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NEW YORK (AP) — When the pandemic hit, Brittany Howard found herself hunkering down in Nashville with two dogs, two cats and one album on repeat — “Songs in the Key of Life” by Stevie Wonder. “Every day. Every single day,” she says, laughing. Making her own music naturally followed, and the result is the Alabama Shakes frontwoman’s second solo …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a pre-Grammy event, Mariah Carey used the Recording Academy stage to speak about fighting against conforming to certain music industry standards in an effort to create her music that would eventually appeal to the masses. “I was not encouraged to focus on my love for Black music,” Carey remarked Thursday night at the academy’s Black …