Ongoing History Daily: Onstage deaths, part 4

Here is the last installment of a brief list of artists who died while performing onstage.

The Italian electronic artist Brandbug died of a heart attack behind the decks in November 2016.

In 2017, the former drummer for Boston, Sib Hanshian, was performing on a Legends of Rock cruise when he died onstage.

Barbara Weldens was a French singer known for performing barefoot. On September 2017, she stepped on a faulty cable onstage during a gig in a church and was electrocuted.

And how’s this for way to go: Three members of an Indonesian rock band called Seventeen died in December 2018 when, during a performance on a beach, were swept out to sea by a sudden tsunami.

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