Darnell Junior is an R&B and Pop singer songwriter. Born and raised in Indianapolis, he began writing songs at the age of 10. Throughout his college years, he wrote many songs for underground artists in Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Phoenix, and Washington D.C.
Influenced by Prince, Brandy, Chris Brown, K. Michelle, Todrick Hall, and Elijah Blake, he has crafted an all-inclusive sound embracing his connection to the LGBT community enabling him to defy gender norms through music.
Darnell Junior’s mission is to make honest and timeless music without boundaries or fear of judgment and persecution based on sexual orientation or toxic masculinity.
Check out his new hit single “Questions” out now and make sure you follow him on social media for his latest releases.
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Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R’n’B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when “rocking, jazz based music … [with a] heavy, insistent beat” was starting to become more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American history and experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of societal racism, oppression, relationships, economics, and aspirations.
The term “rhythm and blues” has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music had contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term “R&B” became used in a wider context. It referred to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, the term “rhythm and blues” had changed once again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk.
