Michael Sumler of Kool & the Gang died Sunday in a Georgia car crash. He was 71. Sumler, known as "Chicago Mike," was a ...

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the National Medal of the Arts In 2005 and has written or co-authored seven books, ...

Courtesy photo The best-selling R&B group of all time, Boyz II Men captured the nation with a string of No. 1 singles and combined album sales of over 64 million. “When you look at the landscape ...

Members of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in 1970 ... George Clinton was working as a staff songwriter at Motown and had a vocal group called The Parliaments. They had a Motown-style R&B hit in ...

Masters of the Mic, a hip-hop/R&B show, will perform July 19 in ... then called the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, in a 2018 group show with Parliament-Funkadelic, Morris Day and the Time, and Sheila ...

Zapp & Roger’s musical legacy lives on with songs that still rock at parties and family reunions everywhere and in countless hip-hop and R&B samples ... in the band Funkadelic at the time.

but they realized that everything isn’t always what it seems when the R&B singer put some strange demands in place. According to Dawn Robinson, Luther insisted the group not wear anything on ...

Wiggins was a vocalist and bass guitarist of the beloved R&B group, which included his brother Raphael Saadiq and their cousin Christian Riley. The group became mainstays of the New Jack Swing ...

D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné! behind 1990s jams such as “Anniversary,” “It Never Rains (In Southern California)” and “(Lay Your Head on My ...

Wiggins was a vocalist and bass guitarist of the beloved R&B group, which included his brother Raphael Saadiq and their cousin Christian Riley. The group became mainstays of the New Jack Swing ...