"We all experience joy. And so we tried to capture that all in one in this particular grouping of performers."

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

His heartfelt,powerful, soulful singing helped establish him as one of the greatest rhythm and blues performers of all time.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Each year, the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

The musical helped launch the careers of several African American performers, including singers Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

of the official festival. In nineteen fifty-eight, the performers formed a Fringe Society to organize their event and provide tickets and programs.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

However,many of Nashville's current country music performers lost instruments and equipment when a storage center was flooded.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

They include the band Kings of Leon and musician Bela Fleck, performers Lady Gaga and Lady Antebellum.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

But his expert knowledge of the music and its performers helped make jazz an international language.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Most performers never would make fun of the businesses that helped pay for the show.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Like many performers of his time, he started in vaudeville in the early nineteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Today we tell about one of the most famous performers in the world, Michael Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Brown influenced the music of his time and many performers who came after him.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Many of the performers wore funny clothing and wore their hair in unusual styles.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The performers are part of the Al-Kasaba Theater and Cinematheque in Ramallah.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

More than eighty percent of the performers are locals, including Buckwheat Zydeco.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

These young performers copied the sounds of successful rhythm and blues groups.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

She became one of the most celebrated performers in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

All of the performers in the show were soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

One of the performers was Alicia Keys.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

"We weren't professionals in the beginning. They just took us in and we've gotten to watch not only what we have done with them but what they've done with a lot of other fabulous performers and musicians here on Maui.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

It's not just attendee figures that are increasing, the number of South By Southwest performers are on the rise as well.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

And there's a special brand of rodeo performers right in the middle of the action.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

There are street performers of all kinds.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19