Michael Sumler, who was the iconic stylist, promoter and choreographer for the group Kool & the Gang, died Sunday in a car crash in Georgia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 71. 11Alive, a news ...

Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force released the trailblazing single “Planet Rock” in 1982. It eventually made its way ...

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 ...

Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic ... you know, R&B but African-style. You know, just get a groove. Ikonne: Fela did not ...

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 ...

Rakim’s “Paid in Full” from 1987 brings in the bass from quirky R&B star Dennis Edwards ... “Call It What U Want,” (sampling Funkadelic’s “Freak of the Week”) recorded ...

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 ...

Legendary R&B group Day26 recently gave a major co-sign to rising R&B group WANMOR, showing love for their hit song “Every Pretty Girl In The City” during an interview with Hip-Hop Wired.

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.

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 ...