Alan Menken and lyricist Tim Rice’s blockbusting ballad was matched by the vocal talents of Brad Kane and Lea Salonga and it won the Oscar for Best Original Song, the Grammy for Song Of The Year ...

That’s where a few ballads fit in nicely. They don't have to be sad or full of doom and gloom. Neither do they all have to be lush love songs. Though romance, sadness, and heartbreak do often ...

“After writing the first three chords, I knew something was happening,” Mick Jones recalled of the night in 1984 when he wrote the song that gave his band Foreigner their biggest hit.

The British pop star was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger ...

Sultry-voiced Aki Yashiro, beloved as the “queen of enka” (Japanese ballads), died of rapidly ... she sang melancholy songs about romantic relationships in her inimitable seductive style.

If you’ve been around for a hot minute, you’re probably all too familiar with at least a few of the following four greatest rock ballads of all time. However, younger fans of rock music may ...

This image of South Korean trot diva Song Ga-in is provided by Gaindal Entertainment. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, ...

NEW YORK — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the ...

By Xander Zellner Non-English-language music has a long history on Billboard’s charts. While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English ...