How to Use rhythm and blues in a Sentence

rhythm and blues

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  • Berry greatly overhauled it with his unique twists on rhythm and blues.
    — Jim Farber, EW.com, 23 July 2024
  • The bar will feature jazz to rhythm and blues and reggae to rock bands once or twice a week.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The bands are a mix from tribute bands to country, rhythm and blues, rock and retro tunes.
    — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 4 May 2018
  • While singing in a church choir, she was discovered by an agent and joined a rhythm and blues band.
    — Courant Community, 26 Dec. 2017
  • At this same site on Tuesday evening, the soundtrack was rhythm and blues.
    — Mark Emmert, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
  • There was the white middle class being besieged by a Black wave of rhythm and blues.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
  • He’s known for his strong voice and incorporation of hip-hop and rhythm and blues.
    — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Those songs challenged the racial barrier between rhythm and blues and pop.
    — Kalia Richardson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • His seven genres are rock, rhythm and blues, country, punk, hip-hop, dance and pop music.
    — David Kirby, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Charles Brown was our very special guest, a legendary rhythm and blues pioneer.
    — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 18 July 2022
  • Rock and roll started with Black rhythm and blues (also called R&B).
    — Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2022
  • Cullins is a songwriter who plays guitar with rhythm and blues, soul, funk, jazz and rock influences.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • By the early ‘50s, rhythm and blues were exploited in the same manner.
    — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Expect live jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, gospel, Latino, and reggae music.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2018
  • Hip-hop and rhythm and blues whispered from the unit’s sound system as the three conversed in the living room of his enormous loft.
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • As the first day of the festival drew to a close, a crowd gathered to listen to rhythm and blues trio Kinglii perform.
    — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Dateline Jazz, rock ’n’ roll and rhythm and blues were Sessions’ favorites, his bandmates said.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Al Green drifted between rhythm and blues and preaching the Gospel as a minister.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And on the concept of rhythm and blues, the genre in which her work is most often included, SZA has thoughts.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • With the synonymous instrument of rhythm and blues and rock-and-roll, but the instrument was a blues voice, and the face of it was Black.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2022
  • His show took us back in time to old school rhythm and blues, in what was the most gorgeous, stunning Super Bowl halftime show ever.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Their first album had a rhythm and blues and Merseybeat feel, and didn’t immediately make waves for the Blues.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Rick Stevens was the former lead singer of Oakland’s Tower of Power rhythm and blues band.
    — kansascity, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The pair’s Americana sound is rooted in country and bluegrass and New Orleans rhythm and blues.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The history of Arizona music is the story of myriad scenes and sounds and players, from country to dance to rock and rhythm and blues.
    — AZCentral.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Music The world has the South to thank for country music and rhythm and blues, both of which helped shape rock and roll — and all of which influenced hip hop.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 22 Nov. 2024
  • It was formed in the 1970s and was famous for a distinctive blend of soul, funk and New Orleans rhythm and blues.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This year the Libera Icon award is being presented to a rhythm and blues legend Mavis Staples.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Bompart said the family loves rhythm and blues and singers Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.
    — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Prior to this point, the Dead were intergalactic musical trailblazers with a grounding in the earthy rhythm and blues of this world of ours.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026

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