Fifty years ago, I heard the future in a disco. It wasn't a psychic experience; it was the mixing of African-American, Latinx and LGBT communities that changed what the world was listening to forever.

He helped popularize the genre with some of the country’s biggest hits of all time, including “I Am a Disco Dancer.” By Alex Traub Bappi Lahiri, an Indian film composer who combined the melodrama of ...

In 2014, Debayan Sen found a mysterious album inside of a trunk in his mother’s attic, in Kolkata, India. The red-orange record sleeve featured a picture of his mom as a young woman along with her ...

While a section of Bollywood celebs mourned the death of singer-composer Bappi Lahiri on social media, a few close friends of the disco king decided to pay a visit at his Mumbai residence. Those who ...