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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 1993 for a successful solo career starting with the...
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Pop music
Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively...
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B;, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings...
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Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the...
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Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.
Like other forms of...
New jack swing
New Jack Swing, or "swingbeat", is a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses the rhythms, samples and production techniques of hip-hop with the urban contemporary sound of R&B.; The new jack swing style developed as...
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Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of pop music that evolved from post-disco era, circa 1981, that combines dance beats with a pop, House and/or R&B; song structure. Because there is such an emphasis on fully-formed songs...
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Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is the second major subgenre of contemporary R&B.; The term generally describes a style of music that blends soulful R&B; singing and raw hip hop production. The genre served as the middle point between two other hip hop/R&B; blends,...
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Hip Hop
Hip hop is a cultural movement that developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among Black Americans and Latino Americans. It was DJ Afrika Bambaataa that outlined the five pillars of hip-hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking, graffiti writing,...
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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B; (also known as R&B; and sometimes described as mainstream R&B;) is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym “R&B;” originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B; is today...
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Pop rap
Pop rap (or hip-pop) is hip hop with a pop music influence. The style became popular in the early 1990s, as hip hop music found commercial success. Pop rappers were more radio-friendly than artists in other hip hop genres. It was not uncommon for...
