American singer ("Little Things Mean a Lot").
** Troy Shondell, (76), American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
* 8
** Otis Clay, (73), American R&B and soul singer ("Tryin' to Live My Life Without You", "The Only Way Is Up"), heart attack.
** Red Simpson, (81), American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck"), complications from a heart attack.
** Brett Smiley, (60), American singer-songwriter.
* 10 – David Bowie, (69), English songwriter and artist.
* 14 – Jane Stuart Smith, (90), American operatic soprano, hymnologist, and author.
* 17
** Carina Jaarnek (53), Swedish singer and Dansband artist (cerebral haemorrhage).
** Dale Griffin (67), British rock drummer (Mott the Hoople, Mott, British Lions).
* 18 – Glenn Frey (67), American guitarist and vocalist (The Eagles).
* 25 – Leif Solberg (101), Norwegian composer and organist.
* 26
** T.J. Tindall (65), American guitarist (MFSB)
** Black (53), Pop/new wave singer-songwriter, Traffic accident
* 28
** Signe Toly Anderson (74), American vocalist (Jefferson Airplane).
** Paul Kantner (74), American guitarist and vocalist (Jefferson Airplane).

### February

* 3 – Maurice White (74), founder of Earth, Wind and Fire.
* 4
** Bobby Caldwell (68), American rock keyboardist (Terry Knight and the Pack)
** Ulf Söderblom (85), Finnish conductor.
* 13
** Viola Beach, English indie rock band, car accident.
** Kristian "Kris" Leonard (20), Guitar and vocals.
** River Reeves (19), Guitar.
** Tomas Lowe (27), Bass.
** Jack Dakin (19), Drums.
** Craig Tarry (32), Band manager.
* 15 – Joyce Paul (78), American country music singer
* 19 – Harald Devold (51), Norwegian saxophonist (cancer).
* 20 – Ove Verner Hansen (85), Danish actor and opera singer (cardiac arrest).
* 22 – Sonny James (87), American country music singer-songwriter.
* 24 – Lennie Baker (69), American rock and roll saxophonist and singer (Sha Na Na)
* 29 – Josefin Nilsson (46), Swedish singer.

### March

* 3 – Gavin Christopher, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer
* 5 – Jimmy Henderson, 61, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)
* 8 – George Martin, (90), English producer.
* 9
** Ray Griff (75), Canadian country singer-songwriter, (aspiration pneumonia).
** Naná Vasconcelos (71), Brazilian percussionist.
* 10
** Keith Emerson (71), English pianist and keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
** Ernestine Anderson (87), American jazz and blues singer
* 12
** Tommy Brown (84), American R&B singer
** Jimmie Snell, 69, American soul and pop singer (Limmie & Family Cookin')
* 13 – Sidney Mear, (97), American trumpeter.
* 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, (81), English composer and conductor
* 18 – Ned Miller (90), American singer-songwriter
* 22 – Phife Dawg, (45), American rap musician (A Tribe Called Quest), complications from diabetes.
* 23 – James Jamerson, Jr., 58, American bass player (Chanson)
* 24 – Peter Anders, 74, American singer-songwriter (The Trade Winds) and record producer
* 26 – David Baker, 84, American symphonic jazz composer

### April

* 2 – Gato Barbieri, (83), Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
* 3 – Bill Henderson, (90), American jazz vocalist and actor (Clue, City Slickers, White Men Can't Jump), cancer.
* 6 – Merle Haggard, (79), American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.
* 13 – Mariano Mores, (98), Argentine tango composer and pianist.
* 21
** Prince, (57), American musician.
** Lonnie Mack, (74), American rock, blues, and country singer-songwriter guitarist, natural causes.
* 24
** Billy Paul, (81), American soul singer.
** Papa Wemba, (66), Congolese singer and musician.
** Jan Henrik Kayser, (81), Norwegian pianist.

