(The following is a list of artists and industry professionals the music community lost in 2015–2016. The 58th GRAMMY Awards telecast on CBS will feature an In Memoriam segment highlighting some of these individuals via a video tribute. The Recording Academy salutes each individual for their respective talents and contributions to our culture and community. We invite you to share your memories in our comments section below.)
(List through Feb. 8, 2016)
| Al Aarons | Emerson Able | Al Abrams |
| Roy Neill Acuff | Clifford Adams | Willie Akins |
| Nick Alexander | Van Alexander | Mihai Alexandru |
| Jo Alfidi | Karolyn Ali | Mitch Aliotta |
| Habil Aliyev | Daevid Allen | Susan Allen |
| Archie Alleyne | Jaime Almeida | Jorge Álvarez |
| Shone An | Alisa Anderson aka Alisa B | Gladstone Anderson |
| Edna Anderson-Owens | Lynn Anderson | Signe Toly Anderson |
| Sam Andrew | Julio Ángel | René Angélil |
| Otis "Killer" Ray Appleton | Cristiano Araújo | Bill Arhos |
| Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros | Chuck Atkins | Audrey Auld |
| Phil Austin | Slavko Avsenik | Thomas Ayad |
| Mark B | Paul Bacon | Alcy Benjamin "Shug" Baggott Jr. |
| Bobbie Bailey | Jake Bailey | Jim Bailey |
| Jimmy Bain | Dave Ball | Sherwood Ball |
| Robert Balser | Richard "Bass" Barish | Bobby Barker |
| Ortheia Barnes-Kennerly | Inezita Barroso | Leslie Bassett |
| Harold Battiste Jr. | Ray Batts | Robert E. Bays |
| Guy Béart | Bob Belden | Robert "Wolfman" Belfour |
| Marcus Belgrave | Roy C. Bennett | Gloria Bently |
| John Berg | Jim Berk | Sharon "La Hechicera" Bermeo |
| John Berry | Joy Beverley | Leon Bibb |
| Wayne Bickerton | Miriam Bienstock | Theodore Bikel |
| John Bilezikjian | Cilla Black | Dave Black |
| Hugo Blanco | Sergio Blanco | Paul Bley |
| Billy Block | Camille Bob aka Lil' Bob | Jack Body |
| Milan George Bogdan | Marcos Félix Bojórquez | Luc Bondy |
| Buddy Boudreaux | Pierre Boulez | David Bowie |
| Cephas Bowles | John "Brad" Bradbury | Gary Brain |
| Fernando Brant | Graham Brazier | Luc Brewaeys |
| Miriam Brickman | Ronnie Bright | Jerry Brightman |
| Robert "Robban" Broberg | Pauline Brockless | Nora Brockstedt |
| Peter Broggs | Arthur Brooks | Bobbi Kristina Brown |
| Errol Brown | Floyd David Brown | Jeremy Brown |
| Jim Ed Brown | Michael Brown | William Brown |
| Allan Browne | Audrey Bryant | Oleg Bryjak |
| Perry "Buddy" Buie | Jon Bunch | Al Bunetta |
| Michael Burgess | Bob Burns | Hoss Burns |
| George Burt | Mervyn Burtch | Elmer Bush |
| Billy Butler | Erol Büyükburç | Sydney Byrd |
| Juan Carlos Cáceres | Nicholas Caldwell | Ariel Camacho |
| Scott Cameron | Guy Carawan | Gladys "Havana" Carbo Flower |
| Hugh Carden | Brandon Carlisle | Michael Carlucci |
| Brian Carman | Chris Carney | Marvin Carr aka Capo |
| Pachy Carrasco | Ronnie Carroll | Wayne Carson |
| Bud Carter | Jack Carter | Keith Carter aka Big Kap |
| Jimmy Case | Nico Castel | Boomer Castleman |
| Ben Cauley | Asberry "John" Warden Chaffin | Don Chapel |
| Diane Charlemagne | Ray Charles | Samuel Charters |
| Shawn Tyler Chavez | Aldo Ciccolini | Noel "Peachy" Cintron |
| Gavin Clark | Otis Clay | Scott Clendenin |
| George Cleve | Dave Cloud | Howard Coble |
| Ray Colcord | Natalie Cole | Dewayne Coleman aka MC Supreme |
