Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. By Billboard Staff Even at age 12 when he scored with his debut single, “One Voice,” Billy Gilman showed unusual maturity. Now, with “Music Through ...

The new 'Heartsongs' has different choreography, as well as a new song lineup. This year also brought the Young Ambassadors a new cast, as only five members remain on the current team from last year's ...

The tireless 13-year-old child poet was a prominent voice for muscular dystrophy sufferers Mattie Stepanek, the tireless 13-year-old child poet whose inspirational verse made him a best-selling writer ...

After a few weeks with his name atop the New York Times fiction best-seller list, young poet Mattie J.T. Stepanek is asked how he feels about his Journey Through Heartsongs collection going head to ...

Mattie J.T. Stepanek was a poet, peace activist, motivational speaker and Capitol Hill lobbyist who died just shy of his 14th birthday in 2004. Suffering from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, he ...

Brigham Young University’s Young Ambassadors will perform “Heartsongs: Melodies of Love” Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8 in the de Jong Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. on Friday with a 2 p.m. Saturday ...

Mattie Stepanek, the child poet whose inspirational verse made him a best-selling writer and a prominent muscular dystrophy advocate, died Tuesday from complications of the disease. He was 13. Mattie ...