- male, 81 years old
- Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
- male, 80 years old
- Galt MacDermot (born 18 December 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian pianist, composer and writer of musical theatre. He was educated at Upper...
- male
- Cheb-i-Sabbah, born Haim Sérge El Baaz, a Jew of Berber (Amazigh) descent in Constantine, Algeria. He moved to Paris in the 1960s, and, more or l...
- male, deceased (1997)
- Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,...
- male, deceased (2003)
- Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 - July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of...
- male, deceased (1912)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875-September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler."
- male
- Michael Blake is a South African contemporary classical music composer. The composer studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg...
- male
- Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African...
- male
- Marion Brown (born 8 September 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto-saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. Brown studied music education,...
- male, 55 years old
- Mohamed (born October 10 1954) is a Nubian-Egyptian singer who was born in Aswan, Egypt. His pop-oriented music has its roots in the various...
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