Were Little Richard and Johnny Ray our founding fathers? These are the sorts of questions that Jon Savage’s fascinating book, “The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the ...

"Tutti Frutti The Musical," based on the life and music of Little Richard, will premiere Saturday, December 21st at the renovated Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas Texas.

When you think of the word music, what comes to mind? Likely hundreds of different songs and artists that are completely different from what the next person thought of. That’s because music is so ...

'AGT' fans were moved by Richard Goodall's performance of Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You' in the season 19 live show on August 13.

Rock 'n' roll has been dominated by white musicians for decades. However, many of the Black musicians on this list are not ...

Super Bad Theater Company has announced the cast for TUTTI FRUTTI - THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LITTLE RICHARD, a new musical starring Dedrick Weathersby.

In a clip from the documentary, Little Richard: I Am Everything, we hear the young entertainer singing an early version of what would become his signature tune, “Tutti Frutti.” But surprise ...

As Little Richard, the pianist, singer, and songwriter barrelled out of Macon, Georgia with a pencil mustache and the smash 1955 single “Tutti Frutti.” ...

The joyful, insurrectionary, world-wrecking fervor of “Tutti Frutti,” which Cortes channels in a dazzling psychedelic montage, was still about what it had been in Little Richard’s imagination.

NPR’s Ann Powers said of “Tutti Frutti”: “What Little Richard did … was to eliminate the double entendres and make matters much more direct.” ...

According to a new documentary, if the 'Tutti Frutti' singer was too busy, James Brown would dress up as him and perform in his place.

Filmmaker Lisa Cortes told the “Tutti Futti” tale when discussing his influence during a Q&A after a Martha’s Vineyard screening of her doc about his life.