The songs she posted on her MySpace page caught the attention of the music industry and led to a record deal.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy,Junior started a record company in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

They continued to perform together, although Michael Jackson started to record music on his own as well.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

He wrote that a whole new public for music had developed as a result of the popularity of the radio and record player.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

We close our program with music from a record called "Canyon Lullaby" written by Paul Winter.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Faith Lapidus has more. As a boy,Ben Harper spent a lot of time at his grandparents' record store called The Folk Music Center and Museum in California.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Now she has moved to Valory Music, an independent record label in Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Mario Ritter has more on the band and music from the new record.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Online music stores and file-sharing have had a big effect on record sales.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

They became popular and soon record companies became interested in her music.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

how fans would react to the record. But he said being comfortable and predictable by recording the same kind of music is not the place for rock music.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

while "Halo" competes for Record Of The Year. (MUSIC:Halo) Sharing third place with six nominations apiece are the Black Eyed Peas, R&B singer Maxwell, and Taylor Swift's nemesis Kanye West.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Started in 1987 as a way to bring national attention to Texas musicians like Schneider, South by Southwest is a now week-long event with performers from every continent arriving in Austin, trying to get the attention of booking agents,managers, publishers,record labels, radio presenters,critics and others in the music industry.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07