February is Black History Month — and each week, all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is here to talk about a different trailblazer and maverick of Black music. These musicians took risks ...

Though the title of the “Queen of Disco” is commonly associated with legends like Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer, one of the first to truly reign supreme within this genre was Sylvester. Known for ...

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Sound Barrier delves deeply into Sylvester’s life—“the motivations for the things that he did and for the creative choices that he made,” King explained in a call with Jezebel earlier this week. He ...

Sylvester in March-1979 at the SF War Memorial Opera House – Photo: Phil Bray READ THIS STORY IN THE MAGAZINE Much of the world met Sylvester in the late ’70s as the unapologetically androgynous, ...

Fifty years ago, I heard the future in a disco. It wasn't a psychic experience; it was the mixing of African-American, Latinx and LGBT communities that changed what the world was listening to forever.