R&B has always been a powerful vehicle for storytelling and cultural expression. Understanding the roots of modern R&B means ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the 21st Century recaps reflect ...

The singer, whose viral hit "Water" won the inaugural best African music performance Grammy earlier this year, will compete in pop with her debut album, though it is rooted in Afrobeats and R&B. By ...

Learn more about the making of iconic albums by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Al Green and more. getty The year 1974 saw a host of legendary Black performers reach the peak of their powers, with ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

Gospel superstar Marvin Sapp is going secular — if only for a few songs. His new mini-album is called "If I Were an R&B Singer." MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was ...