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A new biography about the legendary singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury has revealed a long-hidden secret: the existence of his alleged secret daughter. According to the book, she remained in close contact with the late Queen frontman until his death in 1991.

Mercury’s love life has always fascinated fans, from his romantic relationship with Mary Austin to his longtime partner Jim Hutton. However, there has never been any mention of a child until the release of this recent biography by Lesley-Ann Jones.

Who is Freddie Mercury’s alleged secret daughter?

The upcoming biography, set to release this September, Love, Freddie, reveals a bombshell with the revelation that Freddie Mercury allegedly had a secret daughter, B, who is now 48 and working as a medical professional in Europe.

According to the book, she was conceived in 1976 during Mercury’s affair with the wife of a close friend. Though the identity of her mother remains largely undisclosed,...

With the biggest night in music just around the corner, artists, executives and other industry creatives are celebrating with parties spread throughout the week. A-listers from Lenny Kravitz to Kelsea Ballerini and Ice Spice are among the many making appearances and performing at various events across Los Angeles.

The 66th annual Grammy Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah, will air live on CBS from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4. The event will also stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

Some of the celebrations happening this week include Warner Music Group’s party to honor the label’s 2024 Grammy-nominated artists and songwriters, Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy gala and Universal Music Group’s after party. Below is a roundup of what’s to come in the days surrounding the 2024 Grammys.

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Helen Grayco, the pop singer and actress who appeared on records, tours, radio programs and TV shows as a classy contrast to her zany bandleader husband, Spike Jones, has died. She was 97.

Grayco died Saturday of cancer at her home in Los Angeles, her son, longtime Creative Arts Emmy Awards producer Spike Jones Jr., told The Hollywood Reporter.

Jones Sr. was about to embark on a tour with his City Slickers bandmates when he approached Grayco with a job offer after watching her perform with Stan Kenton’s orchestra at the Hollywood Palladium in 1946.

“I was terribly insulted when Spike first asked to hire me,” Grayco recalled in a 2009 interview. “He had just done ‘Cocktails for Two’ and all that stuff that he was known for. ‘I don’t know where I could possibly fit in in your group. I’m not a comedienne,...

Jon Batiste hauled home five trophies at the 64th Grammys, including Album of the Year for We Are. He went into the night with 11 nominations and ended up with Album of the Year, American roots performance and American roots song, best score soundtrack for visual media (in a tie with Carlos Rafael Rivera’s score for The Queen’s Gambit) and best music video for “Freedom.”

Right behind Batiste was the duo Silk Sonic, who took the night’s two other big categories: Record and Song of the Year, both for “Leave the Door Open” as well as Best R&b Performance (in a tie with Jazmine Sullivan) and Best R&b Song.

Olivia Rodrigo was named Best New Artist and also won Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Other big winners included Chris Stapleton, who won for Best Country Album, Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.

The Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees has officially appointed Harvey Mason Jr. as the Academy’s President/CEO, effective June 1.

Mason had been in the position on an unpaid, interim basis since January 2020. He was named to the post when former president Deborah Dugan was put on administrative leave 10 days before the 2020 Grammy Awards. She was terminated on March 3 of that year and has since sued the Recording Academy.

Ironically, Dugan was brought in following the departure of former CEO Neil Portnow, who resigned following controversial comments in 2018, when he answered a question about the Academy’s allegedly sexist voting and lack of female representation by saying female artists needed to “step up.”

Mason was formerly the chair of the Academy’s Board, a position he will now relinquish.

In a joint statement, search committee co-chairs John Burk and Leslie Ann Jones praised Mason. “We are delighted that Harvey...

The Recording Academy on Friday named Harvey Mason Jr. as president and CEO of the organization.

“We are delighted that Harvey will remain at the helm and continue to steer the organization through this pivotal time,” said Recording Academy co-chairs John Burk and Leslie Ann Jones in a statement. “As we journeyed deeper into our extensive search, it became clear that the best person for the job was Harvey. We are immensely impressed by the remarkable work he has done during his interim tenure and look forward to the continued evolution of the Academy under his effective,...

The Recording Academy on Friday named Harvey Mason Jr. as president and CEO of the organization.

“We are delighted that Harvey will remain at the helm and continue to steer the organization through this pivotal time,” said Recording Academy co-chairs John Burk and Leslie Ann Jones in a statement. “As we journeyed deeper into our extensive search, it became clear that the best person for the job was Harvey. We are immensely impressed by the remarkable work he has done during his interim tenure and look forward to the continued evolution of the Academy under his effective,...

The Grammy Awards, now in their 62nd year, once again take place at L.A.’s Staples Center. For the 2020 ceremony, 15-time winner Alicia Keys returns as host for a second consecutive year. Performers include Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Ariana Grande, Jonas Brothers, MusiCares Person of the Year Aerosmith, Camila Cabello, Bts, H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, Gary Clark Jr. and more.

Here’s a rundown of all the Grammy winners. Rolling Stone will be updating this list as awards come in.

