Ah spring, when a (not so) young man's thoughts turn to vinyl and the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations, which this year ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

Prior to his death, the musician was battling stage four cancer, according to a recent GoFundMe launched by his family. Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Roy Ayers, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of jazz-funk in the 1970s, the uplifting groove and messages of his music exemplified by his best-known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine; although ...

Chicago-born ghetto house pioneer DJ Funk has died. His close friend and frequent collaborator DJ Slugo confirmed his death in an Instagram post Wednesday. The beloved DJ, real name Charles Chambers, ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist whose smooth fusion planted the seeds of acid jazz and neo soul, died Wednesday at the age of 84. Ayers’ family confirmed his death on the musician’s Facebook ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago producer who created and named the subgenre of ghetto house, is dead. He was 54, per The Guardian, though other sources report his birthday as June 20, 1971. DJ Slugo, a ...

Influential funk musician Roy Ayers has died at 84 after a long battle with a serious illness. Best known as a vibraphone player and record producer, Ayers's work heavily impacted genres like ...

The world is watching Brazil after the country won its first Oscar for “I’m Still Here”, a film set in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship in the 1970s. The film’s smooth soundtrack fee ...

Influential soul, jazz and funk producer and composer Roy Ayers has died at the age of 84. In a statement posted on Facebook, his family said: "It is with great sadness that the family of ...

Introduced in 1956 as a sub-series of the Belvedere, the Plymouth Fury is widely regarded as one of America's proto-muscle cars. It became a stand-alone nameplate in 1959 and remained in (almost ...

The early signs are unexpectedly promising. The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats at home, a ...