R&B is no longer dead—in fact, it never was if you knew where to listen. For Dallas duo L2EO (pronounced Leo), vocalists Keshawn Keys and Johnathan Tarver vow to bring “that old thing back,” with real singing, real soul and all of the nostalgia that comes with classic R&B . It is their ultimate mission for Dallas “to put R&B back on the map” with its own spin and sultry, Southern appeal.

And don’t let the young age fool you. At 18 and 19 years old, both Keys and Tarver know a thing or two about singing that will make any critic want to fall in love again . “R&B is alive, and it is prevalent. You’re just not looking in the right place,” Keys said to us while sitting at the Irving Fine Arts Academy. “L2EO is definitely that right place. We’re going to take R&B back to where it came from

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