Beach music was named South Carolina’s official state music in 2001. From Fat Harold's in Myrtle Beach to shag fests, we have it going on throughout the state.

Ravyn Lenae caught up with PEOPLE about the slow-burn success of her 2024 track "Love Me Not," how she built it up from an Anderson .Paak track and the compliment that future tour mate Sabrina ...

Then they said I and my girlfriend” – Claudette Rogers, later his first wife – “should become like [50s R&B duo] Mickey and Sylvia, but then we’d be another Mickey and Sylvia…” ...

Tariq's music is influenced by a variety of genres, including R&B, jump blues, and jazz. Tariq moved to Memphis to attend Rhodes College and quickly became immersed in the city's music scene.

Jesse Owens, “The Fastest Moving Human Disc Jockey,” could be heard afternoons in the ’50s on WAAF 950-AM. The first station to adopt an exclusive R&B format on a daily basis was WBEE in Harvey.

Sugar Pie DeSanto, a legendary Bay Area R&B-soul-blues singer who performed with James Brown and Etta James, has died at the age of 89. “Today Dec 20th 2024, Ms Sugar Pie DeSanto passed away in ...

He fused his forceful, declarative blues-shouter vocals, remindful of the most raucous, aggressive 1940s and early ’50s R&B, with maximally twangy, country-inflected reverberating guitar.

Indeed. Robert Plant performs at Frost Amphitheater in Stanford, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) Plant did a little more to connect to the crowd, although he ...

They have music made of classic standards from the 40s and 50s, R&B favorites, disco, funk, contemporary rock, and current pop. and so much more. July 25 starting at 8 p.m. will be Prima, The ...

It was all rhythm and blues, R&B. But by the middle of the 1950s, when the rock and roll revolution was underway, one of the predominant Black music styles was the four-part male harmony vocal group, ...

It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew on ’50s R&B and jump blues and blended with traditional mento and calypso sounds. In the ’60s it became wedded to the rough, ...

Canadian R&B artists, including Drake, have built lifestyle brands that simultaneously reinforce and challenge dominant beliefs about R&B music as Black and American, and Canadian identity as white.