Rebekah Del Rio, whose soul-shattering performance of "Llorando" in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" made her a Hollywood icon, has died at 57.

Some might think “the day the music died” was the day that they invented the classic-rock format and songs like “American Pie” never went off the air. Radio lay murdered as a medium of ...

As a songwriter and instrumentalist as well, he blended pop and folk influences into music that helped define college radio in the 1980s and ’90s.

Rick Derringer, a wide-ranging musician who sang the garage-rock anthem “Hang On Sloopy,” wrote the 1970s hit “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,” produced parody songs for “Weird Al ...

Rupp and his bandmates likely will perform "The Day the Music Died." They may also sing numbers that had been performed in 1959 on the venue's stage.

Bill Withers, Who Sang ‘Lean on Me’ and ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ Dies at 81 A three-time Grammy Award winner, he had a string of much-covered hits in the 1970s but had not released an album ...

The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family was famous for being depicted in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 90.

Jesse Colin Young, who enjoyed a long solo career after breaking out as the singer of the Youngbloods' 'Get Together' in the late '60s, died at 83.

Barrett Strong, Motown stalwart who sang ‘Money,' dies at 81 He co-wrote some of Motown’s most enduring songs, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” ...

Tommy Allsup, the guitarist who famously avoided "the Day the Music Died" after losing his plane seat in a coin flip to Ritchie Valens, died at 85.

It was a dark day in music history. On Feb. 3, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson boarded a chartered plane after a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa ...

Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting — and taught those who came after her to speak ...