Madison attended Berklee College of Music and remembers that people often asked about her father before asking about her. "A lot of people asked me to scat, and I'm like, 'I don't do that,' " she says ...

August is "HAPPINESS HAPPENS MONTH." It's intended to celebrated things that make us happy, so today's Beautiful Music features Bobby McFerrin, whose song DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY became a captivating ...

Bobby McFerrin was onto something when he titled his second album The Voice. At the time, in the mid-1980s, it was a sobriquet more readily associated with Frank Sinatra — but in its definitive ...

A lot of the best music of the 1980s is incredibly happy. For example, Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” s one of the most joyous songs of all time. McFerrin revealed he had to be alone when he ...

Seeing Bobby McFerrin perform at Kirkland Performance Center is like having this invincible Pied Piper of song all to yourself. And a few hundred friends. McFerrin can fill the Paramount Theatre or ...

Bobby McFerrin surprised a San Francisco crowd by conducting one of his favorite musical pieces for the first time in 16 years. The "Don't Worry, Be Happy" musician, who moved to San Francisco just ...

When Judi Vinar takes the Atlanta Symphony Hall stage Friday night with the rest of Bobby McFerrin’s Gimme5 a cappella ensemble, her mind will be a blank slate. McFerrin and the four singers, who ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. To borrow from the Dos Equis commercial, Bobby McFerrin is ...

The Grammy-winning singer joins host Michael Feinstein to discuss his own musical evolution. McFerrin demonstrates his a cappella style and... Bobby McFerrin On Song Travels Vocalist Bobby McFerrin is ...

Bobby McFerrin won the Grammy for Record of the Year with the catchy tune “Don’t Worry Be Happy” (1988). Madison McFerrin is coming to Wolf Trap. (Courtesy Wolf Trap) This Sunday night, his talented ...

How does one write about the ineffable? It is, after all, Beyond Words... We must, however, reflect on Bobby McFerrin's Beyond Words. There is a certain degree of serendipity in the fact that this ...

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