Thursday in Music
Across
- 6. King of Rock and Roll
- 10. inspired Beyonce, Queen of Rock and Roll, song "Proud Mary"
- 11. singer, songwriter, country turned pop icon, "Teardrops on My Guitar"
- 12. Father of Rock and Roll
- 15. Kendrick Lamar samples his song in "Luther"
- 17. King of Pop, but also made R&B music and was signed with Motown Records
- 19. and roll, 1950s, features guitar, bass, and drum set, The Rolling Stones
- 20. black owned record label from R&B week
- 22. R&B artist, sings two songs written by Dolly Parton "I Will Always Love You", "I Wanna Dance with SOmebody"
- 23. mixture of jazz, gospel, and blues, usually love songs or about African American struggles, SZA, John Legend
Down
- 1. virtuoso jazz trumpet player, also a singer and actor
- 2. crossover pioneer for country music, humanitarian, wrote the song "I wanna dance with somebody"
- 3. Founder of Motown Records
- 4. architect of Rock and Roll, from Macon Ga, song "Tutti Frutti"
- 5. Beats per minute, refers to tempo of a song
- 7. different types or categories
- 8. usually has lyrics about religion, church-oriented genre
- 9. Appalachian mountains, Nashville, Tennessee, Grand Ol Opry
- 13. started in the 1920s, improvisation, call and response, Louis Armstrong
- 14. god mother of Rock and Roll
- 16. got popular in the 1980s, Kendrick Lamar, DaBaby
- 18. sings "Cry Baby", rock and roll Queen
- 21. where was the heart of country music, location of Grand Ol Opry