Singers

Beloved comedian Billy Crystal and pioneering rapper Queen Latifah are among the 46th crop of Kennedy Center honorees, one of the United States' most prestigious arts awards, the center announced on June 22.

Türkiye is gearing up to implement an electronic election system, taking inspiration from countries such as the United States, Estonia, Switzerland, Canada and Brazil, Supreme Election Council (YSK) head Ahmet Yener has said.

A phony social media account spread fake news on Wednesday that famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri has passed away.

The gruesome news was announced in a fake Twitter account which carried the name and photo of the acting Minister of Culture and Sports Giorgos Koumendakis, who later posted that the fake account was created by Italian writer Tommaso Debenedetti.

The 2024 Grammy Awards will feature new honors including for Best African Music Performance, the Recording Academy announced on June 13.

Along with the prize honoring a recording that uses "unique local expressions from across the African continent," the 66th edition of the prestigious music awards will present a trophy to Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.

Famous Turkish canto singer, theater and cinema actress Nurhan Damcıoğlu has died at the age of 82 in İzmir due to heart failure. She had been receiving treatment for a while.

Belgian-French singer Viktor Lazlo, who has made unforgettable songs in her career, will meet music lovers for the first time in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 8 at CSO Ada Ankara with a repertoire of her most popular songs.

Lazlo is one of the names closely recognized by Turkish audiences.

MUSAI, the Music and Artificial Intelligence Festival, is launching at the Greek National Opera's (nationalopera.gr) Alternative Stage with 14 acts that will be exploring the fascinating encounter between conventional forms of music creation and production and cutting-edge technology.

Turkish jazz musician, pianist and singer Bozkurt İlham Gencer has passed away at the age of 101 in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district. His son, singer Bora Gencer, announced the news of his father's death on his social media account.

A theater production for English speakers, "Women of Passion, Women of Greece," returns to the Treno sto Rouf Theater (www.totrenostorouf.gr) in Athens for a run of 10 Saturday shows starting on May 27 and ending on July 29.

"There Is Such a People" will not support the GERB cabinet. The leader of "There Is Such a People" Slavi Trifonov announced this on his Facebook profile.