According to those who should know, people have used baby as a term of endearment for their significant others at least since the late 1600s — long enough for most of us to not be creeped out by the ...

R&B in the 1970s was a defining era—one where soul, funk, blues, and disco converged to shape the sound of a generation. Solo stars like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Donna ...

When Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds emerged during the 1980s, he quickly became a power player in the music industry. Before he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clarence Carter, the blind R&B singer and guitarist who had a number of hits in the late 1960s and ‘70s — usually centering around ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with R&B musician Leon Thomas, who describes his new EP Pholks as a collaboration of polymaths inspired by multi-talented artists like Prince and Quincy Jones.

Since breaking through as a pop star with her Control album 40 years ago, Janet Jackson has amassed one of the great song catalogs in pop or R&B history. Of course, she’s racked up hits like few other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even with one of the most impressive bodies of work in the history of the music business, little would argue that his 1982 album, ...