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In 1997, Smooth moved to Perspective Records, a joint venture with A&M Records and reintroduced herself as a R&B singer with alternative influences. She released her first single under the label, " Strawberries " that year, which became her biggest hit to date, peaking at #17 on R&B and #49 on the Hot 100.
5. Bruno Mars. Real name: Peter Gene Hernandez Hailing from Hawaii, Bruno Mars is celebrated for his retro showmanship, smooth vocals, and a wide array of hits spanning pop, funk, reggae, and R&B ...
A global, multilingual list of rhythm and blues and contemporary R&B musicians recognized via popular R&B genres as songwriters, instrumentalists, vocalists, mixing engineers, and for musical composition and record production.
Sheppard's success continued until about 1988, when rootsy neo-traditionalist artists began to eclipse more polished pop-country artists. In 1995, he took a two-year hiatus from the road to perform exclusively for eight months a year at T.G. Sheppard's Theater in the Smokies, a state-of-the-art theater in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.
The following artists and bands have performed smooth jazz. Saxophonists. Mindi Abair; ... singer, pianist and composer) Jean-Luc Ponty (Violin) Bill Reichenbach Jr. ...
In 2019, Lil Nas X was sued for $25 million for using the song "Carry On" (from the album of the same name) without permission in his own song of the same name from his 2018 mixtape Nasaratti, which at the time was available on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud. [11] In 1983, Caldwell released August Moon only in Japan. It was released in the ...
Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. [15] Her middle name, Folasade, means "crowned with wealth" in Yoruba. [16] Her parents are Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, from Ikere-Ekiti and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse; they met in London, married in 1955, and moved to Nigeria. [15]
Blaaze (born 1975), Indian rap artist and singer; Black (1962–2016), British singer-songwriter; Blackbear (born 1990), American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer; Blackie (born 1987), American rapper, songwriter, record producer and musician; Blackmagic, Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter; Blacko (born 1979), French singer ...