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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan....
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her...
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in...
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist and actress. Born in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, she attended...
Bobby Brown
Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B; singer-songwriter and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits,...
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers (pronounced /ˈaɪzliː/) (IZE-lee) are an African-American R&B;, soul music and Funk group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and...
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B; girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in...
Art of Noise
Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an avant-garde synthpop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians/studio hands Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, and Gary Langan. The group's mostly...
BLACKstreet
BLACKstreet is an American R&B; group founded in 1992 by Thomas R. Taliaferro Jr., Teddy Riley, the inventor of New Jack Swing known for his work as a member of Guy, and Chauncey Hannibal. Chauncey Hannibal and Levi Little were signed under contract...
Ginuwine
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15, 1975), better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American R&B; singer and performer. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine has released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums...
Faith Evans
Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Born in Lakeland, Florida and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Evans moved to Los Angeles in 1993 for a career in the music business. After...
En Vogue
En Vogue is an American female R&B; vocal quartet from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy.
Through August 2008, En Vogue had sold over 20 million albums and singles worldwide. They had won more MTV...
SWV
Sisters with Voices, better known as SWV, is an American Grammy Award-nominated female R&B;/pop trio from New York. Formed in 1990 as a gospel group, SWV had a series of hits, including "Weak", "Right Here/Human Nature", "I'm So Into You". The group...
Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7 in either 1968, 1967, or 1966) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter and actress who enjoyed much success in the 1990s. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards and has sold over 40 million records worldwide. Braxton...
Heather Headley
Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian R&B; and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and received two Grammy Award nominations.
Headley was born in Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago, the...
Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe is a successful splinter group of New Edition that consisted of three previous members, Ricky Bell (a.k.a. Slick), Michael Bivins (Biv), and Ronnie DeVoe (R.D.).
Bell Biv DeVoe began to take shape in the late 1980s, but not until...
Tony! Toni! Toné!
Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American new jack swing/R&B; group from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. During the band's heyday, it was composed of D'wayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael...
Dru Hill
Dru Hill is an American singing group, most popular during the late 1990s, whose repertoire included R&B;, soul, and gospel music. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland and active since 1992, Dru Hill recorded seven Top 40 hits, and is best known for the R...
Lisa Fischer
Lisa Fischer is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B; vocalist, known for her impressive vocal range that reaches to the whistle register, and her 1991 smash hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". Fischer has been recognized as one of the most...
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Anthony Hamilton
Anthony Hamilton (born January 28, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a Grammy Award Winning American R&B;, soul, and neo soul singer-songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame with his platinum-selling second studio album Comin' from Where...
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Maxwell
Maxwell (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 23, 1973) is an American 12 time Grammy Award nominated R&B; artist. He played an important role in the development of the soul sub-genre, neo-soul..
Maxwell's father was Pentecostal and raised in Vieques,...
Joe
Joe Lewis Thomas (born July 5, 1972), usually credited simply as Joe, is a seven-time Grammy Award-nominated American R&B; singer and record producer.
Joe's extensive background in gospel music has allowed him to produce his albums as well as sing...
702
702 (pronounced "Seven-O-Two"), named after the area code of their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, is an American platinum-selling R&B; trio. Originally a quartet, the group eventually became a trio, which includes twin sisters Irish (born June 2,...
Case
Case Woodard, stage name Case, is an American R&B; singer who was born in New York City.
Case was born October 4th in New York and grew up in various New York City projects with his parents and two younger sisters. While the family struggled...
Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge is an American R&B; group that were originally signed through Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Records to Columbia Records. The group is made up of twin lead singers Brian and Brandon Casey (both born October 13, 1978), Kyle Norman, and...
Keith Sweat
Keith Sweat, (born July 22, 1961) is an American R&B;/soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, radio personality and a major contributor to the New jack swing era.
Before becoming a recording artist, Sweat worked for the commodities market in the...
112
112 (pronounced "one-twelve") is a Grammy Award winning American R&B; quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in early 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and...
Donell Jones
Donell Jones (born May 22, 1972, Chicago, Illinois) is an American R&B; singer, songwriter and record producer.
He is most notable for the hits "U Know What's Up", "Where I Wanna Be" and his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet".
Jones'...
Guy
Guy are a hip hop, R&B; and soul band most closely associated with the new jack swing style of the 1980s and 1990s.
Guy was formed in Harlem, New York in 1987 by young musician/record producer Teddy Riley and R&B; singer-songwriters Aaron Hall and...
H-Town
H-Town is an American R&B;/hip hop vocal group that was formed in 1992 by Keven "Dino" Conner, his twin brother Solomon "Shazam" Conner, and their longtime friend Darryl "G.I." Jackson. They took the local nickname for their home city of Houston,...
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After 7
After 7 is an R&B; group founded in 1988 by brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell. The Edmonds brothers are the siblings of popular pop and R&B; singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds" (Melvin is older, and Kevon -...
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Tony Terry
Tony Terry (born March 12, 1964, Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States) is an American soul/new jack swing singer from Washington, D.C., who had several R&B; hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Terry was a graduate at the Duke Ellington...
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Lyfe Jennings
Lyfe Jennings (born Chester Bamsu Jennings on June 3, 1973) is a platinum-selling American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He plays the guitar, bass, and piano which he integrates into his music. The New York...
Usher
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American recording artist and actor. He rose to fame in the 1990s, releasing the multi-platinum album My Way (1997) and 8701 (2001). His success continued with...
Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is known under the mononym Prince and the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. This name change invoked controversy and many...
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (surname pronounced /ˈblaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971), also known as Mary J. Blige, is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Blige has won nine Grammy Awards and sold over 48 million records worldwide.
Blige was born on...
D'Angelo
Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo, is an NAACP and two time Grammy Award-winning American R&B; and neo soul singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
D'Angelo is known for his...
Fabolous
John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous [sic], is an American recording artist. Growing up in Brooklyn in New York City, he was among the first East Coast rappers influenced by Southern hip hop sounds....
