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Beres Hammond Essentials by Apple Music Buy Now: scan smartphone camera on the QR code Beres Hammond makes reggae that’s both impossibly smooth and impossibly soulful, delivering his lyrics with the soft, raspy croon of a wise elder. Of course, in reggae, Hammond is just that: Born in Jamaica’s Annotto Bay, he grew up idolizing R&B singers like Sam Cooke
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Katy Perry Essentials Katy Perry Video Essentials Katy Perry: Love Songs Katy Perry Remixed Katy Perry: Next Steps She’s the dream girl. The free spirit. The candy-coated pinup and the well of inner strength. She’s a little Disney, a little Betty Boop. But she’s also an avatar for the modern female pop star in a post-Madonna world—the liberated woman who
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Beres Hammond Essentials Apple Music Reggae 25 Songs Preview EDITORS’ NOTES Beres Hammond’s career might have begun in the mid-’70s, but it was in the ‘90s that his mix of American soul, classic reggae, and tinny dancehall riddims finally reached the charts. Hammond’s anguished pleas gave the canned drum machines and handclaps of songs like “Tempted to Touch” a warm,
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Check out Luis Fonsi Music Essentials About Luis Fonsi Initially molded as a traditional Latin balladeer, one who sings romantic songs with much dramatic flair over sweeping string arrangements, Luis Fonsi enjoyed much success as such, though he began to break steadily from that mold, beginning with Paso a Paso in 2005, and enjoyed even greater success and more critical
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Jimi Hendrix Essentials – Apple Music Relive the guitar god’s most incendiary performances. Few artists changed the musical landscape like James Marshall Hendrix. Working with both The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, the guitarist’s run of classic albums between 1967 and 1970 offered a revolutionary fusion of blues, funk, and psychedelic rock. His feedback-drenched performances stunned contemporaries like
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Pearl Jam Essentials Few bands would come to define the sound of alternative rock in the ‘90s more than Pearl Jam. By the time the Seattle group formed in 1990, its members had already played in several crucial early grunge acts, including Green River and Mother Love Bone. Beginning with their debut album, 1991’s multi-platinum hit Ten, Pearl Jam eclipsed
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Nicki Minaj Essentials Nicki Minaj gave female MCs a lifeline when they were on the brink of extinction, leading to a breakthrough for a number of other artists such as Angel Haze and Azealia Banks. The Queens femcee was vaulted onto hip-hop’s A-list following a streak of star-making guest appearances like Kanye West’s “Monster” and Ludacris’ “My Chick Bad” in
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Maroon 5 Essentials
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