Musicians often have a somewhat wild lifestyle that often leads to death. The reasons for this vary and range from overdose to murder and suicide. Australian researcher Dianna Kenny has published accurate statistics on the most common causes of death among musicians: accidents, suicide, murder, heart problems and cancer. She found that their frequency varies depending on the music genre. For example, over a third of all metal musicians do not die from excessive drug use, but from accidents or suicide, half of all rappers die from murder and 28% of all blues musicians perish from heart problems. Crazy.
The good news for rappers? You don't have to be afraid of cancer, you will likely be killed first. On the other hand, jazz musicians hardly need to fear murder. Only 1,9% of all jazz musicians die from homicides. The constant jamming in smoky cellar bars apparently makes the artists of this genre again susceptible to cancer: 30,6%. Interesting insight into the life and death of musicians ...
(via TheConversation)
That means: Metalheads are clumsy, blues fans have too much heartache and rappers have an aggression problem ...