musician

29Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Troy Sneed, gospel musician

Troy Lenard Sneed Jr. an American gospel musician – died on April 27, 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He started his music career on November 7, 1999, with the release of Call Jesus by Malaco Records. His second album, Bless That Wonderful Name, was released by Savoy Records in 2001. The third album, A State of Worship, was released by his own label imprint Emtro Gospel Records in 2005, which the rest would be released by that label. This was his breakthrough album on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart. His fourth release, In His Presence, was released in 2006, and it charted on the aforementioned chart. The fifth album from him, In Due Season, was released in 2009, yet this failed to chart. He released the sixth album in 2011, My Heart Says Yes, and this charted o...

26Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Alan Abel, musician

Alan Abel -- an American percussionist, music educator, and inventor of musical instruments -- died on April 25, 2020, of complications from COVID-19. He was the associate principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1959 until his retirement in 1997. He is widely regarded as one of the most important percussion educators of the second half of the twentieth century, having taught at Temple University beginning in 1972. Abel’s inventions include several unique and ubiquitous triangles and a bass drum stand that allowed the instrument to be suspended with the use of rubber bands. Abel was born in Hobart, Indiana, in 1928. At the age of seven, he started percussion lessons. He studied with Clarence Carlson at the Roy Knapp School and then with Haskell Harr and William S...

19Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Martine Crefcoeur, actress

Martine Crefcoeur ‑ a Dutch stage and film actress – passed away on 18 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19 in Rotterdam. He was 84. Born in Rotterdam, Crefcoeur attended the Lyceum there. During her education at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts, she became the leading actor, playing Anne Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank at Toneelgroep Theater. After she graduated, she continued working with the theater company from Arnhem for five more years. Later Crefcoeur worked for, among others, Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel, Ro Theater, and theater group Bonheur. She was the leading actor in the theater series The Family by Lodewijk de Boer and also in the 1973 film The Family. In the nineties she gave lessons at Jeugdtheater Hofplein in Rotterdam.

18Apr

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Giuseppi Logan, jazz musician

Giuseppi Logan ‑ a jazz musician ‑ died on April 17, 2020 at a nursing facility in Far Rockaway, Queens from COVID-19. Logan taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl Bostic and later studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1964 he relocated to New York and became active in the free jazz scene. Logan played alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano and oboe. He collaborated with Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon before forming his own quartet made up of pianist Don Pullen, bassist Eddie Gómez and percussionist Milford Graves. After Pullen's departure, pianist Dave Burrell joined the group. Logan was a member of Byard Lancaster's band and toure...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Hudeidi, musician

Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi - a Somali musician who played the oud and composed songs – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Born in Berbera in 1928 and raised in Yemen, Hudeidi was always fascinated by music, and fell in love with the oud when his father took him to a party in Aden where an Arab man was playing the instrument. He learned how to play it from Abdullahi Qarshe, who advised Hudeydi's father to buy his son an oud and a pick as well as books and writing instruments for school. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hudeidi lived in Yemen, Somaliland, and Djibouti, playing the oud and getting into trouble for singing politically rebellious songs as well as from rival musicians. In 1973 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed at private functions such as family weddings and...

4Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Hans Prade, diplomat & politician

Hans Orlando Prade, a Surinamese diplomat and politician, died on 3 April 2020 due to coronavirus. After graduating from Leiden University, Prade returned to Suriname, and founded the short lived Nationale Volkspartij together with Ronald Venetiaan. Later Prade became a member of the Progressieve Nationale Partij. During the coup, Prade was a commentator on Suriname radio. Prade was the Surinamese ambassador to the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982. His political and undiplomatic statements were not appreciated by the regime and he was dismissed on 1 June 1982. In 1986, Prade became chairman of the Rekenkamer van Suriname [nl], a position which he held for about 10 years. In 1991, he tried to run for President of Suriname, but lost out to his former college friend Venetiaan. ...