Pavarotti

For anyone who doesn't know the scope of his death, I just had to add something.

Pavarotti wasn't a gimmicky famous like, say, Andrea Boccelli or Charlotte Church (ugh vomit). His name became a would essentially synonymous with opera singer, known literally the WORLD wide, and for one very good reason:

He was arguably the greatest tenor who EVER lived.

Everyone agrees that he is easily in the top ten singers in history. His voice is enough to reduce people to tears, and watching him (that video below of him singing Che Gelida Mannina from La Boheme is an excellent example of this) it appears that he exerts almost NO effort to create the sound he does.

It is truly a dark day in the classical music world. We have lost someone who has changed the face of opera forever, and who will certainly go down in the history books.