This year, it was particularly difficult to make our final choices with so many incredible 'true-to-soul and R&B' albums released into the market, again, including all of the varied styles and sub ...

But the new crop of artists emerging out of the African continent have continued making it clearer that their music can exist ...

At the turn of the millennium, R&B and soul was taking root with a new, younger audience, partly thanks to D'Angelo, whose 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, was a big driver of the neo-soul movement.