Sting is known for his work with The Police and as a solo artist, but the legendary singer also has a love of other people's ...

Sting has been making music since as far back as the '70s but, even though he's produced some pretty huge hits, he's also a ...

It was not a quiet evening when I heard Hanthana Sihine, a duet between Amaradeva and Umaria Sinhawansa. I was traveling ...

A new Sinhala-language book, Sunil Santhage Cinema Gee Pawatha (The Story of Sunil Santha’s Film Songs), published by the Sunil Santha Samajaya, is now available to the public. While numerous books ...

The division of the Sinhala song into two distinct camps, with those songs of a more ‘poetic’ nature being classified as ‘subhavitha’ (distinguished) while others being labelled ...

Last week, we looked at a critical evaluation of Swarna Mallawaarachi from Eric Illayapparachchi’s essay ‘The Last Face: Swarna’ from his book ‘In Search of Art.’ ..

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial Lowrey organ, he summoned Bach, hymns, the gospel church or a circus calliope. At the piano ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

In total, 39 songs recorded either entirely or mostly in a non-English language have reached the top 10 of the Hot 100 in the chart’s 67-year history (through the chart dated Jan. 25 ...

Artists and fans say that the songs are a form of self-expression that reflect the frustrations of struggling communities, where issues like gang disputes, gun violence and poverty are a part of life.

On May 10, 2008, Fahri stabbed 16-year-old schoolboy ... sentence with a minimum of 14 years behind bars. Several of his songs have proved to be controversial because of their violent lyrical ...

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