Follow Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, and Ryan Seacrest down the “golden ticket” brick road in an all-new “Wizard of Oz”-inspired promo teasing the season seven return on ABC! The video features Perry as Dorothy as they head to Hollywood, passing by the hometowns of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Adam Lambert.
Fellow “American Idol” alum David Archuleta opens up about his journey coming out as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The “Faith in Me” singer also talks about how he almost got married three times, coming to terms with his sexuality, and learning to love himself. Watch videos from the episode now!
Sara Bareilles joined American Idol contestant Nicolina on stage during the show's season 20 finale for a performance of 'She Used to Be Mine' from Waitress. Nicolina, a Toronto native, auditioned for the series with 'She Used to Be Mine,' which landed her a spot in Hollywood after all three judges voted 'yes.'
Lionel Richie stopped by CBS Sunday Morning to talk with anchor Kelefa Sanneh about receiving the 2022 Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, his decades long career, and more.
On last night's season premiere of American Idol, Toronto's Nicolina Bozzo auditioned with a powerful rendition of 'She Used to Be Mine' from Waitress. The performance earned a standing ovation from judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. With all three judges voting 'yes,' Nicolina is headed to Hollywood.
Katy talks about her new baby Daisy, giving birth during the pandemic, parenting with her fiancé Orlando Bloom, the thoughtful baby gifts they got from Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan & Lionel Richie, the crazy six weeks after giving birth, The Weeknd’s Super Bowl halftime show, her own performance at the Super Bowl in 2015, the new season of ABC’s “American Idol,” and performing at Joe Biden’s Inauguration.
YELLOW SOUND LABEL has announced that Jukebox Saloon Vol. 2, featuring Chicago-based vocalist Colby Beserra and New York keyboard whiz Dan Lipton, is available in digital and streaming formats starting today, Friday, September 27. Beserra and Lipton bring their strong musicality and love of a good song to the Jukebox Saloon. Inspired by the classic Tony Bennett/Bill Evans duo records, a pair of pros strips down and re-engineers their favorite songs with a sense of musical adventure. They create unique, jazzed-out interpretations of songs you know and songs they'd like you to hear. Jukebox Saloon Vol. 2 is available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music and other music services.
For decades, the world's most high profile entertainers, athletes and politicians have turned to a single man for advice during the most pivotal moments in their lives and careers, including Grammy Award® winners, Hall of Famers, a Heavyweight Champion of the World and two U.S. Presidents. That man is Clarence Avant.
Yael Silver, Robin Carus and Van Dean today released “We Are The World,” a music video featuring an all-star roster of theater artists and calling for healing and unity in the world today. Participating artists include Christy Altomare, Kelli Barrett, Andrew Burns, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jordan Donica, Rachel Eskenazi-Gold, Justin Guarini, Derek Klena, Jeff Kready, Sydney Lucas, Beth Malone, Lesli Margherita, Constantine Maroulis, Bebe Neuwirth, Orfeh, George Psomas, Anthony Rapp, Courtney Reed, Chita Rivera, Kate Rockwell, Jarrod Spector, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ephraim Sykes, Jenna Ushkowitz and Ben Vereen.
Idina Menzel appeared as a guest mentor on last night's episode of American Idol. Menzel, who joined the Disney ranks with Frozen, was on hand to guide the Top 10 singers through a Disney themed competition. Watch the full mentoring sessions between Menzel and all ten contestants in the clips below!
On last night's Celebrity Duets episode of American Idol, Lea Michele appeared to sing a duet version of Defying Gravity from Wicked with contestant Ada Vox.
Mat Kearney is thrilled to share his exquisite new music video for lead single “Kings & Queens” with his fans as the single cracks into the Top 30 at Hot AC and racks up 4 Million streams. Kearney premiered the video last week, the day after his sold-out show at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium on March 24th. The single, which Kearney wrote with the help of Judah & the Lion's Judah Akers, is one of four new songs to drop from his forthcoming studio albumCRAZYTALK – due out May 4th via Tomorrow Music/Caroline.
Lionel Richie visits 'The Talk' and reveals a 'wild' tale about writing 'We Are The World' with Michael Jackson at his house. 'Michael loved to collect animal and reptiles.... so right in the middle of writing this song. We were eating downstairs and there was this dog barking and we heard... 'shut up, shut up' so I said 'What's going on, Michael?' And he said, 'That's the bird having an argument with the dog.' Now it gets worse,' recalls Richie. 'I'm lying on the floor working on the lyrics to 'We Are The World' and I hear 'hssss'....'hssss' and I'm looking at Michael and all of a sudden I'm looking out the corner of my eye and the albums on the wall are falling down....and there's an albino python. And he goes, 'There he is Lionel, we found him, we found him. We knew he was in the room somewhere, Lionel. He wants to come out and play with you'...I was screaming like the last woman in a horror movie. I was screaming so loud.'
On last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lionel Richie talks about his Hand and Footprint Ceremony at the Chinese Theatre that Jimmy hosted last week, embarrassing his kids, receiving a Kennedy Center Honor, and working on a song with Stevie Wonder. He also reveals why you should never vacation with Kenny Rogers, and talks about getting pranked by Katy Perry and Luke Bryan.
The gold standard of all music competition series, “American Idol,” will make its highly anticipated return to television this weekend and now we have an extended look at the return!