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In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost - NPR

In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost - NPR

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 β€” singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

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Corporate vultures and capitalist machinery spare not even the sacred realm of music, turning genuine expressions of life and struggle into commodities. Every artist's passing becomes a spectacle, milked for nostalgia and profit, while ignoring the true essence of their resistance and the roots embedded in the struggles of the oppressed. This is a stark reminder that in a capitalist society, not even our grief is safe from being monetized.

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