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African-American rock musical groups (3 C, 31 P) Pages in category "African-American musical groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 317 total.
List of popular music genres; ... This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s. ... 50 (UTC). Text is ...
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980): operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer Cam'ron : Hip hop Mariah Carey (born 1969): R&B, pop, hip-hop, soul
Esther Phillips, then billed as Little Esther, was the featured vocalist on three number ones for the band led by Johnny Otis.. In 1950, Billboard magazine published two charts covering the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African-American-oriented music genres: Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records and Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues ...
Ballet dancer Janet Collins becomes the first African-American artist to appear onstage at the Metropolitan Opera, in a production of Aida. [42] William Warfield and Muriel Rahn become the first African-American concert artists to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. [43] Vladimir Ussachevsky finishes the first compositions by an American of musique ...
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Don Redman's jazz band becomes the first African-American group to "have a sponsored radio series", by the Chipso Soap Company. [161] Fats Waller broadcasts Fats Waller's Rhythm Club over WLW in Cincinnati. He is the best known of the Harlem-based jazz pianists, and the first to "adapt the style of jazz pianism to the pipe organ and the Hammond ...
During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.