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Wishing a happy 56th birthday to the great DJ Spinderella. She was the DJ element of the pioneering rap group Salt-N-Pepa, driving the beats behind hits like "Shoop" and "Let's Talk About Sex". In 2025 she became the first woman DJ to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. #WomensHistory 🎵

Elton John released "Honky Cat" 54 years ago today, in 1972. The song's jaunty intro, unique beats-akimbo piano style, and Bernie Taupin penned lyrics about the dangers of the big city went to #31 in the UK and #8 in the US. Give it a spin today! #Music #EltonJohn #BookSky

And HERE is Wuthering Heights, the song by Kate Bush, who turns 68 today, about the seminal novel by Emily Bronte, who was born 210 years ago today! How about that for a little historical synergy?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pM...

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Official Music Video - Version 1YouTube video by KateBushMusicwww.youtube.com

Wishing a happy 68th birthday to one of the greatest songwriters and recording artists of the last half century, Kate Bush! Her albums of the late 70s through early 90s pushed vocal and thematic experimentation into the pop realm in ways still fresh today. #WomensHistory #MusicSky #BookSky

Today is also the 210th anniversary of Emily Brontë's birth! Her 1847 debut, Wuthering Heights, created many of the tropes that we now expect as a matter of course in our romantic literature of today! #WomensHistory #LitSky #BookSky

Yesterday was KS Chithra's 63rd birthday! A legend in her time as one of India's most beloved playback singers, she has recorded 25,000 songs in a dozen languages over the course of a half century, and received more awards than it is possible to list here. We wish her all the best! #WomensHistory

Alexandre Dumas fils was born 203 years ago today. In an era that was largely defined by its sprawling three volume novels, he published Camille, a perfectly realized tragic romance in one volume that in turn became the basis for Verdi's La Traviata. #RomanceReader #BookSky

Wishing a happy 88th birthday to living legend, jazz pianist JoAnne Brackeen, who played with Stan Getz and Joe Henderson before forming her own ensemble, releasing a series of 20 albums over the course of the late 1970s, 80s, and 90s. #WomensHistory #WomenInMusic

Author Elizabeth Hamilton was born 270 years ago today. Her Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) was a romantic satire aimed at undermining what she saw as the dangers of Enlightened thought. #BookSky #RomanceReader

Today I would like to take you all back to 1982 and celebrate that lost gem, "Heatwave", by the Welsh band Fay Ray, as headed by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sheila Macartney. It's worth remembering from time to time! #WomensHistory #WomenInMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzL...

Fay Ray - Heatwave (1982)YouTube video by Carl Thameswww.youtube.com

Estelle Bennett (right) was born 85 years ago today. As a member of the Ronettes, she hit the top ten in 1963 with "Be My Baby", but suffered a life of mental health woes and intermittent homelessness after the band broke up in 1966. She passed away in 2009 from colon cancer. #WomensHistory

Sara Carter, whose melancholic voice expressed the woes of a nation during the Great Depression, was born 128 years ago today. The Carter Family sold hundreds of thousands of records in the 1930s, driven by Sara's distinctive vocals and Maybelle's unique guitar technique. #WomensHistory #Music

Guitar legend Peggy "Lady Bo" Jones was born 86 years ago today. As rhythm guitarist for Bo Diddley in the 1950s & 60s, she showed the world that women could hold their own with men in the rough and tumble early days of rock and roll, and her career continued on into the 2000s. #WomenInMusic #Rock

Composer, soprano, and piano virtuoso Pauline Viardot was born 205 years ago today. As a singer, she enthralled virtually every major composer of her age, who fell over themselves to dedicate works to her, and after her singing career she broke the gender barrier at the Paris Conservatory.

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919), who did the hard work of tramping through the Appalachians, collecting women's mountain songs and preserving them in her 1905 classic text The Spirit of the Mountains, which launched a movement. #MusicSky #BookSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate composer Libby Larsen (b. 1950), who co-founded the influential Minnesota Composers Forum in 1973, and has written a startling variety of choral, operatic, symphonic, and chamber works that push technological and genre boundaries. #MusicSky #BookSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we remember The Bodysnatchers, the 7-woman post-punk ska/rocksteady band that existed from 1979 to 1980, hitting with "Let's Do Rock Steady" then reformed as the 5-member The Belle Stars, hitting again with "Sign of the Times" and "Ico Ico." #MusicSky #BookSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794-1870), who had an international reputation as a dramatist, but who also composed Italian-style operas for the Saxon Court, at precisely the moment in history when such escapism was needed most. #MusicSky #BookSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate South Korean supergroup Red Velvet, formed in 2014, and still going strong. For a decade, they have pushed boundaries about how "Girl Groups" are supposed to look and sound while delivering banger after banger. #MusicSky

On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate The Shirelles, whose 1960 #1 single "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" was arguably the start of the great Girl Group explosion of the 1960s that led to The Supremes and Vandellas. #MusicSky #BookSky