Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R’n’B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular.
Contemporary R&B is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, pitch corrected vocals, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Writing from a point of Acquantance, personally I Discovered Charlotte fenna in 2019 from a shared Instagram Story, which captivated my attention the 1 minute snippet was a soulful R&B in Arabic language, Her thirst-quenching Soulful vocals intrigued me.
Who is Charlotte Fenna ?
Charlotte Fenna (born 1st may 1995), is an Egyptian singer and entrepreneur, the songstress discovered music early, and embraced it. But before the music scene Charlotte Fenna was known as a freelancer, Her first musical release was as a teenager, it was an Acoustic performance During high school, she started making mix tapes and by the age of 17, she took up an internship at a music studio. Charlotte is a household name in the Freelancing Community, She taught herself to sing, rap and use GarageBand while at home without a job, frequently making music and uploading it to Soundcloud In late 2009, became the first permanent upload on her SoundCloud account, and soon caught the attention of record producer Yeti who invited her to record at his studio in the neighbourhood also served as “an oasis of sorts for Charlotte to escape from the turmoil at home”. He connected her with Kemorade Records, an imprint of RCA Records where she signed in March 2014 under label executive Dr. Luke and his publishing company Prescription Songs at the age of 17. This deal also came with a temporary artist management partnership with Roc Nation. Over time Charlotte was known as a local as well as an international public acclaimed singer. With her dexterity, she once worked with an amazing vocalist and song maker popularly known as Tamer Hosny as Additional vocalist.
Charlotte Fenna broad appeal is unmistakable, hinged on soothing and hypnotic melodies. however, an intimate narrative and luminous voice lights up the interpolation of synths and acoustic instrumentals. Not only does she sing masterfully, but her lyrics stand out as well as she revamps a line from hany shaker to describe how emotional she gets about her love interest.
She is set to start releasing fresh music in 2022, The songstress released several other songs since. Charlotte is already catching the attention of some of the industry’s biggest heavyweights, like snoop dogg & Dababy, we can’t wait to see what is next.
