Turn on almost any major pop or R&B record from the last seventy years and you'll likely hear it without realizing: the ornamental vocal runs, the call-and-response phrasing, the way a singer seems to ...

It's 7 a.m. While most of campus is still quiet, Abi Urton is already awake, humming through warmups in the kitchen of her apartment. A graduate from Brigham Young University, Urton balances work, ...