2017 in music

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  Specific genres

• Classical
• Country
• Electronic
• Jazz
• Latin
• Heavy metal
• Hip hop
• Rock
• R&B
• New Wave
• Opera
• Pop
• Punk

  Albums released

Awards

Bands formed

• 3RACHA
• 7Senses
• 14U
• 22/7
• A.C.E
• BNK48
• THE BOYZ
• Busters
• Duetto
• Elris
• FanxyRed
• Favorite
• Fromis 9
• Gizmodrome
• Golden Child
• Good Day
• Hash Tag
• Highway Sisters
• Honeyst
• Hyeongseop X Euiwoong
• IN2IT
• In Real Life
• IZ
• JBJ
• Josh Todd and the Conflict
• Longguo & Shihyun
• MVP
• MXM
• My Indigo
• Myteen
• ONF
• P.O.P
• Powerflo
• Rainz
• The Rampage from Exile Tribe
• The Rose
• The Sea Within
• S.I.S
• Seven O'Clock
• Sons of Apollo
• Top Secret
• TRCNG
• Triple H
• Varsity
• Wanna One
• Weki Meki
• Vespera
• YHBOYS

  Bands reformed

• As I Lay Dying
• Audioslave
• Big Dumb Face
• Carnivore
• Chimaira
• Company of Thieves
• Eagles
• Eighteen Visions
• Elastica
• Exhorder
• Heavy Load
• House vs. Hurricane
• Jawbreaker
• Jethro Tull
• The KLF
• Light This City
• Lionheart
• Madina Lake
• Nachtmystium
• NRG
• Orbital
• Pleymo
• Sadus
• Sleeper
• Steps
• The Streets
• Stornoway
• Sugarland
• Tripping Daisy
• Viva Brother
• The Union Underground
• Xscape

  Bands on hiatus

• Camera Obscura
• Dark Sermon
• Dave Matthews Band
• Disclosure
• fun.
• Girls’ Generation
• The Gaslight Anthem
• Heart
• Katatonia
• Karnataka
• Linkin Park
• One Direction
• Pinegrove
• PWR BTTM
• Slipknot
• Soundgarden
• Twenty One Pilots
• With Confidence

  Bands disbanded

• A Tribe Called Quest
• Amoral
• Audioslave
• Black Sabbath
• Brontide
• The Cab
• Chairlift
• Cibo Matto
• Cinderella
• Circus Devils
• Coal Chamber
• The Crookes
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Donovan Wolfington
• Friendzone
• Game Theory
• HIM
• Hail of Bullets
• Heaven's Basement
• In Dying Arms
• Letlive
• Les B.B.
• The Maccabees
• Marionette
• Mindless Behavior
• Miss A
• Mobb Deep
• Mudcrutch
• The Pagans
• The Poster Boy
• Poured Out
• The Roches
• The Saturdays
• Spawn of Possession
• Staind
• Textures
• Those Who Fear
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• The Tragically Hip
• Trap Them
• Vallenfyre
• Vanna
• Vant
• We Are the Ocean
• White Miles
• William Control
• The Wonder Girls
• Xerath
• Yellowcard
• Your Memorial

  Deaths

January

• 1 – Memo Morales, Venezuelan rumba singer
• 2 – Auriel Andrew, Indigenous Australian country singer
• 4 – Bade Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani classical music and Khyal singer
• 6 – Sylvester Potts, American R&B singer
• 7 – Jerzy Kossela, Polish rock guitarist
• 8 – Peter Sarstedt, British folk pop singer
• 10 – Buddy Greco, American jazz singer and pianist
• 11 – Tommy Allsup, American rock and roll guitarist
• 13
• * Horacio Guarany, Argentine folklore singer
• * Richie Ingui, American soul singer
• 14 – John Boudreaux, American jazz and soul drummer
• 15 – Greg Trooper, American alternative country singer and songwriter
• 16
• * William Onyeabor, Nigerian funk singer-songwriter
• * Steve Wright, American power pop bassist and songwriter
• 18 – Mike Kellie, British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer
• 19 – Loalwa Braz, Brazilian pop and lambada singer
• 20
• * Ronald "Bingo" Mundy, American singer
• * Joey Powers, American pop singer
• * Tommy Tate, American soul singer
• 21
• * Karl Hendricks, American alternative rock singer
• * Walter "Junie" Morrison, American funk keyboardist
• * Maggie Roche, American folk singer
• 22
• * Jaki Liebezeit, German experimental rock drummer
• * Pete Overend Watts, British glam rock bassist
• 23 – Bobby Freeman, American pop and R&B singer
• 24
• * Gil Ray, American power pop drummer
• * Butch Trucks, American rock drummer
• 25 – Ronnie Davis, Jamaican reggae singer
• 27 – Stan Boreson, American comedian, accordionist and singer
• 28
• * Guitar Gable, American blues singer and guitarist
• * Geoff Nicholls, British rock musician and keyboardist
• * Alexander Tikhanovich, Belarusian pop singer
• 29 – Elkin Ramírez, Colombian hard rock singer
• 30 – James Laurence, American hip hop musician and producer
• 31
• * Deke Leonard, British progressive rock guitarist
• * John Wetton, British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter

