Editing 2000 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Nat Adderley]] (68), jazz cornet and trumpet player<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/04/arts/nat-adderley-jazz-cornetist-is-dead-at-68.html|title=Nat Adderley, Jazz Cornetist, Is Dead at 68|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Ben|last=Ratliff|author-link=Ben Ratliff|date=January 4, 2000|access-date=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
*[[January 16]] – [[Gene Harris]] (67), jazz pianist
*[[January 19]]
**[[Irra Petina]] (91), operatic contralto
**[[Josh Clayton-Felt]] (32), singer-songwriter (choriocarcinoma)
*[[January 22]] – [[Carlo Cossutta]] (67), operatic tenor
*[[February 3]] – [[Alla Rakha]] (80), tabla player
*[[February 4]] – [[Doris Coley]] (58), vocalist ([[the Shirelles]])
*[[February 7]]
**[[Big Pun]]isher (28), rapper (heart attack)
**[[Dave Peverett]] (56) ([[Foghat]])
*[[February 11]] – [[Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)|Lord Kitchener]] (77), calypsonian
*[[February 12]]
**[[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]] (70), U.S. vocal artist<ref>{{cite book|author=Ashyia N. Henderson|title=Contemporary Black Biography|publisher=Gale Group|date=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryblac00hend/page/83 83]|isbn=9780787646189|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryblac00hend/page/83}}</ref>
**[[Andy Lewis (bassist)|Andy Lewis]] (33), Australian bass player ([[The Whitlams]]) (b. 1967)
**[[Oliver (singer)|Oliver]] (54), U.S. singer (b. 1945)
*[[February 19]] – [[Marin Goleminov]] (91), violinist and composer
*[[February 23]] – [[Ofra Haza]] (42), singer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/24/arts/ofra-haza-41-israeli-pop-singer-who-crossed-cultural-bounds.html |title=Ofra Haza, 41, Israeli Pop Singer Who Crossed Cultural Bounds |last=Pareles |first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|date=24 February 2000 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=28 July 2011 |location=New York}}</ref>
*[[February 29]] – [[Dennis Danell]] (38), guitarist ([[Social Distortion]]) (brain aneurysm)
*[[March 4]] – [[Walter Dana]] (97), polka-music promoter
*[[March 5]] – [[Alexander Young (tenor)|Alexander Young]] (79), operatic tenor
*[[March 7]] – [[Pee Wee King]] (86), country musician and songwriter (heart attack)
*[[March 20]] – [[Gene Eugene|Gene "Eugene" Andrusco]] (38), actor and singer (brain aneurysm)
*[[March 27]] – [[Ian Dury]] (57), English rock musician (liver cancer)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/27/guardianobituaries.robindenselow |title=Obituary: Ian Dury |first=Robin |last=Denselow |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=27 March 2000 |access-date=19 May 2021}}</ref>
*[[April 25]] – [[Niels Viggo Bentzon]] (80), Danish composer
*[[April 27]] – [[Vicki Sue Robinson]] (45), US [[disco]] singer (cancer)
*[[May 2]] – [[Sundar Popo]] (56), [[Indo-Trinidadian]] [[Chutney music|chutney]] musician (heart and kidney ailment relating to [[diabetes]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Cesare Valletti]] (77), operatic tenor
*[[May 20]] – [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]] (78), flautist
*[[May 31]] – [[Johnnie Taylor]] (66), singer
*[[June 1]] – [[Tito Puente]] (77), Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa musician
