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Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) [1] 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. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than ...
- 1980s – early 1990s, United States and United Kingdom
Feb 10, 2017 · February 10, 2017. Badu performing in 1997. (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images) In early 1997, a 25-year-old Erykah Badu glided onto the set of BET talk show “Planet Groove” flanked ...
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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. Exposure to these Black Nationalist leanings and a broad range of ...
Mar 5, 2019 · Neo-soul is a musical genre that fuses contemporary R&B and 1970s-style soul with elements of hip-hop. As its name (new-soul) implies, Neo-Soul music is essentially modern-day soul music, with contemporary attitudes and sensibilities. It differs from contemporary R&B in that it's obviously more soulful, and it also tends to have deeper messages ...
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- D’Angelo. The opening bars of the title track on D’Angelo’s 1995 album Brown Sugar scream jazz, but as the song unfolds you realise D’Angelo is definitely doing his own thing.
- Erykah Badu. Badu’s success began with an opening slot at a D’Angelo gig, but she has since grown to be an equally, if not more iconic artist in her own right.
- Lauryn Hill. Hill’s debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a ’90s classic. It features both D’Angelo and Mary J. Blige, and continued the mainstream success that neo-soul saw following Badu’s first albums.
- Robert Glasper. His title may be jazz pianist, but Robert Glasper is the brains behind some of the best neo-soul compositions from 2003 through to today.
May 6, 2020 · The phrase ‘neo soul’ was originally coined by Kedar Massenburg in the 1990s to describe a particular style that was born out of soul and R&B. Far more eclectic in its influences, neo soul fused its soul roots with funk, jazz, fusion, hip hop, pop, and African music. It found its way into the mainstream through albums like Brown Sugar ...
Jun 10, 2014 · Neo soul has an additional paradoxical nature, as pointed out by Vibe writer Dimitri Ehrlich in the same year: “Neo means new. Soul is timeless.”. The word was doomed to fail from the get go ...
