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Contemporary R&B. Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music . The genre features a distinctive record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or dance -inspired beats ...
Beginning with the deaths of several 27-year-old popular musicians between 1969 and 1971 (such as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison), dying at the age of 27 came to be, and remains, a perennial subject of popular culture, celebrity journalism, and entertainment industry lore.
A global, multilingual list of rhythm and blues and contemporary R&B musicians recognized via popular R&B genres as songwriters, instrumentalists, vocalists, mixing engineers, and for musical composition and record production.
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age. Rock music developed from the rock and roll music that emerged during ...
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), abolitionist, statesman, orator, editor, author, prominent figure in African American history; Ronnie Dove (born 1935), pop and country singer who had a string of 21 hits on Billboard from 1964 to 1969; Dru Hill, R&B singing group; W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), founder of the NAACP, lived in Baltimore 1939–1950
Gurney Norman (born 1937) Novelist, documentarian, professor. Raised in Allais; worked for Hazard Herald; professor at University of Kentucky. Marsha Norman (born 1947) Author and lyricist [13] Born in Louisville [13] Andrew J. Offutt (1934–2013) Author; father of Chris Offutt. Born near Morehead, lived in Louisville.
Doris Miller (1919–1943), Pearl Harbor hero, first African American to receive Navy Cross Audie Murphy (1924–1971), World War II hero , actor, Medal of Honor Recipient Chester Nimitz (1885–1966), commander of Allied naval forces in Pacific during World War II
Pearl Bailey (1918–1990) Anita Baker (born 1958) Belle Baker (1893–1957) Bonnie Baker (1917–1990) Chet Baker (1929–1988) Josephine Baker (1906–1975) Patricia Barber (born 1956) Mary Barry (born 1955) Shirley Bassey (born 1937) Yolande Bavan (born 1942) Dee Bell (born 1950) Sathima Bea Benjamin (1936–2013) Tex Beneke (1914–2000 ...