With frantic beats and vibrant culture, Brazilian funk prepares to follow the footsteps of reggaeton and conquer global ...

Françoise Hardy surprised her family—twice. First, she passed her baccalauréat exam with flying colors, a shock, really. Then ...

Ahead of his farewell tour, Edwyn Collins, recovered from a double stroke in 2005, has created a gentle album of ...

I always thought that I would go into local politics and even run for mayor, and here I am traveling the world with Pink Martini three decades later.” Through the years, Pink Martini has become a pop ...

Canadian-born composer and pianist Renee Rosnes is widely respected for a series of small-group albums she made for Blue Note ...

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Photographs in illustration by Santiago Felipe/; John Atashian/; Paul Bergen/Redferns/; Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/; BSR Agency/Gentle Look/; Jim McCrary/Redferns/; Michael Putland/; Frank ...

The flute is a special instrument in jazz. It's not the most common horn, and few dedicate their careers to playing the flute ...

But despite this dominance, sertanejo has little export potential. Few artists care about going global, says Mr Morel. That ...

Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind have set their Spring tour, which kicks off March 5 in Evansville, Indiana. The tour will bring ...

During his prime, Quincy Jones helped write, compose, and arrange some of the greatest pop hits in modern history for some legendary artists, including Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway ...

We’ll try to keep it to one song per artist since Jones produced entire albums for some of the singers on this list. It’s hard to choose just one Michael Jackson hit for this list, considering ...