R&B/funk group Labelle, best known for their iconic hit “Lady Marmalade,” is the subject of a new rock opera now in development. According to the description, the show plans to capture “how Labelle ...

BACK TO YOU, AARON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, THE BAND FROM VALLEJO THAT BROUGHT SEVERAL R&B FUNK HITS IS BACK WITH MUSIC JUST IN TIME FOR THE SUMMER. AND WE’RE GETTING TO LISTEN TO ONE OF THEIR NEWEST ...

FRANKIE BEVERLY: That is unquestionably the favorite part of this whole thing to me. MADDEN: That's Beverly in an interview with NPR in 2005. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BEFORE I LET GO") MAZE FEATURING ...

He was active in multiple music activities offered at Dayton’s Roosevelt High School. Wagner got his start in the era of R&B and funk music in the 1970s as a vocalist and trumpet player performing ...

This Saturday afternoon, Aug. 26, the Calvert County Fairgrounds will undergo a modest transformation of sorts when it hosts the Southern Maryland Wine, Jazz, R&B and Funk Festival, with a new lineup ...

Iconic R&B musician Carl Carlton, known for the hit songs “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)” and “Everlasting Love,” has died at 73. His son, Carlton Hudgens II, shared the news of ...

LANGSTON, Okla. — Langston University is turning up the volume on Black excellence. For its 20th Annual President’s Scholarship Gala, Oklahoma’s only historically Black college has secured an R&B-funk ...

Frankie Beverly, a funk and R&B innovator, singer, songwriter, producer and founder of the band Maze, died Tuesday. He was 77. Beverly’s death was confirmed by his family in a post via the band’s ...