カテゴリー: Music
The distinctive guitar pattern informs many of the country’s biggest hits, and remains an enduring cultural touchstoneIn late 2021, a series of videos started circulating social media: a gifted singer belting out R&B and hip-hop tunes with a unique…
A British orchestra will this week play, for the first time, a programme of Afghan music, featuring exiled Afghan musicians on traditional instrumentsThe musicians of Afghanistan have again been silenced by the Taliban. Other than specific religious an…
Guess Who member gets back the Gretsch that he used to write American Woman, after fan tracked it down in Tokyo using photos of woodgrainThe Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a che…
Announcement of closed trial coincides with uproar over unrelated assault at restaurant in TangshanThe Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has gone on trial for alleged rape and other offences in Beijing, as China is in uproar over a video showing a grou…
Krishnakumar Kunnath, a star Bollywood singer best known as KK, complained of feeling cold and unwell before collapsingStar Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, has died of a suspected heart attack at age 53 after a concert on …
Killed in a shooting this week, the 28-year-old Punjabi Sikh MC offset gangster bravado with a keen sociopolitical awarenessFive years ago, Sidhu Moose Wala announced his arrival with So High. Using flutes and a faint tumbi, producer Byg Byrd roots the…
Musician whose real name was Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu was killed a day after his security cover was withdrawnIndian police are investigating the murder of a popular Punjabi rapper a day after he was fatally shot.Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known by his …
Alamat are aiming to bring their music to the world – by singing in their local languagesVocal coach Zebedee Zuñiga twists his hand in the air, and the melody of a tender, haunting lullaby, Ili Ili Tulog Anay, begins. “Little one, little one, sleep now…
Song has more than 111m views on YouTube and has been heralded for transcending boundariesFrom radio stations in Islamabad to the nightclubs of Delhi and house parties in Kathmandu, it is a song that in recent months has been impossible to avoid. As so…
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threatIt was a big year for Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soun…
Bumzu is one of the most influential people in K-pop, helping shape South Korea’s multibillion-dollar global music businessWhen Jin from the superstar boyband BTS released Super Tuna – an upbeat song about his favourite pastime, fishing – it instantly …
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
Eva B, who was brought up in a notorious slum, has become Pakistan’s latest music sensationHer phone has been buzzing with non-stop messages and calls. Eva B, once a little-known rapper from the Karachi urban-slum settlement of Lyari, has become Pakist…
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With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one anotherEarly one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and bucke…