In 1958, a Las Vegas booking agent spotted Wayne Newton (who was still in his junior year at high school at the time) and his brothers performing on a local TV show. He signed them up to perform in Vegas for two weeks. The two weeks turned into decades, Newton ended up becoming a breakaway…
The Alan Parsons Project consisted of Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson, and an ever-evolving line of session musicians and vocalists. Active between 1975 and 1990, they never made too much headway in their native UK, but enjoyed greater success in the US with hit singles like Eye in the Sky, Time, and Old and Wise. Over…
The Dumb and Dumber film soundtrack is one of the most popular soundtracks by itself. Now, this may be because it provides the greatest song in cinematic history, “Mockingbird” by Eminem. Many people have requested that I rank all of the songs from the album before, so here is my ranking of all 13 tracks…
There is nothing more satisfying than witnessing the rise to stardom of a young person, especially when that individual comes from humble beginnings. Swedish singer and songwriter Zara Maria Larsson occupies that space on the pedestal that few are privileged to stand atop. It’s not easy to rise to the top ranks of the music…
Ray Price was a country music singer, songwriter, and well-known record producer. He has been credited to have helped create the Nashville Sound. He was born in Texas in 1926 and was a piano student. He later became a disk jockey before joining the US Marine Corps. After his time in the United States Marine…
Vanessa Williams is an American singer, actress, and television producer. She is best known for her roles in Ugly Betty, Soul Food, and Desperate Housewives; she is also a Grammy Award-winning singer. Williams started performing when she was only six years old but had to give up her show business dreams after becoming Miss America…
Metallica has always been, without a doubt, one of the most popular bands in the entire world from various perspectives from their issues with Napster and copyright music, their beyond inspiring music to thousand of fans that have been reached, to even the bands that don’t play a genre anything like Metallica’s have claimed them…
Patti Smith is one of the most influential musicians in the history of rock music. She may not be as famous as she once was, but her impact on punk and art rock is certainly something to behold. Patti Smith will forever be remembered for her stunning album Horses, a haunting work of art that…
On April 21, 2000, an American romantic sports drama titled (Love & Basketball) hit the theatres and grossed $27.7 million USD in box office sales. Over the course of time, this movie has cemented itself into pop culture, earning itself the right to be called a cult classic. The movie received positive reviews and was…