Wedding Songs

Wedding Songs By Black Artists

Black musicians, such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, count among the pioneers of strong backbeat in the 50s, setting the backgrounds of rock and roll music developed by Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. These years are also known as the ones to increase the popularity of blues and soul music, this one being an adapted form of the gospel music presenting Ben E. King and Sam Cooke as its pioneers. Soul and R&B started to win over the top charts having black artists like Diana Ross & The Supremes and Aretha Franklin as leaders in the 60s times.




James Brown introduced the sound of funk music including influences of early heavy metal sounds and psychedelic music promoted especially by the innovative Jimi Hendrix. Beside the fact that African American music has been the promoter of many new styles in the world of music it is also known to consist of philosophical lyrics with social awareness tones, one of the famous in this field being “What’s going on” to belong to Marvin Gaye.

Being a fan for black artists’ music, the sound of jazz included on the list of your musical preferences, you can plan the music of your wedding celebration to incorporate wedding songs by black artists. In this regard, the options are plenty, the lists of music charts of all the times are filled with various African American musicians, considering that the sound of disco style was introduced by Gloria Gaynor and Kool & the Gang. And what can work the best in the atmosphere of your wedding reception if not the sounds of disco music where everybody feels the rhythm that takes the people out on the dance floor.

Not to mention that the sounds of Jamaican reggae can also count among the preferences of your wedding guests, with choices of Bob Marley, Eddy Grant, and the rhythms of the famous Michael Jackson can be the ones to fill in the list of wedding songs by black artists. The ceremony of your wedding event could be planned in such a manner that it might contain choices of black artists songs, such as “On bended knee” performed by Boys II Men, for the moment that prepares the bride’s entrance, “Angel” by Mariah Carey to accompany the steps of the bride while she walks down the aisle. For the recessional you can have the sounds of Mary J. Blige’s “Real love” to walk you both to the door following your suite of guests to continue your wedding celebration with the wedding party.

The wedding reception is meant to be a real party from its beginning to its end therefore the presence of music is very important in that it presents your assembly your choices of relevant songs that accompany the special and emotional events of your party: your big entrance as husband and wife, the father/daughter dance, mother/son dance, first dance and the moment of cake cutting filled with its symbolic meaning.

The African American music has in its diversity beautiful and rhythmical sounds of songs that go very well with the celebration of your wedding, introducing male vocal groups – Blackstreet, Boys II Men, The Temptations and girls groups – TLC, SWV, Destiny’s Child as great choices of bands to decorate the musical ambiance of the most important event of your life.

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