2018 in European music

Deaths

• 1 January – , 76, Danish singer
• 7 January – France Gall, 70, French singer, Eurovision winner (1965)
• 15 January – Dolores O'Riordan, 46, Irish singer and musician
• 16 January – Madalena Iglésias, 78, Portuguese actress and singer
• 18 January – Javiera Muñoz, 40, Swedish singer
• 20 January – Mario Guccio, 64, Belgian singer (Machiavel)
• 24 January
• Renaud Gagneux, 70, French composer
• Mark E. Smith, 60, English singer and songwriter (The Fall)
• 27 January – , 75, Italian record producer
• 28 January
• Neil Harris, 63, British musician (Sham 69; cancer).
• Coco Schumann, 93, German jazz musician
• 29 January – Asmund Bjørken, 84, Norwegian jazz musician
• 5 February – Zeno Roth, 61, German guitarist and songwriter
• 12 February – László Melis, 64, Hungarian composer and violinist
• 15 February – Tamara Nizhnikova, 92, Belarusian singer
• 18 February – Didier Lockwood, 62, French jazz violinist (heart attack)
• 26 March – Nikolay Kaufman, 92, Bulgarian musicologist, folklorist and composer.
• 20 April – Avicii, 28, Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record producer.
• 30 April – Rose Laurens, 65, French singer-songwriter
• 2 May – Herman Krebbers, 94, Dutch violinist
• 7 May – Roman Toi, 101, Estonian-Canadian composer, choir conductor, and organist
• 29 May – Jürgen Marcus, 69, German singer (COPD) (death announced on this date)
• 4 June – Marc Ogeret, 86, French singer
• 8 June – Stefan Weber, 71, Austrian singer
• 12 June
• Helena Dunicz-Niwińska, 102, Polish violinist, translator and author
• Jon Hiseman, 73, English drummer (brain cancer)
• Jarosław Kozidrak, 63, Polish guitarist, keyboardist and composer
• 26 June
• Fedor FreÅ¡o, 71, Slovak rock and jazz bassist
• Bo Nilsson, 81, Swedish composer
• 5 July – François Budet, 78, French singer-songwriter
• 6 July – Vlatko Ilievski, 33, Macedonian pop singer and actor
• 29 July – Oliver Dragojević, 70, Croatian singer (lung cancer)
• 1 August – Celeste Rodrigues, 95, Portuguese fado singer
• 7 August – Dumitru Fărcaș, 80, Romanian tárogató player.
• 17 August – Claudio Lolli, 68, Italian singer-songwriter (cancer)
• 26 August – Inge Borkh, 97, German soprano
• 4 September – Elisa Serna, 75, Spanish protest singer-songwriter.
• 6 September – Philippe Eidel, 61, French music producer, writer and film composer
• 9 September – Beat Richner, 71, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
• 12 September – Erich Kleinschuster, 88, Austrian trombonist and bandleader
• 1 October
• Charles Aznavour, 94, French-Armenian singer and lyricist
• Stelvio Cipriani, 81, Italian composer, complications from a stroke.
• 26 October – Darijan Božič, 85, Slovenian composer (death announced on this date)
• 3 November – Maria Guinot, 73, Portuguese singer=
• 4 November – Roman Grinev, 41, Russian jazz bassist
• 7 November – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, 67, Irish musician and composer
• 26 November
• Umberto Borsò, 95, Italian opera singer
• Stanislav Gorkovenko, 80, Russian conductor
• 29 November – Ulrich Leyendecker, 72, German composer.

References

External links

• European Music Council