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List of deaths in popular music 1970s Succeeded by 1980s: Name Age Date Location Cause of death Billy Stewart: 32: January 17, 1970: Selma, North Carolina, U.S. Car crash
Billy Joe Thomas [1] (August 7, 1942 – May 29, 2021) was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Stella Parton widely known for a series of country singers that charted during the mid-to-late 1970s. She is the younger sister of the country music entertainer Dolly Parton and the older sister of the singer Randy Parton and actress Rachel Dennison; Randy Parton was an American singer-songwriter, actor and businessman.
He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin ...
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, and one of two known Black male artists from California who performed at a nationally-charting ...
[2] He had a series of country chart hits from the mid- to late 1970s, the biggest of which was "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", which topped the U.S. country singles chart in 1975. On December 16, 2003, Stewart died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound , one month after the death of his wife.
Tributes were left to Irish singer and activist Sinead O’Connor at the Irish Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum in the Temple Bar area of Dublin following the 56-year-old’s death on July 26 (Brian ...
Turkish singer Zeki Müren died of a heart attack during a live performance on stage at TRT İzmir Television. Opera singer Richard Versalle died on stage at the Metropolitan Opera during the company's première performance of The Makropulos Case when he suffered a heart attack while standing on a sliding ladder attached to a file cabinet. He ...