Beyonce admits Inauguration Day pre-recording
By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
Beyonce answered critics of her Inauguration Day performance the best way she could — with another sterling performance of the national anthem.

Beyonce answered critics of her Inauguration Day performance the best way she could — with another sterling performance of the national anthem.

Justin Bieber had an unplugged performance at the Apollo Theater, but it wasn’t intentional — a problem caused a power outage during the singing sensation’s big concert.
A lawsuit filed against the Recording Academy over its decision to trim the Grammy Award categories, eliminating such categories as Latin jazz, has been dismissed.

The best voices of a generation all paid tribute to her. But in the end, the most powerful voice at Whitney Houston’s funeral was her own.
Beyonce and Jay-Z’s spawn doesn’t even have a name yet, but it was the indisputable breakout star of Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.

NEW YORK— Long before Public Enemy urged the need to “Fight the Power” or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil-Scott Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the black masses through song and spoken word. Scott-Heron, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap with his piercing social and political [...]
NEW YORK — A coalition of musicians is demanding the Recording Academy restore more than 30 categories cut from the Grammy Awards, alleging the reductions unfairly target ethnic music and were done without the input of its thousands of members. A protest was held Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, at an academy board meeting. A [...]