A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past. Here and below are seven of the many contemporary artists who are redefining and ...

Adam Bradley, a writer at large for The Times’s T Magazine, has been listening to R&B his whole life. Lately, he has noticed an exciting shift. A generation of women who were raised on the music of ...

"Look, if I wasn't white I would probably be in 'rap.' Why? They just judge from what you look like and what they know. I ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, writer Jaelani Turner-Williams addresses claims that today’s R&B is too sexual. R&B’s ...

Black women have long shaped the sound and soul of R&B music. Their voices—raw, emotional and unmatched—have given us timeless love songs that echo through generations. Whether they’re singing about ...

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter H.E.R., whose Grammy-winning hit "I Can't Breathe" became an anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement, says she is still amazed at the power of ...

Barbie is honoring women in music with two new dolls representing two important roles: musical artist and tour manager. The doll brand teamed up with Grammy award-winning singer Alicia Keys, her ...

One of New Jack Swing’s first recipients of the Teddy Riley-produced style of music that kept heads bobbing from the mid-1980s through the 1990s with the bouncy fusion of hip-hop, R&B, and dance music ...