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WEARING A CRISP WHITE SHIRT and a black bouffant curled in a flip, Aretha Franklin seemed pensive but confident as she walked into the legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . If you're footloose and floating up Pacific Coast Highway, a blink [...]

THE COLORS CL WORE WERE AS LOUD AS her message. Sporting knee-high boots and a Froot Loop-hued pufy jacket, she led a squad of dancers through Seoul's National Museum of [...]

ONE SUMMER night in 2019, Morgan Wallen got his ear pierced. The 27-year-old country singer-songwriter was touring with Florida Georgia Line, along with his fellow opener and close collaborator HARDY. [...]

'LICK YOUR UPS and toss your hair back' was the style advice that Jane Birkin recalled her former partner Serge Gainsbourg giving her in an interview last year with Harper's [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Willie Nelson has a long history of tempting, and cheating, death. [...]

RESPECT M.E. On successful artists: 'One thing I always say, you will always get respect, but you won't be hot forever.... Yon have to mentally be prepared for those ups [...]

Byline: BY DANIELLE KWATENG PHOTOGRAPHED BY LAKIN OGUNBANWO BEAUTY IN NIGERIA AFROBEATS IS SWEEPING THE U.S., AND SO FAR THE WAVE HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY MEN. BUT ONE WOMAN STANDS [...]

Byline: KEZIAH WEIR Photographs by QUIL LEMONS Styled by GABRIELLA KAREFA-JOHNSON CHARMING Bi l l i e In the last year, Billie Eilish scored five Grammys, went multiplatinum eight times, [...]

Byline: Michael Schulman Master Class tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda17tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaMarilyn Maye17 When the cabaret singer Marilyn Maye turned ninety, in April of last year, she celebrated with a [...]

How does Lea Michele unwind post-Glee? By starring in a new TV show ('Scream Queens), writing a second book, and laying down tracks for a forthcoming album, naturally In a [...]

Byline: -LAUREN ELKIN CITIZEN JAIN A third-culture kid, the singer is producing music for the global stage. You could spend significantly more time deconstructing Jain' s songs than it takes [...]

GROWING UP IN A MUSICAL family in Greenville, S.C., Marcus King was 'really into counterculture--especially anything guitar-oriented,' recalls the 25-year-old. By high school, he was spending his afternoons studying jazz [...]

FROM Brighton, England AGE 26 LABEL Polydor (United Kingdom)/lnterscope (United States) FOUNDATION Celeste's musical education started when she was 3, sitting in the back seat of her grandfather's car listening [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Toobin Late Bloomer When Ben Schatz was in his first year at Harvard Law School, in the mid-eighties, he conducted an experiment. He sent his résumé, seeking a [...]

FROM Algiers, Algeria AGE 30 LABEL Affranchis Music FOUNDATION Born and raised in a northern suburb of Algeria's capital, Abderraouf Derradji grew up in the middle of a civil war. [...]

BYRON WILSON Manager 'One of the first times we actually hung out, I had some people over at my house in L.A. and [co-manager Mauricio] Ruiz and her pulled up [...]

When I was a kid, my extended family gathered at my grandparents' house in north Toronto every Friday night to observe Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. Practising but hardly [...]

Byline: -Ian Parker GOOD GENES Sir Tom Jones, the singer, who was born in Wales and now lives in Los Angeles, was recently driven through the Bronx, in the company [...]

Byline: Photographed by Angelo Pennetta. MARK GUIDUCCI ONE WOMAN SHOW Claire Boucher-the music producer and performer better known as Grimes-is engineering her own pop stardom. I really hate encores,' Grimes [...]

Byline: -Ian Frazier PRIZE-WINNER Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, winner of first prize in the male-vocalist category in the fifteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition, held in Moscow and St. Petersburg last summer, and winner [...]

Byline: Alex Bhattacharji 13 15 THE HITMAKER PHARRELL WILLIAMS He's the man with the Midas touch, turning everything he tackles-from music and television to fashion and fine art-into 24-karat cool. [...]

Byline: -John Seabrook REBOOT Back when Jason Isbell was drinking, he spent a lot of his New York City downtime at the Lakeside Lounge, on Avenue B. 'It's gone now,' [...]

Byline: TEHRENE FIRMAN EDITOR: DANA MATHEWS G FORCE She's toured with Katy Perry, earned hit singles, and become a CoverGirl- Becky G is just getting started. When people ask if [...]

Byline: EDITOR: DANA MATHEWS TEHRENE FIRMAN GUITAR HERO Fame in six seconds? Meet Shawn Mendes, the Viner who's changing the music scene. When Shawn Mendes posted a clip of himself [...]

Byline: -Alec Wilkinson POLARIZING After her tap-dance lesson, Kat Edmonson had lunch at a Cuban restaurant. Edmonson is a singer and songwriter who has a new record, called 'The Big [...]

Byline: Judy Bachrach PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Power Play No stranger to controversy, Fergie knows that it takes guts and grit to stay in the pop-music game. After an eight-year [...]

Byline: BY MOLLY KNIGHT PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI STYLED BY MELISSA VENTOSA MARTIN JENNIFER LOPEZ HER LEAP YEAR WE'RE CALLING IT: 2015 IS LOPEZ'S BREAKTHROUGH YEAR. WITH TWO MOVIES, A [...]

Byline: Erin Bried Photographs by David Gubert Anything could happen Ellie Goulding has sold more than 17 million singles and sung at a royal wedding. But it wasn't too long [...]

Byline: Jada Yuan The full Patti LaBelle experience is not to be rushed. The showgirls have doffed their feathers, and the band has hung up its horns, following a Wednesday [...]

soul MATES Soul is back, and it sounds good. Meet the girls in charge. THE MIX MASTER As a child in Providence, Rhode Island, Mapei grew up on hip-hop, but [...]