Music > R&B Archives - Infinite Women

Aretha Franklin

The “Queen of Soul”, twice named the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone

Gladys Knight

As one of Motown’s leading ladies of soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gladys Knight was the driving force behind Gladys Knight and the Pips, an all-family music group from Atlanta.

Zilla Mays

Gospel and R&B singer and popular radio DJ

Mavis Staples

Powerful gospel and rhythm and blues singer

Barbara Lynn

Since 1962, Barbara Lynn has been at the vanguard of Texas R&B music.

Queen Ida Guillory

There have been several kings of zydeco over the years, but there has been only one Queen Ida.

Bernadette Bascom

American R&B singer and music education program founder

Esperanza Spalding was gifted with a natural talent for music. Not only is she an amazing jazz singer, but she can also play the upright bass at the same time, a skill that takes most musicians years to be able to do. While her music is categorized as jazz, she incorporates elements of R&B and Brazilian music into her songs.