  February

• 1 – Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer
• 4 – Steve Lang, Canadian rock bassist
• 5
• * David Axelrod, American jazz musician and producer
• * Sonny Geraci, American pop and rock singer
• 7 – Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist
• 8
• * Rina Matsuno, Japanese pop singer
• * Tony Särkkä, Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist
• 11 – Jarmila Šuláková, Czech folk singer
• 12
• * Al Jarreau, American jazz singer
• * Damian, British pop singer
• 13
• * Trish Doan, American heavy metal bassist
• * E-Dubble, American rapper
• 16 – Pericoma Okoye, Nigerian traditional music singer
• 17
• * Peter Skellern, English easy listening singer-songwriter and pianist
• * Dave Yorko, American rock and roll guitarist
• 18 – Clyde Stubblefield, American funk and soul drummer
• 19 – Larry Coryell, American jazz fusion guitarist
• 20 – Huang Feili, Chinese classical music conductor
• 23
• * Horace Parlan, American jazz pianist
• * Leon Ware, American funk singer and songwriter
• 25
• * Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist
• * Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese new wave guitarist
• * Bill Paxton, American new wave keyboardist and actor

  March

• 1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu, Japanese rock singer
• 2 – Gata Cattana, Spanish rapper
• 3
• * Jim Fuller, American surf rock guitarist
• * Lyle Ritz, American rock bassist and ukuleleist
• * Danny Spooner, British-born Australian folk singer
• 4
• * Valerie Carter, American rock singer and songwriter
• * Edi Fitzroy, Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer
• * Tommy Page, American pop singer
• 6
• * Ritchie Adams, American songwriter and singer
• * Lars Diedricson, Swedish rock singer
• * Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist
• 7 – Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya, Indian folk singer
• 8
• * Dave Valentin, American jazz flutist
• * Wordsayer, American rapper
• 10 – Joni Sledge, American R&B and disco singer
• 11
• * Evan Johns, American rockabilly guitarist
• * Ángel Parra, Chilean folk singer
• * Don Warden, American country slide guitarist
• 12 – Joey Alves, American hard rock rhythm guitarist
• 13
• * Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, American funk singer
• * John Lever, British post-punk drummer
• 15
• * Phil Garland, New Zealander folk singer
• * :es:Vicky |Vicky, Colombian pop singer
• 16 – James Cotton, American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
• 18 – Chuck Berry, American rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 20
• * Buck Hill, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
• * Tony Terran, American rock and pop trumpeter
• 21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa, black metal drummer
• 22
• * Sib Hashian, American rock drummer
• * Sven-Erik Magnusson, Swedish pop singer and guitarist
• 23 – :es:Sebastián |Sebastián, Argentine cuarteto singer
• 24
• * Vincent Falcone, American pianist and conductor
• * Pete Shotton, British skiffle percussionist and washboardist
• 25 – Edward Grimes, American post-rock drummer
• 26
• * Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian film composer and classical guitarist
• * Jimmy Dotson, American blues singer and songwriter
• 27 – Clem Curtis, Trinidadian-British singer
• 28 – Terry Fischer, American pop singer
• 30 – Rosie Hamlin, American pop singer

