D'Angelo's music was made for reflection, so this week we'll be spending some time doing exactly that, from 'Brown Sugar' to 'Black Messiah.' Jody Watley's 1989 track "Friends" f. Rakim was the first ...

Good thing she did! Her debut album, “Jody Watley” scored her three top ten hits and a 1988 Best New Artist Grammy; while her second, 1989’s “Larger Than Life,” sold over four million copies, and ...

The 1980s were a renaissance of sorts for a new generation of black female vocalists. The dawn of the MTV era produced a slew of iconic soloists that dominated the R&B and pop charts throughout the ...

In 1983, Jody Watley walked away from Shalamar, the group that launched her from dancer on TV's ''Soul Train'' to pop star. Watley embarked on a solo career and won a Grammy in 1988 for best new ...

Jody Watley, a pioneering singer-songwriter-producer pivotal to the pop era and the merger of R&B and Hip-Hop during her solo career in the ’80s and ’90s, is being honored by the city of Atlanta. June ...