Contemporary R&B

<p>Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a <a href="/facts/Popular_music/Q5yhxIwY">popular music</a> <a href="/facts/Music_genre/ceqIJRjh">genre</a>, originating from <a href="/facts/African_Americans/pTgcAdo8">African-American</a> musicians in the 1980s that combines <a href="/facts/Rhythm_and_blues/UT5v5rXb">rhythm and blues</a> with elements of <a href="/facts/Pop_music/kgshFE5B">pop</a>, <a href="/facts/Soul_music/y68RPFIa">soul</a>, <a href="/facts/Funk/NVuzVek1">funk</a>, <a href="/facts/Hip-hop/7HjAPIEh">hip hop</a> and <a href="/facts/Electronic_music/zfGNfUvR">electronic music</a>.
</p><p>The genre features a distinctive <a href="/facts/Record_producer/RcLFfQKL">record production</a> style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. <a href="/facts/Electronic_music/zfGNfUvR">Electronic</a> influences and the use of hip hop or <a href="/facts/Electronic_dance_music/5KDaMNG8">dance</a>-inspired <a href="/facts/Beat_(music)/xJrxPJfS">beats</a> are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use <a href="/facts/Melisma/gTneqU94">melisma</a>, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music, pop culture and pop music.
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Contemporary R&B