The Color Purple first opened on Broadway in 2005, starring LaChanze in her Tony-winning role of Celie. Fantasia Barrino, who stars in the new film adaptation, made her Broadway debut in the musical ...

Singer Rhiannon Giddens, a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group specializing in old-timey music, just released her first solo album. On it is her amended cover of a well-known classic that ...

Veteran music journalist Jake Brown spoke to a wide variety of the top songwriters in Nashville for his new book, 'Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits.' Brown ...

Classic rock is a genre that welcomes all people—every color of the rainbow. For every type of person there is an artist or hit track that represents them. For that reason, we wanted to explore songs ...

The song list for the upcoming The Color Purple movie musical has revealed what songs from the stage version have been cut for the adaptation. "Somebody Gonna Love You," "Our Prayer," "Big Dog," "Dear ...