'You don't really know me unless you hear my music.' Get to know rising R&B artist *aya

The Palestinian-American R&B artist shares three deeply personal songs, including a premiere, for the USA TODAY Acoustic ...

D’Angelo: 14 Essential Songs

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed ...
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7 Sade Songs That Shaped Modern R&B and Still Influence Artists Today.

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Sade that feels like home. Maybe it’s the velvety calm in her voice, or the way her music wraps around you like a warm, familiar blanket on a rainy day. She ...
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4 R&B Songs That Have (Wrongfully) Been Swept Under the Rug

R&B is not what it used to be. Nowadays, the genre encompasses the sounds and themes of pop more than it does true R&B. That isn’t a bad thing in the slightest, as all music genres go through ...
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All The Best New R&B Music From This Week

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.