From Bessie Smith’s blues grit to Tina Turner’s fire, these two singers helped shape Janis Joplin’s unforgettable vocal style.

Maria Muldaur has had her fair share of musical adventures. The Mill Valley resident has opened for the Grateful Dead, been a ...

Long before superstardom existed, Bessie Smith showed the world what it meant to be a legend. Born into poverty, she turned ...

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Last month Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group struck a licensing deal with an AI music streaming startup called Klay, meaning tens of thousands of songs can now legally be used ...

Shinedown's Brent Smith tells PEOPLE their new song, "Searchlight," is "a love letter in a lot of ways to Americana and what we grew up on" “The original take of the song was a bit more of a power ...

Baker was one of Atlantic Records' first big success stories, with a series of hits in the 1950s, including "Bumblebee" and "Jim Dandy." She died in 1997. Originally broadcast in 1991. This is FRESH ...

More than 270 photographs show expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries. Works by well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang ...

ENID, Okla. — Residents attending Enid Chautauqua on Friday, June 13, 2025, learned about the trials and tribulations of the “Empress of the Blues.” Scholar Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed Bessie ...

Like a perfectly timed high note in a torch song, Bessie doesn't tiptoe into queerness as filmmaker Dee Rees gives us a love letter to Black, bisexual brilliance. After all, when history forgets our ...

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