Nu soul (or
neo soul) is a
musical genre that fuses
R&B,
1970s style
soul and
hip hop. It is usually said to begun in the late
1980s with
New Jack Swing[?] artists like
Guy[?] and, later,
Boyz II Men. The originator of proper nu soul is
Mary J. Blige, who's
1992 debut
What's the 411? has proven enormously influential. In the mid-
1990s, artists like
D'Angelo (
Brown Sugar[?]),
Lauryn Hill (
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and
Erykah Badu (
Baduizm) made the genre a critical success, with moderate to occasionally blockbuster commercial success. Soon after the turn of the millennium, artists like
Alicia Keys (
Songs in A Minor[?]) further popularized the sound, to some critical disdain.
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