Issue Articles — Obituaries
Obituary: Timothea Beckerman
Timothea Beckerman, 55, known professionally as Timothea, the “Siren of Soul”—and to her friends as “Timi”—passed away on Thursday evening November 14, 2006 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York […]
Obituary: Freddy Fender (1937-2006)
Freddy Fender, the Grammy-winning vocalist and guitarist whose star rose on hits such as “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and the self-penned “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights,” died Saturday, October […]
Obituary: Jessie Mae Hemphill
(1934-2006) Singer and blues woman Jessie Mae Hemphill passed away Saturday, July 22. The world had not heard her guitar playing since she’d had a stroke in 1993, but she […]
Obituary: Barbara George
(1943-2006) New Orleans singer Barbara George passed away Thursday morning August 10 in Houma, Louisiana after a long illness of complications from hepatitis C. She was 63 years old. George […]
Obituary: Joe Jones
(1926-2005) Joe Jones, musician, producer, publisher, and black musicians’ rights advocate, has died at age 79 in Los Angeles, following bypass surgery and a long battle with prostate and colon […]
Obituary: Chris Whitley (1960-2005)
Chris Whitley always played as if his life depended on it. Sometimes, as in his 2004 manifesto War Crime Blues, the emotion was so raw you could practically taste the […]
