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A judge on Friday cleared rapper Kanye West of criminal charges following a scuffle with paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport last year, pending his completion of community service, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney said.

A judge on Friday granted Grammy award-winning singer Justin Timberlake a temporary restraining order against a woman he said was an obsessed, mentally unstable stalker who broke into his home.

Los Amigos Invisibles, the Venezuelan funk band from Caracas that relocated to Brooklyn more than eight years ago, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2011. But the party has already started, with the group enjoying an ever-growing following throughout Mexico, South America and its adopted home country.

In Shakira's hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, there's a 15-foot metal statue of her, wearing bell bottoms and strumming a guitar. It was donated by a German sculptor in 2006, in the midst of the singer's wildly successful Oral Fixation world tour, which featured her jaw-dropping belly-dancing and a finale of Hips Don't Lie with Wyclef Jean.

To Gloria Gaynor, it seems like only yesterday that she recorded the iconic disco/pop hit I Will Survive. Now she's celebrating the anthem's 30th anniversary.

Grammy Award-winning rock duo The White Stripes for years have maintained an air of mystery around them, but a new film documentary offers a rare insider's look at the pair, who often toy with their public image.

At first impression, the man no one knows as Michael Penniman seems uncharacteristically quiet. As he takes a well-earned break from rehearsing for a tour to promote one of the year's most eagerly anticipated music releases, he seems tired and anxious, a far cry from his usual ebullience.

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Out of pain and destruction can come hope and celebration. That's the genesis of jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard's new album,

With the face of an ingenue and the lyrical bite of a social commentator, Kany Garcia debuted in 2007 as part of a new crop of Latin female singer-songwriters.

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ABC unveiled Monday the full cast for the ninth season of its TV Show Dancing With the Stars on Good Morning America.

A Massachusetts judge has issued an arrest warrant for Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Bobby Brown for failure to pay child support, local media reported on Friday.

Grammy Award-winning guitar legend and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar, Les Paul, died on Thursday in NY with pneumonia at 94.

Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor, died today at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y.

An international orchestra of some 90 musicians who auditioned on the YouTube video-sharing Web site will perform at New York's Carnegie Hall on Wednesday after rehearsing together for three days.

Jennifer Hudson, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Kid Rock, and the Jonas Brothers are to honor Neil Diamond, 68, and sing to raise money for charity as Grammy Award kick off weekend.

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The Jonas Brothers who are first-time nominees will also be making their Grammy Awards performance debut, according to a report.

The 50th annual Grammy Awards, featuring clear front runners Amy Winehouse and Kanye West, attracted fewer viewers compared to last year, in spite of being the most-watched U.S. television show on Sunday night.

Bands trying to break into the music business are taking advantage of digital technology, online social networking and the current uncertainty in the established music industry.