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The Recording Academy®‘s Black Music Collective (BMC) and Amazon Music selected Joseph Michael Abiakam (Norfolk State University), Langston Jackson (Hampton University), Kennedi Amari Johnson (Clark Atlanta University), Courtney Roberts (Texas Southern University), and Caleb Wilkerson (Florida A&M University), as the recipients of the “Your Future Is Now” scholarship, aimed for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with the opportunity to learn …

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What happens when you combine the Mother Church of Country Music with the home of Rock & Roll? You end up with an incredible new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibit at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. The multi-year partnership will see more interactive exhibits being on display at Ryman’s re-developed vestibule space. …

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I wondered if you could tell me when you guys first met?  Dave: We started singing together nine and a half years ago now. We were all friends before we started as a band, we’ve known each other around fifteen years.  Do you remember the first time you all sang together and did you know …

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The Last Inklings have just released their debut album ‘The Impossible Wild’. Themes of folklore, myths and legends  dominate the record whilst sonically the Cello and Mandolin take centre stage.   Though it may be the pair’s first release they have been playing together for a while now. “We started off with like a covers band …

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Can you recall the first moment you knew you wanted to pursue music?  I don’t have a recollection of the exact moment I knew I wanted to pursue music as a career, all I can say is there are unlimited hours of family video footage of me singing and dancing to my own little songs. …

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Kris James’ debut solo album has been four years in the making after his band, The Scheme broke up when they were on the brink of making it big time. James, heartbroken by the collapse of the project he’d worked tirelessly on turned to music as he always did as a way of getting through. …

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The Australian duo President Street have been enjoying touring around the UK and Europe in recent weeks. Their sound has shifted a lot with the release of their new record ‘Heartbreak Player’ from their acoustic beginnings we now hear a heavily produced, electronic-pop sound. Ruby and Pete spoke to me about the new release and …

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When did you first know you wanted to be a musician?  I knew from a pretty young age that I wanted to do music. I grew up in a family of musicians. My dad was a producer, I grew up going to the studio with him. So I was always around musicians. He ended up …

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