Singing

Folk rock legend Paul Simon on Feb. 5 announced what he said would be his final tour, saying he had grown tired of traveling after 50 years as a performer.

One of the recognizable names in the last decade in the NBA and his wife, whose parents are Bulgarians, died in a California accident.

Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar stole the show, and most of the awards, at the 2018 Grammys, according to BBC.

Mars provided the night's big upset, taking the album of the year trophy that most critics assumed would go to Lamar's rap tour de force, Damn.

In the end, voters found Mars's crowd-pleasing R&B more palatable, while Lamar dominated the rap categories.

Multidimensional actress Evelina Arapidi performs three great women in "Women of Passion, Women of Greece," an English-language play written by Eugenia Arsenis and directed by Tatiana Ligari at her Treno sto Rouf venue, a theater inside a vintage railway car at Rouf station in downtown Athens.

The Athens and Thessaloniki concert halls are screenings the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Tosca" from New York at 7.55 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Sir David McVicar's "smashing new production" (Huffington Post) features an exciting cast led by soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of the fiery diva and Vittorio Grigolo as her passionate lover, Cavaradossi.

Three great ladies of the Greek music scene - Marinella, Eleni Vitali and Glykeria - are performing together in a production titled "A Female Affair," which revisits some of the most popular and critically acclaimed songs written by Greek composers in the 20th century, from rebetika and laiko classics to art-house numbers penned by Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis.

Irish singer-songwriter Dolores O'Riordan, frontwoman of the multi-million selling rock band The Cranberries, died suddenly in London on Jan. 15, aged 46, her publicist said.

Singer and actor Ricky Martin has confirmed that he and his partner, Jwan Yosef, are married. 

Speaking to E! News in the US, Martin said: "I'm a husband, but we're doing a heavy party in a couple of months, I'll let you know."

Greek singer George Dalaras joins forces with Estudiantina, a Volos-based ensemble that has been studying and performing the sounds of the Mediterranean for the past 20 years, for two shows at the Iera Odos venue. As his special guest, Dalaras has invited Italian singer and composer Eddy Napoli, as well as local vocalists Thodoris Kontonias and Ria Ellinidou, to join him on stage.

 Fashion group H&M apologized on Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a black child modeling a sweatshirt with the slogan "coolest monkey in the jungle" and said it had removed it from all its marketing, according to Reuters.