It’s at all times a giant loss when the world loses a gifted artist, and sadly, 2023 kicked off with a number of notable deaths in music. It started with Gangsta Boo, the pioneering Southern feminine rapper previously of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, who was discovered lifeless on New 12 months’s Day at age 43.
The subsequent day, Alan Rankine of post-punk New Wave act The Associates, who additionally produced the Cocteau Twins and pursued his personal solo music, died at age 64. Since then, we’ve additionally misplaced rock guitar legend Jeff Beck — who died at age 78 on Jan. 10 — and singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, who suffered cardiac arrest and died on Jan. 12 at age 54.
Whereas their family members and followers across the globe mourn the lack of these artists, they won’t be forgotten. Right here, Billboard remembers the musicians who left us in 2023.
