2018 in Asian music
Events
- January 2 â Police in India arrest singer and instrumentalist Ghazal Srinivas following claims of sexual harassment by an employee of his radio station.
- January 4 â It is reported that British singer Jessie J will be among the competitors in the new season of Chinese talent show The Singer 2018, to be broadcast on Hunan TV.
- January 16 â Chinese fans and musicians pay tribute to Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, who performed in China in 2011.
- January 21 â The Voice of Mongolia talent contest is launched on Mongol TV, and is eventually won by Enguun.
- March 2 â The 14th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival opens in Jakarta, Indonesia, lasting until 4 March.
- March 25 â Sinta Wullur's Tagore's Fireflies is premièred at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, during the Debussy Festival.
- April â Indonesian actress and singer Maudy Ayunda releases a volume of autobiography in English, titled Dear Tomorrow.
- August â , Anggun and Titi DJ are announced as judges for Season 3 of The Voice Indonesia, along with singers Vidi Aldiano and as joint coaches.
Albums
Classical
Opera
- Toshio Hosokawa and Marcel Beyer â Erdbeben.Träume.
- Gity Razaz â Fault Lines
Musical films
Deaths
- January 3 â Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva, Turkmen opera singer and music educator, 87
- January 15 â Sujud Sutrisno, 64, Indonesian street drummer and singer, 64
- January 16 â Shammi Akhtar, Bangladeshi playback singer, 60 (breast cancer)
- January 22 â Ceylon Manohar, Indian actor and playback singer, 73
- January 25 â Sabar Koti, Indian singer, 58
- January 31 â Hwang Byungki, South Korean gayageum player, 81
- February 5 â Jockie Soerjoprajogo, 63, Indonesian musician and songwriter
- March 1 â Arabinda Muduli, 56, Indian musician and singer
- May 2 â Vadim Mulerman, 79, Soviet singer
- May 4 â Abi Ofarim, 80, Israeli singer and dancer
- May 6
- Arun Date, 84, Indian singer
- Gurukrushna Goswami, 84, Indian lyricist
- May 16 â Hideki Saijo, 63, Japanese singer (heart failure)
- July 30 â Khayyam Mirzazade, 82, Azerbaijani composer and academic
- August 1 â Umbayee, 66, Indian ghazal singer (cancer)
- August 5 â Ellen Joyce Loo, 32, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer (fall)
- September 19 â Buren Bayaer, 58, Chinese singer and journalist (heart attack)
- October 2 â Balabhaskar, 40, Indian violinist, composer and record producer (cardiac arrest)
- October 9 â Nitin Bali, 47, Indian singer (traffic collision)
- October 13 â Annapurna Devi, 91, Indian classical musician
- October 14
- Aziza Niyozmetova, 46, Uzbekistani singer
- , 57, Malaysian singer (traffic collision)
- October 16 â Du Yuwei, 19, Chinese singer (suicide)
- October 18 â Ayub Bachchu, 56, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter
- October 30
- Rico J. Puno, 65, Filipino pop singer (heart failure)
- Yashwant Dev, 91, Indian poet and composer
- November 14 â Masahiro Sayama, 64, Japanese pianist.
- November 22 â Imrat Khan, 83, Indian sitar player
- November 27 â Mohammed Aziz, 64, Indian playback singer (heart attack)
- December 22 â Indonesian musicians killed in the Sunda Strait tsunami:
- Windu Andi Darmawan, drummer (Seventeen).
- Muhammad Awal Purbani, bassist (Seventeen).
- Herman Sikumbang, 36, guitarist (Seventeen).
By country
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