Before Paul Simon decided to pour his love of reggae into his 1972 hit, Mother and Child Reunion, very few mainstream rock artists had incorporated the sounds of Jamaica into their music. Since then, ...

Betty Wright is a soul and R&B singer who has been active in the music industry since the 1960s. She has released 10 studio albums and has had several hit songs over the years. In this blog post, we ...

There’s nothing cheesy about a little clapping. And by clapping, we’re not talking about applause on live tracks. We’re talking about the kind of deliberate claps artists use to punctuate, drive, ...

Pierino “Perry” Ronaldo Como was boring in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1912. When he was a toddler, he learned to play the organ by ear. His father, Pietro Como, and mother, Lucia Travaglini’s ...

Silk is a musical group consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak. Anderson is a drummer, singer, and rapper, who is also a member of the production team N.E.R.D. Bruno Mars is a singer, songwriter, ...

The Beatles may have been the biggest headliners of the British Invasion in the ’60s, but they opened up the doors for a flood of British beat groups that came to dominate the US charts in the ...

Bell Biv Devoe is an American music group formed by members who were previously from a group called New Edition. The group members are Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe. This band is best ...

No one wants to listen to a song about how great love is when they’re in the middle of something painful. When you’re missing what you had or regretting what you never did, the only songs that should ...

Eydie Gorme was active from the early 1950s to the late 2000s. She came from a Sephardic Jewish background. As such, she spoke fluent Spanish, thus enabling her to perform pop and Latin pop. Sometimes ...

“Chandelier” is an electropop song released by Sia in 2014. It was well-received, so much so that it was a number-one or two hit in several countries. This would be Jones’s cover of the song. It can’t ...

Country gospel is a subgenre of music that combines gospel music and country music elements, and it is also known as Christian country music. While the music of this subgenre often follows the typical ...

One of the most successful bands of the ’60s and 70s, Three Dog Night, built a huge following in the 1960s with their high energy, harmony-driven music. While they are often remembered for only two ...