Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist and backing vocalist of the pop-punk group New Found Glory, has died. He was 45. The band ...

Every time I hear one of these 1969 songs, I'm instantly transformed into a backup singer whether I like it or not.

Sixty-two years ago today, the country singer who sang demos until she landed a major label deal and became an Emmy-winning TV star was born.

Backing singers are the unheralded heroes of popular music, and yet some have given it all up for a regular nine-to-five. Almost every major act has employed them at some point to give their music an ...

Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry, and Mary J. Blige all started as backup singers.NBC, John Shearer, Raymond Boyd/Getty Images There's no one right way to make it big as a singer. There's the classic method ...

Long before her breakout hit “All I Wanna Do”—as well as the nine Grammy Awards that followed—rock legend Sheryl Crow spent several years in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s working as a backup singer in ...

Danish metal legend King Diamond will finally return to the United States this fall after a five-year absence, and he’s bringing a friend along with him. Diamond recently announced a massive U.S. tour ...

The Ghanaian entertainment fraternity has been hit with sorrow following the death of musician and renowned backing vocalist Ekua Adadzewa, popularly known as Adez .

Meg Walters is a contributing writer at InStyle covering fashion, celebrity news, and entertainment. Here's the latest music theory: fans are convinced that the distant "ahs" in the song were actually ...

When a single voice stands in front of a sea of instruments, it is rarely an isolated solo; most contemporary songs and stage shows rely on a cadre of additional singers whose voices weave around the ...