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Chuck Schuldiner. Greatest death metal vocalist to ever live.
Eyedea
SOPHIE. Hyperpop hasnโt been the same since her passing.
Biggie Smalls
Peter Steele
Stan Rogers. Would pretty much double the number of available sea shanties
Nightbirde
Max Bennett. He's not famous famous but he's well known enough in the jazz scene. He played with Frank Sinatra, Dizzie Gillespie, and recorded on countless studio sessions. I knew him personally and I think was his last student before he passed. Some people closer to him than me told me one of the last things he said was "I need to give jcabral9 his lesson" and it makes me tear up whenever I think about it. I was too young to understand most of his concepts--I wish I could know him as an adult and professional musician myself.
Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze
Chuck Schuldiner, frontman of death metal pioneers Death, dude died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 34. I never had the chance to see them play live but their records are incredible.
Cliff Burton, Bass player of Metallica, died when the band's tour bus crashed and he was crushed underneath it. The band lost part of its soul and it took them a very long time to get over Cliffs death. Seeing videos of him playing live makes one understand what was lost, as he was an incredible musician.
On a more general note every artist that died very young, many made a big impact to their genre or even to a wider audience without it ever knowing.
Justin Townes Earle.
Colter Wall, not that he's dead yet but im gonna save it if he dies before me.
Piotr Grudziลski of Riverside. It's clear to me their discography went completely different way than it could have after he died being only 41.
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Sure, there are plenty of musicians who had a bigger impact on music as a whole, but NOBODY I've ever seen was more in tune with the universe than Stevie when he was playing.
As far as I can tell, he didn't actually play the guitar. He just acted as a conduit to channel music directly from the universe through a guitar. I don't think he ever once had to pause and consider what to play next when he was improvising, it just flowed out of him non-stop.
He had already started getting even better, having finally gotten sober, and it kills my soul every time I think about what else he could've given us had he not gotten on that helicopter.
Way underrated here. SRV had a great deal of music left in him and few could match his talent. While a number of people suggested on here released great stuff, many did not have as much left in them.
Bob Marley.
JS Bach.
The only two I would consider otherwise are both alive (Lindsey Stirling and Amy Lee). They even have a collaborative piece ๐
Ricardo Iorio
I'd bring back Sonny. Cher needs her Sonny again.
JW
Tim Maia.
Hendrix
Kirk Cubain.
I'd give him two bullet before introducing him to Justin Bieber.