As Aretha put it, in her 1999 autobiography, "Soul music is cultural, it is a people, a nation and it is the rhythm of our lives and loves and losses and wins, our hopes and dreams and passions on parade," before dropping the mic: "R&B isn't a fad it's the truth."įor 11 years, Abel Tesfaye made it very clear that his overactive death drive is his art's chief muse.
"I do not understand where this is coming from." It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that R&B's influence prevails. "I was really tired of people saying R&B is dead, nonexistent or fading away," Ashley-Dior Thomas, one of the hosts, told the Washington Post in November. The event was created by a few enthusiastic music people to wrangle and rally the supporters for a thing often wrongly presumed barren. In Washington, D.C., locals convene at Songbyrd Music House to discuss the merits of Tevin Campbell and Raphael Saadiq during R&B club, a monthly gathering for some of the genre's devotees, taking deep dives into its rich history.
Photo Illustration: Jackie Lay/NPR/Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Amber Mark's Three Dimensions Deep is one of NPR Music's top 20 R&B albums of 2022.
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