2005 in music

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Deaths

• January 11 - Spencer Dryden, 61, American drummer for American rock group Jefferson Airplane
• January 11 - Jimmy Griffin, co-founder of Bread
• January 15 - Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Catalan soprano
• January 24 - June Bronhill, singer
• January 28 - Jim Capaldi, 60, British drummer and vocalist
• January 30 - Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish bagpiper
• February 8 - Jimmy Smith, 77, American jazz organist
• February 9 - Tyrone Davis, 66, American soul singer
• February 13 - Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
• February 29 - Edward Patten, 65, R&B/soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• February 28 - Chris Curtis, 63, British drummer and vocalist
• March 4 - Una Hale, soprano, 82
• March 6 - Tommy Vance, DJ
• March 9 - Chris LeDoux, country music singer, 56
• March 9 - Kathie Kay, big band singer, 86
• March 10 - Danny Joe Brown, 53, former lead singer of Molly Hatchet
• March 21 - Bobby Short, singer
• March 22 - Rod Price, guitarist, 47
• March 26 - Paul Hester, drummer, 46
• March 27 - Grant Johannesen, pianist, 83
• March 27 - Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer and composer, 58
• March 28 - Moura Lympany, pianist, 88
• March 30 - Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of 2 California punk groups: Lagwagon and the Ataris
• April 2 - Alexander Brott, conductor and composer, 90
• April 7 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer, 82
• April 10 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist, 82
• April 12 - Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, 63
• April 13 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist, 80
• April 14 - John Fred Gourrion, pop singer, 64
• April 18 - Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor, 75
• April 19 - Bryan Ottoson, guitarist of American Head Charge, 27
• April 19 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist, 58
• April 23 - Robert Farnon, composer, arranger, 87
• April 25 - Hasil Adkins, American rockabilly musician, 67
• April 28 - Percy Heath, jazz musician, 81
• May 8 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghan singer, murdered, 36
• May 10 - David Wayne, former singer of Metal Church, 47
• May 14 - Jimmy Martin, bluegrass musician, 77
• May 22 - Thurl Ravenscroft, US singer
• May 25 - Ruth Laredo, pianist, 67
• May 25 - Domenic Troiano, guitarist The Guess Who, 59
• May 29 - George Rochberg, composer, 86
• June 4 - Helju Tauk, Estonian musician, 75
• June 13 - David Diamond, American composer, 89
• June 14 - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor, 91
• June 17 - Karl Mueller, bassist of Soul Asylum, 41
• July 1 - Luther Vandross, R&B singer, 54
• July 1 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, R&B/soul singer (Four Tops), 69
• July 11 - Frances Langford, US singer and actress, 91
• July 21 - Long John Baldry, R&B singer, 64
• July 27 - Robert Wright, songwriter
• July 29 - Hildegarde, US singer
• August 4 - Little Milton, blues musician
• August 20 - Stevo, singer of the early-Vandals-era, 46
• August 21 - Bob Moog, electronic music pioneer
• August 22 - Luc Ferrari, composer
• August 26 - Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, guitarist of Voivod, 45
• September 1 - R. L. Burnside, blues musician, 78
• September 10 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, blues musician, 81
• September 15 - Sidney Luft, ex-husband of Judy Garland, father of Lorna Luft, and producer of A Star is Born, 89
• September 18 - Chas Smit, vocalist and guitarist of Plush, 23