27 Club Musicians Forever Remembered

27 Club Musicians Forever Remembered

Alexandre Levy (November 10, 1864 — January 17, 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.

Louis Chauvin (March 13, 1881 – March 26, 1908) was an American ragtime musician.

Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings from 1936–37 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced later generations of musicians.

Nat Jaffe (January 1, 1918 – August 5, 1945) was an American swing jazz pianist.

Jesse Belvin (December 15, 1932 – February 6, 1960) was an American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s.

Rudy Lewis (August 23, 1936 – May 20, 1964) was an American rhythm and blues singer with The Drifters. He was the lead singer on a few of their hits such as “Some Kind of Wonderful”, “Please Stay”, “On Broadway”, and “Up on the Roof”.

Malcolm Hale (May 17, 1941 – October 31, 1968) Original member and lead guitarist of Spanky and Our Gang.

Dickie Pride (21 October 1941 — 26 March 1969) was a British rock and roll singer.

Brian Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969), was an English musician and a founding member of the Rolling Stones.

Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat.

Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter who rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Arlester Christian (June 13, 1943 – March 13, 1971) Frontman, vocalist and bassist of Dyke & the Blazers.

Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) Lead singer, lyricist and video director for The Doors, and poet.

Linda Jones (December 14, 1944 – March 14, 1972) Soul singer.

Leslie Harvey (13 September 1944 – 3 May 1972) Guitarist for Stone the Crows and brother of Alex Harvey.

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973) was a founding member of the Grateful Dead.

Roger Lee Durham (February 14, 1946 – July 27, 1973) Singer and percussionist of Bloodstone.

Wallace Yohn (January 12, 1947 – August 12, 1974) Organ player of Chase.

Dave Alexander (June 3, 1947 – February 10, 1975) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.

Pete Ham (27 April 1947 – 24 April 1975) songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of the group Badfinger.

Gary Thain (15 May 1948 – 8 December 1975) was a rock bassist, best known for his work with British band, Uriah Heep.

Helmut Köllen (2 March 1950 – 3 May 1977) was a German bass player and musician for the band Triumvirat.

Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 – December 27, 1978) was an American singer, songwriter andguitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s.

Jacob Miller (May 4, 1952 – March 23, 1980) was a Jamaican reggae artist who first recorded with Clement Dodd. While pursuing a prolific solo career, he became the lead singer for reggae group Inner Circle.

d. Boon (April 1, 1958 – December 22, 1985) was an American singer, songwriter andguitarist. Active between 1978, when he joined The Reactionaries, and 1985, when he was killed in a van accident, Boon was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Californian punk rock trio Minutemen.

Alexander Bashlachev (May 27, 1960 – February 17, 1988) was a Russian poet, musician, guitarist, and singer-songwriter.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.

Pete de Freitas (2 August 1961 – 14 June 1989) was a musician and producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen, and whose drumming skills have been compared to Dave Grohl’s.

Mia Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.

Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana.

Kristen Pfaff (May 26, 1967 – June 16, 1994) was an American bass guitarist, best known for her work with Hole.

Fat Pat (December 4, 1970 – February 3, 1998) was a rapper from Houston, Texas who was a member of DEA (Dead End Alliance) with his brother John “Big Hawk” Hawkins and DJ Screw, and an original member of the Screwed Up Click.

Freaky Tah (May 14, 1971 – March 28, 1999) was an MC, hype man and promoter. Freaky Tah was a member of a hip hop group called the Lost Boyz, together with Mr. Cheeks, DJ Spigg Nice, and Pretty Lou.

Rodrigo Bueno (May 24, 1973 – June 24, 2000) was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music.

Sean McCabe (November 13, 1972 – August 28, 2000) Lead singer of Ink & Dagger.

Maria Serrano-Serrano (November 26, 1973 – November 24, 2001) Background singer for Passion Fruit.

Jeremy Michael Ward (May 5, 1976 – May 25, 2003) was the sound technician and vocal operator for The Mars Volta and for the dub outfit De Facto.

Bryan Ottoson (March 18, 1978 – April 19, 2005) Guitarist for American Head Charge.

Valentín Elizalde (February 1, 1979 – November 25, 2006) was a Mexican banda music singer gunned down in an ambush.

Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz.

Richard Turner (July 30, 1984 – August 11, 2011) Trumpet player, collaborator with Friendly Fires.

Thomas Fekete (July 1, 1988 – May 31, 2016) Guitarist of Surfer Blood.

Kim Jong-hyun (April 8, 1990 – December 18, 2017) Vocalist and lyricist of Shinee.

Fredo Santana (July 4, 1990 – January 19, 2018) American rapper.

Benjamin Keough (October 21, 1992 – July 12, 2020) Elvis Presley’s grandson and son of Lisa Marie Presley and brother of Riley Keough.

27 Club Musicians will always be remembered