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She started out a country singer, but she found fame and pop-chart success in the early 1960s with catchy novelty songs, as well as the…
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He became a swaggering star in the late 1960s, when Addis Ababa experienced a golden age of night life and music. Decades later, he was…
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The R&B musician’s guilty verdicts met a muted response in the music business that made him a star, and survivors and activists say the field…
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Terence Blanchard’s fresh, affecting “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” reopened the opera house on Monday after an 18-month closure.Terence Blanchard’s fresh, affecting “Fire Shut…
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A conversation about the tug of war over her musical legacy, and how her songs — even without a digital presence — impacted the evolution…
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