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Details: Written by The Skanner; Published: 16 September 2019

Annual Event Presented by ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Department Honors Female Leaders in Entertainmen

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 15 September 2019

Choir leaders say travelling as part of a choir helps the children develop confidence and broadens their worldview

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 15 September 2019

Thirty years after Ethiopian student Mulgeta Seraw was killed in a racist hate crime, the Portland-based chamber group reflects on his legacy

Details: Written by AP Music Writer; Published: 29 August 2019

Lizzo performs a medley at the MTV Video Music Awards (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

"I've worked diligently for over two decades and I never thought I would be standing up here receiving this award”

Details: Written by By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press; Published: 27 August 2019

Meek Mill (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge Tuesday in a deal that resolves a 2007 arrest that has kept him on probation or in prison for most of his adult life

Details: Written by Mark Clague Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan; Published: 15 August 2019

Jimi Hendrix

Hendrix played for more than an hour that Monday morning before introducing his regular concert-closer, “Voodoo Child"

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Details: Written by By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer; Published: 29 July 2019

Lil Nas X performing "Old Town Road" (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

It's one sweet day for Lil Nas X: The breakthrough rapper's viral "Old Town Road" has broken the Billboard record set by Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day" for most weeks at No. 1

Details: Written by By SHAHAR GOLAN; Published: 19 July 2019

Musician Teddy Neguse.

Artists are using the stage to tell the public about unchecked and widespread police brutality

Missy-Elliott

Details: Written by By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer; Published: 14 June 2019

Missy Elliott (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP)

Missy Elliott is the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Details: Written by By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer; Published: 29 May 2019

(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

With bad weather in Chicago on Monday and her flight canceled, Jennifer Hudson fretted at the thought of missing her performance at Tuesday's Pulitzer Prize awards ceremony to pay tribute to honoree Aretha Franklin.

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