Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, Richie ...

Music has the power to move us, uplift us, and even haunt us — but sometimes, the stories behind our favorite songs are far ...

By Bill Friskics-Warren Gene Barge, one of the last surviving saxophonists of the golden age of R&B, whose career ran the gamut of 20th-century Black popular music, died on Sunday at his home in ...

Kendrick Lamar, 37, swept the 2025 Grammy Awards as the Compton native's diss track about the Canadian rapper won five gongs ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 20: ...

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile ...

Just over a decade later, Don McLean wrote about the "day the music died" in what would become one of the most beloved songs of all time, "American Pie." KPCW's Roger Goldman and Sarah Ervin take ...

I DON’T care about haram or halal. I’d rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.’ This statement, as quoted by Shams ...

At just 11 years old, Dotty Robe witnessed the death of her 14-year-old sister. It was the early 1930s. She died of complications from an appendectomy. Fever and pneumonia took her life. “That was ...