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Kyle Maite - guitarist with Ohio rock band Hit the LIghts; trucking accident; 37
Sebastian Marino - guitarist with metal bands Overkill and Anvil; 57
Emmaretta Marks - sang with Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and others
Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley - reggae performer, son of Stephen, grandson of Bob; asthma attack; 31
Craig Marshall - Austin, TX-based guitarist with Grateful Dead tribute band, Cubensis; cancer; 61
Hector "Tito" Matos - Puerto Rican percussionist, played with Eddie Palmieri and others; 53
Maxi Jazz (Maxwell Fraser) - British singer/rapper with electronica band Faithless; 65
Dan McCafferty - frontman with Scottish rock band Nazareth, which he co-founded; pulmonary disease; 76
C.W. McCall (Billy Dale Fries) - country singer had No. 1 hit with "Convoy" in 1975; 93
Tommy McConnell - drummer with New York R&B/disco girl group Skyy
Charles McCormick - bassist/vocalist with Kanass City-based R&B band Bloodstone, wrote their 1973 No. 10 hit, "Natural High"
Deborah McCrary - member of Nashville vocal group The McCrary Sisters; 67
Ian McDonald - founding member of King Crimson and Foreigner, played various instruments (sax, flute, keyboards, guitar); cancer; 75
Christine McVie - singer and keyboardist with Fleetwood Mac, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer wrote "Don't Stop" (No. 3) and "You Make Loving Fun" (No. 7), both on the massively popular Rumours album in 1977; 79
Meatloaf (Marvin Aday) - rock singer from Dallas, won Grammy for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"; Covid-related; 74
Eric Mercury - Canadian R&B singer; cancer; 77
Christopher Meredith - Jamaican bassist; played with Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Burning Spear and more
Joe Messina - guitarist with the Funk Brothers Motown house band; kidney disease; 93
Mikaben (Michael Benjamin) - Haitian singer-songwriter/guitarist; collapsed on stage suffereing cardiac arrest; 41
Ron Miles - Indianapolis-born jazz trumpeter and cornet player; cancer; 58
Jody Miller - Oklahoma-born female country singer, winner of one Grammy; Parkinson's; 80
Sue Mingus - Chicago-born wife of jazz bassist Charles Mingus; 92
Charnett Moffett - New York-born jazz bassist, played with McCoy Tyner and many others; heart attack; 54
Moneygang Vontae (Avanti Frowner) - Chicago rapper; shot and killed in New York; 27
Nicky Moore - lead singer of British metal band Samson; Parkinson's; 75
Massimo Morante - founder/guitarist with Italian prog-rock grouo, Goblin; 69
