2017 in music

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2017 in music.

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Popular music
Timeline of musical events
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List of popular music genres

Specific genres

Album releases

Awards

Bands formed

• Powerflo

Bands reformed

• Audioslave
• Chimaira
• Eighteen Visions
• Elastica
• House vs. Hurricane
• The KLF
• Lionheart
• Madina Lake
• Nachtmystium
• Orbital
• Pleymo
• Sleeper
• Steps
• Stornoway
• The Union Underground
• Xscape

Bands on hiatus

• Dark Sermon
• Dave Matthews Band
• Disclosure

Bands disbanded

Deaths

January

• 1 – Memo Morales (79), Venezuelan singer
• 8 – Peter Sarstedt (75), British singer
• 13 – Horacio Guarany (91), Argentine folklore singer
• 16 – William Onyeabor (70), Nigerian funk singer-songwriter
• 21 – Maggie Roche (65), American singer for the vocal trio group The Roches
• 22 – Jaki Liebezeit (78), German drummer, founding member of experimental rock band Can
• 24 – Gil Ray (60), American power pop drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family)
• 24 – Butch Trucks (69), American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band, Les Brers, The Freight Train Band)
• 27 – Emmanuelle Riva (89), French actress, cancer
• 28 – Geoff Nicholls (68), British musician and keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz)
• 30 – James Laurence (27), producer (Friendzone) (death announced on this date)
• 31 – John Wetton (67), English singer, bassist, and songwriter (Asia, King Crimson), cancer^[1]

February

• 7 – Svend Asmussen (100), Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking"
• 8 – Tony Särkkä (44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist
• 12 – Al Jarreau (76), American jazz singer
• 13 – Trish Doan (31), bassist (Kittie) (death announced on this date)
• 13 – Evan Sewell Wallace (Known as E-Dubble) (34), American rapper
• 18 – Clyde Stubblefield (73), American drummer best known for his work with James Brown
• 19 – Larry Coryell (73), American jazz-fusion guitarist
• 23 – Horace Parlan (86), American jazz pianist
• 25 – Rick Chavez, singer and guitarist (Drive), internal bleeding

March

• 2 – Gata Cattana (26), Spanish rapper
• 4 – Tommy Page (46), American singer
• 6 – Alberto Zedda (89), Italian conductor and musicologist
• 10 – Joni Sledge (60), American singer (Sister Sledge)
• 12 – Joey Alves (63), rhythm guitarist (Y&T)
• 15 – Vicky (69), Colombian singer
• 16 – James Cotton (81), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
• 18 – Chuck Berry (90), American guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 20 – Buck Hill (90), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
• 21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa (42), black metal drummer (Negură Bunget)
• 23 – Sebastián (63), Argentine cuarteto singer
• 24 – Vincent Falcone (78), American pianist, Frank Sinatra conductor
• 27 – Clem Curtis (76), Trinidadian British singer (The Foundations)

April

• 1
  • Ikutaro Kakehashi (87), engineer, founder of Roland Corporation, Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
  • Lonnie Brooks (83), American blues singer and guitarist^[2]
• 5 – Paul O'Neill (61), American composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage), chronic illness
• 11 – J. Geils (71), American jazz and blues guitarist (The J. Geils Band)^[3]
• 12 – Keni Richards (60), drummer (Autograph) (death announced on this date)
• 15
  • Allan Holdsworth (70), British jazz fusion guitarist (Gong, Soft Machine)^[4]
  • Matt Holt (39), American heavy metal singer (Nothingface), degenerative disease
• 27 – Jeff Decker, guitarist (Thor)^[5]

May

• 1 – Bruce Hampton (70), American singer and guitarist
• 2 – Kevin Garcia (41), bassist (Grandaddy)
• 9
  • Michael Parks (77), American singer and actor
  • Robert Miles (47), Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer and DJ
• 17 – Chris Cornell (52), American singer and songwriter (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog)
• 20 – Ace Still, former vocalist of Goatlord, heart attack
• 27 – Gregg Allman (69), American keyboardist/vocalist (The Allman Brothers Band), complications from liver cancer

June

• 9 - Norro Wilson (79), singer, songwriter and record producer
• 20 - Prodigy (43), American rapper
• 28 – Nic Ritter (37), former drummer of Warbringer, undisclosed reasons

July

• 12 – Marc 'Blaash' Michaelson, drummer of Bahimiron, undisclosed reasons
• 13
  • Chris Wong Won (53), rapper, 2 Live Crew
  • Egil Kapstad (76), Norwegian jazz pianist and composer^[6]
• 14 – David Zablidowsky (38), bassist of Adrenaline Mob and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, tour bus accident
• 20 – Chester Bennington (41), singer Linkin Park
• 27 – Billy Joe Walker Jr. (64), Record Producer
• 28 – D.L. Menard (85), Cajun Singer
• 31 – Chuck Loeb (61), Drummer Fourplay

August

• 8 – Glen Campbell (81), Country Singer

See also

• Timeline of musical events

References