Alive at Five shut down a stretch of Broadway in Albany with a concert by Neal Francis and special guest TV Doctors on June 12. In May, Mayor Kathy Sheehan announced that the popular free music ...

“Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, left this earth today, but the changes he sparked while here will echo forever. From the moment his music reached me in the early 1970s, it became a part of ...

"His cherished music will live forever as he travels through the Universe and beyond. God bless you, sweet Brian," Nancy Sinatra shared, along with a studio photo shot while Wilson was working on ...

He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant.” Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood shared a post mourning both Wilson and Sly Stone, who died on ...

They want something quieter, more elevated, and rooted in great music.” Trending on Billboard To wit, the lineup for the evening featured headliner Francis Mercier, the steadily rising Afro ...

It’s a dream come true. To think that kindergarten kids now know my name and my music? It’s just thrilling!” she said. Francis was a prominent singer in the early 1950s and early 1960s.

Floyd Cramer may be best known in country music circles, but his influence reaches far beyond. In this video, we explore how his signature slip note piano style helped shape the sounds of everyone ...

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Sly’s music will likely speak to us even more now than it did then. Thank you, Sly. You will forever live.” Besides his children with Silva and Robinson, Stone is survived by another daughter ...

He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant.” Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood shared a post mourning both Wilson and Sly Stone, who died on ...

By Andrew Unterberger Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that ... and Sly Stone one of the leading voices and faces of popular music, internal pressures and tensions mounted, outside demands ...