Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response. Go-go was originated by African-American...
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Washington go-go, a funk subgenre. Funk samples and breakbeats have been used extensively in hip hop and electronic dance music. Look up funk in Wiktionary...
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would go on to influence 1990s hip-hop and G-funk. Clinton is regarded, along with James Brown and Sly Stone, as one of the foremost innovators of funk music...
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Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, D.C. The group helped to popularize funk and the subgenre go-go in the Washington metropolitan...
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Alternative R&B Contemporary R&B Disco Freestyle Go-go Funk Deep funk Minneapolis Sound Psychedelic funk Synth-funk Gospel music Southern gospel Urban contemporary...
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Funk carioca (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfɐ̃k(i) kɐɾiˈɔkɐ, - kaɾ-]), also known as favela funk, in other parts of the world as baile funk and...
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G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily...
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Funk metal (also known as thrash-funk or punk-funk) is a subgenre of funk rock and alternative metal that infuses heavy metal music (often thrash metal)...
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Grand Funk Railroad (often shortened to Grand Funk) is an American rock band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1969 by Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, keyboards...
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Parliament-Funkadelic (redirect from P-Funk)
(abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament...
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Terrance Dee "Terry" Funk (June 30, 1944 – August 23, 2023) was an American professional wrestler. Widely considered one of the most influential and greatest...
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Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed. 1893–5), and...
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Chuck Brown (category Go-go musicians)
guitarist, bandleader and singer known as "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the Washington, D.C., area in the...
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listening to American G-funk records: the bass was composed using a Roland TB-303 synthesizer. A siren was originally going to be the riff before later...
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Experience Unlimited (category Go-go musical groups)
Experience Unlimited (also known as simply E.U.) is a Washington, D.C.-based go-go/funk band that enjoyed its height of popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s...
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it is one of the most famous P-Funk songs. It also became Parliament's first certified million-selling single, going Gold in 1976. The bass vocal at...
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"Uptown Funk" is a song by British record producer Mark Ronson featuring American singer Bruno Mars. It was released on 10 November 2014, as the lead single...
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Grand Funk Railroad (shortened to Grand Funk) is an American hard rock band formed in 1969. The band is most notable for their peak in popularity during...
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Lidell and Beck. It was released independently on Costa and Stanley's label Go Funk Yourself Records, and distributed by the then recently re-activated Stax...
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Go Fer Yer Funk is the first installment of the George Clinton Family Series collection. The album was released in 1992 by P-Vine Records in Japan, and...
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The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved...
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Jake Funk (born January 11, 1998) is an American professional football running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL)...
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Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13. Funk became the oldest person to go to space on July 20, 2021, at age 82, flying on Blue Origin's...
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A Funk Odyssey is the fifth studio album by English funk band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 3 September 2001 in the United Kingdom by Sony Soho...
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The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop is a 2001 book written by Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. In 2009, an updated second edition of...
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Funk This is the eleventh studio album by American singer Chaka Khan. It was first released by Burgundy Records on September 25, 2007, in the United States...
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as Straight Up Funk Go Go Style) is a live album recorded and released in 1981 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Trouble Funk. This was the group's...
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the funk rock genre, as well as bands which have played within its subgenre, funk metal. It also includes bands described as metal funk, thrash funk or...
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Blood 2 XPW Best of the Black Army XPW Blown to Hell XPW Damage Inc. XPW Go Funk Yourself XPW The Revolution Will Be Televised XPW Retribution Brujería...
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Andrew David Funk (born September 21, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association...
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