| Ornette Coleman | Augusta Lee Collins | Serge Collot |
| Vince Combs | Robert Commanday | Billy Constable |
| Alex Cooley | Jerome Cooper | Keith Copeland |
| Michael Cord | Jean Cornett | Stan Cornyn |
| Roel Cortez | Brian Couzens | Don Covay |
| Richard Cowan | Simon Cowe | Robert Craft |
| Hulon Crayton | Luigi Creatore | Nicholas R. Crisostomo |
| Richard Crooks | B.J. Crosby | Suzanne Crough |
| Bruce Crump | Joe Bill Culp | Alan Curtis |
| Eddie Cusic | Emiliano da Cruz | Toni Dae |
| Anita Darian | Billy Davis | Don Davis |
| Ross Dawson | Joseph de Pasquale | Aurélie de Peretti |
| Guillaume B. Decherf | Jacques Delécluse | Michel Delpech |
| Elsa Delplace | Milton Delugg | Michael Deputato |
| Scott DeWitt | Jim Diamond | Marujita Diaz |
| Robert Diaz aka Pumpkinhead | Charlie Dick | Aaron Dilks |
| Dottie Dillard | Joe Dobbs | Mattiwilda Dobbs |
| Sam Dockery | Tod Dockstader | Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis |
| Val Doonican | Stella Doufexis | Peter Dougherty |
| Donna Douglas | Roy Douglas | Joe Dowell |
| Ervin Drake | Robert Drasnin | Duncan Druce |
| John Duffy | Romain Dunay | Andre Durand |
| Denise Duval | John Eaton | Sharon Eaves |
| Fernando Echavarria | Dolores Dinning Edgin | Boudjemaâ El Ankis |
| Bob Elliott | Patricia Elliott | Jack Ely |
| Bobby Emmons | Buddy Emmons | Andrei Eshpai |
| José Ángel Espinoza Aragón aka Ferrusquilla | Jack Eubanks | Lucy Fabery |
| Billy Faier | Alexander Faris | William Edward Farley |
| Hussein Fatal | Wilton Felder | Rob Fernandez |
| Dennis Ferrante | Al Ferrier | Daniel Ferro |
| Garrison Fewell | Monroe Fields | Kent Finlay |
| Everett "Vic" Firth | Dale Fitzgerald | James R. Fonseca |
| Frankie Ford | Gregory Fosse | Kim Fowley |
| John Fox | Andy Fraser | Stan Freberg |
| Paul Freeman | Glenn Frey | Heinz Fricke |
| Rocky Frisco | Zhanna Friske | Edgar Froese |
| Allan Fryer | Larry Fullam | Brad Fuller |
| Richard Furman | Jorge Galemire | Jorge Garbett |
| John Garner | Snuff Garrett | Hal Gaylor |
| Mtshengiseni Gcwensa aka Indidane | Michael Gehrke | Steven Roy Gerber |
| Rafael Gil aka Ray Girado | Derrick Gilbert aka D-Knowledge | Ronnie Gilbert |
| Julie Gilbert-Cahil | Brian Gill | Mic Gillette |
| Doug Gilmore | Johnny Gimble | Hubert Giraud |
| Frank Glazer | Zach Glickman | Herbie Goins |
| Benny Golbin | Steven Goldmann | Giorgio Gomelsky |
| Wolfgang Gönnenwein | Celina González | Tyrone González aka AK Canserbero |
| Coleridge Goode | Lesley Gore | Vera Gornostaeva |
| Lari Goss | Joseph Grado | Albeth Paris Grass |
| Tiffany Elizabeth Green | Josh Greenberg | Dennis Greene |
| Edward Greenfield | Jimmy Greenspoon | Max Greger |
| Dale Griffin | Don Griffin | Craig Gruber |
| Rickey Grundy | Joe Guercio | William Guest |
| Mahmoud Guinia | Rutger Gunnarsson | Nkululeko "Flabba" Habedi |
| Hal Hackady | George Hadjinikos | Gobinda Halder |
| Audrey Hall aka Sister Scully | Dixie Hall | Rinto Harahap |
| Eddie Hardin | Chris Hardman aka Lil' Chris | Evelyn Starks Hardy |
| Julie Harris | Ted Harris | Ton Hartsuiker |
| Jimmie Haskell | Mariem Hassan | Oscar Hayes |
| Mary Healy | Billy Ray Hearn | Johnny Helms |
| Stuart Hemingway | Labreeska Hemphill | Russell Henderson |
