List of new jack swing artists

This List of New Jack Swing artists includes singers and bands from 1987 to 1994 who performed in the New Jack Swing style, a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses the rhythms, samples and production techniques of hip-hop and dance-pop music with the urban contemporary sound of R&B. The new jack swing style developed as many previous R&B styles did, by combining elements of older styles with newer trends. It uses mellifluously soulful solo or harmonizing vocals sung over rhythms and "street" beats derived from urban musical influences. The sound of new jack swing comes from the hip hop "swing" beats created by drum machine, and hardware samplers, which was popular during the golden age of hip hop, with contemporary R&B style singing. The genre had some later and more recent hits, such as 2003's Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake, but was not a consistent style of performers by this time.

1986-1989

1990- early 1992

Mid-1992 to 1994

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