Dave Shapiro, 42, a veteran talent agent and co-founder of Sound Talent Group (STG), was among the victims in a fatal plane crash in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 22, in San Diego, California. The accident involved a 1985 Cessna Citation aircraft, which crashed around 4 a.m., killing all aboard. According to a…
This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music. That…
African music lost one of its titans last week with the death of Amadou Bagayoko, a guitarist who recorded with American rock stars, performed at the Nobel concert for Barack Obama, and became a national icon in his home, Mali. With his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, Mr. Bagayoko composed the duo Amadou & Mariam,…
Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian guitarist and composer who with his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a broadly accessible sound that made fans of people worldwide who otherwise knew little about music from Africa, died on Friday in Bamako, Mali’s capital. He was 70. His death was announced by the Malian…
Rishabh Pant and Rohit Sharma (AP/Getty Images) LUCKNOW: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper Rishabh Pant and Mumbai Indians (MI) star Rohit Sharma will be under the scanner due to poor form when these two teams face off at the Ekana Stadium here on Friday. The lean patch of the two stalwarts has put more pressure…
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<p style="text-align: justify;">आजकल म्यूजिक स्ट्रीमिंग प्लेटफॉर्म्स का दौर है और अब लोग अपने मोबाइल में गाने रखने की बजाय ऑनलाइन गाने सुनना पसंद करते हैं. स्पॉटिफाई, यूट्यूब म्यूजिक और ऐपल म्यूजिक समेत आजकल कई स्ट्रीमिंग सर्विस मौजूद हैं, जिनमें से यूजर्स अपनी जरूरत के हिसाब से चुन सकते हैं. अगर आपको अपने लिए इनमें से…
For more than 80 years, Voice of America transmitted the news into countries, many of them authoritarian, where reliable sources of information about the outside world were often hard to come by. Now those broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of U.S. efforts to promote democracy and transparency overseas — are flickering out….
Khalil Fong, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter who infused a soul and R&B sensibility into Chinese pop songs, died on Feb. 21. He was 41. His death was announced on Saturday by his record label, Fu Music. The announcement did not say where Mr. Fong had died or specify a cause of death, but it said…
Oscars 2025: Follow live updates on the 97th Academy Awards. The streets of Rio de Janeiro have been littered with Fernanda Torres imitators. They drink beer, clutch plastic Oscars and deliver the impromptu acceptance speeches that they hope their idol, the Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, will give on Sunday night at the Academy Awards. “It’s…