R&B Music Experience: The Legacy Series
About This Event
R&B Music Experience: The Legacy Series at UBS Arena assembles a lineup of late-’90s and 2000s R&B figures — Ginuwine, Tyrese, Tank, Tamar Braxton and Next — alongside club-oriented electronic sets from Silk and Lloyd. The bill foregrounds vocal phrasing and groove over elaborate staging, pairing radio-ready melodies and controlled melisma with DJs who favor long-form pacing and steady control of room energy.
About the Artists
Tank
Tank is an American R&B and hip-hop singer, songwriter, producer, and podcaster whose early professional work included supporting vocals for Aaliyah and Ginuwine before he emerged as a solo recording artist in the early 2000s.
Tyrese
Tyrese is an R&B singer and actor whose recording career began in the late 1990s with RCA, breaking through with the single “Nobody Else” and a platinum-certified self-titled debut album. Raised in Los Angeles, he developed a radio-ready blend of hip-hop and smooth R&B vocal phrasing that carries into his live work.
Ginuwine
Ginuwine is an American R&B singer who emerged in the early 1990s through the Swing Mob collective before breaking out as a solo artist. His early run of releases established him as a radio-facing vocalist with a club-ready edge, anchored by the hits “Pony” and “Differences.
Tamar Braxton
Tamar Braxton is an American R&B and hip-hop vocalist whose career spans recording, songwriting, acting, and television work. Onstage, she often centers vocal control and conversational phrasing, letting the lyric lead the performance more than production.
Silk
Silk is an electronic artist and DJ heard in New York City at Jupiter Disco, where their sets and live electronic performances share bills with Marjorine and GIANNA. Working in club-driven electronic music, Silk builds performances from tight transitions and controlled pacing rather than overt theatrics.
Next
Next is an individual Hip-Hop/R&B artist whose work sits in the pocket between smooth vocal tradition and contemporary rhythm programming. They appear on New York City stages at UBS Arena, including the bill for *R&B Music Experience: The Legacy Series*.