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May 13, 2024 · Funk, rhythm-driven musical genre popular in the 1970s and early 1980s that linked soul to later African-American musical styles. Musically, funk refers to a style of aggressive urban dance music driven by hard syncopated bass lines and drumbeats and accented by instruments involved in rhythmic counterplay.
1 day ago · By 1967, Brown's emerging sound began to be defined as funk music. That year he released what some critics cited as the first true funk song, "Cold Sweat", which hit number-one on the R&B chart (Top 10 Pop) and became one of his first recordings to contain a drum break and also the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.
1 day ago · Even Farley "Jackmaster" Funk engaged in the genre, releasing "Free at Last", a song to free James Brown from jail that featured The Hip House Syndicate, in 1989, and producing a Real Hip House compilation on his label, House Records, in 1990.
2 days ago · His music incorporated a wide variety of styles, including funk, R&B, rock, new wave, soul, synth-pop, pop, jazz, blues, and hip hop. Prince produced his albums himself, pioneering the Minneapolis sound.
May 10, 2024 · Parliament-Funkadelic is a massive group of performers led by George Clinton that greatly influenced the sound and style of funk music in the 1970s.
May 3, 2024 · Kool & the Gang, American funk and pop band from Jersey City, New Jersey, that was one of the first successful self-contained African American bands of the 1970s, writing its own songs and its members all playing their own instruments. The principal members were Khalis Bayyan (byname of Ronald Bell; b. November 1, 1951, Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.—d.
Mar 4, 2023 · Watch on. Official site of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic - Home of the extraterrestrial brothers, Dealers of funky music P.Funk, uncut funk, The Bomb.
