Artists, albums and songs competing for trophies at the 68th annual ceremony were announced on Friday. The show will take place on Feb. 1, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Category: Rhythm and Blues (Music)
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Anthony Jackson, Master of the Electric Bass, Is Dead at 73
Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.
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Erykah Badu Says Making Music Is a Sport. It’s Game Time.
The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next.
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Remembering D’Angelo, a Classicist Who Moved Us Forward
On Popcast, a conversation about the casual virtuosity of D’Angelo’s too-brief career with a pair of journalists who each interviewed him twice.
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Sudan Archives’ Music Comes From Her Own Universe. All Are Welcome.
On her new album, “The BPM,” the songwriter, fiddler and rapper pumps up the beat and crafts a timely narrative about humans and machines.
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D’Angelo’s Pleasure Principle
The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.
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How D’Angelo Made His Masterpiece, ‘Voodoo’
The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.
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D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’ Video Supercharged and Derailed His Career
The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.
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D’Angelo: 14 Essential Songs
The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.
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D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51
After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” his genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.
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Cardi B Rips From Her Own Headlines for ‘Am I the Drama?’
On an uneven but sometimes inspired second album, the rapper is pugnacious, reflective and rarely short on charisma.
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45 Albums, Concerts and Festivals Coming This Fall
A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift is reuniting with some of her poppiest collaborators.