Motown Records was essential for the advancement of Black music and culture, but Berry Gordy also released music by various ...

Grammy-winning artist Samara Joy is 25, but critics say she reminds them of jazz royalty from the 1940s and 1950s. It isn't the music she grew up with, but Joy is making jazz her own.

The definitive female soul singer of the '60s ... gospel music at age 14. At 18, legendary talent scout John Hammond brought her to Columbia Records. Hammond later says, "Columbia was a white ...