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Michael Huckaby, DJ
26Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Michael Huckaby, DJ

Michael Huckaby an American DJ who produced electronic music died on April 24, 2020, aged 54 after contracting COVID-19. He began his DJ career in 1995 playing a combination of Detroit techno, groove, and jazz music. Between 1992 and 2005, he worked at Record Time, a record shop in Roseville, Michigan, as the buyer for store's dance section..
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Floyd Cardoz, chef
26Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Floyd Cardoz, chef

Floyd Cardoz –an Indian-born American chef – passed away after contracting Covid-19 virus on March 25, 2020. He was born in Mumbai. He is noted for his respective ownership and executive chef tenures at the New York City eateries Paowalla and Tabla, as well as his victory on Top Chef Masters in 2011. His New York restaurants were known for food melding Indian flavours and spices with western cuisine techniques. After attending culinary school in Mumbai, India Floyd Cardoz went to Les Roches International School of Hotel Management, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1988. He started working under Chef Gray Kunz at Lespinasse in 1992. He worked in various roles from chef de partie to executive sous chef. In 1997, he started working with Union Square Hospitality Group where he collabor...
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Fred the Godson, DJ & rapper
24Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Fred the Godson, DJ & rapper

Frederick Thomas, known as Fred the Godson an American DJ and rapper from the Bronx died at Montefiore Medical Center on April 23, 2020 at age 35. Frederick Thomas was born on New Year's Day in 1985 and grew up in The Bronx, New York City. He gained an early nickname of "Big Bronx". He started rapping freestyle in New York City in the early 2000s. Thomas's music was characterized by his husky voice, humorous wordplay, and creative rhymes. In the early-2010s, he released two mixtapes; his debut was Armageddon in 2010, featuring samples of The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and Cam'ron. His second release, City of God, was one of a series for DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz, and featuring Puff Daddy, Pusha T and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan. In 2011, XXL included him in its annual Fresh...
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David Martin, Paramedic
23Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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David Martin, Paramedic

David Martin – a Paramedic at American Medical Response, Natchez, Mississippi – passed away on 22 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. AMR Southwest Mississippi posted about Martin’s death on Facebook, saying he gave the ultimate sacrifice. “It was not his intent to sacrifice his life for others,” the post read. "It was his job, his career, and his way of life." Source: WLOX Please help us in adding details.
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Bootsie Barnes, jazz saxophonist
23Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Bootsie Barnes, jazz saxophonist

Robert "Bootsie" Barnes –an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia died in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, at age 82 on April 22, 2020 from COVID-19. In the 1950s, Barnes played with various musicians in Philadelphia, including Lee Morgan, Philly Joe Jones and Bill Cosby (then a drummer). During the 1960s, he performed with various organists including Jimmy Smith and Don Patterson, with whom he recorded in 1978. In the 1980s, he toured with Sonny Stitt. He continued to play in his home town and recorded his album "You Leave Me Breathless!" in 1995. In an article for Patch, Kim Tucker writes... "Barnes has toured the world performing the music he loves, jazz in places like St. Croix US Virgin Islands, to Europe and back home to Philly. From the “Chitlin Circuit” to the infamo...
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Idris Bey, Emergency Technician
22Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Idris Bey, Emergency Technician

Idris Bey – an Emergency Medical Technician, Instructor and Coordinator, FDNY, New York City – passed away due to COVID-19. Bey was 60 years old. Bey was a veteran of EMS, a responder to the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center, and was assigned to the FDNY EMS Bureau of Training since 2002. At the Academy at Fort Totten, EMT Bey was a CFR instructor and taught emergency medical care, the fire department said. Bey began his career assigned to Station 35 in Williamsburg in 1993. After nine years in Brooklyn, he was assigned to the EMS Training Academy at Fort Totten for nearly two decades. Source: JEMS Please help us in adding details.
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Mortimer Levin, Physician
22Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Mortimer Levin, Physician

Mortimer Levin – a Physician in Detroit, Michigan – passed away on 21 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Levin was 99 years old. He was born and raised in Detroit, graduating from Northern High School. He spent his final years at Pomeroy Living Sterling Skilled Rehabilitation Center in Sterling Heights, where he was generally referred to as Doc. Source: Legacy Please help us in adding details.
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Celia Yap Banago, Nurse
22Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Celia Yap Banago, Nurse

Celia Yap Banago – a Registered Nurse at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri – passed away on 21 April, 2020, due to COVID-19. Celia was 65 years old. Celia Yap Banago, a registered nurse who had worked at Research Medical Center for more than 40 years, died after caring for a COVID-19 patient, according to the National Nurses United union. “It’s horrible to find out that she didn’t make it,” says Charlene Carter, a registered nurse who worked at Research with Banago for seven years. She was scheduled to retire next week. Carter says that she and Banago in late March treated a patient who was later found to have COVID-19. She says they treated the patient without N95 masks or any of the specialized protective equipment typically...
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