In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits — they rewired popular music itself.Some of them crashed.Some of them burned out.Some of them never got old enough to figure out who they might h...

Today, we’re going to spend some time with a figure who shaped pop music, dance, music videos, and the idea of celebrity itself—only to become a tragic warning about what happens when that level of fame collides with a fragile human body and...

Today, I want to put two lives—and two mythologies—side by side. Not as gossip. Not as tabloid spectacle. As a question:What happens when two Black artists rise from a Houston salon and a Brooklyn housing project to a place where the...

In this current series, we’ve been living in the neighborhood of giants—artists who didn’t just have hits, but re-wired what popular music could be.Today… someone different again.A man who refused categories, ignored rules, b...

In this series, we’ve spent time with giants—singers, songwriters, bands, entire movements. Some of them changed my life from a distance, through vinyl and radio and the accidental sacrament of a TV set in the living room.Today’s sub...