The government school in Johannesburg where I was growing up had an almost 90% Jewish student body, with many Jewish staff members as well. The predominance was so marked that the school was closed ...

Sammy Kaye and his Swing and Sway Band were one of the top bands during the heyday of the Big Band era. Sammy spent his musical formative years in Athens at Ohio University. He started a band as a ...

The Red Rocker, who turns 78 on Monday, played a variety of solo hits, Van Halen tracks and Montrose classics down at Cabo Wabo, along with a number of star-studded rock covers. The good times kept ...

The pioneering session musician, 90, remains a fiercely independent thinker. “I have to do things the way I see fit.” Carol Kaye began her career as a jazz guitarist, before moving into the pop world ...

While traveling to Las Vegas to perform at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Sammy Hagar planned to do more than perform a few of his hit songs. It seemed that Hagar loved Sin City so much that he ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 13, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Surgeries — including brain, abdominal ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “We always were talking about Led Zeppelin because everybody knew that we couldn’t do Led Zeppelin ...

Dancers swung and swayed with Sammy Kaye on the Astor roof and shirt-sleeved crowds jostled up and down Times Square one hot, sticky night last week as 2,000 men and women filed off Broadway and into ...

Veteran music supervisor Robin Kaye, best known for her lengthy tenure on “American Idol,” leaves behind a legacy of “light, kindness, and joy.” Singer-songwriter and former “Idol” contestant Didi ...

Finalists from multiple seasons remember the beloved production staffer found murdered in her home on Monday. By Fred Bronson The extended American Idol family is in mourning today at the shocking ...

Robin Kaye, longtime “American Idol” music supervisor, and her husband Thomas Deluca were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Monday in an apparent double homicide, according to the Los Angeles ...