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Jeff Price and the trouble with getting paid
He helped musicians get onto the digital shelf. Then he went looking for the royalties that never reached them. From TuneCore to Word Collections, Jeff Price keeps asking who gets paid when someone presses play.
Kingsley Chin and the long way back to Buff Bay
Football took Kingsley Chin from Jamaica to Columbia. After building a career in business, he returned to the game as a club owner - and gave his hometown a second life in books and music.
Lexa Gates
Lexa Gates (born Ivanna Alexandra Martinez) is a Queens-raised rapper, singer, and performance artist blending jazz-soul atmospheres with spoken word rap and stream-of-consciousness lyricism. Known for a calm, unhurried delivery packed with emotional density, she broke through with the viral single 'Angel' (2023) before signing to GoodTalk/Capitol Records and releasing her acclaimed label debut *Elite Vessel* (2024), followed by the 18-track solo statement *I Am* (2026). A Colombian-Puerto Rican artist who dropped out of school at 15 and started recording at 17, Gates has become one of New York's most distinctive emerging voices - equal parts Sade and Mac Miller, with a flair for conceptual stunts like locking herself in a glass box in Union Square for 10 hours on album release day.