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Bluey from Incognito looks back on a life in music, from chart-bothering hits to exciting collaborations with Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, and more.

Maxwell speaks to theGrio about winning the Soul Train Legacy Award, his musical journey and his new single and record label

Maxwell sounded nothing like the heavily sampled hip-hop-inspired R&B musicians that dominated the airwaves a quarter-century ago.

Maxwell (Eric Johnson) Around this time 25 years ago, a new artist planted the seed for what would become a new genre. His name was Maxwell, and he sounded nothing like the heavily sampled hip-hop-inspired R&B musicians that dominated the airwaves. His voice harkened back to the days of Motown. Maxwell’s silky smooth falsetto was accompanied by orchestra level instrumentation, and something that up until that moment had been left behind in the ’80s — the horn solo. The album “Urban Hang...

Ross CH Acquisition II is bringing $115 million to Reservoir’s public offering as part of the deal. Some institutional investors including Caledonia have been lined up as anchor shareholders, which will bring in $150 million in gross proceeds. In the end, after investment banking, legal fees and other expenses, Reservoir will be left with $246 million in gross proceeds from the transaction. The company’s current shareholders, including the Khosrowshahi family, will roll over all their Reser...

Rolling Stone Menu Maxwell Wasn’t Sure He Wanted to Be a Star. ‘Urban Hang Suite’ Left Him No Choice Twenty-five years after his debut, the singer-songwriter-producer and key collaborators look back on an album that proved R&B tradition could still thrive in a hip-hop world By Elias Leights Most Recent Stories Saad Amer In the early 1990s, Stuart Matthewman, the writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in Sade, heard a remarkable demo: a ballad that...

I Want You. Whats Going On and 1973s Lets Get It On – were critical and commercial hits, with the latter LPs title track going all the way to No. 1. In between those two records, he wrote and produced the soundtrack for Trouble Man. A truly solo achievement, Trouble Man served as some sort of consolation after Whats Going Ons sequel,  Youre the Man, was shelved because of its political leanings. Gaye also embarked on a successful tour and recorded the last of his popular duet albums, thi...

*NEW YORK, NY – It’s being called groundbreaking. It’s the new feature-length hip-hop/R&B musical Hal Kingand it’s scheduled to be released by Gravitas Ventures and it will premiere across platforms on Tuesday (02-09-21). Set in a late-1950s jazz-era Midwestern town, Hal King brilliantly modernizes and musicalizes William Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V, and the iconic character of Young Hal. Hal King opens in a speakeasy, where the jazz is smooth and the good times flow. Young...