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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 ...
American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson (1958–2009) is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th and 21st century, [ 1][ 2] and one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Often referred as the "King of Pop", [ 6] his achievements helped to complete the desegregation of ...
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.
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, [ 1] and reading as a method of stress management [ 2] to bring about a state of ecstasy rather than trance, [ 3][ 4] or to create a peaceful atmosphere in homes or other environments.
Early 1990s, U.S. Derivative forms. Neo soul. Hip hop soul is a subgenre of contemporary R&B music, most popular during the early and mid 1990s, [ 1] which fuses R&B or soul singing with hip hop musical production. [ 1] The subgenre had evolved from a previous R&B subgenre, new jack swing, [ 2] which had incorporated hip-hop influences into R&B ...
112 (band) 112 (pronounced "one-twelve") is an American R&B group from Atlanta, Georgia. Discovered by record production duo Tim & Bob, the group signed with Puff Daddy 's Bad Boy Records, an imprint of Arista Records to release their eponymous debut studio album (1996).
Contemporary R&B had not been as prominent in the early 2010s as it was from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s when new jack swing was a fixture in popular music. Slow jams had largely been replaced by dance numbers and pop ballads. Contemporary R&B had begun to influence hipster musicians, creating a new genre called alternative R&B.