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indie-rock and live music scene. Classical, country and blues have historically been well represented.[1] From the 1920s through 1950s the city was a major center for country music.[2]

Modern hip-hop, R&B, neo soul

Main article: Atlanta hip hop

In 2009, the

R&B and neo soul[4]
musicians.

The following hip-hop, rap, R&B and soul artists have had #1 or #2 singles on the U.S. Hot 100 chart:

Artist Year Rank Single name Year Rank Album name
B.o.B 2010 1 Nothin' on You 2010 1 B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
Lil Nas X 2018-2021 1 3#1 singles 2021 2 Montero
CeeLo Green 2010 2 Fuck You! The Lady Killer
Childish Gambino
 2018 1
This Is America
Ciara 2004 1 Goodies 2006 1 Ciara: The Evolution
D4L 2006 1 Laffy Taffy Down for Life
Kris Kross 1992-1995 1 Jump 1992 1 Totally Krossed Out
Lil Jon 2003 2 Get Low Kings of Crunk
Lloyd You 2007 2 Street Love
Ludacris 2003-2006 1 5#1 singles 2003-2010 1 4#1 albums
Migos 2017 1 Bad and Boujee 2017 1
Culture (Migos album)
Monica 1998-1999 1 3#1 singles 2003 1 2#1 albums
T.I. 2008 1 4#1 singles 2006-2008 1 3#1 albums
TLC 1992-1999 1 4#1 singles 1999 1 FanMail
Outkast 2000-2003 1 3#1 singles 2003 1 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Shop Boyz 2007 2 Party Like a Rockstar Rockstar Mentality
The-Dream Rockin' That Shit 2009 2 Love vs. Money
Toni Braxton 1996-2000 1 2#1 singles 1993 1 Toni Braxton
Usher
 1998-2010 9#1 singles 2004-2010 4#1 albums
Young Jeezy
 2008 Put On 2006 1
3#1 albums

Some other local artists include(d):

In the 1980s and early 1990s Atlanta's hip hop scene was characterized by a local variant of

DJ Smurf (later Mr. Collipark).[3] MC Shy-D is credited with bringing authentic Bronx-style hip-hop to Atlanta (and Miami), such as 1988's Shake it[5] produced by DJ Toomp
.

The

Dirty South style of hip-hop and of Atlanta gaining a reputation for "soul-minded hip-hop eccentrics", contrasting with other regional styles.[3]

The Yin Yang Café (now Apache Café) in Midtown on 3rd Street was a centerpoint for the development of the

India.Arie, Society of Soul, Laurnéa, Kemetic Just, Sleepy Brown, Divinity Roxx, Naked Jazz, Khari Simmons, and Anthony David.[6]

From the late 1990s to early 2000s, producer

Dem Franchise Boyz. The success of LaFace and SoSo Def led to Atlanta as an established scene for record labels such as LaFace parent company Arista Records
to set up satellite offices.

In 2009 the

trap, and pop rap styles.[3] The same article named Drumma Boy, Fatboi, Shawty Redd and Zaytoven the four "hottest producers driving the city".[3]

Magic City

Main article: Magic City (club)

Magic City is Atlanta's premiere gentlemen's club, responsible for launching artists such as Future, Young Thug, and Gucci Mane into the mainstream. Magic, the owner of Magic City, takes pride in his love of stripping and believes that the rap game in Atlanta is held together by "the power of booty." However, the role of strippers isn't just a position of subservience for the aesthetics of the club. Because they control the mood of the room, they have the ability to control audiences; they can make or break rap artists. The dancers request songs, so if they're getting 10,000 thrown at them whenever it blasts, they will continue to request the song. A club goer explained, "The girls pick what record pops in the streets. They pick what rapper pops in the streets. The girls at Magic City are the streets."[7]

Gospel

Atlanta plays a major role in the

Fox Theater. The Atlanta Gospel Choice Awards are also given out yearly at a well-attended festival. Gospel groups based in Atlanta included The Statesmen Quartet
and many others.

Pop, rock, and metal

Indigo Girls

Atlanta has also produced rock and pop music singers, such as the folk-pop

India.Arie and Shawn Mullins, all performed pre-fame at Eddie's Attic
, an independent club in the intown suburb of Decatur. The "Open Mic Shootout" at Eddie's Attic consistently draws singer-songwriter talent from across the nation, and is held every Monday night.

The Satellites played every Monday night for $1. at Hedgen's in Buckhead, and Pranks played various bars. They all hit the big time.

During the 1980s, Atlanta had an active

dark wave. The Chamber, formed based on the success of Club Fetish, an industrial and gothic night hosted by the Masquerade, became a cultural icon. Little Five Points
also continued to be the center of counter culture.

