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Pop icon, GRAMMY© Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Huey Lewis shares “The Power of Love” to support Stax Music Academy

Pop icon, GRAMMY© Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Huey Lewis has teamed up with the London, UK/Austin, Texas-based Soundwaves Art Foundation to help raise funds for the nonprofit Stax Music Academy, an afterschool and summer music institute at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Soundwave’s Tim Wakefield has created an original

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Say Happy 90th Birthday to Stax Records Founder Jim Stewart

In 1957, Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records, which soon afterward, with his sister Estelle Axton joining him, became STAX. The “little Memphis label that could” went on to make the world a much more magical place through the music of Rufus and Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, William Bell, Isaac Hayes, and so many more. Today,

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grammy.com: In the Midst Of A National Crisis, Memphis’ Stax Museum Looks To Provide “Opportunity & Empowerment” Once More

Stax Museum executive director Jeff Kollath and his colleagues are taking this slower-than-usual season to reflect on their mission: to share the music of Stax and highlight the people, causes and communities that brought soul music into being. Grammy.com’s Hilary Hughes recently spoke with Kollath about history of the label, and how the curation of

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