Tye Tribbett's R&B Contemporaries

These artists exude the same high energy!

Tye Tribbett  - Show opener Tye Tribbett blazes the stage during rehearsal.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BET)
Michael Jackson x ATV Music Publishing - When Michael Jackson learned the value of music pubishing, he changed the game and began acquiring catalogues that "meant something to him," like Sly & the Family Stone songs. He eventually acquired ATV Music Publishing, sold to MJ in 1985 for $47.5 million, and giving him ownership of, most significantly, a bunch of the Beatles' songs, which ruffled the feathers of fellow pop royal Paul McCartney. MJ held on to the share, however, allowing a merger with his label home, Sony. Another merger later (with EMI), the company is now the largest music publishing house in the world, and his estate still rakes in cash from it.(Photo: Havakuk Levison/Reuters)
36. "Treasure," Bruno Mars - Over the past five years, Mars has been churning out hits like a one-man Motown, but the upbeat singer came closer than ever to channeling Michael Jackson with this infectious single. Even the disco-inspired music video is reminiscent of late-era Jackson 5. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
/content/dam/betcom/images/2013/09/Music-09-16-09-30/092013-music-justin-timberlake-performs-yko.jpg“If I Was a Bird” - At some point crooning about love can feel a little forced. And that’s the case with the song “If I Was a Bird.” Over a skipping 808 beat sprinkled with lilting harp notes, Fantasia tells her beau if she was TRULY fed up with his mess, she’d be out… flying like a bird, of course.  (Photo: Erika Goldring/Getty Images)

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Michael Jackson - A performer's dream was what the late Michael Jackson was to many a fan and artist alike. We truly believe that Tribbett took a few pages out of Jackson's perfomance book for his lively, forehead sweating praise routines. (Photo: Havakuk Levison/reuters)

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