R&B world’s heartbreaking 2025: Chart-toppers and legends among long list of those lost this year

R&B world’s heartbreaking 2025: Chart-toppers and legends among long list of those lost this year

Robbie Pardlo might not be a name that music fans immediately recognize, but there was a time in the early 2000s when he and his group, City High, were on the charts.

Noted R&B songwriter and guitarist Darnell Kimbrough dies

(August 2, 2025) It has been a bad week for fans of the legendary R&B group The Chairmen of the Board. Earlier this week, former group singer Darryl Johnson died, and now we have received news from group leader Ken Knox that the band’s former guitarist and a oft-recorded songwriter, Darnell Kimbrough, has passed. Knox posted on social media “It is with deep sorrow that we, the Chairmen Of The Board and alumni, announce the passing of our friend …