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Ray Charles
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg, September 13, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who is best- known as organizer and leader of The Ray Charles Singers. The Ray Charles Singers were featured on Perry Como's records, radio...
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Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and...
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- x Subgenres:
- Country,
- Neotraditional country,
- Psychobilly,
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- Neotraditional country,
- x Artists:
- Steve Miller Band,
- Stevie Ray Vaughan,
- Jimmie Vaughan,
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- Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Country
Country music (or country and western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and old-time music and...
- x Parent genres:
- Old-time music,
- Celtic music,
- Blues,
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- Celtic music,
- x Subgenres:
- Country-rap,
- Jug band,
- Alternative country,
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- Jug band,
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
From its early development until the present,...
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- Popular music,
- Guitar Mashing
- x Subgenres:
- Free improvisation,
- Free jazz,
- Psychedelic rock,
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- Free jazz,
- x Artists:
- Benny Goodman,
- Jan Garbarek,
- Stéphane Grappelli,
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- Jan Garbarek,
Pop music
Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively...
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- Dance music,
- Rhythm and blues,
- Rock music,
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- Rhythm and blues,
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- New Wave,
- Pop-rap,
- Traditional pop music,
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- Pop-rap,
- x Artists:
- Steve Miller Band,
- Sting,
- Cecilia,
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- Sting,
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music.
The sound of rock often...
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- Rockabilly
- x Subgenres:
- Punkabilly,
- Glam rock,
- Psychobilly,
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- Glam rock,
- x Artists:
- The Police,
- Electrico,
- Alan Murphy,
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- Electrico,
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B;, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings...
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- Black gospel,
- Brown-eyed soul,
- Soul music,
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- Brown-eyed soul,
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- West Coast hip hop,
- East Coast hip hop,
- Psychobilly,
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- East Coast hip hop,
- x Artists:
- The Troggs,
- Rosie Gaines,
- SOUL'd OUT,
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- Rosie Gaines,
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the...
- x Parent genres:
- Black gospel,
- Rhythm and blues,
- Gospel music,
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- Rhythm and blues,
- x Subgenres:
- East Coast hip hop,
- Mod,
- Jazz-funk,
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- Mod,
- x Artists:
- Rosie Gaines,
- Lady Miss Kier,
- Mofro,
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- Lady Miss Kier,
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.
Like other forms of...
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- Hard bop,
- Chicago soul,
- Soul jazz,
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- Chicago soul,
- x Artists:
- Stoney & Meatloaf,
- Commissioned,
- Selah,
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- Commissioned,
Country blues
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues. After blues' birth in the southern United States, it quickly spread throughout the country (and...
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- x Artists:
- Broken Radio,
- Ray Charles,
- Reverend Gary Davis,
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- Ray Charles,
Piano blues
Piano blues refers to a variety of blues styles, sharing only the characteristic that they use the piano as the primary musical instrument. Boogie woogie is the best known kind of piano blues, though barrelhouse, swing, R&B;, rock and roll and jazz...
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- x Artists:
- Pinetop Perkins,
- Count Basie,
- Fats Domino,
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- Count Basie,
Soul blues
Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the traditional electric blues of artists such as...
- x Parent genres:
- Soul music
- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- Albert King,
- Ray Charles,
- Robert Cray,
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- Ray Charles,
