Biography: KISStory, will be a four-hour, two-night event that airs on Sunday, June 27 and Monday, June 28 from 9 to 11 p.m. ET Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

As an artist, writing a bio for yourself can be a difficult task. As difficult as writing is, writing about yourself can be even harder, but an effective bio is key to communicating to the world why ...

In the beautiful and moving biography Janis: Her Life and Music, Holly George-Warren paints a complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin. Drawing on archival materials as well as interviews with Joplin’s ...

Holly George-Warren’s “Janis: Her Life and Music” teeters between tragedy and triumph even before singer Janis Joplin injects a lethal dose of heroin five times more pure than that to which she was ...

Latino migration in the U.S. has placed people of Afro-Caribbean heritage all over the country. Bio Ritmo's heritage leads directly back to that migration — and to the sound of Fania Records, which ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

Don’t miss “Biography: Sammy Hagar,” which will air on Sunday June 30 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on A&E. According to the A&E website, the production will follow Hagar, who lived a poverty-stricken ...

In a poem set to music by his lover Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden implored the patron saint of music, “Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and inspire.” Or as Nikki Sixx, ...

The Beatles are the most outstanding phenomena of the McLuhan age: they are the first citizens of the global village, known in every remote part of the world. If you were wandering around in Tibet ...

Singer and guitarist Jeff Hanna was a high school student in Long Beach, California, when he formed the first version of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was 1966 – the peak in popularity of the ...

In the early 1970s, Johnny Rodriguez was performing at a small tourist attraction in Southwest Texas, twenty-five miles as the crow flies from the Mexican border and equidistant between San Antonio ...

In the summer of 1974, the Carpenters sat down with Rolling Stone writer Tom Nolan at Hollywood’s Au Petit Café for a cover story. Richard and Karen Carpenter, who had spent the past four years ...