Billy Paul, a Grammy Award-winning R&B and jazz singer known best for his 1972 No. 1 hit song “Me and Mrs. Jones,” died April 24, according to multiple news sources,…
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Country giant Merle Haggard, the influential artist known best for hits including “Okie From Muskogee” and “Sing Me Back Home,” has died. He was 79. Haggard died Wednesday, on his…
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Pierre Boulez, the world-renowned French conductor who was a major force in modern classical music, has died. He was 90. Boulez, who once served as the principal conductor of the…
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Harry Nilsson’s second Grammy was for a song he didn’t write – but when he sang it, he owned it.
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Rob Pilatus wanted to be a star. Unfortunately, he became famous. Pilatus, who would have turned 49 today, was half of the most reviled major musical act of the 1980s,…
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Composer Marvin Hamlisch, who would have celebrated his 70th birthday June 2, won every major creative award possible during his lifetime.
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Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was a bluesman, and a well-loved one, too. He won a Grammy for best traditional blues album in 1983, and in 1999 he was inducted into the…
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One of the great legends of vocal jazz, Sarah Vaughan, was born 90 years ago today. Nicknamed “Sassy” for her personality and “The Divine One” for her voice, she had…
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In 2013, the music world saw many losses: musicians representing a wide variety of genres, from rock to reggae, classical to country, blues to Bollywood and beyond. They made our…
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Whether singing or writing, he was a musical legend.