  April

• 1
• * Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist
• * Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer, founder of Roland Corporation, manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
• * Wycliffe Noble, British gospel singer and architect
• 3 – Brenda Jones, American singer
• 5 – Paul O'Neill, American progressive metal composer, lyricist, producer, and songwriter
• 6 – David Peel, American folk singer and songwriter
• 7 – Ben Speer, American gospel singer
• 8 – Keni Richards, American rock drummer
• 9
• * Alan Henderson, Northern Irish rock bassist
• * Bob Wootton, American country guitarist
• 10 – Banner Thomas, American hard rock bassist
• 11
• * J. Geils, American blues, rock and jazz guitarist
• * Scotty Miller, American drummer
• * Toby Smith, English acid jazz keyboardist, songwriter and producer
• 12 – Barry "Frosty" Smith, American rock drummer
• 14 – Bruce Langhorne, American folk singer
• 15
• * Allan Holdsworth, British jazz fusion guitarist
• * Matt Holt, American heavy metal singer
• * Sylvia Moy, American songwriter
• 19 – Dick Contino, American accordionist and singer
• 20 – Cuba Gooding Sr., American soul and R&B singer
• 23 – Jerry Adriani, Brazilian rock singer
• 27
• * Jeff Decker, Canadian heavy metal guitarist
• * John Shifflett, American jazz bassist
• 28 – Joanna Brouk, American electronic music composer

  May

• 1
• * Bruce Hampton, American rock and jazz fusion singer and guitarist
• * Erkki Kurenniemi, Finnish electronic music composer
• 2 – Kevin Garcia, American indie rock bassist
• 3
• * Casey Jones, American blues drummer
• * C'el Revuelta, American punk rock bassist
• * Saxa, Jamaican ska saxophonist
• 4 – Katy Bødtger, Danish singer
• 5 – Clive Brooks, British progressive rock drummer
• 9
• * Michael Parks, American country singer and actor
• * Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian electronic dance record producer, composer and DJ
• 10 – Pierre DeMudd, American trumpeter and singer
• 11 – İbrahim Erkal, Turkish folk singer
• 12 – Bill Dowdy, American jazz drummer
• 13 – Jimmy Copley, British rock drummer
• 14 – Keith Mitchell, American dream pop drummer
• 17 – Chris Cornell, American alternative rock singer and songwriter
• 18 – Frankie Paul, Jamaican dancehall singer
• 20
• * Jimmy Dale, British-Canadian film and television composer
• * Ace Still, American doom metal singer
• 21
• * Jimmy LaFave, American folk singer and songwriter
• * Tulsa Pittaway, South African indie rock drummer
• 22
• * Rosa Speer, American gospel singer
• * Zbigniew Wodecki, Polish pop singer and violinist
• 25 – Saucy Sylvia, Canadian-born American comedy music singer and pianist
• 27
• * Gregg Allman, American rock singer, songwriter and keyboardist
• * Guillermo Sanchez, Argentinian heavy metal bassist
• 29 – Arleen Lanzotti, American pop singer
• 31 – Bern Nix, American jazz guitarist

  June

• 2 – Aamir Zaki, Pakistani psychedelic rock guitarist
• 6
• * Sandra Reemer, Dutch pop singer
• * Vin Garbutt, British folk singer and songwriter
• 8 – Norro Wilson, American country music singer, songwriter and record producer
• 11 – Rosalie Sorrels, American folk singer and songwriter
• 12 – Geri Allen, American jazz pianist
• 16 – Eliza Clívia, Brazilian forro singer
• 17 – Thara Memory, American jazz trumpeter
• 18 – Chris Murrell, American gospel and jazz singer
• 20
• * Prodigy, American rapper
• * Bo Wagner, American marimba player
• 21 – Belton Richard, American Cajun accordionist
• 22 – Jimmy Nalls, American blues rock guitarist
• 25 – Dave Evans, American bluegrass singer and banjoist
• 28
• * Gary DeCarlo, American pop singer and songwriter
• * Nic Ritter, American thrash metal drummer
• * Dave Rosser, American alternative rock guitarist

