🎙️🎼R&B Music🎼🎙️

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American history and experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of societal racism, oppression, relationships, economics, and aspirations. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records, after this style of music had contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used in a wider context. It referred to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, "rhythm and blues" had changed once again & was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the late 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "contemporary R&B". This contemporary form combines rhythm and blues with various elements of pop, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and electronic music. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, hip-hop started to capture the imagination of America's youth. R&B started to become homogenized, with a group of high-profile producers responsible for most R&B hits. Artists such as R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, TLC, Aaliyah, Tevin Campbell, Keith Sweath, Guy, Jodeci, S.O.S Band, Luther Vandross, Prince, Loose Ends, Earth Wind & Fire, Mary J. Blige, L.A. Reid, the CEO of Laface Records, Usher, Toni Braxton, Angela Windbush, LA Reid, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, Motown Artist and many more changed music and influenced so many.