IT’S BEEN a good day for Taj Mahal. The Berkeley singer-musician has just learned that his latest record, “Maestro,” has received a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Blues Album category. Even ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Blues titan Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., known by his stage name Taj Mahal, will play ...

Taj Mahal doesn't just play world music; he embodies it. Rooted in American blues, his songs' influences range from West African to Hawaiian. But they do have something in common: "The one thing I've ...

Enter to win ticket for The Taj Mahal Quintet 30th Anniversary on Friday, November 21 at Dimitiriou's Jazz Alley.

Taj Mahal is an icon of music. His gravelly vocals have touched on many forms over his fifty plus years as a musician – Blues, jazz, reggae, Cuban, Samba, tango, many different African rhythms, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Taj Mahal can rightfully be called a living legend for his contributions to ...

The great American musician, Taj Mahal (born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks), is, at heart, an essentialist. The music he loves is often the distilled essence of a genre or style, rather than the pomp ...

Taj Mahal has a degree in animal husbandry and agronomy, and planned to be a farmer. Music was just something he did. "No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life," the ...

Rubies are the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, the gemstone symbolizing the eternal flame that binds them together. When Taj Mahal celebrated the 40th ...

Taj Mahal was not yet a blues legend when the Rolling Stones first heard him live in the mid-1960s at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles. But they immediately became avid fans of his no-nonsense ...