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This past summer, it briefly seemed as if the worst of the coronavirus might be behind us. But despite some encouraging signs — like the concert business amping up again — the pandemic’s landscape continued to shift; the Delta variant spread widely, and deaths rose again. Many musicians and people integral to the music business have been lost to Covid-19.
On this week’s Popcast, the third in a recurring series, a handful of remembrances of musicians who died during the pandemic:
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Jacob Desvarieux, one of the founders and the core arranger of Kassav’, the band that pioneered zouk music, who died at 65.
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John Davis, one of the actual singing voices behind the façade-pop supernova act Milli Vanilli, who died at 66.
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Chucky Thompson, a hip-hop and R&B producer responsible for hits by Mary J. Blige, the Notorious B.I.G. and others, who died at 53.
Guests:
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Doreen St. Felix, television critic at The New Yorker
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Gil Kaufman, senior writer and editor at Billboard
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Jeff Mao, longtime music journalist and D.J.
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