The four Japan concerts this month of K-pop stars BTS drew a total of 210,000 fans, according to the band’s management agency, making the Japanese leg of the band’s world tour a huge success despite worsening trade and diplomatic ties between South Kor...
The impassioned pleas of musicians and music lovers, backed up by a well-supported online campaign, have failed to save Hong Kong’s famed Grappa’s Cellar live music venue. The popular Italian restaurant and live music house in the basement of Jardine H...
By Dong Sun-hwaMina, a Japanese member of K-pop girl band Twice, has dropped out of the act’s ongoing world tour due to extreme anxiety, according to her agency.“Mina is suddenly feeling extremely nervous and anxious about performing on stage,” JYP Ent...
Ed Sheeran’s new album grew out of the fact that he really did not need any more alone time.Arguably the most successful male pop star in the world, Sheeran nonetheless tours like a lonely street busker, with just his guitar and a digital looping pedal...
The media obsession with naming one single, world-dominating song of the summer is silly, annoying and pointless.Music lovers all live in their own playlisted and algorithmed bubbles – one person’s favourite track will be hated by another. And it’s bet...
Taylor Swift was the world’s highest-paid celebrity in the past 12 months, according to Forbes, with US$185 million in pre-tax income.The American singer-songwriter has amassed an estimated US$360 million net worth and owns at least US$84 million in re...
Singaporean rapper Joshua Su has come out as gay in his new track and video, I’m OK. In the track, released last Friday, the rapper looks back at his formative years in an all-boys school where students were often bullied, before addressing issues tha...
Hong Kong musician Paul Maclean has been performing since he was four years old and knows the transformative power of music – its ability to give pleasure and happiness is central to his belief system. “I can be having a horrible day and then go on st...
Hong Kong singer Karen Mok has a mission – for China to have its own version of London’s West End or New York’s Broadway.With 17 albums and around 40 films already on her résumé, the 49-year-old singer/actress – who has been touring The Ultimate Karen ...
Joao Gilberto, the legendary Brazilian musician and songwriter who was a pioneer of the lilting, melodious music known as bossa nova, has died, his son Joao Marcelo announced on Saturday.He was 88. The cause of death was not immediately known.“My fathe...