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Jazz in India has never been a mass-market genre, but it has shaped far more music than its size suggests. Jazz musicians played on Bollywood scores, ran the ni

Indian indie rock has been declared dead many times. Each time, it shows up at a college festival and proves the obituary wrong. The scene runs on live shows, c

Qawwali is devotional Sufi music built on call-and-response singing, handclaps, harmonium and tabla — a form that is centuries old and still fills venues today.

Devotional music is often treated as a side corner of the Indian music industry. The numbers say otherwise. From temple loudspeakers to stadium kirtan concerts,

When Sunburn launched in 2007 in the coastal town of Candolim, Goa, electronic dance music was still an underground curiosity in India. Less than two decades la

Hip-hop is the most dominant sound on the planet today, but it began with a single party in a Bronx recreation room. On August 11, 1973, Cindy Campbell threw a

Sir Elton Hercules John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, in Pinner, England, is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 300

Shawn Corey Carter, known as Jay-Z, was born on December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. He began his musical career in the late 1980s and co-founded the record

Kanye Omari West was born on June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, and moved with his mother to Chicago at age three. Mentored by legendary producer No I.D., he first rose

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, was born on March 10, 1994, in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap," he is widely credite