His family announced his death on his Instagram account.

R&B icon Don Bryant, who died Dec. 26, had returned to the spotlight in recent years with releases that earned him his first ...

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

The R&B world has been rocked by tragedy in 2025. From legends and icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a heartbreaking year. Randy Brown joined sadly joined the long list of those who died ...

Tuesday marks what would have been R&B singer Esther Phillips’ 90th birthday. Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit “Release Me.” That success would ...

The R&B world has been rocked by tragedy in 2025. From legends and icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a heartbreaking year. The following is a look back at those lost so far: Randy Brown ...

BET has put the iconic music show on indefinite hiatus, eliminating a key platform for artists often ignored by the Grammys.

Roberta Flack, a legendary R&B and pop singer who came to fame with 1970s hits such as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died on Monday at age 88. “We are ...

Billboard's special salute to Black Music Month continues its rollout with the next 25 artists on our all-time top 75 list. What a difference 10 years can make. That was the last time Billboard ...

Carl Carlton, a hitmaking funk and R&B singer from Detroit, has died. He was 72. Carlton’s son Carlton Hudgens II announced ...

The R&B world has been rocked by tragedy in 2025. From legends and icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a heartbreaking year. Randy Brown joined sadly joined the long list of those who died ...