R&B icon Brandy's album Full Moon was released in 2002, with innovative production by Rodney Jerkins.

De R&B-groep Total bracht in 1995 hun debuutsingle Can’t You See uit (met Notorious B.I.G., Bad Boy R&B).

Birthday of Natalie Cole (b. 1950), Soul/R&B singer and daughter of Nat King Cole.

D'Angelo's influential Neo-Soul album Brown Sugar was certified platinum in Canada in 2000.

The R&B group TLC released their No. 1 hit No Scrubs in the U.S. in 1999.

R&B singer Joe's single Stutter (featuring Mystikal) reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.

Verjaardag van Soul- en R&B-zangeres Macy Gray, die in 1967 werd geboren en bekend is om haar kenmerkende stem en hits uit de jaren 00 zoals ‘I Try’.

Birth day of iconic Soul/R&B singer Roberta Flack, born in 1937, whose influence reaches into 1990s R&B.