*[[June 7]] – [[James Moore (singer)|James Moore]] (44), gospel singer
*[[June 14]] – [[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] (62), pianist
*[[June 21]] – [[Alan Hovhaness]] (89), American composer<ref>[[Arnold Rosner|Rosner, Arnold]], and Vance Wolverton (2001). "Hovhaness [Hovaness], Alan [Chakmakjian, Alan Hovhaness]". ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan.</ref>
*[[June 25]] – [[Wilson Simonal]] (62), Brazilian singer
*[[July 5]] – [[Lord Woodbine]] (Harold Adolphus Phillips) (71), calypsonian
*[[July 6]]
**<!--July 6-->[[Ľudovít Rajter]] (93), Slovak composer and conductor
**<!--July 6-->[[Władysław Szpilman|Władysław "Władek" Szpilman]] (88), Jewish-Polish pianist who survived the Holocaust
*[[July 11]] – [[Jaroslav Filip]] (51), Slovak musician, actor
*[[July 15]] – [[Paul Young (singer, born 1947)|Paul Young]] (53), English singer and percussionist of [[Sad Café (band)|Sad Café]] and [[Mike + The Mechanics]] (heart attack)
*[[July 24]] – [[Oscar Shumsky]] (83), violinist
*[[July 28]] – [[Jerome Smith (musician)|Jerome Smith]] ([[KC and the Sunshine Band]])
*[[August 2]] - [[Edward A. Baird]] (67), operatic bass and voice teacher
*[[August 10]] – [[Suzanne Danco]] (89), operatic soprano
*[[August 13]] – [[Nazia Hassan]] (34), iconic Pakistani singer (lung cancer)
*[[August 25]]
**[[Jack Nitzsche]] (63), arranger, producer, songwriter and composer
**[[Allen Woody]] (44), bass guitarist
*[[September 12]] – [[Stanley Turrentine]] (66), jazz saxophonist
*[[September 21]] – [[Bengt Hambraeus]] (72), composer for organ
*[[September 25]] – [[Tommy Reilly (harmonica player)|Tommy Reilly]] (81), harmonica virtuoso
*[[September 26]] – [[Carl Sigman]] (91), songwriter
*[[October 1]]
**[[Robert Allen (song composer)|Robert Allen]] (73), American pianist and composer (b. 1928)
**[[Cub Koda]] (51), singer, guitarist and songwriter ([[Brownsville Station (band)|Brownsville Station]])
*[[October 3]] – [[Benjamin Orr]] (53), bassist, vocalist of [[The Cars]]
*[[October 17]] – [[Joachim Nielsen]] (36), Norwegian rock singer in [[Jokke & Valentinerne]]
*[[October 18]] – [[Julie London]] (74), US singer and actress
*[[October 21]] – [[Frankie Crocker]], radio DJ
*[[October 27]] – [[Winston Grennan]] (56), Jamaican drummer
*[[October 28]] – [[Carlos Guastavino]] (78), composer
*[[October 30]] – [[Steve Allen]] (78), comedian, composer, talk show host, author
*[[November 8]]
**<!--November 8-->[[Brian Boydell]] (83), Irish composer
**<!--November 8-->[[Dick Morrissey]] (60), UK tenor saxophonist (cancer)
*[[November 12]] – [[Stanley Turrentine]] (64), US tenor saxophonist (stroke)
*[[November 16]]
**[[DJ Screw]] (29), hip-hop DJ (codeine overdose)
**[[Joe C.]] (26), rapper
*[[November 30]] – [[Scott Smith (musician)|Scott Smith]] (45), bassist ([[Loverboy]]) (lost at sea)
*[[December 17]] – [[Harold Rhodes (inventor)|Harold Rhodes]] (89), inventor of [[Rhodes piano]]
*[[December 18]] – [[Kirsty McColl]] (41), English singer songwriter (speedboat accident)
*[[December 19]]
**[[Rob Buck]] (42), guitarist ([[10,000 Maniacs]]) (liver disease)
**[[Milt Hinton]] (90), jazz double bassist
**[[Pops Staples]] (85), gospel and R & B musician
*[[December 24]] – [[Nick Massi]] (65), [[bass (voice)|bass]] singer in [[The Four Seasons (band)|The Four Seasons]]
*[[December 26]] - [[Magik (rapper)|Piotr Łuszcz]] (22), Polish [[rapper]] in [[Kaliber 44]] and [[Paktofonika]] (suicide)