Jae'Sean Parsons, a 2016 grad of Washington High School, has signed a recording deal with an R&B label in Los Angeles.

Two years ago, the producer, engineer and studio owner Mac D approached hip-hop artist DNA Picasso about a collaborative ...

Billboard celebrates Black Music Month with list of the genre's legendary acts. What does it take to be considered one of the greatest R&B groups of all time? That’s the question at the heart of this ...

The rock instrumental has the unenviable task of grasping the listener's attention, and then keeping it, without relying on words and catchy choruses to do so. Done poorly, the tune feels repetitive ...

Terms like “easy listening” and “adult contemporary” get a bad rap, perhaps unfairly so. These genre descriptors don’t connote much that’s cool or experimental, more suited to tea with your aunt than ...

Tamil Nadu Industries Minister T.R.B. Rajaa launched TNExpat, a new digital platform designed to help expatriates and international visitors explore life in Tamil Nadu. The platform provides insights ...

Thomas B. Edsall’s essays on strategic and demographic trends in American politics appear every Tuesday. He has been a weekly contributor to the Opinion section of The New York Times since 2011. He ...

Kehlani has won Best R&B Performance, for “Folded,” at the 2026 Grammy Awards. They won out over songs by Chris Brown and Bryson Tiller (“It Depends”), Justin Bieber (“Yukon”), Leon Thomas (“Mutt ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Mariah the Scientist & Ledisi also released strong projects in the category. By Gail Mitchell Last week, Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop team shared our nominee predictions in three of the five R&B categories ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...