Kendrick Lamar

Soul and R&B sensation JMSN is set to bring his hypnotic sound to the Gazarte Ground Stage (34 Voutadon) on October 23. Known for his soulful voice and captivating live performances, US singer-songwriter JMSN fuses atmospheric beats with raw, personal lyrics and has worked with legends like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. Tickets start from 17 euros from more.com.

Award-winning jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington will perform at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Dionysiou Areopagitou) on October 1. As one of contemporary jazz's biggest names, Washington has collaborated with major stars ranging from rapper Kendrick Lamar to Michelle Obama, for whom he provided the score for her Netflix documentary. Tickets start from 20 euros at more.com.

The hit Turkish rapper with a concert in Stroeja on April 10, 2025

Last month, the Recording Academy announced a series of changes to the Grammy Awards to better reflect an evolving music industry.

Kendrick Lamar has vowed to resist complacency and stay creative after he became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Pulitzer judges upended decades of tradition by awarding its music prize on April 16 to Kendrick Lamar for his rap album "DAMN.," a sharp departure from the classical and jazz works the body have consistently favored. The decision, which drew praise and surprise online, quickly overshadowed other arts winners, including Andrew Sean Greer's win in the fiction category.

Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar stole the show, and most of the awards, at the 2018 Grammys, according to BBC.

Mars provided the night's big upset, taking the album of the year trophy that most critics assumed would go to Lamar's rap tour de force, Damn.

In the end, voters found Mars's crowd-pleasing R&B more palatable, while Lamar dominated the rap categories.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar dominated the MTV Video Music Awards on ay as the glitzy gala took a political turn with impassioned denunciations of white supremacists in America. 

Lamar won the most prestigious award of Video of the Year for "HUMBLE.," his ironic look at his growing fame in which he dresses up as everything from the pope to Jesus in "The Last Supper." 

Rapper Kendrick Lamar became the great winner of the MTV Video Music Awards, winning six honors from eight nominations at the Forum ceremony in Inglewood, Los Angeles.

Among his prizes is the best video of the year.

Rapper Eminem returns to the cinema as a producer of a new hip-hop comedy, the New Musical Express magazine reported.