Nu soul
Nu soul (or
neo soul) is a
musical genre that fuses
R&B,
1970s style
soul and
hip hop. It is usually said to begun in the late
1980s with
New Jack Swing artists like Guy and, later,
Boyz II Men. The originator of proper nu soul is
Mary J. Blige, who's
1992 debut
What's the 411 has proven enormously influential. In the mid-
1990s, artists like
D'Angelo (
Brown Sugar),
Lauryn Hill (
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and
Erykah Badu (
Baduizm) made the genre a critical success, with moderate to occasionally blockbuster commercial success. Soon after the turn of the millennium, artists like
Alicia Keys (
Songs in A Minor) further popularized the sound, to some critical disdain.
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