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A former backup singer, a group of bluegrass veterans and a budding R&B star — seven artists bubbling under in Music City that won't be ignored in the new year.

A lawyer for the 20-year-old woman, Faith A. Rodgers, says that she is the same person who filed a criminal complaint against the R&B singer in Dallas.

Host Ari Shapiro talks with Linda Diaz, the winner of this year's NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest. Her entry, "Green Tea Ice Cream" is a dreamy R&B song anchored by her skilled and soulful voice.

Dec. 23 update: Laura Powell Fritz's obit has been posted by Walker Funeral Home in Mount Healthy. She was born 53 years ago in Washington, D.C. No...

President Trump has forged a friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. NPR discusses what might happen to U.S.-India ties if there's a change in the White House.

Parker's breezy new album, which mixes live music with vintage synthesizers, draws on R&B, early hip-hop, droning electronica, jazz-funk, Afropop and flailing '60s-rock solos.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., have added another charge against the R&B singer: that in 1994, he paid an Illinois official to make a fake ID that claimed that Aaliyah was 18 years old.

To celebrate radical Black joy in a time of great pain, here's a round-up of new tracks from the worlds of jazz, R&B and rap, all to remind you that they can't hijack happiness.

Tasha Smith had been told she had fertility issues, so in May of last year there was unexpected but welcome news. “To my surprise did I not find out I was pregnant, not just with one but with two babies — two fraternal twins. Baby A was Aubrey; baby B was Abe,” said Smith. The pregnancy progressed fine up until late summer when, at week 23, she started severely cramping. The doctor told her not to panic but to come in immediately. “Minutes into getting hooked up onto the machines,” she said, “I was alerted that Aubrey’s heartbeat was no longer beating.”

NPR Music takes over the show to stump for summertime pop hits by the likes of Cardi B, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Drake, Hayley Kiyoko and more.