Music

Chalino Sánchez was a Mexican singer-songwriter. Posthumously called "King of The Corrido", Sánchez is considered one of the most influential Mexican narcocorrido singers of the late 20th century. He also composed and sang romantic and radio-friendly songs. Sánchez grew up in a poor and violent rural area of Sinaloa, the youngest of eight children. His father died when Sanchez was six years old. At age 15, Sánchez shot and killed a man who raped his sister. In 1984, his brother Armando was murdered in a hotel in Tijuana, inspiring him to compose his first corrido. While serving time in prison for petty crimes, Sánchez composed songs for inmates that had stories they wanted to preserve in sentimental ballads. On January 25, 1992, Sánchez was shot while performing in Coachella, California, United States, but survived. He fired back in self-defense and accidentally killed a bystander.[1] Just a few months later, on May 16, Sánchez was shot and killed by unidentified assailants after a performance in Culiacán, in which he was handed a note, possibly a death threat. Though his murder remains unsolved, it is suspected to be linked to a Mexican cartel or revenge.

Maria Malibran was a renowned Spanish opera singer, considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 19th century. Born in Paris to opera singer Manuel García, she received early training and made her professional debut at 16. Known for her powerful voice, agility, and emotional depth, Malibran quickly became famous across Europe, particularly for roles in operas by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, such as Norma and Semiramide. Her intense stage presence and dramatic performances earned her a lasting place in operatic history. Despite her tumultuous personal life and health struggles, Malibran's influence on opera was profound. She died at 28 from complications after a horseback riding accident.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent.

Alessandro Moreschi was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings.

Singing sand refers to sand that produces sound, typically caused by either wind passing over dunes or by the act of walking on the sand. Several conditions must align to create this phenomenon: the sand grains must be round and fall within a specific diameter range of 0.1 to 0.5 mm, the sand must contain silica, and it must reach a certain level of humidity. The most commonly emitted frequency is around 450 Hz.

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower.

California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold a series of instrumental guitar and electronic records featuring ornate hand-drawn cover designs, complete with listening instructions from the Master himself. Since just his twelfth year, Burchette had been transfixed by the parapsychological, spending as much time reading books on Tibetan mysticism fundamentals as he did practicing guitar, the vibrations of which he used to create tonal pictures and patterns. After time spent teaching classical guitar, Master Wilburn Burchette released seven albums in the seven years spanning 1971 through 1977, before abruptly burning and discarding everything related to his musical explorations.