2025 was a yr the place we misplaced many treasured musicians. Some legendary older artists whose time had sadly come, and a few shocking youthful names whose loss got here as a sudden shock. On AllMusic, we have tried to characteristic small tributes in recognition of those occasions, and now we glance again at a choice of those that left their mark on music’s historical past and will definitely be missed.
January 21, 2025
Garth Hudson
American Trad Rock, Album Rock, Americana, Nation-Rock
A mercurial Canadian multi-instrumentalist whose immersion in an array of musical kinds, together with classical, ragtime, and jazz, coloured The Band.
June 9, 2025
Sly Stone
Funk, Psychedelic Soul, Soul, AM Pop
credit score: Herb Greene
Sylvester Stewart was a funk trailblazer who upended rock and soul within the ’60s and ’70s as chief of Sly & the Household Stone.
June 11, 2025
Brian Wilson
AM Pop, Early Pop/Rock, Surf, Modern Pop/Rock, Sunshine Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Rock & Roll, Psychedelic/Storage, Album Rock
The chief of the Seashore Boys who mixed a flawless melodic sensibility with a restlessly experimental vibe and perfected creating the “teenage symphony to God.”
July 16, 2025
Connie Francis
Brill Constructing Pop, Vocal Pop, Early Pop/Rock
A singer of tearful ballads and jaunty uptempo numbers, Connie Francis reigned as some of the profitable pop artists of the late ’50s and early ’60s, beloved for hits akin to “Fairly Little Child” and “Who’s Sorry Now.”
July 22, 2025
Ozzy Osborne
Album Rock, British Metallic, Exhausting Rock, Heavy Metallic, Neo-Classical Metallic, Pop-Metallic
credit score: Ross Haflin
A pioneering and instinctive steel showman who gained fame in Black Sabbath and as a solo act along with his dramatic aptitude and a knack for creating controversy, Ozzy Osbourne was an irreplaceable architect of the heavy steel sound.
July 22, 2025
Chuck Mangione
Bop, Modern Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Instrumental Pop, Neo-Bop, Easy Jazz
credit score: Hans Neleman
A gifted and revered jazz trumpeter who achieved in style success with melodic pop that was upbeat, optimistic, and uplifting highlighted by the 1978 hit single “Feels So Good.”
July 31, 2025
Flaco Jiménez
Norteno, Ranchera, Tejano, Tex-Mex, Bolero, Conjunto, Mexican Traditions, North American Traditions, Different Latin, Zydeco
The foremost exponent of Tex-Mex music, Jiménez launched the standard conjunto sound to mainstream pop and nation listeners because of his collaborations with the Texas Tornados, Dwight Yoakam, and the Mavericks.
October 14, 2025
D’Angelo
Different R&B, Neo-Soul, Modern R&B, Grownup Modern R&B
Credit score: Per Gustaffson
Neo-soul legend whose scattered releases, together with the Grammy-winning Voodoo and Black Messiah, upheld and superior conventional R&B.
October 16, 2025
Ace Frehley
Album Rock, Exhausting Rock, Heavy Metallic
Credit score: Dove Shore
A founding member of Kiss, Frehley turned some of the admired lead guitarists in rock historical past, each within the facepaint and as a solo act.
October 26, 2025
Jack DeJohnette
Free Funk, Fusion, Put up-Bop, Fashionable Artistic, Fashionable Jazz, Straight-Forward Jazz
A premier percussionist usually thought of one of many best drummers in fashionable jazz, DeJohnette recorded legendary periods with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield and dozens of others.
November 14, 2025
Todd Snider
Roots Rock, Different Singer/Songwriter, Alt-Nation, Americana, Modern People
A wry and beloved nation singer/songwriter with a pointy pen and well-honed humorousness, Snider was maybe the quintessential postmodern troubadour.
November 24, 2025
Jimmy Cliff
Reggae-Pop, Roots Reggae, Rocksteady, Modern Reggae, Soul
Credit score: Greg Watermann
The primary main affect within the international growth of reggae, with a success movie and album in 1972’s rollicking The More durable They Come.
December 3, 2025
Steve Cropper
Memphis Soul, Southern Soul, Soul, Funk, Roots Rock
Credit score: David Alan Kogut
Identified onscreen from his notable function in The Blues Brothers, “The Colonel” was the legendary home guitarist for Stax Data and, as a member of Booker T. & the MG’s, backed artists akin to Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave amongst many others.
Clearly, this isn’t the whole record, however please tell us which artists from this yr you will miss most of all.
