Since making her professional debut in 2019, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and composer Marc Rangel has been making waves in the music world. But at the early age of 12, she started her path as a creative when she developed a liking for composing music. To her legion of devoted followers, she is just known as Marc Rangel, yet she is one of the most...

Amara-Fe has definitively shifted from the messy business of becoming into the absolute certainty of claiming with her new album, "A Queen’s Ambition". The rising solo artist, tethered to deep musical roots extending through Mission and Dallas, Texas, arrives fully formed here. There is a palpable weight to her cinematic R&B and electropop arrangements. You can almost feel her surveying her territory, setting borders,...