These three female folk artists changed the genre in very important ways, and their stories couldn't be more different than one another.

You can officially color singer Rhiannon Giddens country.

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

If pop music wasn't the dominant genre on the Hot 100, then we think these three folks song would have reached the No. 1 spot ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

Even though Shira Cion loved music from an early age, it wasn't until college that she discovered her musical passion. "That was when my ears were really opened," Cion said. Cion was trained ...

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the melodies of ...

Women like her are the stewards of one of Morocco’s most cherished oral traditions: a form of folk singing known as aita, which means a “cry” or “lament” in Arabic. From smoky bars and cabarets in ...