Neo-Soul, Neo-Soul. Where for arte thou, Neo-Soul? With all due respect to R&B/Soul’s subgenre, Neo-Soul never really left, but became an acceptable addition to the R&B family (sans title). Kedar ...
The source code of neo-soul is scattered across a number of genre-defiant projects that pushed, and eventually broke, boundaries in the first half of the 1990s. Neo-soul wasn't always such a nebulous ...
D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning musician whose sound helped define the neo-soul movement of the 1990s and 2000s, has died following a private battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51. “The shining star ...
“[Neo-soul] made it cool to speak your truth in music. A lot of times R&B sounded like a fantasy," WPNOFLOVE said. "But, when you listen to [Anthony Hamilton’s] ‘Charlene,’ you’re like, 'this is real.
Sitting comfortably within the vastly experimental era of late '90s "urban" music is neo-soul. The sub-genre is one that has taken on many forms since the term was first coined by former Motown ...
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US star D’Angelo, who pioneered and then redefined neo-soul music, has died at the age of 51, his family have confirmed. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. In a statement released to ...
*“I was his music director,” said Mark Adams about working with the late Roy Ayers when I asked during our interview for his new single “Open Letter” from his newest album “This is Neo-Soul” (DownJazz ...
Those who love going to R&B shows in Denver or hearing sultry neo-soul vocals at jazz clubs are witness to a blossoming local scene. The boundaries of R&B continue to shift as each wave of artists ...
When the Voodoo album arrived, it was clear that D'Angelo wasn't just neo-soul's latest sex symbol -- he was bringing a whole new juju to the genre. By Chuck Arnold After D’Angelo’s debut Brown Sugar ...