Akon is taking an unexpected turn with his music, re-recording this entire catalogue as country music. In an interview with the Recording Academy, the Lonely and Locked Up singer, now fully ...

I doubt that anybody expected to hear Bobby Vinton, the ’60s crooner who sang “Blue Velvet,” on top 40 radio this summer, but there he was, courtesy of the Senegalese-born R&B and hip-hop singer Akon, ...