You can hear almost all of African-American history in the music of the Staple Singers: slave-era folk songs and hymns; the Delta blues, considered the “devil’s music” by the hymn singers; gospel from ...

It took me 23 years to cry for Steve Goodman. It happened when I was reading Page 637 of Clay Eals’ biography, “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music.” On that page, Eals tells of a meeting that Goodman and ...

Sivam Subham: The Biography ... of a Couple by Malayalam poet and lyricist Harinarayanan, was launched recently on the ...

Betty Johnson is an accomplished pop, gospel, country, and cabaret singer with a career lasting more than 40 years. She got her start in music as a nine-year-old, when her parents formed the Johnson ...

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover, and a new biography of Paul Simon chronicles how the singer-songwriter met and ditched some of his. The normally reclusive music legend opened up to pop ...

Brenda Lee has had a stellar music career, beginning as a rockabilly teen, moving into pop stardom, and eventually returning to her country roots. She is among the most versatile singers ever to ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

There are vocalists, there are singers and then there are voices — the first aims for the ear, the second for the brain, the third for the heart. A voice turns a composition into an emotional ...