Jan. 30, 2025, GRAMMY® Award-winning artist, songwriter and producer Kirk Franklin will be celebrated at the fourth annual ...

He has scored a pair of No. 1s as a soloist on the Billboard Hot 100: “Gettin’ Jiggy ... Make It” arrived at its No. 3 best on the multimetric Hot Gospel Songs chart, where it became both ...

Whether you are looking for smooth R&B grooves or high-octane club hits, Black queer music ... for a Grammy in the Best Progressive R&B Album category. After her song “Nasty” became viral ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.

From Kendrick Lamar to Beyoncé and more, these were the biggest headlines across R&B, hip-hop and African genres this year.

Adult Pop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay charts and only the second ever single by a Black artist to top both the Billboard Hot 100 and Country Songs charts. His reign knocked down artist Morgan ...

The former president was 100 ... music was formative from a young age, beginning with his upbringing around gospel songs in church. He called gospel “rural music,” saying, “it has both Black ...

New music is derivative. What sounds fresh and original is derived from a previous source — which artists refer to as the ...

Here are the top 10 ... s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spent a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP First, Shaboozey was one of the black country artists ...

Since we’ve already listed some of the best songs that we mistakingly thought were sung by Black people ... made the record sound more like a gospel record than an American folk song.

Here are 10 shows — spanning funk and soul to Afro-pop and bluegrass — that set the bar high for venturing outside musical ...

Exploring the origins of Hitsville USA, otherwise known as Berry Gordy Jr's Motown Records, who released the hit single, ...