Pop, Hip-Hop and Rock Star Deaths in 2024 from A-Z

• Alfa Anderson – Chic singer; 78

• Chris Anderson

• John Barbata

• Ashton "Family Man" Barrett – Bob Marley & the Wailers bassist and band leader; 77 

• Jim Beard – Steely Dan keyboardist; 63

• BeatKing (Justin Riley) – Houston rapper; pulmonary embolism; 39

• Casey Benjamin – jazz saxophonist; 45

• Dickey Betts – co-founder and guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band; cancer; 80

• Howard "Frankie" Beverly - Philadelphia-born soul singer with Maze; 77

• Harold C. Black - member of David Peel & the Lower East Side

• Angela Bofill – Bronx-born R&B/jazz singer; complications from strokes; 70

• Joe Bonsall – Oak Ridge Boys singer; 76

• Erric Bonesmith

• Sandra Booker – jazz singer

• Mike Brewer – half of the '70s duo with Tom Shipley noted for the 1970 No. 10 hit, "One Toke Over the Line"; 80

• Brother Marquis (Mark D. Ross) – 2 Live Crew rapper; 57

• Bob Bryar – My Chemical Romance drummer; 44

• Eric Carmen - Cleveland native had hits with the Rasberries' "Go All the Way" and solo tracks like "Never Gonna Fall Again" And "Hungry Eyes" from 1972-1988; 74

• Tommy Cash - Johnny's brother; 84

• Joe Chambers – Chambers Brothers guitarist

• James Chance (nee Siegfried) – saxophone-playing founder of no-wave bands the Contortions and James White & the Blacks; 71

• Chino XL (Derek Barbosa) – New York rapper; suicide; 50

• Charlie Colin – Train co-founder and bassist; took a fall; 58

• Larry Collins 

• Carol Colman – KId Creole & the Coconuts bassist; 73

• Barbara Dane (nee Spellman) – jazz and folk singer; heart failure; 97

• Nick Daniels III – Dumstaphunk bassist; multiple myeloma

• James Darren (nee Ercolani) - singer/actor, played Moondoggie in Gidget with Sandra Dee; heart failure; 88

• Roy Dayes (Kenneth Culture) – member of reggae band Culture

• Paul Di'Anno (nee Andrews) - Iron Maiden singer; 66

• DJ Clark Kent (Rodolfo Franklin II); cancer; 58

• Lou Donaldson - jazz saxophonist; pneumonia; 98

• Robert "Slim" Dunlap - the Replacements guitarist; 73

• Duane Eddy - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist; cancer; 86

• Joe Egan - co-founder of Stealer's Wheel with Gerry Rafferty; 77

• Enchanting (Channing Larry) – Texas rapper; 26

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