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Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer
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Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

Rick May ‑ a Canadian-American voice actor and theatrical performer, director, and teacher from Seattle, Washington – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. May provided the English-language voice for Peppy Hare in Star Fox 64 and Soldier in Team Fortress 2, among other video games. May was born on September 21, 1940. He was raised in Washington and Canada. May attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. May served in the U.S. military and was stationed in Japan, where he coordinated USO shows in Tokyo. May returned to the Seattle area to serve as the director of the Renton Civic Theatre and Civic Light Opera in Renton, Washington. In one production of the Cotton Patch Gospel in Renton, May played all 21 roles with a variety of ...
Marcelo Peralta, performer
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Marcelo Peralta, performer

Marcelo Peralta –an Argentine performer, teacher, composer, and arranger who played saxophone, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones – died from Covid-19 on 10 March 2020.   This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Marcelo Peralta" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)   Peralta was born in Buenos Aires. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing ...