For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Latino audience in Southern California. A record label based there is helping it bloom.
Category: Rhythm and Blues (Music)
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Chappell Roan Guts Out a Breakup, and 10 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Hayley Williams, Kehlani, Tame Impala and others.
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I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gospel Music
How music convinced a religious skeptic to rethink faith.
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‘Swag’ Album Review: Justin Bieber Finds His Old Soul
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Justin Bieber’s Surprise Album ‘Swag,’ and 10 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Tyla, Kassa Overall, Syd, Jay Som and others.
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Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Dies at 83
His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.
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Listening Back to When Janet Jackson Was for lovers
Hear six sensual songs by the pop great.
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How ‘Boots on the Ground’ Two-Stepped Onto Everyone’s Summer Playlist
Black Southern line dance culture, and a co-sign from Beyoncé, has helped to popularize the song and its fan-snapping moves.
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Wayne Lewis, Singer With the R&B Mainstay Atlantic Starr, Dies at 68
The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad “Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.
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How the Bay Area Shaped Sly Stone
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Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and ’70s.
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South by Southwest London Has Its Own Musical Touch
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