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This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music genres with which they are ... (born 1960): R&B, soul, pop, house ...
Blues rock had been pioneered in the early 1960s by American singer-guitarist Lonnie Mack, [30] but the genre didn't take off in the U.S. until the mid-1960s, when American bands began to develop a sound similar to British blues and blues-rock musicians.
20th-century African-American male singers (1 C, 1,000 P) 21st-century African-American male singers (654 P) O. African-American male opera singers (43 P) R.
Even more popular among black people, and with more crossover appeal, was album-oriented soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which revolutionized African-American music. The genre's intelligent and introspective lyrics, often with a socially aware tone, were created by artists such as Marvin Gaye in What's Going On , and Stevie Wonder in ...
As singers and arrangers began using techniques from both gospel and soul jazz in African-American popular music during the 1960s, soul music gradually functioned as an umbrella term for African-American popular music at the time. [18] [19] Sam Cooke is regarded as one of soul music's "forefathers".
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
African-American rock musical groups (3 C, 32 P) Pages in category "African-American musical groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 318 total.
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.