Music

Influential singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen was continuously inspired by the Greek island of Hydra throughout his long career.

In a breaking revelation after over fifty years, the stick man on the famous Led Zeppelin IV album cover has been identified. The Wiltshire Museum in southwestern England disclosed on Wednesday that the man, known as the "Stick Man," was...

The nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards were announced today, Friday, November 10th, and SZA is taking the spotlight. SZA, known for her song "Kill Bill," leads the pack with nine nominations. Other standout nominees celebrating the achievements of young...

Sofia Vembo – The famous Greek singer of the 20th century, became synonymous with the epic Greek victories against the fascist Italian troops in 1940 and 1941 during the Greco-Italian war along the Albanian front. Born in Gallipoli in Asia...

Marina Satti will represent Greece at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmo, Sweden, public broadcaster ERT reported. The artist, known for her fusion of traditional Greek and Anatolian melodies with contemporary sounds, awaits the selection...

With more than 200 music albums in 12 different languages -- including Mandarin Chinese and Corsican -- Nana Mouskouri certainly has reason to celebrate 89 years of an extraordinary life. Born in Chania, Crete on October 13, 1934, the singer...

No historical evidence exists to tell us exactly who sang the first song, whistled the first tune, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled that which we recognize today as music. By Laura Dallman The short answer is that no...

The song "Yes! We Have No Bananas," which was based on Greek fruit sellers, became an unlikely but timeless hit after it was released for the first time in March of 1923. The tune was written by Frank Silver and...

Maria Callas may have died on this day 46 years ago but her immortal voice lives on, along with her legend. It's no mystery why Greeks, Italians and Americans, all claim Callas as theirs. She was born Sophia Cecilia Anna...

Stelios Kazantzidis -- who died in 2001 --was the voice that contained the pain and desire of post-war, poverty-stricken Greece.

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens will host a concert by renowned Greek composer Stamatis Spanoudakis, known for emotionally moving works. The concert "For Alexander" dedicated to Alexander the Great will take place on Wednesday, October 11th. After nearly three...

The Rolling Stones just announced the release of their new album, the first in eighteen years. Since the release of A Bigger Bang in 2005, the band has stayed together and played together along with other iconic rockers and...

In a world in which classical music usually follows old customs, something quite different happened at this year's Hayden Festival due to the Danish Chamber Orchestra. On a stage at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, a man...

On the second anniversary of Mikis Theodorakis' death, many reflect on the music icon's last concert held in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens in 2017. In a tribute to the legendary composer, who died on September 2, 2021, a stunning...

An 18th-century opera based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice will be presented at ancient Corinth on August 29.