singer – Page 2

13Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Kishen Bholasing, singer

Kishen Bholasing–a Surinamese-Dutch singer and percussionist – died on 12 April 2020 after Covid-19 infection. Bholasing has been called one of the best interpreters of the Baithak Gana of his era. Bholasing played the Dholak and was lead singer in the formation Kishen & Friends. He has performed in the Netherlands and Suriname, during events such as Holi and sporting events of the Surinamese Wrestling Federation. Several of Bholasing's family members were also known for making baithakgana music, including his father, Angad Bholasing, his mother, Rosie Bholasing-Jiboth, as well as his aunt, Motimala Bholasing. Around 24 March 2020, it was announced that Bholasing was infected with COVID-19. On 12 April, he died in the Academi...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Adam Schlesinger, singer & songwriter

Adam Lyons Schlesinger ‑ an American singer-songwriter, record producer, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. He won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Academy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey. He died in the United States due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Schlesinger was born in New York City, the son of Barbara "Bobbi" (Bernthal), a publicist, and Stephen Schlesinger. He grew up in Manhattan ...

30Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Joe Diffie, singer

Joe Logan Diffie ‑ an American country music singer – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (his longest-lasting number-one song, at four weeks) and "Bigger Than the Beatles". In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and ten more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded wi...

27Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy

Luigi Roni, singer

Luigi Roni –an Italian singer – succumbed to coronavirus on 26 March 2020. Roni studied singing in Lucca alongside Adriana Pizzorusso. He made his singing debut at age 22 at the Spoleto Festival USA with the opera Faust, in which he played Mephistopheles. His singing partners included Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras. He sang at multiple opera halls, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera House. In France, he performed alongside other opera singers at the Chorégies d'Orange and at the Paris Opera. In 2004, Roni founded the Il Serchio delle muse summer opera festival, held in the Serchio valley. Roni's final role was in April 2019, when he ...

17Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Sergio Bassi, singer & songwriter

Sergio Bassi –an Italian folk singer-songwriter – died from Covid-19 on 16 March 2020. Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a small hamlet in Codogno, Lombardy. After adulthood, he moved to Legnano, later to Piacenza, then he lived in San Francesco al Campo for seven years. Later, he returned to his hometown. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, he contracted novel coronavirus. On 16 March, he died from the infection in Crema.