Top 10 Musicians That Died in the Year 2019 – Popular Artist

Filed in American News, News by on April 3, 2019

Musicians That Died in the Year 2019 – Music is said to be a sound that is pleasant to the ear. It is always painful when lovely musicians pass out, especially the young ones and great impact musicians.

Musicians That Died Last Year

In the year 2019 some musician’s death was not shocking at all because some died out of old age, some complicated health issues, while some died as a result of rival issues.

In the year 2019, musician’s death ranged from the notorious to the admired and the loved, the popular ones and those whose fame died long ago.

Below I have presented a list of beloved musicians whose death were mourned in the year 2019, the musician who added value to music and also helped to shape the music world’

This list helps us remember the beautiful voices that were lost in the year 2019.

Top 10 Musicians That Died in the Year 2019

1. Mac Miller, 26

Mac Miller, 26

Miller was a rapper and also a producer who started his career making mix tapes. He released five studio albums before his death and was also an influential producer who worked with artists like SZA and Vince Staples.

He died on September 7, 2018, from an apparent drug overdose.


2. Jerry Chesnut

Jerry Chesnut

Jerry Chesnut was a songwriter, whose work has been recorded by legends such as Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Travis Tritt, Willie Nelson and also Elvis Costello.

He died on December 15, 2018, in Nashville at age of 60. His best popular hit was “Trouble” for both Elvis Presley and Travis Tritt.


3. Lari White

Lari White

Lari White, the 90s country singer died after battling with cancer on January 23, 2018, at the age of 52.

Lari White’s career began when she won a recording contract through the televised talent competition You Can Be a Star.

In addition to her hit singles “Now I Know” and also “That’s My Baby,” White also wrote songs for Toby Keith, Lonestar, Pat Green and also Danny Gokey.

She also spoke against discrimination faced by women in radio.


4. Daryle Singletary

 

Daryle Singletary

Daryle Singletary died on Feb. 12, 2018, at the age of 46. The causes of his tragically early death are still yet to be told, but since his death, the country community has celebrated his life.

From a tribute event at the Ryman to a Nashville ‘90s Night in March that ended with Cole Swindell, LoCash, John Michael Montgomery and other covering Singletary’s “Too Much Fun,” country stars have taken to the stage and social media to honor the late musician.


5. Hazel Smith

Hazel Smith

Hazel Smith died at the age of 83 in her home on March 18, 2018. Hazel Smith garnered acclaim after a long and varied career in country music, which included work as a journalist, songwriter and also a publicist.

She was credited with creating the term “outlaw country” in the late 1970s while working in publicity when faced with radio stations seeking a term to best describe artists such as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.


6. Roy Clark

Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark came into existence on April 15, 1933, and died on November 15, 2018. Roy Clark was an American singer and musician.

He is well known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from the year 1969 to 1997.

Clark was a significant and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre.

Through the 1970s, Clark repeatedly hosted Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw.

Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and also a fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of several genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and also pop.


7. Pete Shelley

Pete Shelley

Peter Campbell McNeish was born on April 17, 1955, and died December 6, 2018), he was known professionally as Pete Shelley, he was an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

He was popularly known as the leader of Buzzcocks. Shelley formed Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto after the met at the Bolton Institute of Technology which is now the University of Bolton in the year 1975 and later journeyed to High Wycombe, close to London, to see the Sex Pistols.

The Buzzcocks launching held in the year 1976 in Manchester, which was an opening for the Sex Pistols.


8. Theodore Jones

Theodore Jones

Theodore Jones, well known by his stage name Young Greatness, was an American rapper from New Orleans.

He is well known for his 2015 single “Moolah”, which peaked at number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Taking the name Young Greatness, he started attracting notice from Houston rappers such as Bun B and Mike Jones, resulting in a great deal with the record label Quality Control Music and Motown in 2015.

Young Greatness made his United States television debut, performing “Moolah” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert show in July 2016. Young Greatness was shot and killed in the year 2018


 9. Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White was an American singer-songwriter and also a guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie” and for “Rainy Night in Georgia”, which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in the year 1970.

Tony Joe White also wrote, “Steamy Windows” and “Undercover Agent for the Blues” both big hits for Tina Turner in the year 1989.

Both songs came by way of Turner’s producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who is a friend of White.


10. Kenny O’Dell

. Kenny O'Dell

Kenny O’Dell was the songwriter behind the Judd’s’ “Mama’s He’s Crazy” and also Charlie Rich’s No. 1 single “Behind Closed Doors,” died on March 28, 2018, at the age of 72.

Kenny O’Dell also wrote songs for Tanya Tucker, Dottie West, and Kenny Rogers, and was one of the longest-serving members of the board of directors for the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

If you are finding it so difficult to track the names of top musicians who died last year, the list I have presented above has covered it all. It is a list of the top ten musicians and other recording artist and songwriters who died in the year 2018.

So with this list, you can easily keep in track of top musicians who died last year.

CSN Team

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