The "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" singer's three wins at the 2025 GRAMMYs brought her total to 35, which extends her lead as theartist with the most GRAMMYs. She actually broke the record at the 2023 GRAMMYs, when she won four golden gramophones to bring her total to 32. ...
While not particularly fair to the wife Sting had recently abandoned, that point of view had been fertile ground for his songwriting. In 1983, with sessions for his band The Police’s fifth album looming, Sting and his new partner Trudy Styler decamped to Ian Fleming’s old Jamaican hideawa...
This template — hardcore songs like "Machine Gun Funk" for the die-hards, sing-a-longs like "Juicy" for the newly curious — is one that Big’s good friendJay-Zwould employ while climbing to his current iconic status. Solo Stars Broke Out Of Crews ...
Gucci Mane is not a rapper-turned-executive, but rather, an executive-turned-rapper.Growing up in Atlanta (by way of Bessemer, Ala.), Gucci didn’t aspire to be an artist. He graduated high school with a 3.0 GPA, and as a teenager dreamed of discovering the next Kriss Kross. “I wa...
to Cobb County, Georgia, home of the Braves and a fantasy world of their own creation. My car was piloted by an amiable Jamaican woman, and we were discussing the dark storm clouds overhead whenCharlie Culbersonstruck lightning.Culberson's two-run walk-off shot againstSeth Lugosent ...
Click to load video Belafonte’s influence is still felt in the wider world, even if his music is seen as dated. However, the next Jamaican musical style to emerge still has considerable sway in both the reggae we hear today and the broader world of pop. In the late 50s, ska, the di...
In the time that I was gone from Cuba, the recording, the hard drive with the album on it, broke. What I had recorded in Cuba, also disappeared. Everything I had recorded in the studio in Cuba, was gone. How did you come back from that, how did you return to the recording ...
Click to load video Songs with erotic noises are an art in themselves. Jane Birkin andSerge Gainsbourg’s‘Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus’proved too hot for America in 1969, but The Chakachas ‘Jungle Fever’ broke the taboo just a year later, as did “Pillow Talk” by Sylvia Robinson,...
Two weeks later, I wanted to give Jack, David’s son, his first driving lesson. Committing to teaching Jack to drive meant that if something happened, like, oh, David and I broke up before I got back, he and I would still have our thing. Plus, David didn’t want me to teach Jack...
The Message, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five: I can't walk through the park, 'cause it's crazy after the dark. Keep my hand on the gun, 'cause they got me on the run. I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jar. Hear them say, you want some more? Livin' on a se...