Music & Musicians

The “Jessie’s Girl” singer, 75, revealed to People that a recent full-body MRI scan showed he has brain damage from falling during a Las Vegas performance in 2000.

Students at a West Side elementary school got some special lessons from a Chicago legend when Billy Branch took his harmonic playing skills to the classroom. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter shows his impact on those young minds.

Despite speculation that Taylor Swift provided background vocals on Lady Gaga’s new album, multiple outlets have shut down the rumors.

Céline Dion — who hasn’t made a public appearance since her stunning performance at the 2024 Olympics — recently stepped out with her twin sons, Nelson and Eddy Angélil, at the TGL golf match. 

Dolly Parton honored her late husband Carl Dean in a new song, “If You Hadn’t Been There,” following his death on March 3.

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and musician behind 1976’s album “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died. He was 84.

Dolly Parton shared glimpses of her decades-long romance with husband Carl Dean months before he died in Nashville at age 82.

At the Vanity Fair Oscars Party, Lizzo and her boyfriend Myke Wright stepped out together, where the pair stunned in complementing looks.

Musician Eric Clapton has been playing music since he was 13 years old. Here are five things to know about the legendary guitarist.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls, has died.

Court records show Drake has reached a settlement with iHeartMedia in his ongoing legal dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Award-winning singe-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since President Donald Trump took office.

The protest album features recordings of empty studios and performance spaces and was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws.

A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to a federal charge accusing her of concocting a brazen plot to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property.

Wu-Tang Clan is forever, but their touring days are coming to an end.

Singer Roberta Flack, who was best known for her hits “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” is dead at 88.

Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits.

“My dream is finally becoming a reality,” Billy McFarland, the founder of the controversial festival, told TODAY.

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong Survive” and “Make It Easy On Yourself,” has died at age 85.

An attorney representing Sean “Diddy” Combs in his sex trafficking case announced that he is stepping down as counsel.