Music

May 17, 2019

Can you teach Italian children to sing like American R&B divas? Cheryl Porter can.

Music

‘When Doves Cry’ at 35

Studio 360

May 16, 2019

How Prince’s bold sonic experiment became the biggest single of 1984.

Arts, Culture & Media

This opera singer says the ‘hype’ should be on her voice, not her transgender identity

PRI's The World

May 15, 2019

Lucia Lucas is generating a lot of attention for her performances as opera’s most famous alpha-male characters. She hopes the gender identity hoopla will die down.

Music

K-pop stardom lures Japanese youth to Korea despite diplomatic chill

Reuters

May 10, 2019

A growing number of K-pop star wannabes are coming from Japan. The influx of Japanese talent is reshaping South Korea's K-pop industry, but comes at a time of increasingly bitter political acrimony between the two countries that has damaged diplomatic ties.

Immigration Rewind

60 years before BTS, the Kim Sisters were America's original K-pop stars

PRI's The World

May 09, 2019

Sixty years before today's “K-pop invasion,” the Kim Sisters, a Korean girl group, landed on US shores and rocketed to stardom — singing American hits before they even learned English.