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Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. A representative for Roberta Flack has announced that the legendary singer has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and can no longer sing.

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

February 24, 2025 at 3:02 p.m.

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other...

FILE – Author Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder”, at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Author Salman Rushdie testifies about his shock and pain as a stranger repeatedly stabbed him on stage

February 11, 2025 at 5:43 p.m.

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him...

Gene Barge, a member of Thomas "Tom Tom" Washington's South Side Big Band rehearses at SoundMine Studios on Stony Island Avenue in Chicago on July 28, 2014. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Gene Barge, renowned sax man and producer known as ‘Daddy G,’ dies at 98

February 5, 2025 at 9:48 a.m.

Gene “Daddy G” Barge, an admired and durable saxophone player, songwriter and producer died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Chicago.

FILE – British actress and singer Marianne Faithfull poses during a photo-call for her movie ‘Irina Palm’ at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin ‘Berlinale’ in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Marianne Faithfull, singer and pop icon, dies at 78

January 30, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and...

Percival Everett arrives at the Booker Prize award dinner in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

January 27, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Percival Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award.

FILE – The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

President Donald Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next

January 23, 2025 at 9:45 a.m.

Trump’s territorial assertions, in line with his “America First” worldview, sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other...

Musician Garth Hudson poses in Toronto on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

January 21, 2025 at 1:13 p.m.

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87.

FILE – Producer Richard Perry poses for a photo in Los Angeles, Jan. 18, 1982. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Richard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’ and other hits, dies at 82

December 24, 2024 at 7:12 p.m.

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook”...

This is an undated photo issued by Bradford Enterprises on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024 of author Barbara Taylor Bradford. (Caroll Taveras/Bradford Enterprises via AP)

Barbara Taylor Bradford, million-selling novelist known for ‘A Woman of Substance,’ is dead at 91

November 25, 2024 at 4:47 p.m.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that...

Music producer Quincy Jones poses for a portrait to promote his documentary “Quincy” during the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2018, in Toronto. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Quincy Jones, music titan who was born in Chicago, dies at 91

November 4, 2024 at 11:15 a.m.

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray...

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