Author: MARIA SHERMAN AP music writer

NEW YORK — The 2025 Latin Grammys are headed back to Las Vegas. The 26th annual award show will take place on Nov. 13 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It marks the 15th time the show has taken place in Sin City. The three-hour telecast will be broadcast live on Univision. […]

NEW YORK — It wasn’t the night punk broke, but it was close. Nearly 50 years ago, the Sex Pistols — then made up of vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock — performed at the 100 Club Punk Special in London, a 140-capacity club, alongside Subway Sect, Siouxsie […]

Thirty years ago, music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar. For the last three decades, Saldívar has served her life sentence in Texas. Now 64, Saldívar has a petition for parole under review, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice online records. On Sunday, she is up for parole […]

The rising rapper Doechii has earned the title of Billboard’s 2025 Woman of the Year, landing her in the same company as Taylor Swift, SZA, Lady Gaga and as last year’s honoree, Karol G. The news arrives just one month after Doechii won the Grammy for best rap album, only the third woman to win […]

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose songs “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song” made her a global star, will be eulogized at a memorial service Monday. Flack was one of the top recording artists of the 1970s […]

NEW YORK — She was the first to go “SOLO.” Seven years ago, global pop phenomenon Jennie became the first member of the K-pop group Blackpink to release solo music. On Friday, she becomes the latest to drop a debut solo studio album, the English-language “Ruby.” It’s a kaleidoscope of different sounds for Jennie, full […]

French composer duo Clément Ducol and Camille took home the original song award at the Oscars on Sunday for their track, “El Mal.” In January, “El Mal” also earned the pair a Golden Globe in the same category. The musical “Emilia Pérez” is a lot of things — a musical, a transgender parable, endlessly controversial […]

NEW YORK — In an era where popular music is fluid, it is easy to forget the listening world was not always so open. Unless, of course, Roberta Flack’s career is closely examined. Flack, whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recording artists of the 1970s and an influential performer […]

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Voletta Wallace, the dedicated mother of the late great rapper The Notorious B.I.G., died Friday morning at 78. Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac confirmed her death Friday to The Associated Press, saying she died at her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, after a stint on hospice care. She died […]