Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, was deemed a commercial failure, but it helped to establish Simone as a stunning new voice for American jazz. In subsequent years, Simone managed to break into the ...

Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has ...

Nina Simone produced a vital force in music, spanning genres and eras always to reflect the times. But why did she define her sound as "Black classical music"?

As the grandson of jazz and soul legend Nina Simone and the son of singer and actress Lisa Simone, the artist has left no stone unturned in exploring his gifts. He is a singer, songwriter ...

Simone may have passed before Zaya Wade was born, but if she were here today, one can't help but imagine that she'd be singing it about Wade, too. At just 17 years old, Wade has the world at her ...

Brandon Kazen-Maddox makes time for mud massages, meditation and aerial hoop adventures. Brandon Kazen-Maddox has always felt ...

Category-defying Santigold is coming to Newport Music Hall in June. Get a sneak peek and find out why Beyoncé called out the ...

Her music is a whirlwind of jazz, soul and gospel, informed by everyone from Nina Simone to Grace Jones. Her name comes from ...

Art & Soul's Monique Burts has shown her wearable art at the Indy 500 Snakepit Ball and more. The Herron alum imagines a new ...

After nearly a decade, polymath creative Pharrell Williams is putting his curator hat back on for a new show at Perrotin Paris that celebrates Black women.