The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

And at the conclusion of the reading the bell is tolled at midnight and we then sing "Joy to the World."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Ira Gershwin reportedly said: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

It was a place for people to sing about social injustices as well as what was happening on the streets.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

In the nineteen sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the Beatles and Burt Bacharach.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

These artists fear that they will get in trouble with the government if they sing about political issues.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

He loved it when the church's religious leader would sing this music and drop to his knees with emotional shouts and screams.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

This recording shows how she continued to sing "Mack the Knife" when she did not remember the words.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

She decided to find three MCs in her neighborhood in Englewood,New Jersey, and have them sing together.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

For when he smiled he looked like the kind of man he would sing to the oysters.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer, John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

He had just become the first African American man to sing with this important American opera company.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

When he heard Woody sing, Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music.

VOA: special.2010.06.20