Bluegrass remains the most distinctive of all the sub-styles within country music, having changed ... became "rhythm and blues," and the gospel style of the old shape-note publishing houses ...

Country artist Ricky Skaggs surprised Chapman with the membership announcement during a live show at the Opry in July.

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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 ...

On November 1, Steven Curtis Chapman will see a dream come true as the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter becomes the ...

A genre-leaping Renaissance man who memorably collaborated with everyone from Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson ...

November 1, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise ...

October 31, 2024 • The Atlanta rapper, who was charged with participating in criminal gang activity in what has become the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, suddenly changed his plea on ...

Some of Zambia’s top musicians have performed at a concert to mourn 46-year-old gospel singer ... make a career out of their music - not an easy ambition in a country where piracy means most ...

Ask a who's who of artists throughout the music industry ... Cauthen's lifestyle is stranger than the fiction of being a gospel-honed soul crooner whose stylings evoke the most provocative parts of a ...