PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Some local advocates believe that music and art have the power to heal. That’s the intention behind a new music video featuring an original song written and recorded by youth ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. For many people I know, 2024 was an AWFUL year, I mean epically bad. Between global ...

Rodney Harmon of Floyd County, Virginia, has been flatfooting for 60 years, but never had he danced in a health clinic. He can thank Joe Smiddy for the pleasure. Smiddy, an allegedly “retired” ...

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty." — Edmund Burke We all need beauty in our lives. Living, working, and “being” in beauty makes everything just a little bit better. As I’m writing ...

Alexis Cariello’s three-year-old son, Nico, loves to sing. Sometimes, he drifts off to sleep to the sound of his own voice; other times he belts out holiday tunes from his bed so loudly that Cariello ...

When her daughter was born sixteen years ago, Anushka Govias-Smith, 46, sang “heart songs” to her, and continued through her childhood. “I would make up my own lyrics to the tunes of popular nursery ...

Less than a year after releasing his fourth studio album, Beautiful Mind, Rod Wave is back with a new single. On his latest, “Fight The Feeling,” Wave shares a story of heartbreak, delivering soul ...

The pop icon says collaborating with her daughter became a turning point while making her new album ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — A veteran who served seven years in Afghanistan with the Air National Guard is using his musical talents to help fellow veterans heal from trauma. After earning degrees in music and ...

Musician Doe Paoro is approaching music as a healer. With her new album Living Through Collapse, she aims to create a healing experience—both personal and collective. Lyrically, the album explores big ...

Thirteen-year-old Zak “Zippy” Huot aspires to perform on Broadway one day. So last summer he was thrilled when, over a Zoom meeting, he learned that some Broadway actors would perform songs for a ...