82 November 3 – Paul Mauriat, orchestra leader, 81 November 6 – Robert Jance Garfet (Dr Hook) November 8 – Basil Poledouris, film composer, 61 November 10 – Gerald Levert, singer, 40 November 17 – Ruth Brown, US singer, 78 November 21 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist, 91 November 22 – John Allan Cameron, folk musician, 67 November 23 Betty Comden, lyricist partner of Adolph Green, 89 Anita O'Day, jazz singer, 87 November 24 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter, 56 November 25 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican banda singer, 27 November 30 – Shirley Walker, film composer, 61 December 2 – Mariska Veres, singer with Shocking Blue, 59 December 6 – Darren Brown, AKA Wiz, former frontman of Mega City Four, 44 December 8 – Martha Tilton, American big band singer, 91 December 9 Georgia Gibbs, American singer, 87 Freddie Marsden, drummer of Gerry & The Pacemakers December 11 – Homer Ledford, bluegrass musician, 79 December 12 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist, 71 December 13 – Robert Long, singer and TV presenter, 63 December 14 Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records, 83 Sivuca, Brazilian guitarist and accordionist, 76 December 16 – Pnina Salzman, pianist, 84 December 17 – Denis Payton, The Dave Clark Five, 63 December 18 Scott Mateer, American songwriter and disk jockey, 46 Daniel Pinkham, American composer, 83 December 22 Dennis Linde, Songwriter "Burnin' Love", "John Deere Green" and others, 63 Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer, 87 December 24 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and contemporary composer, 45 December 25 – James Brown, American singer, 73 December 27 – Pierre Delanoë, French lyricist, 88 Awards ARIA Music Awards of 2006 Grammy Awards of 2006 2006 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 2006 BRIT Awards 2006 NME Awards 2006 World Music Awards 2006 MTV Video Music Awards Nationwide Mercury Prize 2006 MTV Australia Video Music Awards MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 See also 2006 in music (UK) ''Billboard'''s Top Hot 100 Hits of 2006 2006 in music (Switzerland) Record labels established in 2006 Other events of 2006 List of 'years in music' References External charts Top 50 Albums For 2006 – Subculture Magazine UK Revolution 91.7's Top 30 Songs of 2006 mxdwn.com's User-Submitted AOTY/SOTY 2006 Open's Top 10 albums of 2006 2006-related lists Music-related lists Music by year