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Happy Birthday this week to: Jul 10 1900 ● Mitchell Parish → Pop music lyricist and collaborator with Duke Ellington and numerous other top composers for multiple hits from the 20s to 50s, known best for penning the lyrics to Hoagy Carmichael‘s music...

Image: Deborah Cox With a stamp of approval from music legend Clive Davis, collaborations with Whitney Houston and five studio albums under her belt, Deborah Cox is known as one of the top Canadian R&B singers and songwriters of our time. Most...

Music has been a key component in my life since I was little. I can remember the sound of R&B and Gospel playing in the kitchen while my parents were cooking family meals. My father played Jazz in the car while driving my sister and I to various...

Photo courtesy of Amir Valle. From left to right: Amir Valle and Ángel Santiesteban Prats Angel Santiesteban talks with Amir Valle about personal experiences that marked their lives. By Ángel Santiesteban Prats, 9 July 2015 Angel Santiesteban: Amir...

(Vanity Fair) – The Reverend Al Sharpton has been many things to many people: a firebrand, an opportunist, an inspiration, a joke. Today, with race once again roiling America’s conscience, he is arguably the country’s most influential civil-rights leader...