A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past. Here and below are seven of the many contemporary artists who are redefining and ...

Nashville is known as "Music City" for its diverse heritage. Meet some of the women at the forefront of Nashville’s hip-hop and R&B scene.

Adam Bradley, a writer at large for The Times’s T Magazine, has been listening to R&B his whole life. Lately, he has noticed an exciting shift. A generation of women who were raised on the music of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the Grammy nomination and the buzz about a fresh era of R&B girl groups, FLO was simply a U.K. trio rooted in harmony, ...

"Man I Need" is making history.

In 1992, the world was formally introduced to Mary J. Blige in her “Real Love” music video. The image of a young Black woman, rocking an oversized baseball jersey, a backwards cap, and singing over a ...