Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seeker, a music company founded by songwriter Evan Bogart, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of SWV’s debut album, It’s About ...
OPINION: The album with “Rain” and “Can We” is chock full of bangers and is still as good today as it was back in 1997. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are ...
On August 12, 1997, Cheryl “Coko” Gamble, Tamara “Taj” George and Leanne “Lelee” Lyons - collectively known as SWV - unveiled Release Some Tension. Nowadays, the word “classic” is used much too ...
R&B 90's trio SWV are back and promise nothing but "heat" for their fourth non-seasonal studio album. By Erica Thompson Two weeks ago (June 10), R&B devotees were happily surprised to hear SWV on ...
Cheryl “Coko” Gamble, Tamara “Taj” Johnson and Leanne”Lelee” Lyons got their start in New York’s 1990s R&B scene as SWV (which stands for “Sisters With Voices”). They were signed to RCA in 1991 and ...
R&B girl groups dominated music in the 1990s. Thanks to the stylings of SWV, Xscape, En Vogue, and more, the landscape of music — and entertainment as a whole — changed, and the groundwork was laid ...
The ’90s is regarded by many to be the golden age of R&B. Girl groups such as SWV, Xscape, and En Vogue defined the sound of a generation and changed what it meant to be a successful woman in the ...
Catch up on SWV & XSCAPE: The Queens of R&B on Peacock or Bravo. SWV released three more albums (New Beginning, Release Some Tension, and a Christmas album) before disbanding in 1998 for the members ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. I've never ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I’m one of those people who isn’t quite stuck in the 1990s but does ...