  July

• 3 – Rudy Rotta, Italian blues rock guitarist
• 4 – John Blackwell, Jr., American funk and R&B drummer
• 5 – Pierre Henry, French musique concrète composer
• 6
• * Mick Bund, British post-punk bassist
• * Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, American soul keyboardist
• 9 – Erik Cartwright, American blues rock guitarist
• 12
• * Marc 'Blaash' Michaelson, American black metal drummer
• * Tamara Miansarova, Russian pop singer
• * Ray Phiri, South African jazz fusion singer and guitarist
• 13
• * Simon Holmes, Australian jangle pop guitarist
• * Egil Kapstad, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
• * Chris Wong Won, American rapper
• 14
• * Mahi Beamer, American-Native Hawaiian folk singer and pianist
• * David Zablidowsky, American hard rock bassist
• 16 – Wilfried, Austrian pop singer
• 17 – Peter Principle, American post-punk bassist
• 19
• * Barbara Weldens, French pop singer and songwriter
• * Graham Wood, Australian jazz pianist
• 20
• * Chester Bennington, American hard rock singer and songwriter
• * Andrea Jürgens, German schlager singer
• 21
• * Errol Dyers, South African jazz guitarist
• * Geoff Mack, Australian country singer and songwriter
• * Kenny Shields, Canadian hard rock singer
• * Paapa Yankson, Ghanaian highlife singer
• 22
• * Polo Hofer, Swiss pop singer
• * Bobby Taylor, American soul singer
• 25
• * Michael Johnson, American country singer and songwriter
• * Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Indigenous Australian folk singer and guitarist
• 27 – Billy Joe Walker Jr., American country music record producer
• 28 – D.L. Menard, American Cajun music singer
• 31 – Chuck Loeb, American jazz guitarist

  August

• 1 – Goldy McJohn, Canadian hard rock keyboardist
• 2 – Daniel Licht, American film and television composer
• 4 – Luiz Melodia, Brazilian MPB singer
• 8 – Glen Campbell, American country music singer and songwriter
• 11 – Segun Bucknor, Nigerian soul and funk keyboardist and guitarist
• 19 – Bea Wain, American big band singer
• 20 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and pop singer
• 21 – Sonny Burgess, American rockabilly singer
• 22 – John Abercrombie, American jazz fusion guitarist
• 24
• * Pete Kuykendall, American bluegrass banjoist
• * Larry Marshall, Jamaican reggae singer
• 26 – Wilson das Neves, Brazilian bossa nova singer and percussionist
• 28 – Melissa Bell, British R&B and soul singer
• 29 – Larry Elgart, American jazz bandleader and alto saxophonist
• 30 – Skip Prokop, Canadian rock and jazz fusion drummer

  September

• 1 – Mick Softley, British folk singer and songwriter
• 2 – Dave Hlubek, American rock guitarist and songwriter
• 3 – Walter Becker, American jazz rock guitarist, bassist and songwriter
• 4 – Earl Lindo, Jamaican reggae keyboardist
• 5 – Rick Stevens, American R&B singer
• 6 – Holger Czukay, German experimental rock bassist
• 8
• * Troy Gentry, American country singer
• * Don Williams, American country singer
• 11 – Virgil Howe, British alternative rock drummer
• 12
• * Riem de Wolff, Dutch-Indonesian rock and roll singer
• * Josh Schwartz, American alternative country guitarist
• * Jessi Zazu, American garage rock singer and songwriter
• 13 – Grant Hart, American alternative rock singer, songwriter and drummer
• 17 – Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian rock and jazz percussionist
• 18 – Mark Selby, American blues rock singer and guitarist
• 21 – Cees Bergman, Dutch glam rock singer
• 22
• * Ammon Tharp, American soul singer and drummer
• * Eric Eycke, American heavy metal singer
• 23 – Charles Bradley, American soul singer
• 27
• * CeDell Davis, American blues guitarist
• * Joy Fleming, German pop singer
• * Hiromi Hayakawa, Japanese-born Mexican pop singer
• 30 – Tom Paley, American folk guitarist and banjoist

