Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musicians through his work with Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 59. The Memphis, Tenn ...

ZURICH (Reuters Life!) - Portuguese fado singer Mariza treated a sold-out Zurich audience to a show pushing the boundaries of her genre. The willowy singer with bleached blonde hair is at the vanguard of a new generation of young musicians taking fado into new terrain since the 1999 death of Amalia Rodrigues, who was widely regarded as the "Queen of Fado ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lacey Brown was voted off "American Idol" on Wednesday after struggling with nerves for weeks on America's most-watched TV show. But Tim Urban, whose acoustic reggae version of "Under My Thumb" was judged the most bizarre performance of Rolling Stones-themed week, lived to fight another day despite ending in the bottom three after the public ...

Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp., said Thursday. The BBC said Gillett died in a London hospital on Wednesday. He had ...