NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held in Iran during the hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, on President Jimmy Carter's quest to bring about their safe release.

Maybe you, too, will hear what I am talking about – about how Yehudit Ravitz’s voice is a polished stone – in this song that she sang in the 1977 Hebrew Song Festival, when she was 21 ...

Bad Bunny admitted that the songs on his latest album are not necessarily about specific people he has dated — but they could be. “I have written songs inspired by people that people don’t ...

Steve Snowden/Getty Musician Brenton Wood, known for the hit “The Oogum Boogum Song,” has died at the age of 83. The soul singer died at his home in Moreno Valley, Calif., on Friday ...

While some welcome her Eurovision candidacy and her decision to perform well-known Hebrew and English songs in Arabic — which Hamaty translates herself — as a reflection of Israel’s ...

While some welcome her Eurovision candidacy and her decision to perform well-known Hebrew and English songs in Arabic — which Hamaty translates herself — as a reflection of Israel’s ...

Mike Shapiro, who voiced the mysterious G-Man in the Half-Life games, has released an ominous video celebrating the arrival of the new year. In it, he teases new surprises coming in 2025 ...

Outside a Mumbai courtroom, chaos broke out as two lawyers competed to represent the alleged attacker of Saif Ali Khan in a high-profile case. The situation became tense as confusion arose ...

“People in Power,” as the song’s title translates in English, has become the unofficial anthem of a mass uprising that has consumed this southern African nation over the past few ...

SHAPIRO: Did any of these songs have lots of different iterations ... BARLOW: Thank you, Ari. BEAR: Thank you.