### May

* 1 – Sydney Onayemi (78), Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.
* 4 – Olle Ljungström (54), Swedish singer and guitarist.
* 6 – Candye Kane, (54), American blues singer and entertainer
* 9
** Jim Manolides (76), American rock and roll bassist (The Frantics)
** Riki Sorsa (63), Finnish singer.
* 14 – Lasse Mårtenson (81), Finnish singer
* 16 – Fredrik Norén (75), Swedish jazz drummer (death announced on this date)
* 17 – Guy Clark, (74), American folk and country music singer-songwriter
* 19 – John Berry, (52), American guitarist (Beastie Boys)
* 21 – Nick Menza, (51), American instrumentalist, former drummer for the band Megadeth
* 30 – Thomas Fekete, (27), American guitarist (Surfer Blood)

### June

* 2 – Freddie Wadling (64), Swedish singer and songwriter.
* 3 – Dave Swarbrick, (75), British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema.
* 4 – Bobby Curtola, (73), Canadian singer.
* 5 – Phyllis Curtin, (94), American soprano.
* 6 – Rolf Schweizer, (80), German composer.
* 8
** Vladislav Yankovsky, (64), Russian musician (Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra).
** Terje Fjærn (73), Norwegian orchestra conductor ("La det swinge").
* 9 – J. Reilly Lewis, (71), American choral conductor and Baroque music specialist, heart attack.
* 10
** Habib, (63), Iranian singer, heart attack.
** Christina Grimmie, (22), American singer-songwriter (Find Me) and talent show participant (The Voice), gunshot wound.
* 13 – Chips Moman, (79), American producer, songwriter, guitarist.
* 17 – Attrell Cordes, (46), American musician, producer and rapper, co-founder of P.M. Dawn.
* 18 – Alejandro Jano Fuentes (45), Mexican singer and talent show participant (La Voz... México), gunshot wound.
* 21 – Wayne Jackson (74), American soul and R&B musician (The Mar-Keys), congestive heart failure.
* 22
** Amjad Sabri (39), Pakistani Qawwali singer, gunshot wound.
** Jim Boyd (60), Native American singer-songwriter and actor
* 24 – Bernie Worrell, (72), American keyboardist and composer (Parliament-Funkadelic).
* 27 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (83), Danish composer.
* 28 – Scotty Moore (84), American guitarist (Elvis Presley).
* 29 – Rob Wasserman (64), American composer and bass player (RatDog, Lou Reed).

### July

* 1 – Jimmy Arthur Ordge (80), Canadian country music singer
* 16
** Alan Vega (78), American vocalist and visual artist (Suicide).
** Bonnie Brown (77) American country music singer, member of The Browns.
* 18 – Karina Jensen, Danish singer (Cartoons) (cancer).
* 19 – Tamás Somló (73), Hungarian musician, singer, artist and composer (Locomotiv GT), cancer.
* 26
** Sandy Pearlman (72), American producer (Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash), songwriter, educator, complications from cerebral hemorrhage.
** Roye Albrighton (67), German musician (Nektar), unspecified illness.
* 27
** Pat Upton (75), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spiral Starecase).
** Einojuhani Rautavaara (87), Finnish composer.
* 31 – Mike Mohede (32), Indonesian singer and talent show participant (Indonesian Idol), heart attack.

