Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

The Commodores is an American funk / soul band of the 1970s and 1980s.

* The Commodores, a soul / funk band in the 1970s

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

Jamiroquai are an English jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992.

The band also drew on a wide variety of genres, including world music, and elements of early rock and roll, jazz, country, funk, soul and reggae, particularly on Houses of the Holy and the albums that followed.

* Slave ( band ), an Ohio funk band

1980's Remain in Light, heavily influenced by the afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, to whose music Eno had introduced the band, explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and ' found ' voices.

* The Red Hot Chili Peppers, an American funk band, sometimes referred to in short as " the Peppers "

In 1982, the band released the album Hot Space, a departure from their trademark seventies sound, this time being a mixture of rock, pop rock, dance, funk, and R & B.

Alongside this genre, the band has also been labeled as heavy metal, alternative metal, alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock, rap metal, funk metal, groove metal and industrial metal.

Hughes fronted Finders Keepers in the 1960s as bassist / vocalist, as well as the British funk rock band Trapeze.

The band had also grown more diverse musically, with Marr adding rockabilly riffs to " Rusholme Ruffians " and Rourke playing a funk bass solo on " Barbarism Begins at Home ".

* Dayton ( band ), a funk band formed in Dayton, Ohio

Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, Mariachi, rock, funk, Iranian folk music and hip-hop.

James Montgomery, writing for UWIRE, noted a stylistic change, saying that " While the core sound of the band – honky tonk guitars, mariachi horns and salsa rhythms – remain intact, they have been stripped down to the core, replaced instead with ill Casio beats, rubbery funk and Stax-style horn bleats ".

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

* The Meters, a funk band

Larry Graham, Jr. ( born August 14, 1946 ) is an American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul / funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Graham played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1966 to 1972.

Shortly after forming, Liberty received a legal challenge in the UK High Court from a funk R & B band, also called " Liberty ", who achieved success in the 1990s, including being awarded Capital Radio Band of the Year, playing Wembley Arena, European tours and the release of albums in the USA, Europe and UK.

The final judgment was in favour of the funk R & B band and the ex-Popstars then asked readers of UK tabloid newspaper, The Sun to suggest a new name.

Many funk bands, such as Con Funk Shun, Cameo, and Lakeside would have a few quiet storm tracks on their albums.

" by the funk / R & B group Cameo.

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s.

They were Signed by Casablanca Records to their Chocolate City imprint in 1976, the group soon changed its name to Cameo after concerns that " New York City Players " might cause confusion between them and the funk band Ohio Players.

Winbush and former partner Rene Moore also shared the distinction for being one of the first R & B acts to prominently feature a rap act in a R & B song sharing that distinction with Jody Watley, Chaka Khan and funk band Cameo.

Moore and former partner Winbush also shared the distinction for being one of the first R & B acts to prominently feature a rap act in a R & B song, sharing that distinction with Jody Watley, Chaka Khan and funk band Cameo.

is an album by funk / R & B group Cameo released in 1986.

With two hit singles from the album, Miki embarked on her first concert tour in 1987, opening for funk band Cameo.

This style was also influenced by Western music such as rock, reggae and the funk.

Diamond Dogs ( 1974 ), parts of which found him heading towards soul and funk, was the product of two distinct ideas: a musical based on a wild future in a post-apocalyptic city, and setting George Orwell's 1984 to music.

His # 1 R & B hit that year, " Cold Sweat ", sometimes cited as the first true funk song, was the first of his recordings to contain a drum break and the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.

Brown's style of funk in the late 1960s was based on interlocking syncopated parts: funky bass lines, drum patterns, and iconic guitar riffs.

This dance music genre, not to be confused with improvised freestyle rapping, was dominated, at the time, by electro funk beats and vaguely Latin melodic and percussion elements, over which Latino vocalists sang melodramatic pop vocals, usually in English.

Building on the funk sound of James Brown, it was pioneered from about 1968 by Sly and the Family Stone and The Temptations.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk.

Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.

By the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues was being used as a blanket term for soul, funk, and disco.

The samba-funk emerged at the end of the 1960s with pianist Dom Salvador and his group, which merged the samba with American funk, which was then newly arrived in the Brazil.

Deriving from " post "- acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz.

During the 1960s, the city was home to an innovative funk music scene that produced well-known bands like Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Headhunters.

A new theme, which was titled " The Midnight Four ", was composed by Score staff composer Ken Bichel with a memorable " funk " guitar intro, and similar elements and instruments from this theme were also featured in the numerous " think cues " heard when the panel wrote down their answers.

Psychedelic soul was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music in the late 1960s, which paved the way for the mainstream emergence of funk music a few years later.

As he admitted in the Papers, Flashman was a coward, who would flee from danger if there was any way to do so, and on some occasions collapsed in funk.

Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to reggae, funk, rock, electronic and disco music.

Although the band's early demo recordings displayed a funk rock sound, the band's first album Core was a straightforward display of hard rock.

From Boston, he moved to San Francisco where he was a co-founder of the power funk trio Peter Bilt.

Like other styles of jazz, free jazz also adopted elements of contemporary rock, funk and pop music: Ornette Coleman was a leader in this vein, embracing electric music with his 1970s band Prime Time, and a number of other players including James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Sharrock, and Ronald Shannon Jackson forged styles combining elements of free jazz and fusion.