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Music can have a profound effect on both the emotions and the body. Faster music can make you feel more alert and concentrate better. Upbeat music can make you feel more optimistic and positive ...

The Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has lent his superb compositional and performing talents to the creation of the original score for Unforgivable Blackness ...

They won’t do it to my music. My music is ... The elites considered the sights, sounds, and dances of Carnaval obscene and ...

The memorials continued with Jon Batiste and Anna Nesby performing a medley including Bill Withers songs "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Lean on Me," closing with Sounds of Blackness' "Optimistic." ...

"The songs are relaxing and the topics simple," says Gan. Bossa nova emerged in the late 1950s, when Brazil was in a state of turmoil. "The people wanted more optimistic songs to cheer them up.

Their songwriting process usually starts with a Casio drone–Steinbrink tapes some keys down and improvises over the sound. “I think it just kind ... which he describes as his attempt to write an ...

R. Renee Hess is the founder of the Black Girl Hockey Club and works in community engagement for La Sierra University. She was a finalist for the NHL's Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award in 2021 ...

Frankie Beverly spent more than five decades as the frontman for a soul band that was an essential component of the ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Theodore Bikel was nominated but did not win. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Kurt Kasznar was nominated ...

It has been 30 years since the rhythm and beats of garage music took the UK by storm. The genre has consistently evolved since the 1990s, becoming a party-starting sound and influencing bassline ...