| Jon Hensley | Torsten Thassilo Herbert | Bern Herbolsheimer |
| Dan Hicks | Bobby Hill | Travis "Trumpet Black" Hill |
| Dave "Hobbsy" Hilsden | Joan Hinde | Edward "Fast Eddie" Hoh |
| Jack Holder | Wendell Holmes | Will Holt |
| John "Hoppy" Hopkins | James Horner | Richard Horowitz |
| Glenn Amos Houle | Joe Houston | Randy Howard |
| Tyzen Hsiao | Shannen Hudson aka Young Ready | Greg Humphrey |
| "Long John" Hunter | Pete Huttlinger | Ben Hutto |
| Mike Hyland | Ron Hynes | Gary Ignacio |
| Jørgen Ingmann | Dan Iordăchescu | Robert "Jack" Irvin |
| Stan Irwin | Rick Ivy | Christine Jackson |
| Christopher Jackson | Melvin Jackson | Paul "Bomber" Jackson |
| Ravindra Jain | Bobby Jameson | Labh Janjua |
| Kyle Jean-Baptiste | Paul Jeffrey | John Jennings |
| Wade Jessen | Jillian Johnson | Joseph "Smokey" Johnson |
| Louis Johnson | James Johnson Jr. aka Swagg Huncho | Bob Johnston |
| Walt Johnston | Albert Jolson | Corey Jones |
| Dean Jones | Frankie Lee Jones | Peggy Jones aka Lady Bo |
| Peter Jones | Ramona Jones | Rusty Jones |
| Terry Jones | Timothy "DJ Timbuck2" Jones | Guru Josh |
| Don Joyce | Kevin Junior | Margaret Juntwait |
| Jouni Kaipainen | Krishna Kalle | Kitty Kallen |
| Michael Kandel aka Tranquility Bass | Paul Kantner | Peter Katin |
| Jerzy Katlewicz | Kayahan | Martin "Kiddie" Kearns |
| Johnny Keating | Orrin Keepnews | Daniel Keighley |
| Bill Keith | John-Edward Kelly | Helen Kemp |
| Johnny Kemp | Wayne Kemp | Ray Kennedy |
| Kirk Kerkorian | Patricia Kern | Ron Kerr |
| Gary Keys | Masabumi Kikuchi | Lemmy Kilmister |
| B.B. King | Ben E. King | Paul King |
| Armin Kircher | Martin Kitcher | Waldemar Kmentt |
| Griffin Kolinski | Jim "Sadist" Konya | Kool DJ AJ |
| Javier Krahe | Kenneth Krause | Smokin' Joe Kubek |
| John Kuker | Takeharu Kunimoto | Slyvia Kunin |
| Andriy Kuzmenko aka Kuzma | Kyoko | Ezra Laderman |
| Carey Lander | Helen Landis | Red Lane |
| Richard W. LaSalle | Darcy Miller Lashinsky | James Last |
| Thé Lau | Bogdan Lavinius | Ida Frances Lawrence |
| Kevin Lawrence | Cynthia Layne | Raphy Leavitt |
| Guy LeBlanc | Christopher Lee | Nikolaus Lehnhoff |
| Christophe Lellouche | Michael Leonard | Joan Leslie |
| Wally Lester | Neil LeVang | Marvin David Levy |
| Ken Lewis | Monica Lewis | Sal Licata |
| Biff Liff | Lois Lilienstein | Seymour Lipkin |
| Mosie Lister | Bill Littleton | Benjamin F. "Tex" Logan |
| Gary Loizzo | Denise Lor | Bonnie Lou |
| Eddy Louiss | Fred Love | Justin Lowe |
| Margot Loyola | Katherine Ludwig | Bruce Lundvall |
| Mick Lynch | Marque "Tate" Lynche | Edmund Lyndeck |
| Steve Mackay | Jason Mackenroth | Flora MacNeil |
| Lou Maglia | Julia Mainer | Tom "The Jazzman" Mallison |
| Riichiro Manabe | Pablo Manavello | George Manney |
| James S. Marcus | Ernie Maresca | Mary Ellen Mark |
| Gary Marker | Gary Paul Marmitt | Nick Marsh |
| Rick Martin | Ramadhani Masanja aka Banza Stone | Red Mascara |
| Darryl Mason aka Dot-A-Rock | Sandy Mason | Scott Mason |
| Michael Masser | Jorge Massías | A.J. Masters |
| Kurt Masur | Joe B. Mauldin | Mingiedi Mawangu |
| Charmayne "Maxee" Maxwell | Leroy May aka Red Dragon | Doug Mayes |
| Alan Mayor | Albert Maysles | Ammouri Mbarek |
| John McCabe | Charles McCann | Jim McCann |
