Tag Archives: Adult Contemporary R&B

Regina Belle emerged being a prolific, consistently engaging vocalist in the urban modern scene. Delivered in NJ, Belle’s early knowledge is at gospel, though she was also drawn to R&B during her years as a child. She researched trombone, tuba, and metal drums, with 12 earned a school competition singing …

Beside Jean Morris, Renee Neufville was one-half of Zhané. The duo’s lovely and easy grooves, released within the Motown label, had been a substantial ingredient of industrial R&B radio through the ’90s; “Hey Mr. DJ,” “Groove Thang,” “Sending My Like,” and “Demand Line” had been all TOP R&B strikes. Upon …

The “sugary” soul trio of Harry Ray, Al Goodman, and Billy Dark brown scored many hits for any Platinum/Stang Information in the first ’70s as the Occasions before they truly became Ray, Goodman & Dark brown in 1978. They shifted to Polygram, where their poignant ballad “Unique Woman” topped the …

Although her third-place finish on American Idol’s sixth season introduced Melinda Doolittle to a fresh audience, the neo-soul singer already boasted an extraordinary résumé, having spent the better a part of ten years singing backup for famous brands Aaron Neville, Jonny Lang, Charlie Peacock, and CeCe Winans. Doolittle was created …

Along with fellow founders D’Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell was enormously important in determining and shaping the neo-soul movement that increased to prominence within the last mentioned half from the ’90s. Sketching his greatest motivation from the idea of the R&B auteur (seeking to performers like Prince, Marvin Gaye, Stevie …

The son of jazz cellist Abdul Wadud, Maryland-based R&B vocalist Raheem DeVaughn kicked his career into gear with some independent releases, aided partly by the money reward earned from winning a talent contest. Jive became interested, agreed upon him, and released The Like Knowledge in June 2005. The record peaked …

Probably one of the most commercially successful modern gospel functions from the 2000s, Mary Mary may be the sisterly duo of Erica and Tina Atkins, who also was raised in Inglewood, California in a family group also made up of five additional sisters and a sibling. The ladies’ parents had …

Brendan Reilly offers fronted some high-energy dance productions but is rooted more in spirit and jazz. The London-based vocalist and songwriter, who’s from your U.S., released single material as soon as 2006, the entire year the elegant spirit ballad “With You” was released in European countries. From that time, he …

Acting instead of singing continues to be the arena that obtained Phillip Michael Thomas his popularity. He performed Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the strike tv series Miami Vice for five years in the ’80s, and before that were highlighted in such movies as Sparkle. Thomas attempted to parlay the tv …

Eighties soft-toned vocalist Richard “Dimples” Areas topped the R&B graphs with the globe weary-toned mid-tempo groover “If It Ain’t A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR, It’s Another” using its everyman spoken section. Areas can be known for “She’s Got Documents on Me,” a radio-aired monitor from his Dimples LP (released like a …