Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, she first entered the music industry by recording demo tape...
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player. A native of Chic...
Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic...
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and thr...
Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B group. They are best known for several hit singles during the 1970s including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "I'm Going Down", "Wishing on a ...
Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. February 1, 1948 - August 6, 2004) was an American musician and composer.
Influenced by singers such as Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson, James ...
Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1939) is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her classic #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with...
Veronica "Randy" Crawford (born February 18, 1952, Macon, Georgia) is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not e...
When ambitious young record store manager Oli Lazarus initiated his Reel People project back in 2000 he could only have dreamt of where those first tentative step...
Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws (born October 3, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz f...
There are multiple artists named Remi.1) Japanese opera soprano REMI, born 1977. Her music encompasses classical crossover, opera, ethereal, neoclassical darkwave...
Creating music that rings in the heart of souls has been a breeze for the Grammy songwriter, Reggie Calloway. His prolific talent as a top music producer, hit wri...
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is a Grammy award winning American R&B singer-son...
There're, at least, three acts using the name: 1) Raze (the house music group) 2) Raze (Christian pop group) 3) Raze (Hip-Hop artist).Raze (house music gro...
Native New Yorker, Rahsaan Patterson is a seasoned entertainer, whose reputation for being extraordinarily gifted spans from his childhood acting career, cast as ...
Robin S. (born Robin Stone on April 27, 1962) is a singer-songwriter from Queens, New York, United States who scored success in the 1990s with such hit singles as...
Formed in 1977, René and Angela featured:René Moore, b. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.andAngela Winbush, b. 18th January 1955, St. Louis, Missourri, U.S.A.Ren...
Room 5 is a collaboration between Vito Lucente, better known as Junior Jack, a house music producer/DJ, and disco artist Oliver Cheatham.They achieved #1 in the U...
The Ritchie Family was the name of an American vocal group, based in Philadelphia, who achieved several hits during the 1970s disco era. By the time the lineup of...
Rockers Revenge was a studio musical project assembled by producer Arthur Baker. Their initial entry on the dance charts was "Walking On Sunshine" (fea...
Guyanese-born Richard Bailey started his drumming career in Trinidad at theage of nine, sitting in on percussion, drums and even bass guitar with hiselder brother...
“Real music is crash protected,” state the liner notes of Black Radio, a future landmark album by the Robert Glasper Experiment that boldly stakes out new mus...
Born 1958, Berkeley, California.All round keyboard player and composer playing piano from the age of six. Only commercial success "The Groove" but well ...
The group consists of vocalist Melvin Riley with Gordon Strozier, David Sparks, Gregory Potts, Willie Triplett, John Eaton, and Gerald Valentine. Here is some bac...
The Real Thing, a Liverpool based vocal group, had its origins in the Merseybeat boom of the 1960s. Lead Singer Eddie Amoo was a former band member of The Chants,...
Raphael Saadiq (born Charlie Ray Wiggins on May 14, 1966 in Oakland, California) is an acclaimed American music artist. He is a singer, songwriter and record prod...
There are at least 3 bands with this name:1. An Argentinian Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Band.2. A Romanian Rock Band;3. An R&B/new jack swing group of the early 90&...
Ralphi Rosario, aka Ralphie Rosario is a leading deejay in the house music scene. He virtually coined the phrase House Music along with the crew of Chi-Town radio...
Roachford is/was a band based around singer/songwriter Andrew Roachford.Andrew Roachford was born and raised in South London on 22nd January 1965 to West Indian p...
Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was a Grammy Award-winning Latin/Latin jazz musician of Puerto Rican ancestry.Ray Barretto, a percussionist ex...
Ronnie Foster was born in Buffalo, New York, and began playing piano at the age of 4. By age 12 he had switched to Hammond organ and became a student of the jazz ...
Harmony & Soul & Groove – just some aspects of Ralf’s uplifting music. With a feeling for the right vibe, Ralf GUM played at more than 250 German and ...
There is more than one artist with this name:1) Were a melodic hard rock band from Greece. They released their first (and only) album, "Silk Under The Skin&q...
