Gigi Perez is a 25-year-old Cuban-American singer-songwriter who specializes in the kind of yearning, heartspilling songs that have passionate fans singing along tearfully at her shows (we've seen it ...

The heart of country music is love songs and honoring where you come from. However, country music also has its share of songs about mourning, grief, and death. Let’s look at a few famous examples of ...

Rock music has always been a great genre for narratives about love, loss, fame, and power. However, there are quite a few particularly beautiful rock songs out there about death, each written with a ...

Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is music born of history’s deepest griefs - a mother mourning her lost child, a young girl’s prayer during World War II, a folk lament of love and loss.

Where do emerging singer-songwriters come from? In the case of David Bavas, the answer is from the Appalachian foothills by way of Seattle. Bavas's latest CD is his second. And though I missed his ...