Biography: Arts & Entertainment

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara M...

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was the best-known “amateur” in the history of photography, famously discovered by the art world and given an ex...

Published 150 years following Hunter''s first success at the Royal Academy. Colin Hunter (1841-1904) was a hugely successful Scottish Victorian a...

Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 19...

Find out about his film debut at age five playing a puppy in one of his father's cult underground films, his attempt at becoming a comedian during ...

Igor Stravinsky lived the life of a celebrity composer in an increasingly celebrity-obsessed age. He was a true modern, a man of his time. In Paris...

Beyoncé: an unofficial biography. Always in the news Beyoncé is a clever, sassy performer who's kept her audience on their feet for over a decade a...

MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic ga...

For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporary music in Spai...

Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bachs music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking e...

Kelly Khumalo is an award-winning Kwaito star who rose to national fame at the age of 21, but due to a string of bad decisions and relationships, s...

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was devastated. A leading stage star, Edwin Booth thought hi...

Benedict Cumberbatch has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein to Smaug the Dragon in the Hobbit. Still only in his thirties, he ha...

Updateddetailed biographies of the 12 actors who have played the Time Lord, including the latest, Peter CapaldiDoctor Who is the world's longest-ru...

'I'm the king of the world!' That was the cry from Leonardo DiCaprio as he stood astride the bow in Titanic - the movie that would go on to smash ...