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Is the popularity of a song more important than the quality of the music? Music and business have coexisted for centuries, of course, but the combination of modern social media and today’s music industry (with its profit-oriented business model) has…
Bedtime stories may be a distant memory of your childhood, but in modern society, with high levels of stress, people need help falling asleep at night. Cillian Murphy has narrated such a story to lull you to sleep and help…
Art and Culture in 2021: Restitution and Repatriation From Benin bronzes to Ancient Fayum portraits, across Europe, repatriation and subsequent decolonisation movements have reinvigorated cultural institutions to introspect and rethink their established exhibits. Colonial art and artefacts have long been…
Ben Meyers is a London-based American singer-songwriter and an alumnus of the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP), whose musical style is quite eclectic, but folk and Americana are the primal genres that dominate it. “Thunder” is Meyers’ latest release,…
French music is not the most famous, but everyone has at least heard Edith Piaf’s songs before. If you think you haven’t, but you have seen one of the movies mentioned in this article, then you’ve heard one of her…
The discipline of fasting dates to ancient times, is common to nearly every religion in the world (as well as philosophical systems like Stoicism), and is mentioned in the Bible more times than baptism. As it is with the spring…
H.E.R. aka Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, D’ Mile, and Tiara Thomas won an Oscar in the Best Original Song category for “Fight For You” at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony that took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on…
Immortalisation of the Irish author, poet, and playwright in Merrion Square – across the street from Wilde’s birthplace and childhood home The Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection of three statues situated in Merrion Square in Dublin, celebrating the…
21 April 2021 was the 5th anniversary of the tragic passing of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Prince was not only a multi-instrumentalist, a singer-songwriter, and a producer; he was also a unique artist, who…