Grammy Award

Grammy award-winning artist Kelly Clarkson will host this year’s Clear the Shelters special, a 30-minute show recapping the NBC and Telemundo stations annual pet adoption drive. The program will air on NBC stations beginning Aug. 23 (check local listings).

Taylor Swift will perform at Centennial Olympic Park during the men’s Final Four weekend.
The 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer will headline the Capital One JamFest on April 5, the finale of the three-day March Madness Music Festival.

Taylor Swift reacts to some never-before-seen footage of her acting loopy after laser eye surgery and she teases what songs she’ll perform on “Saturday Night Live.”

R. Kelly returned to a Chicago courtroom Tuesday as a judge declined to raise bond for his criminal matter in the city in wake of federal indictments against the singer.

LaShawn Daniels, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter who penned songs for Beyoncé, Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga has died. He was 41. Daniels’ wife April said in a statement that her husband died in a car accident Tuesday in South Carolina. He earned a Grammy in 2001 for his songwriting work on Destiny Child’s “Say My Name.” Daniels co-wrote several Grammy-nominated...

A trial for R. Kelly’s federal case is expected to take place in the spring, a judge ruled Wednesday as attorneys for the singer fight to have him released from jail.

A judge Thursday denied a bid by three of Nipsey Hussle’s relatives to be named temporary guardians of the slain rapper’s 10-year-old daughter, but he set a trial for October on whether they should be made permanent guardians.

Kacey Musgraves’ career has been moving and changing fast over the last couple of years, leaving little time for reflection until she saw her life chronicled behind museum glass.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sam Smith has come out as gender nonbinary. “I’m not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between,” Smith said Friday on actor Jameela Jamil’s new Instagram show, “I Weigh Interviews.” Smith said when he saw the words “nonbinary” and “genderqueer” and heard people speak about these identities, which are used to describe those who...

A partial list of winners in top early categories at the 61th annual Grammy Awards.

Steve Memmolo, a contestant on “The Voice,” plays a song on NBC10 Boston on New Year’s Eve.

A Worcester, Massachusetts man was nominated for two 2019 Grammy Awards on Friday, becoming the first solo rap artist from New England to do so.

A Worcester, Massachusetts man was nominated for two 2019 Grammy Awards on Friday, becoming the first solo rap artist from New England to do so.

Pop star Christina Aguilera says a band at a New Orleans bar denied her a turn on the mic the night before she performed in the city.

Fifteen years ago, one of the top films in the land was “Finding Nemo” and Shania Twain played the Super Bowl halftime show. 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” was a hit album and a couple of witches-to-be took over Broadway. The musical “Wicked” shook off some tepid reviews to roar into Broadway history and this Monday is celebrating...

In 1956 Franklin released her first album, a gospel collection called “Songs of Faith,” recorded at her father’s church when she was 14.

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, has died. She was 76. She had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, The Associated Press reported. Born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, Franklin was an 18-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. She was renowned for her powerful, distinctive gospel-honed...

Prosecutors and defense lawyers disagreed in opening arguments Friday about who is the victim in the federal criminal trial of an Alabama doctor accused of prescribing drugs that killed the former guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down. Prosecutors said 38-year-old guitarist Matthew Roberts, who was found dead in a Wisconsin hotel in 2016, was the victim. Al.com reported that...

An Alabama physician is scheduled to go on trial Friday on charges that he improperly prescribed fentanyl and other drugs to 3 Doors Down guitarist Matthew Roberts, who died of a drug overdose. Dr. Richard Snellgrove of Fairhope faces a 13-count federal indictment in Mobile alleging unlawful distribution of controlled substances and health care fraud. An indictment alleges he prescribed...