Gone However Not Forgotten: Musicians We Misplaced in 2023

Billboard remembers the artists who left us this 12 months.

It’s at all times a giant loss when the world loses a proficient artist, and sadly, 2023 kicked off with a number of notable deaths in music. It started with Gangsta Boo, the pioneering Southern feminine rapper previously of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, who was discovered lifeless on New Yr’s Day at age 43.

The subsequent day, Alan Rankine of post-punk New Wave act The Associates, who additionally produced the Cocteau Twins and pursued his personal solo music, died at age 64. Since then, we’ve additionally misplaced rock guitar legend Jeff Beck — who died at age 78 on Jan. 10 — and singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, who suffered cardiac arrest and died on Jan. 12 at age 54.

Since then, the world has misplaced musical greats together with Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Gordon Lightfoot, David Crosby and extra.

Whereas their family members and followers across the globe mourn the lack of these artists, they won’t be forgotten. Right here, Billboard remembers the musicians who left us in 2023.

• Robbie Robertson

  

  (July 5, 1943 – Aug. 9, 2023)

• Sixto Rodriguez

  

  (July 10, 1942 – Aug. 8, 2023)

• DJ Casper

  

  (Aug. 7, 2023)

• John Gosling (second from left)

  

  (Feb. 6, 1948 – Aug. 3, 2023)

• Sinead O’Connor

  

  (Dec. 8, 1966 – July 26, 2023)

• Randy Meisner

  

  (March 8, 1946 – July 26, 2023)

• Brad Houser

  

  (Sept. 7, 1960 – July 24, 2023)

• Tony Bennett

  

  (Aug. 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

• Jane Birkin

  

  (Dec. 14, 1946 – July 16, 2023)

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  (Could 22, 1934 – July 6, 2023)

• Coco Lee

  

  (Jan. 17, 1975 – July 5, 2023)

• Bobby Osborne

  

  (Dec. 7, 1931 – June 27, 2023)

• Sheldon Harnick

  

  (April 30, 1924 – June 23, 2023)

• Choi Sung-bong

  

  (June 20, 2023)

• Teresa Taylor (second from left)

  

  (1962 – June 19, 2023)

• Large Pokey

  

  (June 18, 2023)

• Johnny “Blackie Onassis” Rowan

  

  (Aug. 27, 1965 – June 13, 2023)

• Astrud Gilberto

  

  (March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023)

• George Winston

  

  (Feb. 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023)

• Kaija Saariaho

  

  (Oct. 14, 1952 – June 2, 2023)

• Cynthia Weil

  

  (Oct. 18, 1940 – June 1, 2023)

• Pacho El Antifeka

  

  (June 1, 2023)

• Pleasure McKean

  

  (Jan. 14, 1940 – Could 25, 2023)

• Invoice Lee (proper)

  

  (Could 24, 2023)

• Ed Ames

  

  (July 9, 1927 – Could 21, 2023)

• Tina Turner

  

  (Nov. 26, 1939 – Could 24, 2023)

• Pete Brown

  

  (Dec. 25-1940 – Could 20, 2023)

• Andy Rourke (proper)

  

  (Jan. 17, 1964 – Could 19, 2023)

• Rita Lee

  

  (Dec. 31, 1947 – Could 8, 2023)

• Younger Lo

  

  (Could 7, 2023)

• Grace Bumbry

  

  (Jan. 4, 1937 – Could 7, 2023)

• Rob Laakso

  

  (1979 – Could 4, 2023)

• Linda Lewis

  

  (Sept. 27, 1950 – Could 3, 2023)

• Gordon Lightfoot

  

  (Nov. 17, 1938 – Could 1, 2023)

• Tim Bachman

  

  (Aug. 1, 1951 – April 28, 2023)

• MoneySign Suede

  

  (April 25, 2023)

• Harry Belafonte

  

  (March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)

• Otis Redding III

  

  (Dec. 17, 1963 – April 18, 2023)

• Moon Bin

  

  (April 19, 2023)

• Ahmad Jamal

  

  (July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023)

• Mark Sheehan

  

  (Oct. 29, 1976 – April 14, 2023)

• Lasse Wellander

  

  (1952 – April 7, 2023)

• Ian Bairnson

  

  (April 7, 2023)

• Edward “Kidd” Jordan

  

  (1935 – April 7, 2023)

• Paul Cattermole

  

  (March 7, 1977 – April 6, 2023)

• Vivian Trimble (proper)

  

  (Could 24, 1963 – April 4, 2023)

• Brian Gillis

  

  (March 29, 2023)

• Ryuichi Sakamoto

  

  (1952 – March 28, 2023)

• Keith Reid

  

  (Oct. 19, 1946 – March 23, 2023)

• Tom Leadon

  

  (Sept. 16, 1952 – March 22, 2023)

• Wayne Swinny

  

  (Oct. 31, 1963 – March 22, 2023)

• Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins (heart)

  

  (June 8, 1941 – March 17, 2023)

• Bobby Caldwell

  

  (April 15, 1951 – March 14, 2023)

• Paul Beasley

  

  (Dec. 11, 1944 – March 13, 2023)

• Jim Gordon

  

  (July 14, 1945 – March 13, 2023)

• Costa Titch

  

  (1995 – March 11, 2023)

• Chaim Topol

  

  (Sept. 9, 1935 – March 9, 2023)

• Gary Rossington (proper)

  

  (Dec. 4, 1951 – March 5, 2023)

• Michael Rhodes

  

  (1953 – March 4, 2023)

• David Lindley

  

  (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2023)

• Wayne Shorter

  

  (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023)

• Steve Mackey

  

  (1966 – March 2, 2023)

• Tom Whitlock

  

  (Feb. 20, 1954 – Feb. 18, 2023)

• Kyle Jacobs

  

  (Feb. 17, 2023)

• Gerald Fried

  

  (Feb. 13, 1928 – Feb. 17, 2023)

• Chuck Jackson

  

  (July 22, 1937 – Feb. 16, 2023)

• Huey “Piano” Smith

  

  (Jan. 26, 1934 – Feb. 13, 2023)

• Dave Jolicoeur

  

  (1968 – 2023)

• Burt Bacharach

  

  (Could 12, 1928 – Feb. 9, 2023)

• Barrett Sturdy

  

  (Feb. 5, 1941 – Jan. 29, 2023)

• Tom Verlaine

  

  (Dec. 13, 1949 – Jan. 28, 2023)

• David Crosby

  

  (Aug. 14, 1941 – Jan. 19, 2023)

• Van Conner (proper)

  

  (March 17, 1967 – Jan. 17, 2023)

• C.J. Harris

  

  (Jan. 28, 1991 – Jan. 15, 2023)

• Lisa Marie Presley

  

  (Feb. 1, 1968 – Jan. 12, 2023)

• Robbie Bachman

  

  (January 2023)

• Jeff Beck

  

  (June 24, 1944 – Jan. 10, 2023)

• Gordy Harmon of The Whispers

  

  (1943 – Jan. 5, 2023)

• Alan Rankine

  

  (Could 17, 1958 – Jan. 2, 2023)

• Gangsta Boo

  

  (Aug. 7, 1979 –  Jan. 1, 2023)

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