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Music video by Erykah Badu performing Other Side Of The Game. (C) 1997 Kedar Entertainment / Universal Records Inc.

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Maxwell's official music video for 'Pretty Wings'. Click to listen to Maxwell on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MASpot?IQid=MPW As Featured on BLACKsummers'night.

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Music video by D'Angelo performing Untitled (How Does It Feel). (P) 2006 Virgin Records America, Inc.. All rights reserved.

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Lauryn Hill - Doo-Wop (That Thing) (Official Video)

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Online blog magazine catered to soul/neo soul

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Online blog magazine covering a variety of genres including neo soul.

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Online and paperback magazine covering the genre of neo soul amongst others.

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Neo Soul continues to be used throughout the music industry with sampling textural elements of previous neo soul artists. New artists that are associated with neo soul amongst other genres have also been introduced to the scene such as Jhene Aiko best known for her Mixtape Sailing Soul(s) and Sailing Out, Miguel best known for his album “Kaleidoscope dream”, Solange Knowles best known for her “Solo Star” album released at the age of sixteen, Estelle best known for her singles “American Boy” featuring Kanye West and “One love” with David Guetta.

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Neo soul continued to expand and worked more internationally. More recently over the years in Neo Soul the most popular artists are:

John Legend

Anthony Hamilton  Jill Scott

Maxwell

Chrisette Michele

Leela James Raheem DeVaughn

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In 2007 VH1 soul series “Soulstage” premiered new music from artists such as:

Erykah Badu
Jill Scott
India.Arie

Q-Tip Saadiq

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Neo soul had reached its peak, Erykah Badu was crowned by writers as the Queen of Neo Soul, and meanwhile other artist achieved success in the early 2000’s such as: Bilal Musiq Soulchild  India.Arie Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys had gained popularity with her album Songs in A Minor 2001
During the mid 2000’s growing artists such as: Heather Headley Anthony David J Davey Eric Roberson Ledisi
They had joined to independent soul labels and gained exposure through independent retailers, public and college radio stations, club venues, cable networks such as Music Choice and BET J and websites; publishing deals as writers and producers for major label recording artists.

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The film love Jones peaked Neo-Soul’s success  with the soundtrack album for the film which made a huge impact on the Billboard charts for artists such as: Lauryn Hill Maxwell The Brand New Heavies Me'Shell NdegéOcello

Groove Theory Dionne Farris

The Soulquarians is a neo-soul and alternative hip hop musical collective that was created from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s consisting of artists such as:

Erykah Badu

Bilal

Common

D'Angelo

Talib Kweli

Mos Def

Pino Palladino

James Poyser

Q-Tip

Questlove

Implementing musical sounds such as “organic soul, natural R&B, Boho Rap. The Soulquarians had significantly subscribed to the Neo Soul movement. Even though there was a decrease of popularity within the Neo Soul movement it had up risen again in the late 1990’s with huge successes from:
Lauryn Hill Maxwell Eric Benét Saadiq Les Nubians
Uprising had caused the influencing on the contemporary R&B artists such as R.Kelly, Aaliyah implementing the lyrical and textural samples in their music.

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Successful Soul music from Tony!Toni!Tone!, Terrence Trent D’Arby, Joi, Prince and Mint Condition. They departed from conventions of contemporary R&B within their music.

In the 1980’s success in the UK of upcoming artists such as Sade her music was said to have a sophisti-pop style that had elements of pop, quiet storm, soul and smooth jazz.

Sophisti-pop was part of the new British R&B artists sound, successes from Jamiroquai, Caron Wheeler, Lisa Stansfiels, Soul II Soul and the brand new Heavies: in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Other British artists originating from the movement were Omar Lye-Fook and Young Disciples

Early 1990s American artists included Tony Rich, Me’Shell NdedgeOcello, Zhane, Joi and Groove theory.

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Tony! Toni! Tone!
Sons of Soul 1993 House of Music 1996
D'Angelo's Brown Sugar (1995)

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996),

Erykah Badu's Baduizm (1997)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

The success of these albums has been acknowledged as the reason for the commercial exposure of the Neo-Soul movement into the late 1990’s.Other female Breakthroughs of the 1990 are with their debut albums: Macy Gray Angie Stone Jill Scott