Houston music Pays Tribute to Industry Giants and Musicians Lost In 2011
The Christmas is over and it is time the year’s events were listed based on various categories. The list for memoriam to be given to the wonderful industry giants and musicians who are not amongst us anymore in 2012 is long. Houston music industry lost many talented lives, despite the age and the contributions, the Houston music studios housed many less known talents.
The year 2011 has been rough on Houston as many legends were lost. It is difficult to quantify the achievements and details of a person’s life in few words. The input by these influences has been remarkable. Starting from Earl Gilliam, Mydolls’s Kathy Johnston and Clip D these musicians bid adieu to the world. The producer who created chart topping music and was onetime owner of record label and studio, Huey P. Meaux also left us. The Houston music studios will feel the loss of this impressive personality. He once helped define the sounds by Gulf Coast with aid of hits by Sir Douglas Quintet.
Other starlets like Barbara Lynn aged 82 died in April. Even Freddy Fender left us, we shall always remember him for the super-hit heyday, as well as tawdry deals.
Most certainly tributes will be paid at the Houston music festival to these contributors to music industry. The death of Amy Winehouse had been most shocking this time, as on July 23 she was found in her apartment. After a life of booze and addiction to drugs, she died at age of 27, joining the vaunted 27 club.
There are others like Clarence Clemons, Poly Styrene, Teena Marie, Myra Taylor, Wilma Lee Cooper and Gerry Rafferty. Some other well known artists are Johnny Preston, Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, Gary Moore and Kathy Johnston, Huey Meaux, Earl Gilliam and Seth Putnam. They all deserve a good musical farewell. There will be some form of tribute like Houston music concerts to all these artists who have contributed in changing our life, one way or another.
Adding symphony to our lives, the famed and silently working industry musicians deserve a salute for their Houston music and creativity work.