Unsung: How After 7 Made Grown Folks’ Music in the New Jack Swing Era It was the summer of 1989 when the R&B trio After 7 dropped their infectious eponymous debut album with the lead single, “In the Heat of the Moment.”

Unsung: Gospel or R&B? Dave Hollister Won’t Let Anyone Box Him In Chicago native Dave Hollister has always had vocal chops, straddling the secular and gospel worlds with seeming ease. But after a peak career in the ’90s with Teddy Riley’s group Blackstreet, and then as a solo artist, his name disappeared from t Read more ... he lips of fans who had reveled in his old-school-sty...

Unsung: The Story of House Music and Pioneer Frankie Knuckles Is Long Overdue TV One’s docuseries takes an ambitious approach to telling the larger story of this unheralded black music genre from the South Side of Chicago and the man who fostered it.