Shirley MacFarland’s weekly community column featuring news and notes from Brecksville, Broadview Heights, North Royalton and Strongsville.

Father Joseph Palackal, parochial vicar for St. Margaret Church since 2019, is a world-renowned musicologist and a foremost ...

NEW YORK -- The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, ...

In 2017, the narrator in country hitmaker Chris Janson’s song “Fix a Drink” seemed exhausted by party politics. “I turn on Fox News and then CNN/But it’s the same dang thing all over again,” Janson ...

Last spring, a month and a half into American Idol’s 23rd season, the reality singing competition did something it had never done before. It aired a three-hour special on Easter Sunday, themed around ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Nashville is known for just about every genre of music, but in the 1980s, it became the birthplace of contemporary Christian music and the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W.

A top Christian artist right now has "Mississippi soul" according to his social media accounts. But Solomon Ray is AI. The account recently hit No. 1 on multiple music charts, including Billboard's ...

*An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has fueled the AI-music debate, with his gospel album “Faithful Soul” topping both iTunes and Billboard charts. As the New York Post reports, the ...

The devil is in the details. An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.” ...

Songs credited to an artist named Solomon Ray entered iTunes’ Top 100 Christian and gospel albums chart last week — but the hits weren’t created by a human. Ray’s voice, lyrics and persona were ...

A few days after the star singer Forrest Frank fell off his skateboard, crashed into a wall and fractured two vertebrae, he previewed a new track about the accident on TikTok. Frank, formerly a member ...

When visitors step into the new Museum of Christian and Gospel Music, executive director Steve Gilreath hopes they see something they recognize. Perhaps the backdrop from a Third Day concert tour, Amy ...