But the new crop of artists emerging out of the African continent have continued making it clearer that their music can exist ...

Every so often, music industry executives, artists and fans will say, "R&B is dead" and then questions start to emerge, comparing today's R&B to its counterpart in the past. Where are the love ...

At the turn of the millennium, R&B and soul was taking root with a new, younger audience, partly thanks to D'Angelo, whose 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, was a big driver of the neo-soul movement.