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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music tells the story of how Roberta Flack got her very first piano.

Roberta Flack's first piano came from a junkyard – five Grammys would follow

4:39pm January 16, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music recounts the story of Flack's father finding her a beat-up, old, upright in a junkyard — a treasure that led to a life in music.

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NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron shines playing solo on 'The Source'

12:27pm January 16, 2023

by Kevin Whitehead

Barron previously recorded most tunes on his album, a few more than once. Now he gives them layers of new meaning and an allusive texture — with occasional hints at Afro-Cuban rhythms and gestures.

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Devendra Banhart grew up in Caracas in the '90s, but didn't perform his first show there until 2022.

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How Cusica Fest is trying to rebuild the Venezuelan music industry

7:00pm January 14, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

A music festival in Caracas, Venezuela is building momentum for renewed creativity and expression in the country, amidst an ongoing political crisis.

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Latin Side All Stars are out with a new album

5:28pm January 14, 2023

Conrad Herwig and the Latin Side All Stars have a new jazz album and a new residency at the Django jazz club in New York City.

Cusica Fest is trying to rebuild the Venezuelan music industry

10:37am January 14, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

A music festival in Caracas, Venezuela is building momentum for renewed creativity and expression in the country, amidst an ongoing political crisis.

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Lisa Marie Presley spent her life in the spotlight

4:04pm January 13, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, has died at 54 years old.

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Vagabon, 'Carpenter'

11:25am January 13, 2023

by Elle Mannion

Lætitia Tamko welcomes us into the new era of Vagabon with cleansing self-awareness and newfound perspective.

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Margo Price embarks on a new, psychedelic journey on 'Strays'

10:27am January 13, 2023

The Nashville singer-songwriter tells the story of the mind-altering trip that set the stage for her latest album, and changed her life.

The struggle and the joy that inspired a new album from country singer Margo Price

5:14am January 13, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with musician Margo Price about the inspiration for her new album, Strays. Price also has a memoir out called: Maybe We'll Make It.

Lisa Marie Presley poses for her first picture in the lap of her mother, Priscilla, on Feb. 5, 1968, with her father, Elvis Presley.

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Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's only child and a singer in her own right, dies

9:27pm January 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," Priscilla Presley said in a statement.