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R&B Bridgez: Celebrating the Superwoman Karyn White
This R&B Bridgez celebrates one of our absolute favorites, Karyn White. Karyn White‘s birthday is this week, born October 14th, 1965 in Los Angeles, California. Karyn White is an award-winning, twice Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling, internationally-acclaimed music artist and R&B singer. Karyn Layvonne White was born in Los Angeles and is the youngest of a family of five children. She sang for…
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R&B Bridgez: 20th Anniversary of Nivea’s ‘Complicated’ + UB Interview
Today May 3rd, is the 20th Anniversary of singer/songwriter Nivea‘s sophomore album release. Originally released May 3rd, 2005. “Complicated” is hands down, one of the Top 5 R&B albums released in 2005. UB conducted a Pre-album Interview with Nivea for “Complicated” in April of 2005. Today we spotlight that album and interview on it’s anniversary, as “Complicated” is the true…
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R&B Bridgez: Celebrating Toni Braxton’s ‘The Heat’ 25th Anniversary
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of Toni Braxston‘s thrid studio album, “The Heat.” Toni Braxton, the daughter of a Methodist minister, grew up with four younger sisters and a younger brother in Severn, Maryland. As a child, she wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music, but singing in the church choir made her decide to pursue a musical career. After…
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R&B Bridgez: Celebrating The Incomparable Marvin Gaye
Today is the birthday of legendary Marvin Gaye, born April 2nd, 1939. As one of the pioneers of Motown, singer/songwriter and musician/producer Marvin Gaye helped shape the sound of R&B/Soul music and is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was born in Washington D.C. to Marvin Gay, Sr., a preacher, and Alberta Gay,…
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R&B Bridgez: The Real Story of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
We’re still on a high from the Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam biopic that aired last night. Especially after seeing it spotlight our home St. Paul, MN. R&B Bridgez: The Real Story of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. The group will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their debut album “Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force,” this summer. Although…
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R&B Bridgez: Celebrating Musical Legend Billy Ocean
Singer and songwriter Billy Ocean is celebrating his 75th Birthday today and R&B Bridgez is celebrating the hit-maker! Billy Ocean is a Grammy award winning artist with sales of more than 30 million records worldwide. Billy Ocean hit the #1 spot, across three continents in the 1970s and 1980s. His signature hit, “Caribbean Queen” stormed to #1 on both the…
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R&B Bridgez: Celebrating Jodeci’s ‘Diary Of A Mad Band’ 30th Anniversary
Jodeci, is comprising sets of two brothers — Donald “DeVante” DeGrate Jr. and Dalvin “Mr. Dalvin” DeGrate, and Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey, and Joel “JoJo” Hailey”. They got their respective starts singing in southern churches and touring on the gospel music circuit. The North Carolina boys eventually found each other and formed Jodeci—an amalgamation of their names—and made their way to…
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R&B Bridgez: Whitney Houston’s ‘My Love Is Your Love’ 25th Anniversary
Whitney Houston was signed to Arista Records by Clive Davis in 1983. Her self-titled debut album, “Whitney Houston,” was released in 1985, yielded a string of hits including “You Give Good Love” and three consecutive #1 singles, “Saving All My Love For You,” “How Will I Know,” and a song that has become a veritable anthem, “The Greatest Love of…
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R&B Bridgez: Tevin Campbell | Gordon Chambers Contributes
Some artists take a lifetime to reach musical maturity. Tevin Campbell was born that way. ——– Well we’ll start by telling you who Tevin Campbell is. He’s a Five-time Grammy nominated artist, a child prodigy discovered by Quincy Jones and endorsed by Prince. Tevin is a multi platinum artist, with 9 top #10 Billboard singles, two platinum albums and one…
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