### August

* 3 – Ricci Martin (62), American musician.
* 4
** Patrice Munsel (91), American coloratura soprano.
** Snaffu Rigor (69), Filipino singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
* 5
** Richard Fagan (69), American songwriter and musician, liver cancer.
** Vander Lee (50), Brazilian singer-songwriter.
* 6 – Guillermo Anderson (54), Honduran singer, thyroid cancer.
* 7
** B. E. Taylor (65), American musician ("Vitamin L"), brain cancer.
** Dolores Vargas (80), Spanish singer, complications of leukemia.
** Ruby Winters (74), American soul singer ("Make Love to Me", "I Will").
* 9
** Pádraig Duggan (67), Irish musician (Clannad, The Duggans).
** Jimmy Levine (61/62), American R&B musician and record producer.
* 11 – Glenn Yarbrough (86), American folk singer ("Baby the Rain Must Fall", "It's Gonna Be Fine", "San Francisco Bay Blues").
* 12 – Ruby Wilson (68), American blues, soul and gospel singer, heart attack.
* 13 – Connie Crothers (75), American jazz pianist, cancer.
* 14 – James Woolley (49), American keyboard and synthesizer player (Nine Inch Nails, 2wo).
* 15 – Bobby Hutcherson (75), Jazz vibraphonist, emphysema.
* 19 – Horacio Salgán (100), Argentine tango musician.
* 20
** Matt Roberts (38), American rock guitarist (3 Doors Down), drug overdose.
** Tom Searle (28), British rock guitarist (Architects), cancer.
* 22
** Toots Thielemans (94), Belgian jazz musician.
** Gilli Smyth (83), English musician (Gong).
* 28 – Juan Gabriel (66), Mexican singer and songwriter, heart attack.

### September

* 1
** Fred Hellerman, (89), American folk singer (The Weavers), guitarist, producer and songwriter.
** Kacey Jones, (66), American singer-songwriter ("I'm the One Mama Warned You About"), producer and humorist, cancer.
* 2
** Jerry Heller, (75), American music manager (N.W.A.).
** Gary D., (52), German trance producer and DJ, pulmonary embolism.
* 3
** Fred McFarlane, (55), American songwriter ("Show Me Love", "Don't Wanna Go Home"), record producer and musician.
** Johnny Rebel, (77), American country singer.
* 7
** Clifford Curry, (79), American beach music and R&B singer ("She Shot a Hole in My Soul").
** Farhang Sharif, (85), Iranian musician and tar player.
** Graham Wiggins, (53), American musician.
* 8 – Prince Buster, (78), Jamaican ska musician ("One Step Beyond", "Al Capone").
* 10 – Chris Stone, (81), American recording studio owner (Record Plant) and entrepreneur, heart attack and stroke.
* 12 – Hidayat Inayat Khan, (99), English-French composer and conductor.
* 16
** Jerry Corbetta, (68), American musician (Sugarloaf), Pick's disease.
** Trisco Pearson, (53), American R&B singer (Force MDs), cancer.
** Qiao Renliang, (28), Chinese singer and actor, suicide.
* 19 – Bobby Breen, (88), Canadian-born American actor and singer, natural causes.
* 20 – Micki Marlo, (88), American singer and model.
* 21
** Shawty Lo, (40), American hip-hop musician (D4L), traffic collision.
** John D. Loudermilk, (82), American singer and songwriter ("Tobacco Road", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "Indian Reservation"), bone cancer.
* 24 – Buckwheat Zydeco, (68), American accordionist and zydeco musician
* 25
** Kashif, (59), American musician (B.T. Express) and record producer.
** Hagen Liebing, (55), German musician (Die Ärzte).
** Jean Shepard, (82), American honky tonk singer-songwriter ("A Dear John Letter", "Slippin' Away"), Parkinson's disease.
* 26
** Joe Clay, (78), American rockabilly musician.
** Ioan Gyuri Pascu, (55), Romanian singer, producer, actor and comedian, heart attack.
* 27
** Aurelian Preda [ro], (46), Romanian folk singer, cancer.
** Märta Schéle [sv], (80), Swedish singer.
* 29
** Lecresia Campbell (53), American gospel singer, pulmonary embolism.
** Nora Dean (72), Jamaican singer.
** Royal Torrence (82), American soul music singer (Little Royal and The Swingmasters).
* 30
** Oscar Brand (96), Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, author and radio broadcaster (WNYC).
** Michael Casswell (53), English guitarist.
** Lilleba Lund Kvandal (76), Norwegian opera singer.

