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The Jamaican musician Shaggy is known for singing in a Jamaican accent he doesn't use when speaking. Now he's explained the accent's origins.

The Houston-bred artist's new album uses country as a trapdoor into a sweeping genre expression. By adopting the role of the outlaw, she's free to toss all rules into the trash heap.

When Berry Gordy started Motown Records, Maxine Powell was already running a modeling school in Detroit. So she was naturally suited to coach the label's legendary singers. Plus: critic Gary Graff discusses the Motown label's overlooked singles.

KUT's David Brown offers up his picks for 2007's most memorable recordings, and finds that his hometown of Austin, Tex., is well-represented. But alongside the local likes of Spoon and Okkervil River were international juggernauts like Radiohead and Amy Winehouse.

With its beginnings in traditional tango, the Argentine composer's work has taken on new life through different instrumentations, adaptations, and genre-bending arrangements.

Combining extended techniques with classical music traditions, George Crumb's work invites you to explore an entirely new world through sound.

As has become customary in the past few years, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich's near-OCD list-making habit revealed a certain strain of outer sound that pervaded his headphones in 2009.

The pop crooner was behind some of the biggest power ballads of the 1970s and '80s. His wife said he died in his sleep.

Learn the basics of the raga, the sitar and the tabla with India's master, Ravi Shankar. The examples are played by his daughter, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, and tabla virtuoso Tanmoy Bose.

Broadway musicals of the 1960s were surprisingly good at explaining complicated economic matters. Before tourists took over the Great White Way, the "tired businessman" was the target audience. These four songs are particularly illustrative of the kind of vaudeville mixed with corporate-speak that the businessman favored.