Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown
Born: Feb 5, 1969 in Boston, MA
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Styles: Club/Dance, New Jack Swing, Hip-Hop, Dance-Pop, Urban, Contemporary R&B
Biography: One of the brightest R&B stars of the late '80s and early '90s, Bobby Brown was the man who popularized new jack swing, a blend of classic soul, urban synth-funk, and hip-hop rhythms that often featured rap breaks in between the conventionally melodic verses and choruses. Guy's Teddy Riley may have been ...Read full biography
Don't Be Cruel
Released: 1988
Label: Geffen
Critics' Rating:
Don't Be Cruel was to Bobby Brown what Control was to Janet Jackson -- a tougher, more aggressive project that shed his "bubblegum" image altogether and brought him to a new artistic and commercial plateau. ...Read full review
King of Stage
Released: 1987
Label: MCA
Critics' Rating:
Bobby Brown's style was still fairly close to that of his comrades in New Edition when he recorded his first solo effort, King of Stage -- an album giving little indication of the hard-edged, aggressive ...Read full review
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Bobby Brown, 1989
Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston attend the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 9, 1998.
Bobby Brown attends BET's 25th Anniversary Show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Oct. 26,...
Bobby Brown (second from right) in New Edition in 1985
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown attend the VH1 Divas Duets concert at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las...
Bobby Brown performs at the 30th Annual American Music Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los...
Bobby Brown, 1989
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