Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two...

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Other lesser known acts include a fairly new band from Australia called Violent Soho and the Nigerian-German soul singer Nneka Egbuna.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Other top artists included the country duo Sugarland,R&B singer Mary J.Blige, the nineteen eighties band The Bangles and Mexican-American artist Jenni Rivera.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Many include paintings by famous artists, like French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American artist John Singer Sargent.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

John Singer Sargent's painting known as "Madame X" was disputed when it was shown in eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Christina Aguilera worked with different songwriters on the album including Linda Perry and the Australian singer-songwriter Sia.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Grammy award-winning singer Sarah McLachlan and a few others created the traveling music festival in nineteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

For many years, popular singer Dinah Shore invited optimistic post-war Americans to take to the highway and see their country in a Chevrolet.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony will include poetry by Elizabeth Alexander and music by singer Aretha Franklin, violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as Ledbelly, first recorded "Good Night Irene" in nineteen thirty-two.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as, first recorded "Good Night Irene" in nineteen thirty-two.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Merle Haggard is considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters in the history of country music.

VOA: special.2010.12.06

The singer-songwriter also won for Musical Event of the Year for his hit song "Hillbilly Bone."

VOA: special.2010.11.19

Tell us if you have a favorite American blues or folk singer young or old -- and what makes that person's music special to you.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

For example, she sang with the hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean on one of his albums.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

This week on our program: We play music by the jazz-influenced singer Melody Gardot .

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Today we tell the story of Todd Duncan -- a concert singer and music teacher.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

One of the guests was Dolly Parton. The country singer grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains, and wrote a fund-raising CD for the seventy-fifth anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Hip-hop star Eminem,singer Bruno Mars and country group Lady Antebellum captured quite a few.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

As a singer, Bing Crosby's biggest recording success came from a nineteen forty-two movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The singer-songwriter has won several gospel music awards and has released four albums.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Perry Farrell, lead singer for Jane's Addiction, started Lollapalooza in nineteen ninety-one.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

Today,we begin a two-part story about songwriter and singer Woody Guthrie.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The seventy-two year old singer is retired now from opera.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

poet and rock singer Jim Carroll; and DJ AM, who survived a fiery 2008 plane crash with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Kanye promptly apologized to Taylor Swift and went into hiding, while the teenaged singer became the year's best-selling musical artist.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25