R and b

Rhythm and blues, abbreviated as R and B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Trizonna McClendon

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