D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

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We bid farewell this year to the little sister from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a two-time heavyweight champion, and 1995's ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

James was discovered as a teen by talent scout Johnny Otis. Her career took off in the '60s with hits like "All I Could Do Was Cry" and "At Last." She died in 2012. Originally broadcast in 1994. This ...

Showing up on a great Bon Iver song, co-writing part of Justin Bieber’s best solo album, and landing a part in the next Paul Thomas Anderson movie is a good resumé—great, even. But what if you did all ...

Music lovers yearning for a honey-dipped night of sweet tunes give it up inside Morristown, NJ’s MPAC auditorium this Wednesday, August 6, 2025 evening for a Summer Horns 2025 concert by saxophonist ...

(WJBF) — Nearly 40 years after making Prince’s “Do Me, Baby” her own, Meli’sa Morgan finally has the plaque to match. Her breakout hit is now officially RIAA Gold, with more than 500,000 units sold in ...

R&B has a long tradition of its artists making bold, sometimes bawdy requests in their music — often as a desperate bid to save a failing relationship. Remember how in “Let’s Get Married,” 112 shrugs ...

Hip-Hop icon Roxanne Shanté reveals she lived with Rick James for six months at age 16 and now fights to protect young women from exploitation in the entertainment industry. “I was only 16 years old ...

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the rising country star opens up about how the success of "Austin" impacted her Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...