The slow jams are back on, and Raheem DeVaughn is taking your calls.
The R&B singer-songwriter and philanthropist has announced that he is taking his late-night R&B sound beyond Washington, D.C., with The Garden of Love. According to You Know I Got Soul, the show launched on October 12 with Urban One’s Reach Media and Radio One, bringing slow jams and listener conversations to stations in five markets.
The program airs from Sunday through Thursday, from 7 p.m. to midnight. It originates on Majic 102.3 WMMJ in D.C., with broadcasts in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond. DeVaughn mixes romantic R&B with dedications, calls, and discussions about love, relationships, and everyday life.
DeVaughn’s connection to that sound runs through both his catalog and his time behind a microphone. In 2024, WHUR named him host of The Original Quiet Storm, the D.C. program that helped establish late-night slow jams as a radio fixture…