| "Mighty" Sam McClain | Keith McCormack | Mack McCormick |
| Rose Marie McCoy | Danny McCulloch | Herb McCullough |
| Lester Virgil McCumbers | Lenny McDaniel | William Thomas McKinley |
| Ian A. McKinney | Rod McKuen | Bob Meador |
| Johnny Meeks | Gilberto Mendes | Nimal Mendis |
| Bryn Merrick | Billy Meshel | José Messias |
| Garrett Miller | Anthony Mills aka Zin | Darius Minwalla |
| Alan Mirikitani aka BB Chung King | Claudia Mize | Dieter Moebius |
| Jackie Moffit | Margot Moir | Aniceto Molina |
| Manuel Molina | Kemal Monteno | Johnny Montgomery |
| Nancy Montgomery | Peter Seth Moore | Ivan Moravec |
| Carlos "Buddy" Moreno | Jaime Morey | Joe Moscheo |
| Joe Moss | Marie Mosser | Shiina Mota |
| Donald Mulvaney | Rita Munsey | DeVaughn Murphy |
| John Murphy | Mark Murphy | Pithukuli Murugadas |
| Zane Musa | Paul Myers | Marty Napoleon |
| Mansour Nariman | Bashar Nawaz | Anne Naysmith |
| Bruce Nazarian | Hanq Neal | Logan Neill |
| Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig | Dominic Newton aka The Jacka | Patrick Ngcobo |
| Aurèle Nicolet | Reed Nielsen | Leonard Nimoy |
| Magali Noël | Gene Norman | Daron Norwood |
| Mats Olausson | Lincoln Olivetti | Manuel Oltra |
| Dex Osama | Charles "Honeyboy" Otis | Harold Ousley |
| Tommy Overstreet | Carlos Païta | John Palladino |
| Margaret Pardee | Martin Parker | Bob Parlocha |
| Phil Parnell | Alex Pascu | Marty Pasetta |
| Patachou | Pat Patrick | Lester "Rusty" G. Paul |
| Louis Paul | Robert Paulson aka Cadalack Ron | Donald Maurice Pears aka The Last Mr. Bigg |
| Nat Peck | Vince Pellegrino | Maggie Penn |
| Israel Perales Ortiz aka Mexicano 777 | Manu Perez | A.J. Pero |
| Mark D. Perry | Marion Petard-Lieffrig | Csaba Petocz |
| Don Pfrimmer | Jordan Phillips aka J Capri | Robert Phillips aka Koopsta Knicca |
| Yosi Piamenta | Lionel Pickens aka Chinx | Norman C. Pickering |
| De'Von Pickett | Jamecy "Black Alex" Pierre | David Pike |
| Harry Pitch | Ruth Poe | Kirill Pokrovsky |
| Ray "Butch" Pool | Mac Poole | Mike Porcaro |
| Frank Porretta | Andrew Porter | Steve Pouchie |
| Stasys Povilaitis | Gene Power | Richie Pratt |
| Jaime Prefontaine aka Brooklyn | Sean Price | Peter Prier |
| Claudio Prieto | J.B. Prince | Joshua Prince aka Dust La Rock |
| M.L. Procise | Brianna Lea Pruett | Chuck Pyle aka Zen Cowboy |
| Gary Quackenbush | Daniel Rabinovich | Maria Radner |
| Jim Ragland | Chris Rainbow | V. Ramakrishna |
| N. Ramani | Christian Ramos aka Syko "El Terror" | Elizabeth Ramsey |
| Vithal Rao | Hugo Rasmussen | Carmino Ravosa |
| Rex Ray | Michael Rayner | Shane Redway |
| Usnija Redzepova | Margo Reed | Clarence Reid aka Blowfly |
| Raul Rekow | John Renbourn | Don Rendell |
| Eddie "The Kydd" Rendini | Angie Crabtree Reynolds | Delores Rhoads |
| Tandy Rice | Slim Richey | Gary Richrath |
| Anthony Riley | Lynn Ripley aka "Twinkle" | Jean Ritchie |
| Preston Ritter | Don Robertson | Cynthia Robinson |
| J.D. Robinson | Joseph Robinson Jr. | McNeil Robinson II |
| David Rodriguez | Rico Rodriguez | Steven Rodriguez aka ASAP Yams |
| Jack Rollins | Ronnie Ronalde | Doudou N'Diaye Rose |
| Richard Rosebrough | Larry Rosen | Adam Roth |
| David Roth | Demis Roussos | Doug Rowe |
| Bruce Rowland | Billy Joe Royal | Guillermo Rubalcaba |
