In 1987, Deacon Anthony Liguori became an Elvis tribute artist to help preserve the artist’s legacy. In concerts, he plays songs from all the different stages of Elvis’ life — the young ’50s rocker, ...
Gospel music is rooted in spirituals, blues, shape-note songs, ragtime, and the urban church revival It emerged ... or to which they were opposed. Elvis Presley was a major beneficiary of these ...
Music has always gone side by side with politics, with great protest songs inspiring and soothing when needed. Here are some ...
Ella Jenkins, the prolific, multigenerational musical pioneer who became known as the 'First Lady of Children's Music,' died ...
This week, he spent forty minutes playing the Village People, Pavarotti, and Guns N’ Roses for a crowd in Pennsylvania. It is baffling and mesmeric, boring and profound. Nothing happens and everything ...
The RCA Victor Recording Studios is said to be the “birthplace of the Nashville Sound.” Many legends have recorded within these walls, including Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, among ...
Cissy Houston got her musical start at church before joining her siblings ... Otis Redding, and Elvis Presley. She later ...
So I was raised in church and had to become the pianist very ... and she made a name for herself – as Miriam Eddy – writing songs for Don Gibson, Dottie West, Nancy Sinatra, and others.
Lorensz was also a member of the St Mary’s Church Dehiwela Youth Choir ... “I dance and sing these much loved songs in my colourful Elvis Jump suits, and I perform all the three eras of Elvis, namely ...
She was just nine when her father Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n ... start building some self-esteem", saying the controversial church was "a form of self-help, self-discovery".
On Nov. 6, Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame welcomed Al Anderson, Dan Penn, Liz Rose, Victoria Shaw, David Bellamy, Tony ...
East Texas music veteran Paul Cauthen's latest album "Black on Black" finds him soulfully embodying the fringes of country's ...