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interested in musicians' deaths
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Zum Todestag von Rob Pilatus und als Einblick in mein Forschungsprojekt zur Geschichte der Gruppe Milli Vanilli: drei Aspekte, die dabei oft übersehen werden.

Ein kurzer 🧵 zur Macht des Produzenten, positiven Rassismus und den zeitgenössischen Trend zu Fake-Sänger:innen [1/9]
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17 Feb 2021
Françoise Cactus (Françoise van Hove, *1964)

French musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and author, moved to (West-)Berlin in 1985 and founded there the bands Lolitas and Stereo Total

~ breast cancer

youtu.be/KkviZFys2HU
February 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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17 Feb 2014
Bob Casale (Robert Edward Pizzute Jr., *1952)

US-American musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and audio engineer, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of Devo

~ heart failure

youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM
February 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#otd 16 Feb 2015
Lesley Gore (Lesley Sue Goldstein, *1946)

US-American singer, songwriter and actress ("It's My Party", "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows"); hosted several editions of the PBS television series "In the Life", which focused on LGBT issues

~ lung cancer

youtu.be/ft_QfY16CxU
February 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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16 Feb 2014
Kralle Krawinkel (Gert Franz Krawinkel, *1947)

German musician and actor, mostly known as guitarist for TRIO, entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest equestrian trek from Seville to Hamburg in 1998

~ bronchial carcinoma

youtu.be/jqk0jwNs2Ew
February 16, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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#otd 15 Feb 1965
Nat King Cole (Nathaniel A. Coles, *1919)

US-American singer, jazz pianist, and actor; active in the civil rights movement; "The Nat King Cole Show" became the first nationally broadcast tv-show hosted by an African American

~ lung cancer

youtu.be/FOx8QBcIS8Y
Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love
YouTube video by Soulful Sounds
youtu.be
February 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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14 Feb 2002
Mick Tucker (*1947)

English musician, drummer and backing vocalist of The Sweet

~ leukemia

youtu.be/zRgWvvkSvfk
February 14, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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#otd 14 Feb 1990
Tony Holiday (Rolf Peter Knigge, *1951)

German textile merchant and Schlager singer

~ AIDS

youtu.be/0FdUgPSLD8M
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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14 Feb 2014
Cäpt'n Suurbier (Michael Wahler, *1963)

German musician, singer and guitarist of Berlin fun punk band Die Suurbiers

~ suicide, jumped in front of a train

youtu.be/HV-W8mPsZwE
February 14, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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#otd 13 Feb 2001
Manuela (Doris Inge Wegener, *1943)

German schlager singer and actress ("Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova", 1963)

~ oral cancer

youtu.be/ccYG2IPuAKI
February 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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#otd 13 Feb 2016
Viola Beach
Kris Leonard (vocals, guitar), River Reeves (guitar), Tomas Lowe (bass), Jack Dakin (drums) an Craig Tarry (manager)

~ killed during their first overseas tour when their car fell from a bridge in the Swedish city of Södertälje

youtu.be/LrhRlCf_NJM
February 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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#otd 13 Feb 1997
Michael Tachie Menson (*1967)

British musician, part of the dance producer trio Double Trouble

~ set on fire in a racist attack and died two weeks later

youtu.be/r-41ODAh6No
February 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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12 Feb 2015
Steve Strange (Steven John Harrington, *1959)

Welsh nightclub host (The Blitz), promoter, singer of new wave project Visage and posterboy of the New Romantic movement

~ heart attack

youtu.be/nVsrcmW3Yc8
February 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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12 Feb 2000
Screamin Jay Hawkins (Jalacy J. Hawkins, *1929)

US-American boxer, blues musician and pioneer of shock-rock

~ died after emergency surgery from an aneurysm

youtu.be/7kGPhpvqtOc
February 12, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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#otd 12 February 2023
Trugoy the Dove (David Jude Jolicoeur, *1968)

US-American rapper, one third of the hip hop group De La Soul; co-wrote the Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc."

~ cause of death undisclosed, but was diagnosed with congestive heart failure

youtu.be/zR9AlcgL6_0
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 AM
#otd 12 February 2023
Trugoy the Dove (David Jude Jolicoeur, *1968)

US-American rapper, one third of the hip hop group De La Soul; co-wrote the Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc."

~ cause of death undisclosed, but was diagnosed with congestive heart failure

youtu.be/zR9AlcgL6_0
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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#otd 11 February 2012
Whitney Houston (*1963)

US-American singer, actress, film producer, and model; commonly referred to as "the Voice"; one of the most awarded performers of all time

~ drowning in the bathtub (together with atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use)

youtu.be/kxZD0VQvfqU
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
#otd 11 February 2012
Whitney Houston (*1963)

US-American singer, actress, film producer, and model; commonly referred to as "the Voice"; one of the most awarded performers of all time

~ drowning in the bathtub (together with atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use)

youtu.be/kxZD0VQvfqU
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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#otd 9 Feb 1997
Brian Connolly (*1945)

Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, lead singer of The Sweet

~ kidney failure, liver failure and repeated heart attacks

youtu.be/7lTwA5xMeTM
February 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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#otd 9 Feb 2024
Damo Suzuki (Kenji Suzuki / 鈴木健次, *1950)

Japanese musician best known as the vocalist for the German Krautrock group Can between 1970 and 1973

~ cause of death unknown (maybe colon cancer)

youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw
February 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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9 Feb 2022
Betty Davis (Betty Gray Mabry, *1944)

American singer, songwriter, and model; second wife of Miles Davis

~ cancer

youtu.be/fxKBnR_8LIM
February 9, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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#otd 9 Feb 1981
Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley, *1925)

US-American rock and roll musician; credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s

~ heart attack (maybe brain tumor)

youtu.be/ZgdufzXvjqw
February 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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8 Feb 1990
Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover, *1934)

US-American musician, singer & songwriter ("Runaway", 1961)

~ suicide (shooting himself); his widow blamed the antidepressant Prozac, which he had started taking two weeks earlier

youtu.be/H56qRqHfSRQ
February 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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8 Feb 2004
Cem Karaca (*1945)

Turkish rock musician (Moğollar, Dervişan, Edirdahan), one of the most important figures in the Anadolu rock movement, left Turkey in 1979 for West Germany, founded there the group Die Kanaken in 1984

~ heart failure

youtu.be/ALg5xRtIzWU
February 8, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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#otd 7 Feb 2000
Big Pun / Big Punisher (Christopher Lee Rios, *1971)

US-American rapper and songwriter, initially discovered by Fat Joe, became later a member of Terror Squad

~ heart attack and respiratory failure due to obesity (698 pounds / 317 kg)

youtu.be/7Xue-dOOLiY
February 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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6 Feb 2013
Fabio Fritelli (*1966)

Italian model and singer of Eurodance project Mo-Do ("Eins, zwei, Polizei")

~ suicide

youtu.be/dSy2DcATYUo
February 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM