Category: Funk
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Eric Burdon & War
About War is an American funk/rock/soul/Latin band from Long Beach, California, known for several hit songs . Formed in 1969, War is a musical crossover band fusing elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, and reggae. According to music writer Colin Larkin, their “potent fusion of funk, R&B, rock and Latin styles…
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Kool & The Gang
About Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul, and funk group formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964. Its founding members include brothers Robert “Kool” Bell and Ronald Bell aka “Khalis Bayyan”, Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, Robert “Spike” Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, Sir Earl Toon, Woodrow “Woody” Sparrow, and Ricky Westfield.…
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Average White Band
About The Average White Band are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track “Pick Up the Pieces”, and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett.…
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Vulfpeck
About Vulfpeck is an American funk band founded in 2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss and Joe Dart. The band has released four extended plays, six studio albums and one live album through their own record label. The band gained recognition in 2014 for releasing Sleepify, a silent album…
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The Commodores
About Commodores, often billed as The Commodores, is an American funk and soul group. The group’s most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. Albums/Songs: Love Songs Greatest Hits Hot on the Tracks / In the Pocket Heroes Nightshift Natural High Christmas 14 Greatest Hits…
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The New Mastersounds
About The New Mastersounds are a British four-piece jazz fusion and blues/funk band from Leeds, England. Over the last 16 years, they have issued ten studio albums, two live dates, two remix collections, and a compilation album. Albums/Songs: Masterology: The Pioneers of New British Funk The Nashville Session Feel The Spirit Therapy Out on the…
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Funkadelic
About Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982. As one of the two flagship groups of George Clinton’s P-Funk collective, they helped pioneer the funk music culture of the 1970s. Funkadelic initially formed as a backing band for Clinton’s vocal group the Parliaments, but…
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Earth, Wind & Fire
About Earth, Wind & Fire is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop. They are among the best-selling bands of all time, with sales of over 90 million records worldwide. Albums/Songs: All ’n All Raise! Millennium The Promise Earth, Wind & Fire The Very…
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James Brown
About James Joseph Brown was an American singer, dancer and musician. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business”, “Godfather of Soul”, “Mr. Dynamite”, and “Soul Brother No. 1”. In a career that lasted more…
