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Rhythm and blues
Y 87%
29th percentile in Music
Music genre originating in 1940s America
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Y 100%
Funk
1960s music genre
Works in genre 123
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Y 100%
Hozier
Irish musician
RCA Records
American record label
Tom Scott (saxophonist)
American jazz musician (born 1948)
OVO Sound
Canadian record label
Tracey Moore
singer
Atco Records
American record label
Justin Timberlake
American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1981)
Jennifer Lopez
American actress and singer (born 1969)
Paul Williams (saxophonist)
American saxophonist and bandleader (1915–2002)
Suppertime
original song written and composed by Howard Ashman (words) and Alan Menken (music); from the 1982 musical Little Shop of Horrors
Subclasses 3
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Y 82%
Disco
Music genre
Soul music
Genre of music
Contemporary R&B
Rhythm and blues music genre
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Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat"...

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