He combined both influences to create a whole new kind of music -- rock and roll.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,Ohio is celebrating the record company's anniversary all year with a new exhibit "Motown: The Sound of Young America Turns Fifty."

VOA: special.2009.05.11

recorded when he was 90 years old. Les Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1988, and was also a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall Of Fame and National Inventors Hall Of Fame.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

"I think a lot of European allies, including France, are looking to the United States to roll out a new Afghan strategy that they can more comfortably buy into, and they will be looking at whether they can up their contribution, their military contribution, their economic contribution, after they have seen that particular strategy,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29