The Punjabi music industry is in mourning following the death of Charanjit Ahuja, a highly respected music composer known as the "emperor" of Punjabi music. Throughout his illustrious career, Ahuja ...

Veteran music composer Shankar Ganesh is currently receiving intensive care at a private hospital in Chennai, as confirmed by his son, actor Sreekumar. Having been a prominent figure in Tamil cinema ...

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Ricky Gervais is leading a crowd of feral felines in a new adult animated series for Netflix. Gervais is behind Netflix’s Alley Cats, which stars a wealth of top British comics including Diane Morgan, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who played - and even boxed - with Miles Davis and was known as "The Sorcerer" for coaxing tunes from everything from a live piglet to ...

In 2002, Zubeen Garg lost his sister in a road mishap in Assam's Sonitpur district. A few years later, when he sang his first Bengali song, "Bojhena Shey Bojhena," for the Bengali film Prem Aamar ...

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he rose from a childhood of rural privation to become a favorite of jazz musicians and audiences around the world. By Larry Rohter Hermeto Pascoal, the eccentric, ...

During the darkest months of COVID-19 lockdowns, the creative forces behind the animation industry were working harder than perhaps ever before. Karen Jackson, a Toronto surfacing artist and ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Saturday (September 13, 2025) urged the Union government to confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, on maestro ‘Isaignani’ Ilaiyaraaja at ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska. By ...

Hsu Hsih (許石) never forgot the international student gathering he attended in Japan, where participants were asked to sing a folk song from their homeland. When it came to the Taiwanese students, they ...