In 1913, when Bengali poet, playwright and polymath Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel ...

Before it became a classic, George Harrison’s Isn’t It a Pity was turned down by The Beatles and left unheard until 1970.

The late singer and actor released his original rendition of the holiday classic in 1962 Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial Intern in ...

Country music is back at the Super Bowl. Vocal powerhouse Brandi Carlile will perform "America the Beautiful" ahead of the Feb. 8 game in Santa Clara, Calif. She is one of three pre-game performers ...

The National Anthem singer for this season's Super Bowl has been revealed. It was announced during NBC's broadcast of Sunday Night Football that Charlie Puth will sing the National Anthem. It was also ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

Asian elephant Nhi Linh, who stands in the foreground, is pregnant. Behind her is Spike, who sired the calf. Skip Brown / Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Elephant ...

Karina Pasian was tapped to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the NFL’s first-ever regular-season game in Spain over the weekend but drew backlash on social media for her outfit choice. Pasian ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes brought the action and made our hearts race with The Beast in Me, their brand new Netflix series that takes cat-and-mouse to another level. ...

The singer died of cancer on Nov. 2 in Nashville Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in ...

She sang with the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979, when she left the group alongside her keyboard player husband Keith Godchaux She also performed on a number of hit singles for stars like Elvis ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay’s fondest memories singing with the Grateful Dead included three 1978 shows in Egypt, where they performed in front of the Great Pyramid. “Those were really exciting, ...