Georgio Allentini
Georgio Allentini, born George Allen (born 1966), better known by the stage name and mononym Georgio, is an American funk music, funk and dance music singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in California. Allentini also produced, directed and starred in the film ''Tapped Out'' in 2003. Music career After giving his Demo (music), demos to Prince (musician), Prince in a bid to join Prince's Paisley Park Records, Paisley Park, he recorded his own track "Sexappeal" (sometimes "Sex Appeal") on his own Georgio Records. "A lot of people in Los Angeles just gave me the run- around and didn't want to make a commitment." Allentini stated.
In 1984, Motown Records showed interest in Allentini and he was eventually signed to the la ...
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Rhythm & Blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music ... ith aheavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contr ...
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