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Filipino creators working in contemporary R&B draw from a long, interconnected lineage of sonic exchange that shapes how the genre evolves across both local archipelago-based scenes and global Filipino creative communities, grounding every work they release in a set of shared cultural reference points that distinguish their approach to the form from iterations of R&B emerging from other global creative hubs. This lineage weaves together the history of R&B’s spread across Southeast Asia, the adaptation of core R&B sensibilities to speak to the specific experiences of Filipino audiences and creators, and the ongoing push to reimagine what the genre can hold, as new generations of artists pull from their own lived realities to expand R&B’s boundaries.
