Artists

R&B vocalist Heather Headley was born to pastors in Trinidad in the mid-1970s. At an early age, she was surrounded by music and performance art. She started playing concert piano…

Born and raised on a West London council estate. Heather battled with shyness and a profound desire to sing from her early age. Captivated by gospel music’s inspirational elements and…

Herbie Hancock began playing piano at his home in Chicago when he was seven years old. He gave his first public performance two years later. In high school, he picked…

Holly Marie Combs was born December 3, 1973, in San Diego, California. At the time of her birth, her 15-year-old mother and 17-year-old father quit school to marry, only to…

In 1969 while demoing a slight reggae version of the John Lennon song [Give Peace A Chance] with a group of friends, Errol Brown changed the lyrics of the number…

Huey Lewis and the News are an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring…

R&B legend Ike Turner was born on November 5, 1931, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and grew up playing the blues. In 1956, he met a teenager and singer named Anna Mae…

When India Arie sings, “I’m not the average girl from your video,” it has got to be the understatement of the year. Charismatic, emotional, and impossible to pigeonhole, her Motown…

Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music’s true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and…

“I’ve been on a bit of a roller coaster,” says James Blunt, in his typically dry, British understatement. Two albums, two world tours and 18 million records sold later, Blunt…