About a year ago I was playing Tomb Raider (yasssss) and I came across this African American artist on Youtube. I forgot her name but it isn't someone who's really known.
If I remember I think she's from New York and a lot of her music had about 4 million views or more. She's not mainstream ! She doesn't rap or anything, I think she sung most of her songs, it isn't pop and I think it almost sounded like she is a female version of The Weeknd
Good luck though.
But I do love my girl Wynter and she needs to release something under Wynter not just The Righteous Young this year