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Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music. As a term, it was coined by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B.
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [2] It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. [3] Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were ...
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Neo soul artists entered the 1990s music scene when hardcore hip-hop and R&B were the two most popular and crossover forms of contemporary Black expression. Many of neo soul’s innovators were born in the 1970s to parents who grew up in the era of Black Power and soul music.
In an era of mass redefinition, Neo Soul is one genre that took the best features of previous musical movements and left the rest behind. The term was coined first by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Recordings, an infamous Detroit-based record label.
grupo. banda. conjunto. Tejano, popular music style fusing Mexican, European, and U.S. influences. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation known as norteño) and Texas in the mid-19th century with the introduction of the accordion by German, Polish, and Czech immigrants.
Neo soul developed during the 1980s and early 1990s, in the United States and United Kingdom, as a soul revival movement. It earned mainstream success during the 1990s, with the commercial and critical breakthroughs of several artists, including D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell.
