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"We wanted to make sure if you were playing a show, before or after us, you were terrified because we made it impossible for you to top what the crowd just saw."
“For me, the roots of R&B are gospel vocals. There’s a common story line—love, love, love, love, love. I try to shy away from that, ’cause everything is not love. I’m still R&B, but I want to go outside the boundaries.”
“I just want to sing,” Cruz says. “But I have come to realize that we don’t live in a world now where you can just focus on creating and be able to make a living off of that. The business side is just as important.”
“Having the feeling of seeing other people affected by my music is what drives me and makes me feel so passionate. It’s what makes me not want to give up.”
How the son of Nigerian immigrants is making his own path in Boston's music scene with electronic, pop, and indie-bent R&B.
For our recurring interview series, the iconic rapper talks Fela Kuti, stripper poles, and escaping death in the ’80s.
Boston-bred artist Haasan Barclay brings his R&B hip-hop onto a psychedelic journey with his new mixtape, 800 Fantasy Lane.
It takes exceptional artistry to turn an '80s groove track into an R&B social justice anthem. Luckily for us, we have Shea Rose.
From '90s rap to math rock, new music is on the way from some of Massachusetts' most underrated acts.
R&B crooner The Weeknd brought the heart-shaped groove to Worcester on Thursday.
