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1Neo Soul is a music genre which is a {{Soul}}/ContemporaryRAndB mix, with more jazz/funk 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.
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3The 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, though artists like Tyler the Creator, Frank Ocean, Kali Uchis, and Anderson .Paak have achieved substantial success playing the genre from the late 2010s onward.
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5!!Artists generally under the NeoSoul label:
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7* Music/{{Adele}} (gradually moved towards more straightforward pop)
8* Music/MarshaAmbrosius
9* Music/RoyAyers (considered an UrExample)
10* Music/ErykahBadu
11** 2000 - ''Music/MamasGun''
12* Music/{{Bilal}}
13* Music/AloeBlacc
14* Music/TevinCampbell
15* Music/CodyChesnutt
16** 2002 - ''Music/TheHeadphoneMasterpiece''
17* Music/DAngelo
18** 1995 - ''Music/BrownSugar''
19** 2000 - ''Music/{{Voodoo}}''
20** 2014 - ''Music/BlackMessiah''
21* Music/CeeLoGreen (solo career)
22* Music/AnthonyHamilton
23* Music/HeatherHeadley
24* Music/{{HER|Musician}}
25* Music/LaurynHill
26** 1998 - ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill''
27* {{Music/Christion}}
28* Music/ChrisetteMichele
29* Music/IndiaArie
30* Music/JDilla
31** 2001 - ''Music/Welcome2Detroit''
32* Music/{{Kem}}
33* Music/AliciaKeys
34* Music/LennyKravitz
35* Music/JohnLegend
36* [[Music/OmarLyeFook Omar Lye-Fook]] (Considered to be [[UrExample one of the earliest progenitors]] of the genre)
37* Music/{{Maxwell}}
38* Music/MeshellNdegeocello
39* Music/JanelleMonae (somewhere between this and [[Music/PrincesAssociates the Minneapolis Sound]])
40* Music/FrankOcean (''Channel Orange''; ''Blonde'' also has a lot of this, but is generally [[GenreBusting way too fucking weird]] to fit)
41* Music/OutKast (also hip-hop, but leaned extremely heavily towards neo soul circa ''Aquemini'' and has always had elements of the genre)
42* Music/GenesisOwusu (GenreBusting example, but this fits well enough)
43* Anderson .Paak
44* [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]] (''Kamaal/The Abstract'')
45* Music/CorinneBaileyRae
46* Music/TheRoots (their late '90s-early '00s records (particularly ''Things Fall Apart'') would see them experimenting more with jazz and soul music, making them apart of the genre)
47* Music/RaphaelSaadiq
48* Res
49** 2001 - ''Music/HowIDo''
50* Music/EmeliSande
51* Music/JillScott
52* Music/{{Seal}}
53* Music/GuySebastian
54* Music/{{serpentwithfeet}}
55** 2018 - ''Music/{{soil}}''
56* Music/MusiqSoulchild
57* Music/AngieStone
58* Music/JossStone
59* Music/JazmineSullivan
60* Music/MosesSumney (this combined with ClassicalMusic, {{Jazz}} and AlternativeRAndB)
61* Music/THEESatisfaction
62* Music/JustinTimberlake
63** 2013 - "Music/{{Mirrors|JustinTimberlake}}"
64* 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.)
65* Music/TylerTheCreator (''Flower Boy'' onward)
66** 2019 - ''Music/{{Igor}}''
67* Music/KaliUchis (a bit of a GenreBusting example, but this is probably a good label)
68* Music/JackVidgen
69* Music/AmyWinehouse
70** 2003 - ''Music/{{Frank|Album}}''
71** 2006 - ''Music/BackToBlack''

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