Soul, Reggae, Funk Artists That Died in Their Prime...

stevie ray vaughn

well, if you're going back:

Bessie Smith
King Oliver
Bennie Moten (maybe drifting off into early Jazz territory here...)

sorry to rain on the parade, but curtis mayfield only died a couple of years back 99 and he'd been paralysed from the neck down from a lighting rig? falling on him in 1990 so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't count as his prime.
don't get me wrong I love curtis, if there's a hell below, we're all gonna go, should be the anthem for nihilists everywhere, but if we're being true to the title of the thread, then curtis don't belong there.

+1
he had his best years

can we count amy winoHouse??

cornelius blackfoot sorry to rain on the parade, but curtis mayfield only died a couple of years back 99 and he'd been paralysed from the neck down from a lighting rig? falling on him in 1990 so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't count as his prime.
don't get me wrong I love curtis, if there's a hell below, we're all gonna go, should be the anthem for nihilists everywhere, but if we're being true to the title of the thread, then curtis don't belong there.

That's me told then! ;-)

lol

;-P

Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochrane had soul as far as I'm concerned, both cut down in their prime.

yep, going to have to take sam cook off as well really.

Elvis Janis might go on the list. Not a judgment, more of a question of whether I have anything by her...

OIC. You doing a sorta soulful 27years old club DJ set?

What about that nu RnB star who dided in a plane crash, umm was it Aaliyah?

Skullhead [quote]Elvis Janis might go on the list. Not a judgment, more of a question of whether I have anything by her...

OIC. You doing a sorta soulful 27years old club DJ set?

What about that nu RnB star who dided in a plane crash, umm was it Aaliyah?[/quote]

Yep. And what about Lisa Lefteye. Although TLC were shit

if you're gonna go all rnb, then you might as well go hip hop and include tupac and biggie,
plenty of hip hop boys cut down early...

What about Roy Buchanan, just past his best when he went but hanging youself in a police cell counts surely.

cornelius blackfoot if you're gonna go all rnb, then you might as well go hip hop and include tupac and biggie,
plenty of hip hop boys cut down early...

J Dilla RIP
DJ Armando(ok, Chicago House/Techno)

Skullhead OIC. You doing a sorta soulful 27years old club DJ set?

What about that nu RnB star who dided in a plane crash, umm was it Aaliyah?

kind off, its for a radio show I do down in Brighton. Its actually as the anniversary of Biggi'es death in this week. So we're only playing tunes from people that died in their prime. My mate has the hip hop side covered biggie, tupac, big l etc. I'm doing the reggae, soul, funk, blues, afrobeat and jazz.

Baby Huey got a play from me at Rollapaluza. I think. Too much Stella.

Gil Scott Heron is alive and touring this year! He just had a pretty long spell of not being quite there (crack, heroin, incarceration).

(Sorry that doesn't help much).

teddy predergrass
grover washington junior

phyllis hyman

sorry teddy pendergrass aint dead but barry white is

Bradley Nowell of Sublime- reggae if you squint...

The Godfather of soul
The Brand new minister of super heavy funk
"hardest working man in show business"

James "Please Please Please" Brown
He was always in his prime !!

Hmmm, when I saw him a few years ago at the Essential Festival he definitely wasn't in any 'prime' :-/

but fair do's, he is a f'ckin legend, make no mistake.

John Coltrane

oh soul reggae or funk...

now, jazz i cool. thanks all. radioreverb.com 6-8pm tonight if anyone is interested in listening. show is called beltdriven. though if my rain soaked mood is anything to go by it wouldn't be a classic!