Rap Album: Igor, Tyler, The Creator

Comedy Album: Sticks & Stones,...

Four women who who serve on the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy signed an open letter today today that defending the group against claims made by Deborah Dugan, its ousted former CEO.

“It is deeply disturbing to us – and quite frankly, heartbreaking – to witness the firestorm against our organization that has been unleashed,” Tammy Hurt, Christine Albert, Leslie Ann Jones and Terry Jones wrote in part. “The Academy is keenly sensitive to any and all allegations of harassment or abuse, and we support the independent investigations that have been launched.” Read the full letter below.

Also today, Dugan — who this week filed a federal discrimination complaint against the Grammys organizer after she was fired — will appear Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Dugan’s attorney Doug Wigdor confirmed the booking today on Twitter, reminding that Dugan’s “filed Eeoc complaint alleges the Recording Academy is a “boys’ club” fraught with sexual harassment,...

Neil Portnow, who stepped down as CEO of the Recording Academy in 2019, called a new allegation of rape “ludicrous and untrue” in a statement on Wednesday. Portnow was accused of raping an unnamed “foreign recording artist” after her show at Carnegie Hall in New York in a document filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Deborah Dugan, the recently ousted CEO of the Recording Academy.

Dugan’s complaint claimed that members of the Recording Academy board informed her of the accusation against Portnow in May 2019. Though the artist who...

Which music stars went home with awards at the 2014 Grammy Awards? Find out with this full winners list.

Winners in each category are bolded.

Record of the Year

"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons

"Royals" -- Lorde

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars

"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell

Album of the year

"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles

"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar

"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

"Red" -- Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)

"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)

"Royals...

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Sfgmc Artistic Director, Dr. Timothy Seelig, announced that the original cast recording of I Am Harvey Milk, released this week, has already reached the 2 position on the iTunes classical music chart. The world premiere of the choral work, I Am Harvey Milk, concluded the Chorus's 35th anniversary season at Its Harvey Milk 2013 concert. The recording is the culmination of Sfgmc's 35-year history, which began at the candlelight vigil for slain Supervisor Harvey Milk. With music and words by Tony and Grammy Award nominee Andrew Lippa Big Fish, The Addams Family, The Wild Party, I Am Harvey Milk features Lippa as Harvey Milk, Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti Gypsy, NBC's Go On as the Soprano Soloist and Noah Marlowe Mary Poppins, Fun Home as young Harvey, along with the 300 men of the Chorus. Recorded live during the world premiere at Nourse Theatre in San Francisco, the recording is mixed by multi-Grammy award-winner,...

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Sfgmc Artistic Director, Dr. Timothy Seelig, announced the original cast recording of I Am Harvey Milk is now available for purchase and download. The world premiere of the choral work, I Am Harvey Milk, concluded the Chorus's 35th anniversary season at the Harvey Milk 2013 concert. The recording is a perfect culmination of Sfgmc's 35-year history, which began at the candlelight vigil for slain Supervisor Harvey Milk. With music and words by Tony and Grammy Award nominee Andrew Lippa Big Fish, The Addams Family, The Wild Party, I Am Harvey Milk features Lippa as Harvey Milk, Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti Gypsy, NBC's Go On as the Soprano Soloist and Noah Marlowe Mary Poppins, Fun Home as young Harvey, along with the 300 men of the Chorus. Recorded live during the world premiere at Nourse Theatre in San Francisco, the recording is mixed and mastered by multi-Grammy award-winner,...

Every once and a while, a new sample library comes along for us composers that changes everything, or is significant in its contribution to our arsenal of tools at our disposal. In this SCOREcast product review, we chose to take a look at the new Sample Logic Ni Kontakt-based library Fanfare in an attempt to discover if this was one of those libraries.

I have a pretty extensive background with the marching band / drum corps idiom, and my principal instrument is the trumpet, so imagine my excitement when Sample Logic announced the “Definitive Marching Brass Library” in Fanfare. There are not many libraries out there are for marching brass, and certainly none with the pedigree of the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps brass behind it—the only other one being… well… a bit antiquated at this point.

So…before I began exploring Fanfare, I went to Sample Logic’s...

As Namm quickly approaches, a season full of exciting new product announcements is sure to be headed our way. One of the first developers to announce a release ahead of the show is Sample Logic, who, just this week, released Fanfare—the company’s follow up to their summer release of Rumble.

We’ll be putting Fanfare through its paces in a full review in the next several weeks, but for now, here are the particulars:

Sample Logic’s Fanfare

Sample Logic and System Blue have just released their eagerly awaited Fanfare marching band library for Kontakt Player, pairing the Dci World-Champion Blue Devils marching brass with the award-winning sound design of Sample Logic. From traditional marching brass to full-blown cinematic soundscapes, Fanfare strives to be the definitive marching brass library for all fields of music and an extraordinarily versatile and inspiring construction toolkit for film, TV, game composers, producers,...