A perennial presence in music since the early 90's, Ron Trent pulls no punches! Considered to be one of the architects of the Chicago music scene, Ron studie...
Ralph MacDonald (15 March 1944 – 18 December 2011) was an American percussionist, songwriter, musical arranger, record producer, steelpan virtuoso and philanthr...
Richie Cole (born February 29, 1948) is a jazz alto saxophonist born in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. and is a graduate of Ewing High School, Ewing New Jersey. He sta...
Ruby Andrews' tuneful late-'60s sides established her as a seductive Windy City soul singer. Andrews debuted on the Zodiac label in 1967 and scored her ...
Her first band was a family funk/soul group called Unity, with Rosie on organ, her brother Carl on bass guitar, her cousin Lacy on guitar, sister-in-law Dianne on...
Ralph Tresvant, aka Rizz (born Ralph Edward Tresvant Jr., on May 16, 1968 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American tenor singer, best known as one of the lead si...
Reuben Wilson was one of many soul-jazz organists to emerge in the late '60s, but he was one of only a handful of new organists from that era to be signed to...
Rainbow is the name of at least three bands:1. A British hard rock/heavy metal band.2. A K-Pop group (????).3. A U.S. psychedelic rock band.1. Rainbow was a Briti...
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course o...
Bulgaria. Breeding ground for music talent. News to you? Well that's because Ruth Koleva is a different breed of artist. Born into a volatile world of corrup...
Ruddy Thomas, born July 12, 1951, was one of Jamaica's premiere entertainers working as a singer, songwriter, producer and studio engineer. He penned and rec...
Raydio was a funk and R&B vocal group formed in 1977, by Ray Parker Jr. along with Vincent Bohnam, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael. The group released the...
Reuben Wilson was one of many soul-jazz organists to emerge in the late '60s, but he was one of only a handful of new organists from that era to be signed to...
Ripple was an American funk band from Michigan. The group was signed to GRC Records in the 1970s, and scored several hit singles, the biggest of which was "I...
Ruby Turner is one of the UK's greatest ever gospel and r&b singers. Anybody who has caught her singing with Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orche...
A 1970s funk band, best known for launching the career of their lead singer, Chaka Khan. Major hits during their career include "Tell Me Something Good,"...
Richard Stephenson, better known as Richie Stephens, born December 5, 1966 in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica, is a R&B, dancehall and reggae singer and...
Mark Rae & Steve Christian (aka Rae & Christian) are one of the premiere production teams to emerge from the UK.They hit the scene in the late 90s by upda...
Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson, Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930 - Beverly Hills, California, June 10, 2004), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, ...
It all started in the spring of 1997 when Detroit native Matthew Chicoine, aka Recloose, made contact with techno pioneer Carl Craig by way of a legendary ‘demo...
Ray, Goodman & Brown, are an American R&B vocal group. The group originated as The Moments, who formed in the late 1960s and whose greatest successes came...
Alpharita Constantia Marley Anderson, better known as Rita Marley (born July 25, 1946 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Jamaican singer. She is the widow of legendary Reg...
RESOLUTION 88 was started in 2012 as an original funk project. The band ethos is to create exciting new live music that makes people dance, recording as live take...
Robert Allen Palmer (January 19, 1949 – September 26, 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, England, was a British singer. He was known for his soulful voice and th...
1) RINSE is an Australian indie/shoegaze band established in December 2012http://www.facebook.com/rinsebandhttp://rinse.bandcamp.com2) Rinse was an emo/hardcore...
There are multiple artists with this name:1. Winnepeg singer/songwriter who became a top-10 finalist in the 2006 series of Canadian Idol.2. DJ from Brisbane, Aust...
Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. (born May 1, 1954), is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the th...
1) aka Frank Heinrich. German producer with records on Cadenza, Below and Combi Int. Makes organic minimal techno with a deep feeling.2) live drum'n bass jam...
Regina Belle (born July 17, 1963) is a Grammy award winning Pop, Soul, Jazz, Gospel and Adult Contemporary singer-songwriter.Regina Belle was born in Englewood, N...
Red Norvo (March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped to establish the xylophone, marimba and ...
