Case

Case Woodard, known simply as Case, is an American R&B singer and songwriter who rose to prominence in the mid-to-late 1990s as one of the genre's defining male voices. Before launching his solo career he paid his dues as a background vocalist and co-writer for artists such as Usher, Christopher Williams and Al B. Sure, absorbing the smooth, harmony-driven style that would define his own records. He was eventually signed to Def Jam, where he built a run of hits rooted in classic soul phrasing filtered through polished nineties production.

His sound sits at the romantic, adult-contemporary end of R&B: warm falsetto, layered harmonies and lush arrangements built for slow jams and love songs. Songs such as «Touch Me, Tease Me», «Missing You» and «Happily Ever After» showcase this sensibility, pairing tender lyricism with radio-friendly hooks that made him a fixture on R&B charts and playlists through the late nineties and 2000s.

Case became known as a dependable hitmaker within the quiet-storm and slow-jam tradition, releasing a string of albums that consistently found an audience among R&B listeners even as the genre shifted toward hip-hop-inflected production. Tracks like «Sex Games» and «Lovely» further cemented his reputation for intimate, vocally driven songwriting, and he remains a respected name among fans of that late-90s/early-2000s R&B era.