For more than three decades, the ESSENCE Festival of Culture has returned to New Orleans as something bigger than a music festival. It’s a family reunion. A place where Black music across generations ...

It was supposed to be a night that reverberated with appreciation for musical greats. But one red carpet encounter at the 2025 Grammys sounded more like a record scratch. The Grammy-winning artist, ...

The ESSENCE Festival of Culture just added even more star power to its 2026 lineup, with Public Enemy and Babyface joining ...

New lineup additions: Babyface and Leon Thomas have been added to the 2026 ESSENCE Festival, joining a multigenerational roster of performers. Themed concert nights: Each night will spotlight a ...

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GRAMMY®, TONY®, and EMMY® Award-winning icon Barry Manilow has released "Another Life – 2026," a reimagined version of his ...

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R&B in the 1970s was a defining era—one where soul, funk, blues, and disco converged to shape the sound of a generation. Solo stars like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Donna ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...