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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Bennett is staying mum on David Evanier ‘s secrets-baring biography of him, but the author says he’s been told the crooner’s son would like to fly him on a one-way trip to the moon. Six months ...