Forty years ago this year, in Philadelphia, one of music's most influential singing groups was born. They would call themselves Boyz II Men. A few years after Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Shawn ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past. Here and below are seven of the many contemporary artists who are redefining and ...

Since the turn of the 21st century, critics have prophesied that R&B, a once-dominating music genre, is dead. Male artists aren’t professing their love in pouring rain, draped in silk shirts anymore.