Country singer Mickey Guyton released her latest album, Remember Her Name, on Sept. 24. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording A hide caption
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John Prine's First Album Came Out The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming
V (from left), Suga and Jin of BTS at the launch of the U.N. General Assembly's 76th session on Monday. The popular boy band from South Korea sang (in a video performance viewed online by more than 1 million) and spoke. John Angelillo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sarah Dash performs at A Tribute To Aretha Franklin at City Winery in 2018 in New York City. Bobby Bank/Getty Images hide caption
"Noah's Violin", a giant floating violin by Venetian sculptor Livio De Marchi, journeyed through Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday. De Marchi, who has sent many wooden works into the water, came up with the idea during last year's pandemic lockdown. Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5 and defied the social conventions of her day to embrace it as a profession rather than as a pastime. Her son first arranged for her performances to be recorded when she was in her 90s. She has just released her sixth album. Family photo; Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption
This French Pianist Has Been Playing For 102 Years And Just Released A New Album
Reba McEntire appears at the Country Music Association Awards in 2019. The singer was rescued from a building in Oklahoma this week after a staircase collapsed. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption
Screen capture of the Listening Party for John Prine's debut album, featuring (top left, clockwise), Ann Powers, Bonnie Raitt, Jody Whelan, Fiona Prine and Jim Rooney. NPR hide caption
In this courtroom artist's sketch made from a video screen monitor, R. Kelly (left) and lawyer Thomas Farinella listen during the opening day of his trial on Aug. 18, 2021 in Brooklyn, New York. Elizabeth Williams/AP hide caption
George Wein, backstage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in May 2012. Rick Diamond/Getty Images hide caption
Lil Nas X accepts best direction for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday in New York City. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images hide caption
Lorde performs at Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series in Central Park on Aug. 20 in New York City. She worked with a team of language experts to re-record five of her new songs in the indigenous Māori language. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption
A crowd rallying for John Lennon, in a scene from the film Imagine: John Lennon. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
John Lennon Released 'Imagine' The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming
Phil Schaap attends the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 4, 2013 in New York. Brad Barket/Getty Images hide caption
ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson. Baillie Walsh/Universal Music Group hide caption
A portrait of Greek composer and songwriter Mikis Theodorakis, taken in Rome in 1973. Wojtek Laski/Getty Images hide caption
Greek Composer And Politician Mikis Theodorakis Has Died At The Age Of 96
The members of The Doors, from left to right: Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek (seated). Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
The Doors' Jim Morrison Died In 1971, The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming
American jazzman Louis Armstrong plays trumpet in his dressing room before a show in 1947 in a New York jazz cabaret. Hurricane Ida destroyed the Karnofsky Shop in New Orleans, which was a formative influence on Armstrong's musical life. Eric Schwab/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"It was one of the most beautiful experiences I've had, to be honest," Jennifer Koh says about creating Alone Together. Jürgen Frank/Shuman Associates hide caption
Isolated By Pandemic, Violinist Jennifer Koh Nurtured A New Community Online
Lee "Scratch" Perry performs in Australia in 2007. Paul Kane/Getty Images hide caption
Josephine Baker in uniform circa 1945. Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption