Based in Athens, the five-piece band played a mixture of cover versions and their own material, the latter written mostly by Vangelis ( with lyrics by DJ and record producer Nico Mastorakis ) but still sung in English.

The band would record a mixture of live and studio albums for the label over the next decade.

Based in Toronto, most of their shows were recorded in CBC's Cabbagetown studios ; however, as the troupe became more popular, they frequently travelled throughout the country to record their weekly radio broadcasts, which featured a mixture of political and cultural satire.

In 1960, he went to Miami to record his first album, a mixture of jazz and calypso numbers entitled Bahama Bash.

According to the last Mexican census to record race ( which was in 1921 ), 10 percent of the Mexican populace identified itself as white, 59 percent as Mestizo ( Native American-European mixture ), 29 percent as Native American, and 2 percent as " other ", foreigner ( regardless of race ), or did not specify a race.

record albums in the 50s and 60s which featured a mixture of actual recordings of errors from television and radio broadcasts, coupled with re-creations.

Of special importance is R. Carlos Nakai ( Changes, 1983 ), who has achieved Gold record status and mainstream credibility for his mixture of the flute with other contemporary genres.

He took 43 days to complete the scientific record dive, where a hydrogen – helium – oxygen gas mixture was used as breathing gas.

Their first release as ' Moorish Delta 7 ' was an EP on Quartz Records ( another Birmingham record label ) called Taking Four Wicked Heads On The Way To North Africa, the EP was a mixture of dark beats, insightful lyrics, street imagery, humour and political comment.

Columbia Records ( The Byrds ' record label ) signed Clark as a solo artist and, in 1967, he released his first solo LP, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers, a mixture of pop, country rock and baroque-psychedelic tracks — Chris Hillman had worked with the Gosdin Brothers in the mid 1960s when he and they were members of the Southern California bluegrass band called The Hillmen.

The entire record is a mixture of hell-bound adrenalin and soul ... My Arms, Your Hearse is such a powerful album that I consider it one of the best of the genre.

In 1976 Redpath embarked on a project to record all the songs of Robert Burns, some being folk songs, some Burns's own compositions, and most a mixture of the two.

In 412 B. C., there a record in Aramaic of a ship's bottom being coated with a mixture of arsenic, oil and sulphur.

The record you have bought is a mixture of the two evenings.

She said her 2007 record was " very much a mixture of everything that is joyful and sad in life.

His jingle for Lemke's cockroach powder, sung in a mixture of Yiddish and English, has been released on record.

The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records ' 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented IDM the record label primarily dealt in, the band had a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.

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.

After rising to local music scene stardom with their brand of funk metal fusion, reaching the point where they were " selling out Berkeley Square ", Wright left Primus in the summer of 1988 to be replaced by Jay Lane, drummer with the Freaky Executives, who were " getting dicked around by their record company ", as Claypool later described it.

U-God was the eighth ( out of nine at the time ) member of the group to record a solo album, releasing Golden Arms Redemption in 1999 on Priorty Records, which displayed a wide variety of sounds from gritty blaxploitation funk to urgent string sections, and featured guest appearances from several Wu-Tang members and affiliates.

Curtis Lee Mayfield ( June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999 ) was an American soul, R & B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Leonard Albert " Lenny " Kravitz ( born May 26, 1964 ) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, whose “ retro ” style incorporated elements of rock, soul, R & B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads.

Sly Stone ( born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas ) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

" Planet Rock " is also cited as the first electro funk record.

After a stint as musical director of a West End performance of The Rocky Horror Show, Wallinger joined a funk band dubbed The Out, before signing on with Mike Scott's Waterboys in 1984 to record the album A Pagan Place.

The record mixed metal, funk, ska, carnival music and free jazz, but was normally described as funk metal by music critics.

Rick James ( born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr .; February 1, 1948August 6, 2004 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for being one of the popularizers of funk music in the late 1970s and early 1980s thanks to million-selling hits such as " You and I " ( 1978 ), " Give It to Me Baby " ( 1981 ) and " Super Freak " ( 1981 ), the latter song crossing him over to pop audiences and selling over three million copies, later contributing to the success of rapper MC Hammer's " U Can't Touch This " ( 1990 ), which James sued to be credited for.

They became a successful funk / R & B group, topping record charts internationally with the AWB album and " Pick Up the Pieces " single.

Later, as the group changed their name to Labelle and embraced funk and rock music, they would record member Nona Hendryx's composition, "( Can I Speak To You Before You Go To ) Hollywood ", which was allegedly based on Birdsong.

The funk / soul group Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings included their rendition on the 2005 record Naturally.

Eumir Deodato ( full name Eumir Deodato de Almeida, born 22 June 1943, Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock / pop, R & B / funk, Brazilian / Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music.

Willie Mitchell ( March 1, 1928 – January 5, 2010 ) was an American soul, R & B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger, who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Andie, a nighttime disc jockey at a radio station, apparently in a funk and after a short relationship with a fellow D. J., discovers a record in her library by a former lover, with whom she broke up five years earlier.

Ben DiPietro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch praised the record as a whole, but was most impressed by Chili Peppers ' shift from exclusive hard rock to adding more moderately paced tracks: " there's still plenty of sonic funk to bang heads to, but the best tracks are the slower ones such as ' Under the Bridge '".

Greg Errico ( born 1 September 1948, San Francisco, California is an Italian American musician and record producer, best known for being the drummer for the popular and influential psychedelic soul / funk band, Sly and the Family Stone.

Little Sister was an American all-female vocal harmony group, which served primarily as the background vocalists for the influential rock / funk band Sly and the Family Stone in concert and on record.

A review from NME magazine stated that " the song is funk the way God intended — hypnotic, insistent, mysterious, suggestive — and if Prince was a nineteen-year-old former Disney Club host and virgin, he'd be proud to create such a record ".

Vocalist John Dudgeon went on to release a solo single record in 1983 called " Put My Arms Around You " which received extensive airplay on CKFM ( 99. 9 ) and numerous other stations in Canada and U. S. In 2004, he joined Mojo Grande, a funk / blues band from Markham, Ontario.

The show provided an outlet for soul music for several decades, also spawning a franchise that saw the creation of a record label ( Soul Train Records ) that distributed music by The Whispers, Carrie Lucas, and an up-and-coming group known as Shalamar.

Numerous disputes led to Cornelius spinning off the record label to his talent booker, Dick Griffey, who transformed the label into Solar Records, itself a prominent soul music label throughout the 1980s.

Mainstream record label marketing support for soul genres cooled in the 2000s due to the industry's re-focus on hip hop.

While record labels in New Orleans largely disappeared by the mid-1960s, producers in the city continued to record New Orleans soul artists for other mainly New York and Los Angeles record labels — notably Lee Dorsey for New York – based Amy Records and the Meters for New York – based Josie and then LA-based Reprise.

Chicago soul generally had a light gospel-influenced sound, but the large number of record labels based in the city tended to produce a more diverse sound than other cities.

Based primarily in the Philadelphia International record label, Philadelphia soul ( AKA Philly Soul ) had a lush orchestral sound and doo-wop-inspired vocals.

The term neo soul is a marketing phrase coined by producer and record label executive Kedar Massenburg to describe a musical blend of 1970s soul-style vocals and instrumentation with contemporary R & B sounds, hip hop beats and poetic interludes.

Modern soul developed when northern soul DJs began looking in record shops in the United States and United Kingdom for music that was more complex and contemporary.

According to Hindu scriptures, Yama's divine assistant Lord Chitragupta maintains a record of the individual deeds of every living being in the world, and based on the complete audit of his deeds, dispatches the soul of the deceased either to Svarga ( Heaven ) or to the various Narakas according to the nature of their sins.

* Anthony Hamilton ( musician ) an American R & B, soul, and neo soul singer-songwriter, and record producer from Charlotte, NC.

As a female vocalist who is known more for her acoustic guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Browning Bryant.

The album was later hailed as " the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices ".

Although the " Soul Meeting " single made it to # 34 on Billboard's soul singles chart in July 1968, Burke alleges " the record was stopped and banned ... we were going against the grain of what black entertainers are supposed to do.

Michael Eugene Archer ( born February 11, 1974 ), better known by his stage name D ' Angelo, is an American R & B and neo soul singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

That same year he wrote the song " To Love Somebody " with Robin for American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, but Redding died in an aeroplane crash later that year, before having a chance to record the song, and Barry takes the lead vocal on that song.

Knowles considered their debut successful but not as huge because she claimed it a neo soul record and was way too mature for them.

The band opted to record a radically reworked cover version of " Tainted Love ", an obscure 1964 northern soul track sung originally by Gloria Jones ( the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death ) and written by Ed Cobb of The Four Preps.

A review in The Wire magazine said, " No other record has ever come as close to realising Alfred Jarry's desire ' to make the soul monstrous ' – or even had the vision or invention to try.