List of 2025 deaths in popular music

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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 2025.

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2024 		List of deaths in popular music
2025		Succeeded by
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NameAgeDateLocation of deathCause of death
Leo Dan
Argentine singer-songwriter		82January 1, 2025 Miami, Florida, USUndisclosed [1]
Chad Morgan
Country singer and guitarist		91January 1, 2025 Gin Gin, Queensland, AustraliaUndisclosed [2]
Nora Orlandi
Singer, pianist, and film composer		91January 1, 2025 Rome, ItalyUndisclosed [3]
Wayne Osmond
The Osmonds 		73January 1, 2025 Salt Lake City, Utah, USStroke [4]
Russ North
Cloven Hoof 		59January 2, 2025Undisclosed [5]
Ferdi Tayfur
Turkish arabesque singer		79January 2, 2025 Antalya, TurkeyUndisclosed [6]
Brenton Wood
Soul singer		83January 3, 2025 Moreno Valley, California, USUndisclosed [7]
Ed Askew
Folk singer		84January 4, 2025Undisclosed [8]
Beej Chaney
The Suburbs 		68January 5, 2025 Hermosa Beach, California, USDied while swimming in the ocean [9]
Renuaras "Erkė" Krivelis
Erkė Maiše		51January 5, 2025LithuaniaUndisclosed [10]
Fredrik Lindgren
Unleashed, Terra Firma 		53January 5, 2025 Stockholm, SwedenUndisclosed [11]
Hope Foye
Singer and political activist		103January 6, 2025 Las Vegas, Nevada, USUndisclosed [12]
Stella Greka
Singer and actress		102January 6, 2025 Dionysos, GreeceUndisclosed [13]
Ragne Wahlquist
Heavy Load 		69January 7, 2025 Stockholm, SwedenUndisclosed [14]
Peter Yarrow
Peter, Paul and Mary 		86January 7, 2025 New York, New York, USBladder cancer [15]
Sam Moore
Sam & Dave 		89January 10, 2025 Coral Gables, Florida, USComplications from surgery [16]
Mark Izu
Jazz bassist and composer		70January 12, 2025 San Francisco, California, USColon cancer [17]
P. Fluid (Peter Forrest)
24-7 Spyz 		64January 13, 2025 New York, New York, USBeaten to death [18]
Buck White
The Whites 		94January 13, 2025Undisclosed [19]
David Lynch
Filmmaker, actor, painter, and musician		78January 15, 2025Emphysema [20]
Linda Nolan
The Nolans 		65January 15, 2025Breast cancer [21]
Bob Kuban
Musician and bandleader		84January 20, 2025Stroke [22]
Garth Hudson
The Band 		87January 21, 2025 Woodstock, New York, USUndisclosed [23]
Paddy Cole
Irish showband musician		85January 22, 2025 Dublin, IrelandLung cancer [24]
Barry Goldberg
The Electric Flag, The Rides 		83January 22, 2025Non-Hodgkin lymphoma [25]
Gabriel Yacoub
Malicorne 		72January 22, 2025 Bourges, FranceUndisclosed [26]
Edweena Banger
The Nosebleeds, Slaughter & the Dogs 		ca. January 24, 2025Undisclosed [27]
Unk
Rapper		43January 24, 2025Heart attack [28] [29]
Gary Grier
The Contours 		January 26, 2025Undisclosed [30]
Bruce Howe
Fraternity 		77January 29, 2025 Semaphore, South Australia, AustraliaCancer [31]
Marianne Faithfull
Pop and rock singer-songwriter and actress		78January 30, 2025 London, England, UKUndisclosed [32]
Sal Maida
Milk 'N' Cookies, Roxy Music, Sparks 		76February 1, 2025 New York, New York, USComplications from a fall [33]
Barbie Hsu
Singer, actress, and host		48February 2, 2025 Tokyo, JapanPneumonia [34] [35]
Irv Gotti
Record producer and executive		54February 5, 2025 New York, New York, USStroke [36]
Dave Jerden
Record producer, audio engineer and mixer		75February 5, 2025Undisclosed [37]
Mike Ratledge
Soft Machine 		81February 5, 2025Undisclosed [38]
Naâman
French reggae singer		34February 7, 2025Brain tumor [39]
Tommy Hunt
The Flamingos 		91February 12, 2025Undisclosed [40]
Rick Buckler
The Jam 		69February 17, 2025Undisclosed [41]
Jamie Muir
King Crimson 		82February 17, 2025 Cornwall, England, UKUndisclosed [42]
Paquita la del Barrio
Singer, songwriter, and actress		77February 17, 2025 Xalapa, Veracruz, MexicoUndisclosed [43]
Karl Cochran
Ace Frehley, Eric Singer Project 		60February 19, 2025 Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, USCar accident [44]
Snowy Fleet
The Easybeats 		79February 19, 2025Undisclosed [45]
Jerry Butler
The Impressions 		85February 20, 2025 Chicago, Illinois, USParkinson's disease [46]
Gerry Arling
Arling & Cameron 		63February 21, 2025Undisclosed [47]
Fred Bekky
The Pebbles 		81February 21, 2025Pneumonia [48]
Bill Fay
Singer-songwriter		81February 21, 2025 London, England, UKUndisclosed [49]
Khalil Fong
Singer-songwriter		41February 21, 2025Pneumothorax [50]
Gwen McCrae
Singer		81February 21, 2025 Pensacola, Florida, USUndisclosed [51]
Voletta Wallace
Record producer; mother of The Notorious B.I.G. 		78February 21, 2025 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USNatural causes [52]
Ken Parker
Jamaican reggae and gospel musician		76February 22, 2025 Florida, USUndisclosed [53]
Jacques De Jongh
Hush, John Paul Young and the All Stars, Redhouse 		February 23, 2025 Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaUndisclosed [54]
Chris Jasper
The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley 		73February 23, 2025Cancer [55]
Roberta Flack
Singer and songwriter		88February 24, 2025 New York, New York, USCardiac arrest resulting from ALS [56]
Robert John
Soft rock singer and songwriter		79February 24, 2025Stroke [57]
Coburn Pharr
Annihilator, Omen 		62February 25, 2025Undisclosed [58]
David Johansen
New York Dolls 		75February 28, 2025 New York, New York, USCancer [59]
Angie Stone
Soul singer		63March 1, 2025 Montgomery, Alabama, USCar accident [60]
Joey Molland
Badfinger 		77March 1, 2025Hopkins, MN USMultiple health issues [61]

See also

References

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