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In 1995, unlike the present, there was an abundance of female groups. Radio, video shows and music stores were already embracing Jade, TLC, SWV and En Vogue, but a saucy, sangin’ Cali trio by the name of Brownstone exploded out of nowhere with their stellar debut album From the Bottom Up.  Signed to Epic as artists for Michael […]

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(January 21, 2025) Raised on Motown and inspired by ‘70’s soul, Taiwanese singer Yufu Chen is making international strides. Since dropping his first EP back in 2021, he has amassed well over 104K listeners on Spotify alone, due to “Honey If You’re Extra,” a sexy midtempo jam dripping of Marvin Gaye ooze. Thanks to UK radio […]

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LOS ANGELES — R&B singer and songwriter JAWAN.mp3 returns with his second full-length project, a swimmingly sweet 14-track effort titled Reverie. Reverie features the viral TikTok singles “Still (For You)” and “Only Want U,” and collaborations with Elijah Dai, Mal Saunders and BeMyFiasco. Reverie is available today for purchase and streaming on all digital service providers. Listen to Reverie here.  Reverie expands on the sonic landscape […]

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He has had the unique position of serving as lead vocalist for not one but two all-time great Motown groups. And if you’ve ever heard Theo Peoples sing, then you know why. Happy birthday to Theo Peoples, born January 24, 1961. Theo’s journey with Motown began with The Temptations, where he spent six transformative years. […]

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LOS ANGELES, January 21, 2025 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Daryl Hall is launching his 2025 international touring slate with a series of shows featuring opening act Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze starting March 22nd at the Arena Theatre in Houston, Texas, ending May 25th at the Brighton Centre in the U.K. and […]

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(January 21, 2025) Mike De’Cole knows how to make romantic, gentlemanly music. Anyone who heard his album So It Is Written or his single “Nothing But A Towel” can attest to that. De’Cole is an artist who incorporates old school romantic lyricism and sensuality into music that embraces some contemporary musical elements. De’Cole showcases those […]

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(January 20, 2025) “Love Breakthrough,” the latest release from Candi Staton’s upcoming album, Back To My Roots, encompasses many elements of the legendary singer’s musical journey. Listeners will hear gospel in the lyrics; they will hear a bit of Motown in the upbeat, Sound of Young America arrangement and the tight backing vocals; and Blues […]

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He was one-half of perhaps the most popular hip-hop due of the 80s and 90s, and he is still doing his thing today. Happy birthday to DJ Jazzy Jeff, born Jeffrey Allen Townes on January 22, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jeff first rose to fame in the mid-1980s as one-half of the dynamic duo DJ […]

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Today we wish a very Happy Birthday to the great Billy Ocean, born January 21, 1950. The Trinidad native was born Leslie Sebastian Charles, but moved to England as a child. His gift for song was obvious even as a teen, and, taking on the name Billy Ocean, he becme a fixture on the London scene. Ocean […]

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Nashville, TN (January 17, 2025)—Three-time Grammy® Award-winning blues legend Bobby Rush and five-time Grammy® nominated singer/songwriter/guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, unite for a very special collection of new blues songs that the two artists wrote and recorded together.  Titled YOUNG FASHIONED WAYS, the album will be available on March 21.  Their debut single, “Who Was That,” which will also be featured in Lionsgate’s […]

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In the mid-80s, when pop singer songwriter Stephen Bishop (“On and On”) wanted to recreate the terrific soulful, falsetto ballads of the prior decade, he called on the five brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts, better known as Tavares, to make the song happen.  It was a pivotal moment for both acts: The Tavares brothers had just […]

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(January 17, 2024) I’m going to give “This Life With You,” the new song from SoulTracks fave Teri Tobin, what could be considered the highest praise that you can give a love song. I could easily imagine this song being played at the reception as the very first dance of a newly married couple. Tobin’s duet […]

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(January 16, 2025) As the music world remembers one of the greatest vocalists of all time nearly two decades after his passing, there is still plenty of admiration regarding Luther Vandross’s acclaimed career. Since he began his solo chapter, the New York born singer/songwriter/producer charted several Billboard number one albums, received a posthumous induction into […]

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Happy Birthday to R&B great Angela Winbush, born on January 18, 1955. One of the most talented singers, songwriters and producers of the 80s and 90s, Angela Winbush never received either the across the board commercial success she deserved, nor sufficient credit for her pioneering work as a top tier female producer in the male […]

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(January 16, 2025) When one thinks of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood immediately come to mind. In the spirit of the 5 founders known as the five pearls (Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings and Fannie Pettie Watts), 5 Sorors blessed with the […]

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(January 15, 2025) Al Chestnut has been making inspirational music that embraces R&B, gospel and jazz alongside his brother as one half of the sibling duo The Chestnut Brothers. Al and Ty Chestnut have performed and recorded with a veritable who’s who of music legends, including Luther Vandross, Grover Washington, Jr, and Najee, just to name a […]

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(January 18) Today we commemorate the birthday of the late, great David Ruffin, born January 18, 1941 Certainly one of the greatest Soul singers of all time, David Ruffin was an enigmatic man whose own internal struggles and contradictions led to a tumultuous career, both as the lead vocalist of the Temptations and subsequently as a solo […]

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January 18, 1975 – Minnie Riperton releases “Lovin’ You” She was a perfectly angelic singer who left the earth far too soon, but on this day in 1975, the incredible Minnie Riperton displayed her five-octave soprano voice on what would become her signature song, the lovely “Lovin’ You.” Written by Riperton and her husband, producer […]

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(January 14, 2025) As a pastor, Avery Stafford knows the important role that music plays in preparing his congregation to hear the word of God. Rev. Stafford serves as the lead pastor of Common Ground Church in Beaverton, Oregon. Stafford is also a musician who writes and sings songs of worship and praise, which means […]

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We are wishing a very Happy Birthday to Helen Folasade Adu, butter known to music fans around the world as Sade, born on January 16, 1959. The Nigerian born singer-songwriter burst onto the scene with her self-named band in 1984, wowing pop, soul and jazz audiences with the #1 hit “Smooth Operator” and the accompanying […]

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