Raised in studios around Muscle Shoals, Ala., she was with the Grateful Dead for some of its most celebrated—and ...

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The 1990s are constantly referred to as the golden age within Black media. There was an abundance of Black-led television ...

Before there was Lil’ Kim, Nicki Minaj or Cardi B, there was Betty Wright, an R&B singer whose soulful voice was beyond her years. Before her 18th birthday, she was singing about things her listeners ...

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Few artists of his era blurred the lines between sacred and sensual quite like D’Angelo, who died last Tuesday at 51. With his unmistakable voice, deep-rooted musicianship and devotion to craft over ...

When Michael Eugene Archer was three years old, his older brother Luther came home to find him almost perfectly playing a Prince song on the piano. As Luther later told Okayplayer: "It was the first ...