| Howard Rumsey | Shahir Sable | Benny Sadel |
| Chuck Sagle | Kheireddine Sahbi | Gene Saks |
| Victor Salvi | Hank Sasaki | Doug Sax |
| Dean Schachtel | Günther Schneider-Siemssen | Heiko Schrepel |
| Ramblin' Lou Schriver | Wes Schuck | Gunther Schuller |
| Norbert Schwefel | John Scott | Norman O. Scribner |
| Joan Sebastian | Pía Sebastiani | Ambros Seelos |
| Dan Sembello | Müzeyyen Senar | Ronald Senator |
| Mario Sereni | Ralph Sharon | Lee Shaw |
| Ron Shawger | Dennis Sheehan | Barbara Shelley |
| Billy Sherrill | Jimmy Shields | Troy Shondell |
| Aadesh Shrivastava | Rose L. Shure | Ryan Shutler |
| Joseph Silverstein | Red Simpson | Charanjit Singh |
| Bruce Sinofsky | Tom Skinner | Johnny Slate |
| Percy Sledge | P.F. Sloan | Roger Smalley |
| Rolf Smedvig | Brett Smiley | Daniel Smith |
| Irvin Smith | Václav Snítil | Leif Solberg |
| Michael Solfiell | Lew Soloff | David-Troy Somerville |
| Faye Speer | Sam Spence | Chris Squire |
| Ryan Stanek | Bob Stegall | Steven Stern |
| Michael Stevens | Ronald Stevenson | Andy M. Stewart |
| Robert Stigwood | John "Dawk" Stillwell | David Stock |
| Bernard Stollman | Patsy Stoneman | Steve Strange |
| Ettore Stratta | Sarah Streeter aka Big Time Sarah | Natalia Strelle |
| Craig Strickland | Larry Sturm | Jazz Summers |
| Joe Summers | Elizabeth Swados | Ward Swingle |
| Chris Tambling | Sharon Tandy | Dallas Taylor |
| John Taylor | Pat Taylor | Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor |
| Tut Taylor | Vlad Telea | Sid Tepper |
| Jean Ter-Merguerian | Clark Terry | Michael Terry |
| Arthur "Art" Thieme | Nguyen Thien Dao | Radhika Thilak |
| J. Karen Thomas | Shaquon Thomas aka Young Pappy | Bill Thompson |
| Delroy "Spider" Thompson | Robbin Thompson | Ernest Tomlinson |
| Joeseph Torregano | Allen Toussaint | John Tout |
| Jackie Trent | Paul J. Truesdell | Robert Tuggle |
| George Tutko | Namık Uğurlu | Gloria Van Aerssen |
| Tony Van Frater | Roy Van Hoy | Jacques van Oortmerssen |
| Milton Vanicor | David VanLanding | Colin Vearncombe aka Black |
| Jon Vickers | Cirilo Vila Castro | M.S. Viswanathan |
| Mel Waiters | Ed Walker | Jeff Walker |
| Steve Waller | Bengt-Arne Wallin | Eddy Wally |
| Hazel Waltman | Trevor Ward-Davies aka Dozy | David Ward-Steinman |
| Ray Warleigh | Terry Graham Warren | Frank Watkins |
| Alan Watson | Richard Eddy Watson | Scott Weiland |
| Jerry Weintraub | Walter Weller | Cory Wells |
| Elbert West | Richard Wheatly | Ron Whitaker |
| Andy White | Maurice White | Gert Wilden |
| Ronald A. Wilford | David Willcocks | Richard Williams |
| Hal Willis | Dan Wilson Jr. | Jimmy "Spider" Wilson |
| Joe Wilson | Julie Wilson | Thom Wilson |
| Sammy Winston | Phil Woods | Arthur G. Wright |
| Hugh Wright | Stevie Wright | Eric Wrixon |
| Al Wyntor | Ol'ga Yakovleva aka Origa | Bill Yates |
| Israel Yinon | Susama Yokato | Sam Zaman aka State of Bengal |
| Gail Zappa | Luis Felipe Zschoche Valle |
Photo caption:
(Top row, l-r: Maurice White, David Bowie, Natalie Cole, Glenn Frey; second row, l-r: Lesley Gore, Paul Kantner, Lemmy Kilmister, B.B. King; third row, l-r: Scott Weiland, Lynn Anderson, Kool DJ AJ, Pierre Boulez; bottom row, l-r: Allen Toussaint, Ornette Coleman, Billy Sherrill, Joan Sebastian)
