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Originally Posted by duanecharles
I just posted on a thread that was titled "favorite soul artists from the 90's" but he was actually referencing the best artists from the last ten years or so... Which would have taken the list back to the early 2000s. I could barely put a good list together because the genre basically cooled off from red hot to non existent in a decade.
Off the top of my head, I can list a bunch of traditional Soul and R&B artists that were hot in the nineties. I am sure I missing a bunch more...
What the hell happened to the genre?
Keith Sweat
Mary J Blige
Alicia Keys
Tony Tony Toni (Now) Raphael Saadiq
Aaliyah
Whitney Houston
Faith Evans
Al B. Sure
TLC
Aaron Hall
Maxwell
Tevin Campbell
Brandy
Monica
Sade
Mint Condition
Xscape
SWV
Jon B
Atlantic Starr
Donell Jones
Soul for Real
Ginuwine
Eric Benét
Lauryn Hill
Today
D'Angelo
Erykah Badu
Color Me badd
Chucki Booker
Luther Vandross
R Kelly
Usher
Mariah Carey
Destinys Child
Shai
Silk
Dru Hill
Ready For the World
Toni Braxton
Babyface(Edmonds)
Ralph Tresvant
Surface
Joe
En Vogue
Jodeci
New Edition
Bobby Brown
Bell Biv Devoe
Karyn White
Levert
Guy
Johnny Gill
Troop
BLACKstreet
Boyz 2 Men
Mya
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I consider several of these 80s -- not 90s, even if they did overlap into the 90s and 00s...A great example in your list: "Ready For the World" -- sure they had albums in the 90s and 00s but their hey-dey of having singles on the radio and videos on TV was the 80s
"Atlantic Starr" is another one I also consider 80s, which is where they had their hey-dey...they had two or three albums in the 90s but I dont think they even charted (or barely) and only had one charting single ("Masterpiece")