Keys speaks with Audie Cornish about delivering her seventh album, Alicia, during the pandemic, and the strange new resonance of songs written before anyone knew what this year would be like.
The Grammy winning singer-songwriter started out in Lester Flatt's band. Now he's being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Stuart played some of his own music in this 2014 interview.
Known as Yusuf since becoming a Muslim in the late '70s, the man who was Cat Stevens discusses Tea for the Tillerman 2, a reimagining of his now-50-year-old masterpiece.
Ahead of the release of their debut album, Giver Taker, the Boston singer-songwriter talks to NPR Music about singing in choirs, healing through songwriting and being inspired by The Lion King.
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers rarely write together, but the unique challenges of the pandemic inspired the veteran folk-rockers to try true collaboration for the first time in years.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein about her new album, A Character of Quiet, which she recorded at home during the pandemic.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Rita Indiana, an award-winning Dominican novelist, about her album, Mandinga Times. It's her first after a decade hiatus from music.