He was also among the many singers who recorded a special new version of the song "We Are the World."

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Mister Bernstein wrote other major classical works through the years for a large group of singers and an orchestra.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Her friends included members of the Duke Ellington band, Count Basie's band, and singers like Sarah Vaughn and Peggy Lee.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Until that night, black singers of classical music had almost no chance of performing in major American opera houses and theaters.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Marian Anderson's presence made it possible for other black singers to become opera singers in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Peyroux has said that the great blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith still help shape her identity.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The musical helped launch the careers of several African American performers, including singers Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

The word cabaret brings to mind images of singers in nightclubs, or maybe Liza Minnelli performing years ago in the movie "Cabaret."

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Another door opened under the king, and a clergyman,singers, dancers and musicians joined the man and the lady.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

It is possible that every country has at least one or two socially conscious hip-hop singers or groups.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

The copyrights to these songs were held not only by the singers but also by his son Alan.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

It has been recorded by more than fifty singers and groups in almost every style of popular music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Straight No Chaser is an acapella group which means the singers do not perform with any instrumental music.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

At that time, however, black singers were not permitted in white opera companies in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

He brought attention to singers like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the nineteen thirties and forties.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

She was one of the most influential and energetic female singers in the history of Afro-Cuban Music.

VOA: special.2011.05.08

Here is the song "Cry,Cry,Cry" which Ziggy Marley performs with the singers Jack Johnson and Paula Fuga.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

The crash also took the lives of the pilot and two other singers -- J.P.Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

For the next seventeen years, Holiday was one of the most popular nightclub singers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

One of these was Pete Seeger. Woody wrote performed with a group called the Almanac Singers.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

He is the man who broke a major color barrier for black singers of classical music.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Young folk singers, like Bob Dylan, came to New York to visit Woody in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

He knew that black singers in America were not permitted to sing with white opera groups.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

One expert said she was not warm and friendly like white, male singers at the time.

VOA: special.2010.05.23