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Clayton Dubilier & Rice Inc
US buyout firm CD&R hires former Tesco chief Dave Lewis
...During his own tenure, CD&R had done “a number of successful deals”, Leahy said, including the IPO of UK value retailer B&M, which delivered a £1bn payday for CD&R and the Arora family at the time, and the...
January 15, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Erika de Casier: Still album review — softly sung R&B that holds centre stage
...The style is R&B, a genre famous for vocal ornament. De Casier and her regular co-producer Natal Zaks don’t so much flatten it out as give it a diminuendo gloss....
February 21, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewAlbums
Usher: Coming Home album review — classic R&B marooned in the past
...The R&B singer has the stature for the marquee event. In his pomp, hit records poured from him like the sweet cadences of his singing....
February 9, 2024
ReviewAlbums
English Teacher: This Could Be Texas — indie scene gets a boost with Leeds band’s defiant debut album
...In “R&B”, singer Lily Fontaine contrasts the style of music she’s expected to write as a mixed-race woman, the titular R&B, with the music she wants to write....
April 10, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Justice embrace smoothness and sinewy rhythms in Hyperdrama
...US R&B singer Miguel has an attractive cameo in “Saturnine”....
April 24, 2024
Brazilian economy
Blackouts spark fears of grid ‘collapse’ in Brazil’s biggest city
...But he added that “Enel has almost doubled investments . . . to about R$1.5bn [$300mn] a year, compared with R$800mn invested by the previous concession holder....
April 7, 2024
FT Live
Business of Football Summit
The global gathering of leaders in football and finance
Wednesday, 26 February 2025In-Person & Digital | London
ReviewAlbums
Victoria Monét: Jaguar II album review — golden-age R&B meets classic disco
...Monét’s music takes cues from the golden age of 1990s and early-’00s R&B as well as ’70s disco classics, but she has a personal touch too, adding elements of Deep-South hip-hop and west-coast soul....
August 25, 2023
HTSI
What’s the secret to the perfect restaurant soundtrack?
...A buzzy but unobtrusive soundtrack of, say, R&B or soul complements dinner....
February 19, 2024
News in-depthSanofi SA
Sanofi chief says he could have done a better job outlining R&D plan
...Hudson said the company had shown it was good at development, giving it an “A+” for how it runs trials, compared to a “B-” for its ability to discover new early-stage drugs....
December 7, 2023
Paramount Global
Super Bowl most watched US broadcast since Apollo moon landing
...On Sunday Usher, the R&B star whose hits dominated in the 2000s, anchored a half-time show with appearances by collaborators including Alicia Keys, H.E.R. and Ludacris....
February 13, 2024
Terrorism
Germany and Netherlands detain four over alleged Hamas plot
...They said that in October 2023, Abdelhamid Al A, Mohamed B and Nazih R travelled repeatedly from Berlin to look for the weapons, with Ibrahim El-R providing assistance....
December 14, 2023
ReviewMusic
Laufey review — Icelandic singer who has made teenagers mad about jazz
...When their idol took the stage, the screams that greeted her would do justice to the word hysteria, yet what followed was not an evening of Taylor Swift pop or Ariana Grande R&B, but a set of bossa novas...
March 14, 2024
ReviewMusic
Ariana Grande album review — Eternal Sunshine is technically brilliant but lacks heat
...There’s quite a lot of feathery pop-soul and R&B, nice enough but too airy to leave an impression....
March 8, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Mahalia chooses quality songcraft over flashy moves in IRL
...In February, she wore a Burberry trenchcoat to the Brit Awards with “Long Live R&B” emblazoned on its back. The message was prompted by the lack of UK R&B artists among the nominees....
July 21, 2023
ReviewMusic
PinkPantheress brings an electric connnection with her fans to Alexandra Palace — review
...“This is my R&B moment,” she announced as a wind machine blew her tresses around. She exhibited the performative manner of the very online, always conscious of an audience....
February 26, 2024
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
ReviewAlbums
Keyon Harrold: Foreverland — jazz freedom and high gloss production
...Opening track “Find Your Peace” sets the tone as Jean Baylor’s wispy R&B is followed by a pointed Common rap and Harrold’s trumpet blends and soars over unfolding vocal support....
January 5, 2024
ReviewMusic
Queer The Music podcast review — how LGBTQ pop changed the world
...Wirrick envisaged it as a mid-tempo R&B ballad until Sylvester sped it up and added a disco groove with the help of synth wizard Patrick Cowley....
February 5, 2024
FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
Club-night founder Natasha Slater’s insider guide to Milan after dark
...Otherwise, I will always visit my friends at Akeem, Milan’s hottest hip-hop and R&B night, at the Rocket Club on the Naviglio Grande — Marvely, the founder, is like family to me....
April 3, 2024
The Big Read
Brazilian football: the next frontier in global sport?
...Revenues meanwhile increased from R$140mn in 2022 to R$402mn last year. Textor says the target is to break even next year....
February 12, 2024
ReviewDance
New Movement Collective’s reimagined Les Noces is a stimulating affair — review
...Appels, a percussive piece — rainsticks, kettledrums, bells — by French-Mexican new wave R&B artist Andrea Balency-Béarn was followed by Cage Letters, a piano setting of three of John Cage’s love letters...
January 16, 2024
FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
Ryan Chetiyawardana creates a ‘house party’ mood at his Thameside bar
...His music choices are eclectic, spanning R&B, hip-hop and 2000s French rock. The goal is to be “as real as possible”, he says....
November 24, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Tate McRae’s pop drama keeps you hooked in Think Later
...Such retro notes are evident from this album’s R&B-inflected opener, “Cut My Hair”, where she seductively schemes and sighs: “Good girls are so over-rated.”...
December 8, 2023
Chess
Chess solutions
...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
April 9, 2024
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Red Velvet: Chill Kill — mellifluous singing and a moreish beat
...The template is the sinuous sound of 1990s R&B-pop, not the mushy end of the slow number spectrum. The sound is similar to that developed by another export-led regional pop powerhouse, Sweden....
November 24, 2023
ReviewMusic
Fans in raptures as the church of Hozier arrives in London
...“Jackie and Wilson”, a “mid-youth crisis” paean to both unrequited love and the 1950s R&B/soul singer of the title, sounded even more haunting a decade after its release....
December 18, 2023

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