Host Erykah Badu attends the 2016 Soul Train Music Awards at the Orleans Arena on November 6, 2016 in Las Vegas. The combination of rhythm and blues spurred the development of the culture and genre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind every great R&B hit, there's often a complex web of songwriting, production, and artist selection. Songs are crafted with ...

(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Bob King/Redferns; David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) What a difference 10 years can make.

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 ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

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 ...

One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...