Musician Tribute

Mike Taylor (1967-2018) Mike "Beard Guy" Taylor was the keyboardist and singer for the Canadian band Walk Off the Earth. Achievements: piano, organ, keyboards, trumpet, kazoo, accordion, melodica, didgeridoo, glockenspiel, percussion, vocals, (2010–2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_the_Earth#Awards_and_nominations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_the_Earth#Discography They are known for their music videos of covers and originals. The band are well known for their covers of pop genre music on YouTube, making use of instruments such as the ukulele and the theremin, as well as looping samples.

Cadet (1990-2019) Blaine Cameron Johnson, known professionally as Cadet, was a British rapper, songwriter and record producer. Achievements: The younger cousin of Krept, Johnson began pursuing a solo career as a rapper in 2011, releasing a number of freestyles through YouTube outlets such as OSM Vision and Link Up TV. His debut project, The Commitment, was released in 2016, followed by The Commitment 2 the following year. He is perhaps best known for his single "Advice" featuring Deno, which peaked at number 14 on the UK Top 40. Extended plays The Commitment (2016) The Commitment 2 (2017) Singles "Closure" (2018) "Advice" (with Deno) (2018) – UK No. 14 "Pumpy" (with Da Beatfreakz, AJ & Deno, Swarmz) (2018) – UK No. 70 "Trendy" (featuring Ay Em and Tion Wayne) (2018) "Gang Gang" (2019) – UK No. 82 Tributes "First Days" by Deno (20...

Scott Walker (1943-2019) Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel, was an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. Walker was known for his distinctive baritone voice and an unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s teen pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first three solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK from 1965 and became a UK citizen in 1970. Rising to fame in the mid-1960s as frontman of the pop music trio the Walker Brothers, he began a solo career with 1967's Scott, moving toward an increasingly challenging style on late-1960s baroque pop albums such as Scott 3 and Scott 4 (both 1969). After his solo work did not sell well, he reunited with the Walker Brothers in the mid-1970s. From the mid-1980s onward, Walker revived his solo career while moving in an increasingly avant-garde direction; of this period in his career, The Guardian said ...

Ranking Roger (1963-2019) Roger Charlery, known professionally as Ranking Roger, was a British musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later General Public. Later, he headed up a reformed Beat lineup. The "Ranking" moniker is short for "top-ranking" or "high-ranking", and is a boast typical of many MCs. Achievements: Discography: Radical Departure (1988) Inside My Head (2001) The Beat (6) Feat. Ranking Roger - Bounce (2016) The Beat (6) Feat. Ranking Roger - Public Confidential (2019) In the early 1990s, Roger joined members of the Specials to form the new band Special Beat which released two live albums. In 1996, he sang back-up and toasting on the new version of "The Bed's Too Big Without You" on Sting's "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" CD-Maxi single. The rock band Smash Mouth featured Roger on ...

Justin Carter (1984-2019) Up and coming country singer from. Carter had two young daughters, Dixie and Kaylee. Texas born and Texas-raised country boy to his core. His passion and drive stem from being influenced by some of the greats since he was just a child. He grew up listening to Waylon, Hank, George and Jones. Some of his favorites are Clay Walker, Garth Brooks and George Strait. Justin’s passion is derived from the sound of old country, and he clings to that feeling he gets when he hears it and tries to push that into his music. Times are changing and so are the generations taste in music, but Justin tries to keep a happy medium between both old and new to satisfy everyone. Accomplishments: Was about to embark on a 10-state tour after recently closing deal with Triple Threat Management. He was considered the next Garth Brooks. Carter released "Love Affair," featuring Nu Breed.

Doris Day (1922-2019) Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Day's film career began during the latter part of the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them ...

Eddie Money (1949-2019) Edward Joseph Mahoney was born into a large family of Irish Catholics in Brooklyn. His parents were Dorothy Elizabeth (née Keller), a homemaker, and Daniel Patrick Mahoney, a police officer. He grew up in Levittown, New York, on Long Island, but also spent some teenage years in Woodhaven, Queens. Money was a street singer since the age of 11. As a teenager, he played in rock bands, in part to get dates from cheerleaders. He was thrown out of one high school for forging a report card. In 1967, he graduated from Island Trees High School. At the age of 18, he tried to follow in the footsteps of his police officer grandfather, father, and brother as a New York City Police Department trainee. However, after working as a clerk and typist, he left in 1968 to pursue a career in music, as the police did not allow him to grow his hair long. “I couldn’t see myself in a police uniform for 20 years of my life, with short hair,” he later said. His ban...

