Music facts


Why Do We Like Music?

September 9, 2010 | In: Music facts

You can't touch it, you can't eat it, and you can't see it. So, why do people enjoy music so much? So much in fact that they spend billions of dollars each year buying recordings and equipment to play it back. Do you remember the first time you heard...

Just as New Orleans is the home of gumbo, a spicy stew that blends many ethnic foods, so it is also the home of jazz, music that combines sounds of very diverse origins. Before and after the Civil War, New Orleans was the most cosmopolitan of...

Traditionally, the term "gospel music" refers to any music of the church. In America however, the term generally refers to African-American music based in religion, but using some popular styles, such as ragtime and blues. American Thomas A. Dorsey is...

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music and gospel music. In the earliest rock and roll styles of the...

The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980. The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”. To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States....

Tupac Shakur a.k.a. Lesane Parish Crooks (which was his real name untill the panthers changed it) was born in NYC. Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in...

Ring Starr wasn't always the drummer for The Beatles. George Harrison was the youngest of The Quarrymen ( The Beatles) when he joined, he was 14. John Lennon has 2 sons, one with Yoko Ono (2nd wife) and another with his 1st wife Cynthia. May 8,...

His real name is Curtis James Jackson III . 50 Cent was expelled in 10th grade for possession of crack. Got his GED while in jail. As a teenager, %0 Cent was fondly known as Boo-Boo. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or...

Led Zeppelin English pop music group formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin deliberately misspelled their first part of their name so people would not mispronounce it. Mingling elements of blues, folk, and rock in its performances...

Interesting Facts about Guitars

September 14, 2009 | In: Music facts

The electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in 1936. Dimension standards of the modern guitar were established by Antonio Torres Jurado, between 1817 and 1892. The smallest guitar in the world is 10 micrometres long with strings 50...

Rap music or hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City. Hip Hop artists have the highest incarceration rates of any musical genre's artists list. 2pac is credited with being the first rapper...

Rock music started in the 1950s as a fusion of rhythm and blues, gospel music, and country music. Emerging in 1954-55, rock music was initially referred to as "rock 'n' roll." After 1964 it was simply called "rock music. The Grammy Awards were...