STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alfa Anderson performing in 2014 - Carrie Davenport/Redferns via Getty Images Alfa Anderson, who has died aged 78, was a singer ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

San Antonio’s Tobin Center for the Performing Arts is urging locals to leave all their cares behind on November 1. On June 10, the downtown cultural hub revealed legendary disco hitmaker Chic as the ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...

Nile Rodgers, the band leader of Chic, is perhaps best known for writing and producing "Le Freak" and "Good Times." The tunes are two of the biggest hits from the band's catalog and from the entire ...

Inspired by the glam rock band Roxy Music, Rodgers imagined a new band merging sound and image seamlessly. He was also inspired by the anonymousness of KISS—performing behind stage makeup and ...