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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...