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Beyoncé and Jay-Z attend the 66th Grammy Awards at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 4, 2024. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy hide caption
Besides charting the course of her own pop stardom, Tyla's goals are to spread the pride of her country and keep the people who created amapiano at the forefront of the movement. Jeremy Soma/Epic Records hide caption
Tyla is the new face of African pop. She's aiming to take over the whole world
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Composer Anna Clyne — one of the most performed living composers — embraces melody in her music as a vehicle to connect with listeners. Christina Kernohan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Tigers Blood is songwriter Katie Crutchfield's sixth album as Waxahatchee. Molly Matalon/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Chief Keef's new album with Mike WiLL Made-It, Dirty Nachos, shows just how far he's grown beyond the Chicago teen who stormed YouTube in 2012. Tyler Shields/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Just because your favorite singer is dead doesn't mean you can't see them 'live'
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San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen. Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
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Benson Boone's song "Beautiful Things" has crossed over from TikTok phenomenon to full-on global chart hit. Dennis Leupold hide caption
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The Apollo Chamber Players create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. The members of the Houston based ensemble are Matthew Dudzik, left, Aria Cheregosha, Matthew J. Detrick and Anabel Ramírez. Lynn Lane/Apollo Chamber Players hide caption
Classical ensemble Apollo Chamber Players is tuned in to today's headlines
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Composer Julia Perry, photographed in Florence, Italy, in 1957 after she won her second Guggenheim fellowship. David Lees/Getty Images hide caption
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Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
"I remember any time I traveled to Mexico and other countries in the continent, I felt like, 'I'm Latina, but I'm not exactly like the people here,' Arocena tells NPR. "When I came to Puerto Rico, it was like, 'okay, now I understand.' " Alex Alaya/Brownswood Recordings hide caption
How Daymé Arocena left Cuba and found a freeing new sound in Afro-Caribbean pop
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Portrait of American jazz musician, composer and band leader Jackie McLean, Hartford, Conn., 1979. Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
McLean's Scene: How Jackie McLean made Hartford a destination for jazz
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McLean's Scene: How Jackie McLean made Hartford a destination for jazz
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