A musical genre rarely dies on the day its last great musician dies. It dies more quietly, when generations stop hearing themselves in the music. This, most probably, may be the real trouble with Jùjú ...

Kodava, a Dravidian language spoken in Kodagu, faces a declining speaker base as campaigners seek Eighth Schedule status and ...

Many die in a boat accident; officials say the regulations should be followed; their calls are ignored; campaigners say the ...

A new political song released on Thursday by popular Hausa singer Dauda Kahutu—better known as Rarara —targeting former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has sparked severe ...

"The Way You Look Tonight" has made people swoon for nine decades. By Paul Grein Ninety years ago today, a song was copyrighted that would appear in a movie the following month. You might think a song ...

Achebe’s burden was to remind us that division was a choice, not destiny. He argued for leadership rooted in character, competence, and fairness. He saw how our diversity — which should have been our ...

Due Sept. 18 from her Baroque Folk label, "The List" — Hoffs' first set of original material in more than a decade — collects ...

A seven-year-old from Sydney, Australia has gone viral after a video of him performing an original song was posted on his dad's social media. Miles Phillips and his dad Joel sat down with the BBC's ...

On Oct. 17 last year, Ella Langley released “Choosin’ Texas,” a track about Texans’ loyalty to their state. Since then, every Texan has heard the song a conservatively estimated one million times.

Carson Robison, one of country music's earliest songwriters and performers, was born on August 4, 1890, in Kansas.

The Billboard Hot 100 is widely regarded as the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US. Since the chart launched in 1958, hundreds of songs have reached the coveted No. 1 spot. However, far ...