Many of the most influential blues songs reverberate to this day, and a few ... and though she died in 1937, aged 43, Bessie Smith’s influence permeated popular music for many years afterward.

Buddy Holly may have looked cute, but behind those iconic glasses was a fiery rebel who played by his own rules—until that ...

Iowa. To commemorate Feb. 3, 1959 – aka “The Day the Music Died” – the Milwaukee-based National Bobblehead Hall of Fame announced the release of the first officially licensed bobbleheads ...

In the program director’s notes for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lyric Stage, the playwright recalls her boyfriend ...

Irv Gotti has passed away on Wednesday, February 5, at the young age of 54. He has left his mark on the music industry and will surely be missed. Def Jam has posted a loving tribute for the ...

NEW YORK -- Irv Gotti, the famed hip-hop music executive from New York City, has died at the age of 54 ... but those are songs we play every day," Wade said. Chuck Creekmur, who co-founded ...

The statement did not say where he died or cite a cause ... From his start in the music business selling his mixtapes at a local barbershop as a teenager, he went on to become a rap producer ...

50 Cent has taken aim at Irv Gotti one last time with a brutal Instagram post seemingly mocking the music producer's death ... executive after he died aged 54. 50 Cent - real name Curtis ...

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 ...

Nearly a month after the beloved Twin Peaks director died at the age of 78 ... It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way," the family added.

Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported. Ebony McIntosh, a 24-year-old ...