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Atlanta’s best local R&B/soul acts.

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Gritz & Jelly Butter

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Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics
An eclectic mix of smooth jazz and soulful R&B stylings culminate in a spiritual awakening when Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics take the stage. Whether performing live, or at any point throughout the group’s latest album, State of All Things, Ruby Velle’s voice rings out with bravado and a presencemore...

An eclectic mix of smooth jazz and soulful R&B stylings culminate in a spiritual awakening when Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics take the stage. Whether performing live, or at any point throughout the group’s latest album, State of All Things, Ruby Velle’s voice rings out with bravado and a presence that transcends the decades. Backed by the Soulphonics, the ensemble gives a nod to Stax Records’ rich legacy of Southern soul, funk, and R&B, and plants it firmly in the here and now, with sass, sophistication, and an unbeatable sense of style.

Photo courtesy of Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics Facebook page

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Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Mother’s Finest

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Men in Blues

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Men in Blues

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Anthony David

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Soulphonics & Ruby Velle

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Janelle Monae

www.jmonae.com


Runner-up: Gritz & Jelly Butter


www.myspace.com/gritzandjellybutter

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Soulphonics & Ruby Velle
Egomaniacal frontmen (and women) take note. Lest there be any doubt about magnanimity in the ranks of the classy and copious SOULPHONICS & RUBY VELLE, check out the name, where the backing band gets first billing. But that’s far from the only reason we think they’re the best. With a towering voicemore...
Egomaniacal frontmen (and women) take note. Lest there be any doubt about magnanimity in the ranks of the classy and copious SOULPHONICS & RUBY VELLE, check out the name, where the backing band gets first billing. But that’s far from the only reason we think they’re the best. With a towering voice and steady spirit, the incandescent and impossibly young Ms. Velle is the seven-member group’s onstage focal point. The grooving gem of a collective applies its members’ exhaustive knowledge of the last few decades of soul to the construction of one funky, devastating sound attack. Simply, it’ll make you wanna move. Soulphonics’ Stax-indebted music is horn-heavy, grooving, family-friendly fare, but like all good rock and soul, there’s a subtle measure of sex and sorrow afoot. www.myspace.com/soulphonics less...

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Rahbi

www.myspace.com/rahbi
Runners-up
Tie
Noot d’ Noot
www.myspace.com/nootdnoot
and
Janelle Monae
www.jmonae.com
and
Ruby Velle
www.myspace.com/soulphonics

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Rahbi

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Usher

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Janelle Monae

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Rahbi

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Rahbi

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Rahbi
When RAHBI takes the stage with a swagger that’s part pimp, part drag queen, it’s obvious why his arrival has caused such a stir among Atlanta’s staid soul scene. The background singer for Donnie stepped out of the shadows this year to unleash his own brand of “glamourmore...

When RAHBI takes the stage with a swagger that’s part pimp, part drag queen, it’s obvious why his arrival has caused such a stir among Atlanta’s staid soul scene. The background singer for Donnie stepped out of the shadows this year to unleash his own brand of “glamour soul.” It bears no resemblance to the singer/songwriter school of thought most of his Atlanta-based peers graduated from. Instead, Rahbi takes his cues from Prince — lace glove and all. During his “Strange Fruit” show in early 2007, he employed a pole dancer and stripper pole in his act. Yet his flamboyant stage show doesn’t overshadow the dramatic vocal ability he honed singing at his granddaddy’s Pentecostal church as a youngster. His appropriately titled live album, Rahbi-Raw, is scheduled for a fall release.


www.myspace.com/rahbi

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Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Entropy

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Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Algebra
It took damn-near forever, but local soul vocalist ALGEBRA finally broke onto the national scene. Born and raised in Atlanta, Algebra has been kicking around locally for years. She signed to Dallas Austin’s Rowdy Records while still a student at North Atlanta High School, then spent a year onmore...

It took damn-near forever, but local soul vocalist ALGEBRA finally broke onto the national scene. Born and raised in Atlanta, Algebra has been kicking around locally for years. She signed to Dallas Austin’s Rowdy Records while still a student at North Atlanta High School, then spent a year on Motown Records — all without releasing an album. But check VH1 Soul or BET-J and you’ll see her video, “U Do It for Me,” in heavy rotation — and that’s a rare feat for A-town soul folks. Expect to hear much more of her Southern rap-meets-soul stylings after her debut album drops sometime this fall on Kedar Entertainment.
www.myspace.com/algebrablessett.

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Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
Anthony David

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick
Slick & Rose

Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
Anthony David
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