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January 10Kevin Fret, 25, Puerto Rican musician, shot. •
January 13Rafael Viera, 90, Salsa promoter and record store owner •
January 16Rita Vidaurri, 94, American singer. •
January 21, 56, Argentinian musician, singer, and music producer •
January 25, 76, Argentine musician and composer •
January 28Yoskar Sarante, 48, Dominican Republic bachata singer (complications from lung disease) •
January 31Jorge Casas, 69, Cuban American bassist for the
Miami Sound Machine •
February 7Legarda, 29, Colombian reggaeton musician (shot) •
February 10Juanjo Domínguez, 67, Argentine musician •
February 13Bibi Ferreira, 96, Brazilian actress (
Leonora of the Seven Seas,
The End of the River) and singer. •
February 21Sequeira Costa, 89, Portuguese pianist, cancer. •
February 24Marcos Antonio Urbay, 90, Cuban musician •
February 26, 71, Brazilian musician, composer and record producer (oral cancer) •
March 4Anthony Ríos, 68, Dominican actor and singer-songwriter, heart attack. •
March 11, 76, Brazilian singer •
April 1, Mexican bassist for
Botellita de Jerez •
April 4 •
Alberto Cortez, 79, Argentine singer and songwriter (gastric haemorrhage) • Joe Quijano, 83, Puerto Rican salsa musician •
April 5Pastor López, 74, Venezuelan singer-songwriter •
April 19Julio Melgar, Guatemalan Christian singer, cancer •
April 22Dave Samuels, 70, American percussionist (
Spyro Gyra). •
April 30Beth Carvalho, 72, Brazilian samba singer •
May 2Juan Vicente Torrealba, 102, Venezuelan harpist and composer. •
May 4Eva de la O, Puerto Rican soprano •
May 27Gabriel Diniz, 28, Brazilian singer and composer, plane crash. •
June 7Serguei, 85, Brazilian singer •
June 8Andre Matos, 47, Brazilian singer (heart attack) •
June 13, 86, Brazilian record executive •
June 22, 61, Brazilian drummer (
RPM), pulmonary fibrosis. •
June 27Gualberto Castro, 84, Mexican singer (
Los Hermanos Castro) and television personality (
La Carabina de Ambrosio), complications from bladder cancer. •
July 6João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of
bossa nova music style. •
July 23Pablo Dueñas, 60, Mexican radio executive and musicologist •
August 19Paco Navaroo, 82, Puerto Rican salsa radio DJ •
August 21Celso Piña, 66, Mexican
cumbia singer, composer and accordionist, heart attack. •
September 4, 89, Brazilian
MPB and samba singer, pneumonia. •
September 8Camilo Sesto, 72, Spanish singer-songwriter ("
Algo Más", "
Amor Mío, ¿Qué Me Has Hecho?"), heart failure. •
September 14Alicia Maguiña, 81, Peruvian singer and composer. •
September 15Roberto Leal, 67, Portuguese-Brazilian singer, skin cancer. •
September 19María Rivas, 59, Venezuelan
Latin jazz singer, composer and painter, cancer. •
September 28José José, 71, Mexican singer ("
El Triste", "
Como Tú") and actor (
Gavilán o Paloma), pancreatic cancer. •
October 15Cacho Castaña, 77, Argentine singer and actor (
Los Hijos de López,
Merry Christmas), lung disease. •
October 17Ray Santos, 90, American saxophonist and composer. •
October 24Walter Franco, 74, Brazilian singer and composer •
November 19José Mário Branco, 77, Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. •
November 22Gugu Liberato, 60, Brazilian singer and television presenter (injuries from fall) •
November 23, Colombian composer and musical theatre director •
November 28 Brazilian singer and composer •
December 19Patxi Andión, 72, Spanish singer-songwriter, musician and actor (
The Compass Rose), traffic collision. •
December 22Ubirajara Penacho dos Reis, 85, Brazilian musician (
Programa do Jô), stroke. •
December 28Amy Patterson, 107, Argentine composer, singer and poet. •
December 29, 51, Brazilian singer ==Notes==