  October

• 2 – Tom Petty, American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 4 – Janis Hansen, American pop and bossa nova singer
• 5
• * Alvin DeGuzman, American post-hardcore guitarist
• * Rodrigo BVevino, British heavy metal singer
• 6 – Bunny Sigler, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
• 7 – Jimmy Beaumont, American doo-wop singer
• 8 – Grady Tate, American jazz drummer and singer
• 16
• * Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi, Congolese afro-pop lkembist
• * Iain Shedden, Australian punk rock drummer
• 17
• * Gord Downie, Canadian rock singer and songwriter
• 18 – Eamonn Campbell, Irish folk singer and guitarist
• 21 – Martin Eric Ain, American-Swiss heavy metal bassist
• 22
• * Al Hurricane, American folk singer and songwriter
• * Scott Putesky, American heavy metal guitarist
• * George Young, British-born Australian rock guitarist and songwriter
• 24
• * Fats Domino, American rock and roll singer and pianist
• * Larry Ray, American power pop guitarist
• 27
• * Mike Hudson, American punk rock singer
• * Dick Noel, American big band singer
• 28 – Bruce Black, American power metal drummer
• 29
• * Muhal Richard Abrams, American free jazz pianist
• * Billy Mize, American country singer and steel guitarist
• * Keith Wilder, American funk singer

  November

• 1
• * Katie Lee, American folk singer
• * Scott Wily, American death metal singer
• 2 – María Martha Serra Lima, Argentinean bolero singer
• 3 – Gaetano Bardini, Italian opera singer
• 5
• * Danny Anaya, American heavy metal drummer
• * Robert Knight, American soul singer
• * Louis Roney, American opera tenor
• 7
• * Paul Buckmaster, British rock and orchestral arranger and conductor
• * Robert De Cormier, American folk arranger
• * Pentti Glan, Finnish rock drummer
• 9 – Fred Cole, American garage rock singer and guitarist
• 10 – Chuck Mosley, American alternative rock singer
• 11 – Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish flamenco singer
• 12 – Chad Hanks, American metal bassist
• 15
• * Bonnie Flower, American sunshine pop singer
• * Lil Peep, American rapper
• 16 – Michael "Dik Mik" Davies, British space rock keyboardist
• 17 – Rikard Wolff, Finnish pop singer and actor
• 18
• * Ben Riley, American jazz drummer
• * Malcolm Young, Australian hard rock guitarist
• 19
• * Ronnie Butler, Bahamanian calypso singer
• * Warren "Pete" Moore, American R&B singer
• * Della Reese, American gospel singer
• * Mel Tillis, American country singer
• 20 – Laila Sari, Indonesian children's music singer
• 21
• * David Cassidy, American pop singer and actor
• * Wayne Cochran, American soul singer and songwriter
• 22 – Tommy Keene, American power pop singer and songwriter
• 23
• * John Coates Jr., American jazz pianist
• * Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
• * Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
• 24
• * Mitch Margo, American doo-wop singer and songwriter
• * Clotilde Rosa, Portuguese classical harpist
• * Bari Siddiqui, Bangladeshi folk singer and flautist
• 26 – Patrick Bourgeois, Canadian rock singer and guitarist
• 27 – Robert Popwell, American rock and jazz bassist
• 28 – Shadia, Egyptian pop singer
• 29 – Robert Walker, American blues guitarist
• 30
• * Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
• * Zé Pedro, Portuguese new wave guitarist

  December

• 2
• * Norihiko Hashida, Japanese folk singer and songwriter
• * Mundell Lowe, American jazz guitarist
• 6 – Johnny Hallyday, French rock singer
• 7 – Sunny Murray, American free jazz drummer
• 8 – Gloria Ann Taylor, American soul singer
• 12
• * Pat DiNizio, American power pop singer and guitarist
• * Willie Pickens, American jazz pianist
• 13
• *Dave Christenson, American new wave singer
• * Warrel Dane, American heavy metal singer
• * Rory O'Donoghue, Australian rock and pop guitarist
• 16
• * Ralph Carney, American rock and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
• * Richard Dobson, American country singer and songwriter
• * Michael Prophet, Jamaican reggae singer
• * Keely Smith, American jazz singer
• 17 – Kevin Mahogany, American jazz singer
• 18 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean K-pop singer and songwriter
• 19
• * Jim Forrester, American hard rock bassist
• * Leo Welch, American gospel blues singer and guitarist
• 21
• * Roswell Rudd, American free jazz trombonist
• * Marilyn Tyler, American opera singer
• 22 – Pam the Funkstress, American hip hop DJ
• 28
• * Rose Marie, American actress, singer and comedienne
• * Curly Seckler, American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist
• 31 – Maurice Peress, American conductor and music educator