### October

* 1 – Toni Williams (77), Cook Islands-born New Zealand singer.
* 2
** Steve Byrd (61), English guitarist (Gillan, Kim Wilde), heart attack.
** Sir Neville Marriner (92), English conductor and violinist
** Thomas Round (100), British opera singer.
* 3
** Ljupka Dimitrovska, (70), Macedonian-born Croatian singer.
** K. David van Hoesen (90), American bassoonist.
** Joan Marie Johnson (72), American singer (The Dixie Cups), heart failure.
* 4 – Caroline Crawley (53), British singer and musician (Shelleyan Orphan, This Mortal Coil).
* 5 – Pompeiu Hărășteanu (81), Romanian opera singer.
* 7 – Anne Pashley (80), British athlete and opera singer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
* 8 – Don Ciccone (70), American singer-songwriter and musician (The Critters, The Four Seasons, Tommy James and the Shondells).
* 9
** Bored Nothing (26), Australian musician, suicide.
** Michiyuki Kawashima (47), Japanese musician (Boom Boom Satellites), brain tumor.
** Quique Lucca (103), Puerto Rican musician, founder of La Sonora Ponceña.
** Guy Nadon [fr], (82), Canadian jazz drummer.
** Marin Petrache Pechea [ro] (71), Romanian jazz musician, cancer.
* 10 – Issa Bagayogo,= (54), Malian musician.
* 11 – Peter Reynolds, (58), Welsh composer.
* 12
** Robert Bateman, (80), American songwriter and record producer ("Please Mr. Postman"), heart attack.
** Sonny Sanders (77), American songwriter, arranger and record producer.
* 15
** Danny Champagne (65), Jamaican music producer, complications from stroke.
** Robert Edwards (74), American singer (The Intruders), heart attack.
* 20
** Achieng Abura, Kenyan musician.
** Brian Edwards (72), Canadian rock bassist and singer (Mashmakhan)
** Mieke Telkamp (82), Dutch singer.
* 23 – Pete Burns, (57), British singer (Dead or Alive)
* 24 – Bobby Vee (73) American pop singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s
* 30 – Curly Putman, (85), American singer-songwriter. D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Green, Green Grass of Home and the subject of Paul McCartney & Wings song Junior's Farm.

### November

* 1
** Nico Carstens (90), South African accordionist and songwriter
** Pocho La Pantera (65), Argentine cumbia singer
* 3 – Kay Starr (94), American pop and jazz singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* 4
** Eddie Harsch, 59, Canadian keyboardist (The Black Crowes)
** Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music producer
* 7 – Leonard Cohen (82), Canadian singer-songwriter
* 11
** Victor Bailey (56), American jazz bass guitarist
** Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska, (73), Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian of Romani ethnicity.
* 12 – Jacques Werup (71), Swedish musician and writer.
* 13 – Leon Russell (74), American musician and songwriter
* 15
** Holly Dunn (59), American country singer-songwriter
** Mose Allison (89), American pianist and singer.
* 18 – Sharon Jones (60), American soul and funk singer
* 24
** Colonel Abrams (67), American musician and singer-songwriter
** Pauline Oliveros (84), American composer
* 29 – Allan Zavod (71), Australian keyboardist and composer
* 30 – Ivar Thomassen (62), Norwegian folk singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

### December

* 2
** Cash Askew (22), guitarist (Them Are Us Too)
** Mark Gray (64), American singer-songwriter (Exile)
* 4 – Ralph Johnson (67), American singer (The Impressions)
* 7 – Brian Bennett (65), American garage-rock keyboardist (The Cherry Slush)
* 8
** Greg Lake (69), English progressive-rock vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
** Junaid Jamshed (52), Pakistani singer-songwriter (Vital Signs), flight collision
* 11 – Joe Ligon (80), American gospel singer (Mighty Clouds of Joy)
* 24 – Rick Parfitt (68), English musician and songwriter (Status Quo)
* 25
** George Michael (53), English singer-songwriter (Wham!)
** 64 members of Alexandrov Ensemble (Red Army Choir), 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash

## Musical films

* Florence Foster Jenkins
* La La Land
* Oasis: Supersonic
* Sing Street
* The Beatles: Eight Days a Week