In the late '60s and '70s, Philadelphia became known for two things in the world of pop culture. One was the movie "Rocky," and its story of triumph in the ring, and the other was the rise of a ...

Teddy Pendergrass captured many hearts during a music career that lasted more than three decades. The R&B and soul singer who spent his formative years in North Philadelphia first found success as the ...

Sounds of the past live on in the mind and quite often all it takes is a hint of what used to be for the memories to supplant the present. Musically speaking, this is the process enabling groups to ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Yesterday (Wed., Jan. 13), soul legend Teddy Pendergrass died in ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Teddy Pendergrass, 59, the rhythm-and-blues sex symbol whose steamy paeans to romance electrified fans and sold millions of records until a 1982 car crash left him paraplegic, died Jan. 13 of colon ...