History Main / NeoSoul

* Music/{{HER}}

* Tony Toni Toné (''House of Music'', their earlier material is new jack swing, though neo soul started creeping in around ''Sons of Soul''. Also see Raphael Saadiq.)

Less conventional ContemporaryRAndB with more {{Soul}}, and contemporary Jazz influences.

The term was coined by record executive Kedar Massenburg sometime late in TheNineties to describe the breakthrough artists in this period, namely Music/LaurynHill, Music/ErykahBadu, Music/DAngelo, and Music/{{Maxwell}}. The label NeoSoul itself isn't exactly embraced by many of these artists, mainly due to the "neo" part, as if {{Soul}} died at some point.

* Music/CodyChesnutt
** 2002 - ''Music/TheHeadphoneMasterpiece''

* Omar Lye-Fook (Considered to be [[UrExample one of the earliest progenitors]] of the genre)

* Genesis Owusu (GenreBusting example, but this fits well enough)

* Kali Uchis (a bit of a GenreBusting example, but this is probably a good label)

* Music/MosesSumney (this combined with ClassicalMusic, {{Jazz}} and PBRAndB)

* Music/JustinTimberlake

** ''Music/MamasGun'' (2000)

** ''Music/BrownSugar'' (1995)
** ''Music/{{Voodoo}}'' (2000)
** ''Music/BlackMessiah'' (2014)

** ''Music/TheHeadphoneMasterpiece'' (2002)

** ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill'' (1998)

** ''Music/HowIDo'' (2001)

** ''Music/{{soil}}'' (2018)

** ''[[Music/FrankAlbum Frank]]'' (2003)
** ''Music/BackToBlack'' (2006)

The music itself, while taking a page out of RAndB's mass appeal with the structure and sound, is still deeply rooted in Soul music. It is still subject to PopCultureIsolation, as it's almost exclusively played on urban/African-American radio and outlets and hasn't reached the same heights it did back in the late 1990s.

* Music/{{Res}}

The term was coined by record executive Kedar Massenburg sometime late in TheNineties to describe the breakthrough artists in this period, namely Music/LaurynHill, Music/ErykahBadu, Music/{{DAngelo}}, and Music/{{Maxwell}}. The label NeoSoul itself isn't exactly embraced by many of these artists, mainly due to the "neo" part, as if {{Soul}} died at some point.