Depending on the moment, Rich Robinson’s slide guitar playing can be scorching, singing or transcendental. It’s on Black Crowes tracks like ‘90s classics “Twice as Hard,” “My Morning Song” and “Wiser ...

A striking ad from the early ’70s celebrates “the man and the woman” – B.B. King is the man, of course, and “Lucille, the ...

Wedding songs are an essential part of a couple's nuptials, and luckily, R&B artists have always understood the assignment. Between their soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics, R&B music has the power ...

*On April 10, 2026, Usher Raymond IV and Chris Brown made a massive joint announcement that broke the internet. Their upcoming co-headlining tour, cleverly titled the “R&B Tour” (also referred to as ...

Cardi B, the American rapper, is in a spot of controversy again, this time over her performance during the Little Miss Drama tour. Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, or Cardi B, was seen playing the air ...

Kehlani has won Best R&B Performance, for “Folded,” at the 2026 Grammy Awards. They won out over songs by Chris Brown and Bryson Tiller (“It Depends”), Justin Bieber (“Yukon”), Leon Thomas (“Mutt ...

Daniel never showed any musical inclination during Graziadei’s previous run on Y&R, which lasted from 2004 until 2013, but when he returned to the soap in 2022, head writer and executive producer Josh ...

Since the turn of the 21st century, critics have prophesied that R&B, a once-dominating music genre, is dead. Male artists aren’t professing their love in pouring rain, draped in silk shirts anymore.

Mariah the Scientist & Ledisi also released strong projects in the category. By Gail Mitchell Last week, Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop team shared our nominee predictions in three of the five R&B categories ...

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The 1970s was an interesting time in regard to how the masses chose to label music genres. During this decade, R&B was used as an all-encompassing term to group the styles of soul, funk, and disco.