Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three-time Grammy winner and Tony Award-winning performer Dee Dee Bridgewater has turned 76, continuing a music career that has ...

Back in 1999, the late Prince commented that sampling in the music industry was “getting out of hand,” speculating that “pretty soon we’ll be sampling the sample that was already sampled.” The “Purple ...

Tony Maiden of Rufus has been waiting nearly 20 years to perform "Ain't Nobody," the funk group's Grammy Award-winning 1983 hit. Rufus broke up in the early '80s after lead singer Chaka Khan left to ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

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How to make old styles sound fresh? Dallas' Silver Skylarks give a master class on the topic on The Number One Set and Sound, a debut album fusing '60s soul, '70s funk and '90s hip-hop into one ...

R&B in the 1970s was a defining era—one where soul, funk, blues, and disco converged to shape the sound of a generation. Solo stars like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Donna ...