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Annie Lennox - Bye Bye Blues

R&B music often incorporates urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat. R&B songs are usually melodic with a steady, semi predictable beat that uses a bass track. R&B music usually consists of piano, guitars, bass, drums, saxophone, and sometimes background vocalists.

R&B and Reggae are both African based genres and because of that they have similar elements. They both have similar persistent beats often in 4/4 time. They also incorporate piano and bass guitar.

Reggae originated in Jamaica... and it derived from the Jamaican phrase rege-rege, meaning rags or ragged clothing, it is used to describe a raggedy style of music that grew up in Jamaica around that time.

Reggae is a genre of music that has roots in other genres as well as American Rhythm & Blues, calypso, and African music. Reggae was also developed out of rock steady music as audiences demanded a more steady beat and less all-l instrumental music. Reggae rose to acclaim in the 1970s and has spread internationally since then.


Annie Lennox - Bye Bye Blues
  • Duration: 2:01
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Released on: Unreleased

"Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 80s as Eurythmics."

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