<P> Psychedelic soul, sometimes known as "black rock", was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music in the late 1960s, which paved the way for the mainstream emergence of funk music a few years later . Early pioneers of this subgenre of soul music include Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder . While psychedelic rock began its decline, the influence of psychedelic soul continued on and remained prevalent through the 1970s . </P> <P> Blue - eyed soul is R&B or soul music performed by white artists . The meaning of blue - eyed soul has evolved over decades . Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records . The term continued to be used in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly by the British media to refer to a new generation of singers who adopted elements of the Stax and Motown sounds . To a lesser extent, the term has been applied to singers in other music genres that are influenced by soul music . Artists like Hall and Oates, David Bowie, George Michael, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse and Adele are known as Blue - eyed soul singers . </P> <P> Soul has been a major influence on British popular music since the 1960s including bands of the British Invasion, most significantly The Beatles . There were a handful of significant British Blue - eyed soul acts, including Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones . American soul was extremely popular among some youth sub-cultures like the Northern soul and Modern soul movements, but a clear genre of British soul did not emerge until the 1980s when a number of artists including George Michael, Sade, Simply Red, Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul enjoyed commercial success . The popularity of British soul artists in the U.S., most notably Amy Winehouse, Adele, Estelle, Duffy, Joss Stone and Leona Lewis, led to talk of a "third British Invasion" or soul invasion in the 2000s and 2010s . </P> <P> The term neo soul is a marketing phrase coined in the early 1990s by producer and record label executive Kedar Massenburg to describe a blend of 1970s soul - style vocals and instrumentation with contemporary R&B sounds, hip - hop beats and poetic interludes . The style was developed in the early to mid-1990s . A key element in neo soul is a heavy dose of Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano "pads" over a mellow, grooving interplay between the drums (usually with a rim shot snare sound) and a muted, deep funky bass . The Fender Rhodes piano sound gives the music a warm, organic character . </P>

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