Who is truly behind the origin of country music? Is it the Carter family like Megan Moroney said during the American Music Awards? Was it Lesley Riddle, a Black artist who influenced the Carters? Or ...

While working as a session musician in the early 1970s, drummer Earl Young created a unique rhythm that would change the course of popular music. Known today as the “four on the floor,” this simple ...

"BEFORE ELVIS: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS WHO MADE THE KING" by Preston Lauterbach (Grand Central, 320 pages, $30). In the 1990 hip-hop anthem "Fight the Power," Chuck D of Public Enemy slammed ...

Shaboozey has gone viral for his seemingly bemused reaction to a remark by fellow singer Megan Moroney, who claimed that the Carter Family “basically invented” country music. The two artists were ...

Frank Farian, the influential electronic music producer, composer and founder of the German/Caribbean disco funk ensemble Boney M, and the man behind the creation of the notorious pop duo Milli ...

Shaboozey went viral for his reaction to fellow country artist Megan Moroney's claim about who "invented" country music. On Monday (May 27), Shaboozey and Moroney took the stage together to present ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Irv Gotti, the boisterous, smiley music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists, has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, which was the ...

Masego, who moved to Hampton Roads as a military child and grew up singing in a Newport News church, began headlining shows almost 10 years ago. And he’ll be headlining a festival not far from his ...