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The music world stands in collective grief following the sudden death of Angie Stone, whose powerful voice and innovative artistry helped define neo-soul and influenced generations of performers.

The source code of neo-soul is scattered across a number of genre-defiant projects that pushed, and eventually broke, boundaries in the first half of the 1990s. Neo-soul wasn't always such a nebulous ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz and R&B musician known as the "godfather of neo-soul" music, has died following a "long illness." He was 84. The news was shared Wednesday night to Ayers' social media accounts, ...

Trademarked by Kedar Massenburg — the former president of Motown Records who discovered and signed Badu to his label, Kedar Records — in the late ‘90s, neo-soul was created as a promotional tool amid ...

It has been 15 years since fans of Erykah Badu have gotten a full album from the “Queen of Neo-Soul.” 2010 marked the release of Badu’s album, “New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh),” and it ...

Roy Ayers, the “King of Neo Soul” who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of downtown Los Angeles and saw more than 60 of his songs sampled by a who’s who of hip-hop and soul artists, died ...