A couple of new rules governing the 81st Academy Awards could result in the foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the original song category becoming more competitive. By Gregg ...

“The lyrics came first,” says Nena, currently in the middle of a solo European tour. She was with Carlo at the Stones concert ...

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee join Spotify’s 1 billion list, which also includes Drake, The Chainsmokers, Ed Sheeran and more. By Suzette Fernandez, Billboard Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” ...

For the second week in a row, the song that’s sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 list is “Despacito,” a Spanish-language track by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, with an assist from Canadian boy Justin ...

It is sung unaccompanied and is highly ornamented, with different sean-nós styles found in the various Gaeltacht areas of ...

Now that the 65th Grammy Awards nominations have been announced, a lot of artists have made Grammy history by reaching new unprecedented milestones. Beyoncé claimed nine nominations bringing her total ...

Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both ...

“Waiata/Anthems,” Lorde’s “Te Ao Marama” EP and a host of other projects are aimed at revitalizing the Indigenous language of New Zealand via music. By Brian Ng In August, Lorde released her third ...

BTS used to sing mainly in Korean, but the group has been making huge splashes with English-language songs such as “Dynamite,” “Butter,” and “Permission to Dance.” Thanks to these singles, BTS is now ...

Songwriter and sape player Alena Murang brings the Kelabit language to life in the short film ‘Songs of the Highlands’. (Sarah Lois Dorai pic) In the highlands of Bario, far from city life, a way of ...

If “Io Sì (Seen)” wins the song Oscar on April 25, it will mark only the fourth time in Oscar history that a foreign-language lyric has taken the prize. Diane Warren’s song for “The Life Ahead,” which ...