Rena:A lady with a soulful voice that’s influenced by the likes of Sade, Tracey Chapman and CeCe Winans. Rena has been sharing her talent as a solo artist for m...
LADY LADY LADY WHY DO YOU HOLLA, THERE IS A REAL MAN IN YOUR SPACE, JOHNNY DOLLAR.Realizing his strength as a songwriter, singer, musician, Roland Burrell is cons...
Anthony Ryan Leslie (born September 25, 1978, in Washington, D.C.) is an American singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and rapper. Founder of the multi-...
The RAH Band was a fictitious studio based group (fictitious in that it was no group, it contained only him); RAH being the initials for Richard Anthony Hewson. I...
Producer Joe Isaacs put together Risco Connection in the late 1970's. The group covered many classic Disco tracks their own way. Their biggest hit "Ain&...
Rupie Edwards (born Rupert Lloyd Edwards on 4 July 1945 in St. Ann Parish) is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.Rupie Edwards moved to Kingston in 1958...
1. Rare Earth is an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label (which was named after the band) who were particularly famous in the ...
Ronnie McNeir (Lewis Ronald McNeir, Camden, Alabama, December 14, 1951) is an American soul singer and songwriter.As a solo artist, he recorded for the De-to, RCA...
Ladies may swoon over the tough-talking city boys, but in the end what they really want is an old-fashioned southern gentleman. A man who understands the importan...
RPO may refer to:1. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra3. Same as Rick Pier O'Neil bud not R.P.O. (As described below.)In...
Mansfield based RIOT SQUAD were originally formed in September 1981 in the small Nottinghamshire mining village of Shirebrook. The original lineup consisted of Du...
About RAY DARWINStudied music at Bronx Community & Lehman College. I am a classically trained vocalist but prefer popular music at this point in the game̷...
Rita Sahatçiu Ora, better known as Rita Ora, is an Albanian-British singer-songwriter from London, UK. Born in Pristina, Kosovo in 1990, Ora's family moved ...
There are two Robert Gordons. 1) An American rockabilly revivalist. 2) A British techno producer.1) Robert Gordon (b. 1947), or simply “R.G.” as his friends...
Richard "Dimples" Fields (March 21, 1941 - January 12, 2000) was an American soul singer popular during the 1980s. Sources differ as to whether he was b...
Roy Ayers (September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing sev...
Roy Davis Jr. is a professional DJ specializing in house music on many different labels including Large, Ubiquity, Nice+Smooth Ultramedia and Scion.Davis grew up ...
Roxanne Shanté (born Lolita Shanté Gooden on November 9, 1969) is an American hip-hop pioneer. Born and raised in the Queensbridge Projects, Shanté first gaine...
There are many artists that use the name Rochelle:1) Rochelle Perts (artist name; Rochelle) a Dutch Artist who won the fourth season of the popular Dutch show X-F...
1. 80's anarcho UK punk band2. Early 90's Reality from Salt Lake City, Utah was Chris Carlton - guitar, Trent Falcone - vocals, Brad Butterfield - bass,...
Rob Mullins is an American jazz pianist with 25 solo albums to his credit.Equally masterful at straight ahead jazz, smooth jazz, as well as funk, R&B, and cla...
Memphis vocalist Randy Brown had a deep, frequently entrancing voice and captivating delivery, though he never enjoyed major success or consistent hits. The broth...
Roseanne "Rosie" Vela was born in the gulf coast city of Galveston, Texas. Musically inclined from an early age, she started playing piano at age six an...
Robbie Nevil is an American pop singer/songwriter/guitarist. He was born Robert S Nevil on 10 February 1960 in Los Angeles, California. His surname is often mis-s...
Roman Stewart, also known as Romeo Stewart and 'Mr. Special' (born 11 May 1957, Kingston, Jamaica, died 25 January 2004, New York) was a reggae singer. ...
Rhemi Music BioRhemi Music was was formed in april 2013 by Neil Pierce and Ziggy Funk to give them an outlet to release their music without compromise …The ...
Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is a notable film and television score composer born in Paterson, New Jersey. Edelman has composed many memorable soundtracks o...
