Reshaping country and soul music with a genre-blending mix of country, R&B, and pop, The Kentucky Gentlemen are energizing ...

The Weeknd, Pharrell, Jermaine Dupri are all also featured on Billboard’s Top Songwriters list. Nowadays, the relationship between rap and R&B is a hand-in-glove fit, a match that feels like it has ...

Music City continues to live up to its name, not only in the realm of country music, but also in the world of hip-hop and R&B. Nashville is proving its versatility, hosting an exciting lineup of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

The 1980s was a truly magical time for R&B music, filled with talented female vocalists whose soulful voices and heartfelt lyrics had the power to move audiences deeply. This blog post is a loving ...

The 2000s saw a resurgence in R&B, with many male singers making significant contributions to the genre. While some artists achieved massive mainstream success, others remained underrated despite ...

The 1990s are constantly referred to as the golden age within Black media. There was an abundance of Black-led television ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

British R&B and soul—and the wider black music scene as a whole—continues to go from strength to strength, with a flurry of success stories happening in 2017. We saw the breakthrough of Mabel (who ...

On Oct. 13, R&B singer R. Kelly played the first stop of the fall-winter “Single Ladies Tour” in support of his latest album, Write Me Back. The best-selling artist behind hits like “Bump n’ Grind” ...

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Stanley, artistically reborn as a vintage soul-music crooner? The guitar-playing front man of the hard-rocking Kiss — minus his trademark makeup, glittery stage garb and ...