In 1959, an aspiring songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy Jr. borrowed $800 to start his own record label in Detroit. Good investment. Within a year, Motown had its first million-selling record, with the Miracles’ “Shop Around.” By 1969, the label would place dozens of records in the Billboard
Harry Connick Jr. Hopes to Inspire With New Music
Harry Connick Jr. is heading back to his faith-based roots with a new album inspired by his pandemic experience.
5 Things You Need to Know:
- With the pandemic and isolation hitting Grammy and Emmy Award winner Harry Connick Jr. hard, he retreated to his home studio during the lockdown and

Watch Post Malone cover two country songs for Texas relief livestream
Post Malone performed two country covers of songs by Brad Paisley and Sturgill Simpson for the We’re Texas relief fundraiser livestream.
The livestream was hosted on March 21 by Texan actor Matthew McConaughey, with proceeds being directed to his foundation Just Keep Living and its Texas relief fund, established in
‘Aretha Was the LeBron James in the Room’

There is even more genius to go around in the story that “Genius: Aretha Franklin” tells than just Aretha’s own. Her classic records wouldn’t have stood the test of more than four and five decades without the chemistry she and her voice formed with the musicians that gave the

Lively songs, traditional crafts on show at exhibition featuring Sikh community, Singapore News & Top Stories
SINGAPORE – It is in our genes, said Ms Jaswant Kaur, 63, and Ms Harpreet Kaur, 61, when asked about the place of folk music in their Sikh culture.
The duo are a regular fixture at Sikh cultural events and weddings here, with Ms Jaswant Kaur known for her vocal

Marianne Lyon, music teacher who turned to verse, named Napa County’s poet laureate | Local News
In her early years of teaching in Minnesota, Lyon, who earned a degree in vocal performance, taught choral music to high schoolers and organized recitals of opera arias and art songs in German, French and Italian, she recalled. Arriving in