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This is the time to unite: AR Rahman on north-south debate

Rahman also went on to make it clear that be it south India or north India, India was India

Arooj Aftab becomes first Pakistani woman to win a Grammy

Arooj won the award for her song 'Mohabbat' in the Best Global Performance category.

Pop star Britney Spears signs $15 million deal for tell-all memoir

Pop star Britney Spears has signed a USD 15 million book deal with publishing house Simon & Schuster for a tell-all memoir. According to Page Six, Simon & Schuster secured the deal for Spears' memoir after a massive bidding war involving multiple publishers. The book deal comes three months after the singer's 13-year conservatorship was terminated by a judge. In her public testimony last year about the conservatorship, Spears told the Los Angeles judge that she had been forced to work by conservators despite begging for breaks, and that she had no control over her finances, was denied her wish to marry her boyfriend, and was barred from removing her birth control despite her wish to have a third child. Spears, 41, has also been vocal about her estrangement from her family, including dad Jamie, mom Lynne and sister Jamie Lynn. She recently publicly condemned Jamie Lynn, who made allegations about the singer's mental health while promoting her own memoir. She described her pop ..

Music finds its beat

All the action notwithstanding, the Indian music business remains tiny

Musician Bappi Lahiri dies of 'multiple health issues' at age 69 in Mumbai

Lahiri's last Bollywood song was Bhankas for the 2020 film "Baaghi 3"

Bappi Lahiri had obstructive sleep apnea since last year, says doctor

Veteran singer Bappi Lahiri, who passed away at the age of 69 on 15th February 2022, had been battling OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) since 2021, says Doctor.

PM condoles demise of Bappi Lahiri, says his lively nature will be missed

Lahiri passed away at the age of 69 in Mumbai's CritiCare Hospital.

Courses in Indian classical music to harmonise the mind, body and soul

Learning Indian classical music elevates the senses and helps you attain greater consciousness. But be ready for a rough ride if you want to make a career out of it

Listening, right exposure to music are my foremost gurus: Durga Jasraj

In a Q&A, the daughter of the late vocalist Pt Jasraj, talks about a new cultural foundation she has set up to honour and take forward the legacy of the celebrated music genius

Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar passes away, her music lives on in generations

The singer defined an entire epoch in Indian film music, influenced the contours that the big-screen heroine assumed.

Dolly Parton to host Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas

Parton is a 13-time ACM Award winner, including for the coveted entertainer of the year prize

'Bat Out Of Hell' singer Meat Loaf dies at 74

Meat Loaf rose to global fame with his debut solo album, 1977's 'Bat Out of Hell', that went on to sell north of 14 mn copies in the US alone and became one of the biggest-selling albums of all time

Coldplay will stop recording new music in 2025, says Chris Martin

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has said that the band will stop recording new music in 2025. The 44-year-old musician made the revelation during an appearance on BBC Radio 2's special broadcast. "Our last proper record will come out in 2025, and after that I think we will only tour," Martin said. "And maybe we'll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then," he added. Martin leads the band which also includes Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion. Coldplay released their ninth album, 'Music of the Spheres', in October this year. The band is set to embark on a global tour next year. At the time of the album's release, Martin had said that the band might stop after releasing three more albums. "This is not a joke, this is true. I think after 12 that will be the end of our catalogue, but I think we will always want to play live together," Martin told Absolute Radio. "So, I think in the way that the (Rolling) Stones do, it will be so

A $550 million Springsteen deal? It's glory days for catalog sales

The industry is abuzz about imp­en­ding deals for Sting and the songwriting catalogue of David Bowie

Paul McCartney's bass guitar sells for $496,100, most expensive ever

The Beatles icon Paul McCartney's bass guitar was sold at auction for $496,100, making it the most expensive bass ever sold.

Grammy Awards 2022 nominations: Here's the complete list

The Recording Academy has revealed the nominees for the 64th annual Grammy Awards which will be held in 2022 and for the first time it celebrates 10 nominees in each of the general field categories.

Musician Jon Batiste leads Grammy Award nominations with 11

Jon Batiste might be the Grammys biggest surprise: The multi-genre performer and recent Oscar winner made such an impression on voters that he scored the most nominations with 11 on Tuesday. Batiste earned an album of the year nod for We Are along with record of the year with Freedom, a feel-good ode to the city of New Orleans. His nominations span several genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and HER each came away with the second-most nominations with eight by the time the Recording Academy was done announcing its nominees for its January 31 show. Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo both had seven nods. Along with Batiste's surprise domination, another shock was The Weeknd nabbing three nominations after the pop star claimed he would not allow his label to submit his music. Earlier this year, he angrily slammed the Grammys, calling them corrupt after he received zero nominations despite 2020's biggest single, Blinding

Thousands of Venezuelan musicians set world's largest orchestra record

Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world's largest orchestra. The record was set by 8,573 musicians. Guinness World Records in a video released Saturday announced that the musicians, all connected to the country's network of youth orchestras, earned the designation with a performance a week earlier of Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March". The musicians, ranging in age from 12 to 77, attempted the record during a patriotic concert at a military academy in the capital of Caracas. To set the record, more than 8,097 had to be tallied playing at the same time during a five-minute period of Tchaikovsky's piece. The network of orchestras known as El Sistema, or The System, assembled some 12,000 musicians for the concert. The repertoire included Venezuela by Pablo Herrero and Jose Luis Armenteros, the South American country's national anthem and Pedro Gutierrez's Alma Llanera, which Venezuelans consider their unofficial anthem.

WhiteHat Jr's music lessons for all ages; customised course for 18-plus set

Pandemic has shown how music can uplift one's health and wellbeing, help bond with others and offer several cognitive benefits for older adults, says the company

Outlaw Records founder Sandy Joia making people groove with his Punjabi Music

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