Tag Archives: Alternative R&B

London-based singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt combines guitar, drum machines, keyboards, and an R&B-friendly falsetto to fashion clean, club-ready electro-pop. Hailing from Small Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, Britain, Garratt started composing songs at age 12. When he got his initial notebook in his past due teens, he started experimenting with more complex music production, …

An experimental duo whose music is a witty however sensual fusion of funk, pop, R&B, Latin, and digital influences, Buscabulla were shaped by Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, a set of Puerto Rican émigrés surviving in Brooklyn, NY. The two 1st fulfilled in 2011, when Del Valle went …

A soul-rooted alternative R&B artist who sings, creates, produces, and has keyboards, Australian Jordan Rakei debuted in 2013 with Franklin’s Area, a self-released six-track EP. An amazingly mature established, it shown the convenience with which Rakei can change from classic spirit ballads to reggae grooves. Rakei was busier in 2014, …

Delivered in Huntsville, Alabama in 1991 and raised in the South Aspect of Chicago, MC/poet Mick Jenkins (whose true initial name is Jayson) produced a direct effect in the first 2010s’ Chicago hip-hop picture along with his socially conscious, intelligent lyrics and difficult yet unforced delivery more than acid jazz-influenced …

Manufacturer Kaytranada arrived through the early 2010s with ear-perking remixes and a range of noises that veered from J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats to woozy home grooves. Blessed Louis Kevin Celestin in Haiti, the Montreal-raised musician, a voracious listener, got addicted to DJ’ing and creation during his early teenager years. In …

Ibeyi (pronounced ee-bey-ee) may be the Parisian music duo of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, who meld component of Afro-Cuban root base music and electro doom soul. Their name originates from the Yoruban vocabulary and means “twins.” Both were blessed in Cuba, and sing in both British and Yoruban. …

Like Deniece Williams, among her inspirations, R&B singer and songwriter Moniquea is from Gary, Indiana, though she grew up in Pasadena, California. Encircled by music, she also created like a performer during her youngsters and, at age 15, performed in the Rose Dish. She released a self-titled recording in 2011 …

Homeshake is a Montreal-based indie pop task helmed by vocalist/songwriter Peter Sagar, and featuring efforts by Tag Goetz, Greg Napier, and Brad Loughead. Homeshake’s tracks are stripped down and sensual, frequently inspired by simple spirit and R&B but using a lo-fi, home-recorded visual. Sagar began saving and digitally launching Homeshake …

R&B vocalist and songwriter Snoh Aalegra offers termed her function “cinematic spirit.” The profession from the Stockholm, Sweden indigenous picked up considerably after she was taken to the interest of producer Simply no Identification and was agreed upon to his ARTium label. Considerably not the same as Jhené Aiko, ARTium’s …

After a small number of releases beneath the name Breezy Lovejoy, singer, rapper, and producer Anderson Paak broke through with six songs on Dr. Dre’s 2015 record, Compton. Blessed and elevated in Oxnard, California, Paak’s initial experience being a musician emerged being a teenage drummer in the cathedral band. As …