Shakira: Turning Heartbreak Into a Record-Breaking Era
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll wrote her first song at eight on a mechanical typewriter to comfort her grieving father, drawing on a Lebanese, Spanish, and Colombian heritage that shaped a sound no one...
2 Jul 19min
Shania Twain: How She Disrupted Nashville and Sold 100 Million
Eileen Regina Edwards, known as Shania Twain, survived extreme poverty in Timmins, Ontario, singing in bars at eight to pay grocery bills and later working a remote reforestation crew that turned her ...
2 Jul 20min
Sky Ferreira: The Lost Album and a Decade of Label Gridlock
Sky Ferreira released one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2013, toured with Miley Cyrus, and then effectively vanished from music for a decade, becoming one of modern pop's most frustrating mysteries....
2 Jul 16min
Soccer Mommy: The Indie Star Who Guards Her Private Self
Sophie Allison, known as Soccer Mommy, is a rising indie rock star who intentionally sabotaged her own celebrity to protect her peace, wrapping dark lyrics about grief, depression, and self-harm in sw...
2 Jul 20min
Solange: From Managed Pop Act to Ballet Composer
Thrust onto a world tour stage as a teenager to fill in for an injured Kelly Rowland, Solange Knowles was handed a debut album at 16 with no control over its producers, singles, or sound, and was rele...
2 Jul 20min
St. Vincent: The Art-Rock Icon Who Hid a Life in Plain Sight
At the 2025 Grammys, Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, shocked the world by thanking a wife and daughter she had kept completely hidden from the public, a masterful sleight of hand that captures her ...
2 Jul 21min
Summer Walker: R&B's Raw Vulnerability and Anxiety
She was running a small cleaning business in Atlanta and teaching herself guitar from YouTube tutorials in her bedroom. Three years later, Summer Walker was breaking streaming records and matching Bil...
2 Jul 19min
Stevie Nicks: The Package Deal Who Built a Rock Fortress
Stevie Nicks wrote Rhiannon and Landslide while cleaning a producer's house, and only joined Fleetwood Mac because her boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham demanded a package deal. This deep dive pushes past ...
2 Jul 21min
