The family of legendary Nigerian musician and electronic funk pioneer William Onyeabor have paid tribute to him on what would ...

Exploring the life and times of Cassiano, the Brazilian artist who pioneered the sounds of funk and soul during the late ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

Their beats became the mothership of hip-hop and dance music. Their live shows were legendary ... or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force ...

Clinton and suit defendant Armen Boladian had been business partners off and on until severing all ties in 1991.

Music is a multi-layered thing, with multiple types for multiple people. Rap, pop, R&B, rock and country. You name it, it’s your cup of sing-along tea. While those genres occupy a lot of space on ...

Throughout the 1970s, the midwest would prove to be a hotbed for great funk music, with the state of Ohio alone delivering artists like Catfish and Bootsy Collins, the Dazz Band, Zapp and The Ohio ...

The 2025 NOLA Funk Fest, the third overall, will take over Spanish Plaza downtown Oct. 17-19. Rather than simply rolling out ...

That leaves funk (which Brazilians pronounce as “funky”) as the genre that could alter Brazil’s reputation. “We make music to be heard by as many people as possible,” says Kevin o Chris ...