Pure vibes." "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" and Ayers's catalogue continued to be discovered through the generations through the advent of sampling. His songs have been prominently sampled by A ...

A huge "living labyrinth" billed as the biggest in the world will finally open to the public later this month. Constructed from traditional Cornish stone hedging, Kerdroya has been five years in ...

Mark your calendars for this coming Friday, March 14! A total lunar eclipse will be visible across NEO early on Friday. Following last year's total solar eclipse, this week there is a total LUNAR ...

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day but Apple and Google Calendar users won’t have seen the occasion highlighted on the calendar. The confusion comes after Okanagan residents raised ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

Chicago-born ghetto house pioneer DJ Funk has died. His close friend and frequent collaborator DJ Slugo confirmed his death in an Instagram post Wednesday. The beloved DJ, real name Charles Chambers, ...

Cultivating a smooth signature sound that wove lush soul, elastic jazz, and tight funk, Ayers emphasized rhythm and texture, a combination that gave him a handful of crossover R&B hits ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago producer who created and named the subgenre of ghetto house, is dead. He was 54, per The Guardian, though other sources report his birthday as June 20, 1971. DJ Slugo ...

But this image is out of date. Modern Brazilians prefer sertanejo, a bouncing country genre, and funk, a style that emerged from Rio’s favelas. Funk in particular could go global, and change ...

Influential funk musician Roy Ayers has died at 84 after a long battle with a serious illness. Best known as a vibraphone player and record producer, Ayers's work heavily impacted genres like ...

Influential soul, jazz and funk producer and composer Roy Ayers has died at the age of 84. In a statement posted on Facebook, his family said: "It is with great sadness that the family of ...

Buyout firm Advent International is seeking an around $300 million equivalent loan to back its purchase of contact lens maker Ginko International’s China operations, according to people familiar ...