Mariah Carey was deemed the MusiCares Person of the Year for 2026 and the ceremony honoring her brought some big surprises.

Mariah Carey, the Queen of Christmas, was honored at the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala for her enduring contributions to ...

Busta Rhymes, Laufey, Maggie Rogers, Teddy Swims, and Charlie Puth also performed Carey's songs for her at the Person of the ...

He’s scored 33 No. 1 hits — but one iconic song missed the top by that much, and the country legend still hasn’t let it go.

Taylor Swift, Kiss' Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins make up ...

Clarence Carter, the powerful, deep-voiced R&B-soul singer from Alabama who scored a series of crossover hits during the late 1960s and early 70s, celebrated his 90th birthday on January 14, 2026.

"I feel isolated when I’m not there. When I’m back full-time again I start feeling the little tingle again to be around ...

There have been questions about James Brown's cause of death over the past two decades Tim Mosenfelder/Getty James Brown was a renowned soul artist who toured into his 70s He was admitted to an ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B holiday songs. These songs are more than just soundtracks for the holidays. They ...

No holiday music playlist is complete without Donny Hathaway’s 1970 soul classic. From the first measures of the track to his closing line of “shake a hand/shake a hand,” there is no other song that ...

Christmastime is here, as Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson put it in the nostalgia-inducing song composed for A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965. The soundtrack to that TV holiday classic has been ...

Here’s the good news: There’s a whole world of modern Christmas music that exists outside of what restaurants and retail stores play ad nauseam starting Nov. 1. Now for the bad news: That world has ...