There is also a large metal scene in the Atlanta, including sludge metal band

Attila. Other sludge metal groups from Savannah, Georgia are also sometimes associated with the Atlanta scene, including Baroness, Kylesa, Royal Thunder, and Black Tusk.[9]

RBMG label.[10]

Atlanta has also had a thriving

Brass Castle, The Liverhearts, Elevado, Jackyl, Deerhunter, Family Force 5, Whores,[11] The Selmanaires, Kaki King, Woe, Is Me, Starbenders, and John-Allison Weiss. Other groups prominent in Atlanta included Guadalcanal Diary, The Swimming Pool Q's, Loudflower
, Incarceri 9, and Arms Akimbo.

Notable industrial groups based out of Atlanta include Combichrist, Die Sektor, and Finite Automata.

The city also boasts a large, diverse Synthwave and modular synth community featuring groups such as Gregorio Franco, Watch Out For Snakes, and Vampire Step-dad.

Electronic jam-groove band Sound Tribe Sector 9 is also from Atlanta.

In the early 1980s, Atlanta was the home of a thriving

The Producers, The Raves, Baby and the Pacifiers, The Razor Boys, The Neuz, Desperate Angel, Samurai Catfish, Heathen Girls and Face of Concern. Atlanta is also the home of Grammy Award-winning artist and songwriter Van Hunt
.

Atlanta also boasts a thriving metal scene with bands such as Sevendust, Stuck Mojo, Mastodon, and HellBent.

Live music

The city has a well-known and active

The Producers, closely linked to the new wave scenes in Athens, Georgia and other college towns in the southeast. Historically there have been a variety of live music traditions going back to Cabbagetown country music pioneer Fiddlin' John Carson, also including a thriving scene in the 1990s, also in Cabbagetown, centered on a bar called Dotties, later known as Lenny's and relocated a few blocks away before closing permanently in 2010. Video Concert Hall, precursor to MTV
, was founded in Atlanta.

The 688 Club was a popular alternative music venue from 1980–1986. The Masquerade is a popular concert venue.

Blues and jazz

Main article: Atlanta blues

Though not a blues capital like Memphis or New Orleans, Atlanta has been home to a blues scene and a number of notable bluesmen including Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Barbecue Bob and Blind Willie McTell. In the blues bar named after McTell, Blind Willie's, and several others, blues musicians such as Francine Reed, Delta Moon,[12] and Sandra Hall have performed. There are also a number of jazz clubs and the annual Atlanta Jazz Festival. On the 30th anniversary of the festival, mayor Shirley Franklin commissioned the portrait Jazz of the City of Atlanta, displayed in City Hall.

Country

Main article: Country music in Atlanta

Atlanta played a major role in launching country's earliest recording artists in the early 1920s — many Appalachian people such as Fiddlin' John Carson had come to the city to work in its cotton mills and brought their music with them. It would remain a major recording center for two decades and a major performance center for four decades, into the first country music TV shows on local Atlanta stations in the 1950s.[2] Today, Metro Atlanta is home to Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Sugarland, Kenny Rogers, Jerry Reed, Ray Stevens and Travis Tritt.

Classical music and opera

See also: Opera in Atlanta

Metro Atlanta is home to: the Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; two renowned historical chamber groups, the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and the New Trinity Baroque; and to notable musicians such as conductors Robert Spano and Predrag Gosta, the late Robert Shaw, countertenor David Daniels, bass Jason Hardy, and others. Atlanta is also home to the Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Ballet, Capitol City Opera, Georgia Boy Choir, Atlanta Boy Choir, and many others.

The music salon of the Oscar Pappenheimer mansion was the hub of chamber music from the 1890s through the 1920s. The Atlanta Music Club was formed in 1915, and was instrumental in establishing the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1923), the Choral Guild of Atlanta (1939, Atlanta's oldest independent chorus),[13] and the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra (1944) which in 1946 became the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. A 1962 plane crash in Paris took the lives of more than 100 leading Atlanta art patrons, who were commemorated with the construction of the Memorial Arts Center (later the Robert W. Woodruff Memorial Arts Center).[14]

Early venues for opera in Atlanta were DeGive's Opera House, built 1870, then DeGive's larger Grand Opera House, built 1893. From 1910 New York's Metropolitan Opera began its immensely popular series of Spring visits to Atlanta, lasting until 1986. Early efforts to establish local opera companies experienced difficulty. The Music Theatre Guild of Atlanta (1974) and the Atlanta Lyric Opera (1976). In 1977 the Guild was renamed Georgia Opera, moved to the Woodruff Arts Center and added an orchestra. In 1979 the Guild and Lyric operas merged to form the Atlanta Civic Opera, in 1985 reorganized as the Atlanta Opera, which moved to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre just outside Atlanta in 2007.

See also

References

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