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Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R&B counterpart, with incorporated elements ranging from jazz, funk, and hip hop to pop, fusion, and African music.

Neo soul's musical development occurred during the 1980s through to the early 1990s with the work of musical acts such as

Prince, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Terrence Trent D'Arby, Joi, and Mint Condition, whose music deviated from the conventions of most contemporary R&B at the time. Influential to neo soul, UK act Sade achieved success in the 1980s with music that featured a sophisti-pop style, incorporating elements of soul, pop, smooth jazz, and quiet storm. Other British progenitors of the neo soul movement at the time included Omar Lye-Fook, Young Disciples, D'Influence, Urban Species, Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies, Soul II Soul, and Carleen Anderson.

During the early 1990s, the neo soul movement continued to grow with releases by

Zhané, Dionne Farris, Groove Theory, Tony Rich, and Meshell Ndegeocello. The commercial breakthroughs of D'Angelo's Brown Sugar (1995), Erykah Badu's Baduizm (1997), Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996), and Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) have been credited by writers with helping to shape and raise the neo soul movement to commercial visibility during the late 1990s. Lauryn Hill's debut album was one of neo soul's primary successes, achieving massive sales, critical acclaim, and five Grammy Awards. Both Hill's and Badu's successes helped pave the way for such female neo soul artists as Angie Stone, Jill Scott, India.Arie and Alicia Keys. According to music journalist Greg Kot, musical collective Soulquarians, consisting of D'Angelo, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Mos Def, Common, James Poyser, and Q-Tip, contributed significantly to the neo soul movement during the late 1990s to the early 2000s with its members' "organic soul, natural R&B, boho-rap".

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Since 2000, artists such as

Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, John Legend, India Arie, Nicole Atkins, Musiq Soulchild, Sy Smith, Eric Roberson, Dwele, Goapele, Omar Lye-Fook, Eric Benet, Platinum Pied Pipers, Erykah Badu, Bilal Oliver, Raphael Saadiq, Noora Noor and Kem, etc., maintain Neo Soul. Recent major neo soul artists also include Lucy Pearl, Floetry, Glenn Lewis, Res, Anthony Hamilton, Bilal, Hill St. Soul, Rahsaan Patterson, Stephanie McKay, Malina Moye, Emily King, Raheem DeVaughn, Gnarls Barkley, Sy Smith, Joss Stone, Ledisi, Cleveland, Ohio's Conya Doss, Cincinnati-Bred artists Ja'Meze & the Spoken word soul collective Shades of J, Big Brooklyn Red, Antonia Jenae, The Square Egg, Britain's Julie Dexter, Laurnea, N'Dambi, Gaelle, Rachael Bell, Joy Denalane, Aya, Divine Brown, Asa, Lady Seoul (AeKyung Yoo) and Angela Johnson.

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