Dave Riley (1960-2019) David Michael Riley was an American musician. Dave Riley was originally from Detroit.  Achievements:  Riley worked as an assistant audio engineer for George Clinton's stable of Parliament-Funkadelic bands. He is credited on albums Trombipulation and The Electric Spanking of War Babies. He also occasionally served as a session musician for his friends. In the early 1980s he relocated to Chicago where he played various musical instruments in several bands including Savage Beliefs. He joined Big Black playing bass guitar in 1984. The following year, he produced and played saxophone on the Ward EP by End Result. In 1990, he played bass, piano, and percussion on the Algebra Suicide album Alpha Cue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black#Discography

Choi Jin-ri (1994-2019) Choi Jin-ri , better known by her stage name Sulli (/ ˈ s ʌ li/), was a South Korean actress, singer, and model. Sulli first made her debut as a child actress, appearing as a supporting cast member on the SBS historical drama Ballad of Seodong (2005). Following this, she earned a number of guest roles, appearing in the television series Love Needs a Miracle (2005) and Drama City (2007), and the film Vacation (2006). She then subsequently appeared in the independent films Punch Lady (2007) and BA:BO (2008), the former being her first time cast in a substantial dramatic role. Achievements: After signing a record deal with SM Entertainment, Sulli rose to prominence as a member of the girl group f(x) formed in 2009. The group achieved both critical and commercial success, with four Korean number-one singles and international recognition after becoming the first K-pop act to perform at SXSW. Concurrently with her music career, Sulli re...

Marie Fredriksson (1958-2019) Gun-Marie Fredriksson was a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, pianist and painter. She is best known as the lead vocalist and forming the pop rock, soft rock, and duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle. The duo achieved international success in the late-1980s and early-1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)". Fredriksson had a successful career in her native country prior to forming Roxette. She was a member of punk group Strul, a band which created their own music festival in 1979. Strul's dissolution led to the creation of her next project, the short-lived MaMas Barn, after which she began releasing solo work. Her first album, Het vind, was issued in 1984, follo...

Juice WRLD (1998-2019) Jarad Anthony Higgins, known professionally as Juice WRLD (/ ˈ d ʒ us ˈ w ɜː rld/), was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was known for his singles "All Girls Are the Same" and "Lucid Dreams" which helped him gain a recording contract with Lil Bibby's Grade A Productions and Interscope Records. Achievements: "All Girls Are the Same" and "Lucid Dreams" acted as singles for Juice Wrld's debut studio album Goodbye & Good Riddance (2018) which became certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album enjoyed positive critical reception, and contained three other singles: "Armed and Dangerous", "Lean wit Me" and "Wasted", all of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100. After collaborating with Future on the mixtape Wrld on Drugs (2018), Juice Wrld released his second album Death Race fo...

Ed Ackerson (1964-2019) He was prolific and iconoclastic rocker whose Flowers Studio was a go-to hub for generations of Minnesota artists. Achievements: A Stillwater native, Ackerson was a fixture on the Minnesota music scene for decades: he played in several bands as well as releasing solo recordings, and ran the Susstones label. He built Flowers Studio as an intentionally airy space in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood. Since opening in 1998, the studio has hosted innumerable sessions by artists ranging from legends like the Replacements, Brian Setzer, and Golden Smog to younger artists including Lizzo, the Shackletons, and the Happy Children. Starting with a stint in Mr. Slate in the early 1980s and a series of 7-inches by the Dig in 1985, the bands Ackerson himself played with include the 27 Various, Polara, Sideways, the Mood Swings, and BNLX; he also performed and released music as a solo artist. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he could play ma...

Truett Foster Mckeehan (1998-2019) McKeehan was the oldest child of TobyMac and Amanda McKeehan, going by the name Truett Foster. McKeehan was an aspiring rapper with several pseudonyms including Truett Foster, TRU, truDog and Shiloh. Achievements: He was both an independent rapper, as well as a part of the group HySociety. Charity: Truett Foster Foundation