Editing 1994 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*[[January 4]] – [[R. D. Burman]], music director, 54<ref>{{cite book|title=Manorama Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuptAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Manorama Publishing House|page=92|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010019/https://books.google.com/books?id=KuptAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[January 6]] – [[Harold Sumberg]], violinist, 88
*[[January 15]]
** [[Harry Nilsson]], singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book|author=Talevski, Nick|page=464,465 |year=2006|title=Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=1846090911}}</ref>
** [[Georges Cziffra]], pianist, 72<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Gillespie|author2=Anna Gillespie|title=Notable Twentieth-century Pianists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rB8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-29695-6|page=194|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010007/https://books.google.com/books?id=rB8KAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[January 22]] – [[Rhett Forrester]], American singer-songwriter, 37 (shot)
*[[January 25]] – [[Mary Bertha Rawlinson|Bertha Rawlinson]], New Zealand opera singer, composer and music teacher, 83
*[[January 30]] – [[Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)|Rudolf Schwarz]], conductor, 88
*[[February 5]] – [[Tiana Lemnitz]], operatic soprano, 96
*[[February 7]] – [[Witold Lutosławski]], composer, 81
*[[February 8]] – [[Raymond Scott]], composer and bandleader, 85
*[[February 19]] – [[Micho Russell]], Irish tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79
*[[February 22]] – [[Papa John Creach]], blues violinist, 76<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/obituaries/papa-john-creach-a-violinist-versed-in-pop-dies-at-76.html "Papa John Creach, A Violinist Versed In Pop, Dies at 76"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016020013/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/obituaries/papa-john-creach-a-violinist-versed-in-pop-dies-at-76.html |date=October 16, 2017 }} ''[[New York Times]]'' (February 23, 1994)</ref>
*[[February 24]]
**[[Jean Sablon]], French singer, 87
**[[Dinah Shore]], singer, actress, 77<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJoHAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0254-0|page=160|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010008/https://books.google.com/books?id=yJoHAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Karel Kryl]], Czech folk singer, 49<ref>{{cite book|author=Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences|title=SVU Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiMoAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences|page=15|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010008/https://books.google.com/books?id=kiMoAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[Yvonne Fair]], African-American singer, 51
*[[March 13]] – [[Danny Barker]], jazz musician and composer, 85
*[[March 16]] – [[Nicolas Flagello]], composer, 66<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/obituaries/nicolas-flagello-66-american-composer.html|website=The New York Times|title=Nicolas Flagello, 66, American Composer|date=March 17, 1994|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404181851/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/obituaries/nicolas-flagello-66-american-composer.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – [[Ephraim Lewis]], soul and R&B singer, 26
*[[March 22]] – [[Dan Hartman]], singer, 42 (brain tumour)
*[[March 23]] – [[Donald Swann]], pianist, composer and entertainer ([[Flanders and Swann]]), 70
*[[April 5]]
**[[Rowland Greenberg]], Norwegian jazz trumpeter, 73
**[[Kurt Cobain]], singer & guitarist ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound)
*[[April 7]] – [[Lee Brilleaux]], British R&B singer ([[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]]), 41 (cancer)
*[[April 19]] – [[Larry Davis (blues musician)|Larry Davis]], blues singer and guitarist, 57
*[[May 23]] – [[Joe Pass]], jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer)
*[[May 25]] – [[Eric Gale]], jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer)
*[[May 26]] – [[Sonny Sharrock]], jazz guitarist, 53
*[[May 27]] – [[Red Rodney]], bop trumpeter, 66
*[[May 29]] – [[Oliver Jackson (musician)|Oliver Jackson]], jazz drummer, 61
*[[May 31]]
**[[Uzay Heparı]], Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor, 24 (motorcycle accident)
**[[Herva Nelli]], operatic soprano, 85
*[[June 4]]
**Derek Leckenby, guitarist ([[Herman's Hermits]]), 51
**[[Earle Warren]], saxophonist, 79
*[[June 11]] – [[Robert Beadell]], composer, 68
*[[June 14]] – [[Henry Mancini]], composer, 70
*[[June 15]] – [[Manos Hadjidakis]], composer, 68
*[[June 16]] – [[Kristen Pfaff]], bass guitarist ([[Hole (band)|Hole]]), 27 (heroin overdose)
*[[June 25]]
**[[Kin Vassy]], songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of [[The First Edition (band)|The First Edition]] 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
**[[DJ Train]], producer (smoke inhalation)
*[[June 29]] – [[Kurt Eichhorn]], conductor, 85
*[[July 2]] – [[Marion Williams]], gospel singer, 66
*[[July 31]] – [[Anne Shelton (singer)|Anne Shelton]], British singer, 70
*[[August 6]] – [[Domenico Modugno]], Italian singer and songwriter, 66
*[[September 2]] – [[Roy Castle]], musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
*[[September 3]] – [[Major Lance]], R&B singer, 55
*[[September 6]]
**[[Nicky Hopkins]], session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
**[[Max Kaminsky (musician)|Max Kaminsky]], jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85
*[[September 7]] – [[Eric Crozier]], librettist, 79
*[[September 13]] – [[John Stevens (drummer)|John Stevens]], jazz musician
*[[September 20]] – [[Jule Styne]], songwriter, 88
*[[September 24]] – [[Urmas Alender]], singer, 40 (drowned in [[MS Estonia]] sinking)
*[[September 29]] – [[Cheb Hasni]], Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
*[[October 4]] – [[Danny Gatton]], guitarist, 49
*[[October 19]] – [[Martha Raye]], singer and comedian, 88
*[[October 22]]
**[[Jimmy Miller]], record producer, 52
**[[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]], Jewish songwriter
*[[October 26]] – [[Wilbert Harrison]], R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65
*[[October 27]] – [[Robert White (guitarist)|Robert White]], Motown session guitarist, 57
*[[October 31]]
**[[Lester Sill]], record executive, 76
**[[Erling Stordahl]], Norwegian singer, 71
*[[November 4]] – [[Fred "Sonic" Smith]], MC5 guitarist, 46 (heart attack)
*[[November 7]] – [[Shorty Rogers]], jazz trumpeter, 70
*[[November 11]] – [[Elizabeth Maconchy]], composer, 87
*[[November 18]] – [[Cab Calloway]], jazz and scat singer, 86
*[[November 21]] – [[Juancho Rois]], Colombian [[vallenato]] musician, accordionist, and composer, 35 (plane crash)
*[[November 28]] – [[Vic Legley]], Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
*[[December 8]] – [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], bossa nova composer and songwriter, 67
*[[December 10]] – [[Garnett Silk]], reggae singer, 28 (house fire)
*[[December 23]] - [[Dan Hamilton (musician)|Dan Hamilton]], singer ([[Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds]]), 48