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...The annual jamboree is produced by Jay-Z’s entertainment company Roc Nation. The R&B singer has the stature for the marquee event....
...“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....
...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.”...
...The music had elements of orchestral soul, vintage R&B, 1960s Afrobeat and classic hip-hop, assembled in a way that sounded contemporary rather than backward-looking. Simz’s rapping was the catalyst....
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
...Back to hip hop, R&B. But actually what I would like is, is that a long time ago, she once talked about her love of Broadway musicals and how she would love to do a Broadway musical....
...“Vintage T-shirts tap into nostalgia,” says 34-year-old Deeps Samra, who collects rare hip-hop and R&B T-shirts....
...Sarah O’Connor looks at the performative aspects of making these policies....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...at brownsfashion.com Linen embroidered placemat, set of two, £74, HMA decor for the Hambledon at thehambledon.com Handmade Murano glass ‘Cosimo’ coupe glasses (set of two), £210, Campbell-Rey x Laguna B...
...Z Zverev The most hard-to-like player on the pro tour?...
...All it needs is M A D R I D underneath to complete the look. ¡Que chique! Group 5: Abstract or uncategorisable . . . and the rest....
...Russia said it would extend its existing 500,000 b/d cut until the end of the year....
...I realised that a) I don’t have a brain for this, and b) I should just not have any investments in anything that requires me checking on a phone, because I become obsessed with it.”...
...The title track, “Ghost Song”, a searing depiction of anguish which moves from work-song shout to smoothly harmonised R&B, was a highlight of Salvant’s captivating London Jazz Festival gig last year....
...But, according to Goldman Sachs, in 2020 about half of those catalogue streams were songs from the 2010s, a decade that was dominated by hip hop and R&B....
...by R Can & Sonic Noise. I heard it at a party; it’s a kind of techno dancehall track. It’s so good, so spontaneous....
...UK vocalist Tiana Major9 sings the title track’s R&B hook. The mix of styles and geographies continues in the lyrics. In romantic slowie “Beautiful”, Kojey quotes Jay-Z....
...Alibaba recently applied for a dual-primary listing in Hong Kong, signalling a possible plan B....
...The images also reveal that the character – whom Fall calls Mister B – has supernatural powers, enabling him to control the elements....
...Sometimes his tag is spelt out, 1-0-F-O-O-T; sometimes it’s rendered visually as a foot outline next to a numerical one, with a toe doubling as the zero....
...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...Its Series B fundraising round in January this year, led by Lone Pine Capital, climbed to $240mn....
...The rapper’s indulgent desire to break into R&B singing is kept under control, as is his habit of borrowing from the sounds of UK rap or Afrobeats....
...He’s part of a growing community of millennial and Gen Z farmers using TikTok, many of whom started posting during lockdown, when the platform enjoyed a boom in users....
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