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unusual facts about Funk music



Are You Ready for Freddy?

allmusic's Eugene Chadbourne gave the disc high praise (4 stars of a possible 5), and said that Fender "can take on elements as disparate as Doris Day and Ray Charles and make a listener forget either of these icons even exist." He compared the playing on the record to "an incredibly hip, funky Tex-Mex band hired to play at a wedding."

Dance Classics of Chaka Khan

Dance Classics of Chaka Khan is a compilation album of recordings by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan released on the Warner Bros. Records label in Japan in 1999.

Pajama Club

Neil commented that "We found ourselves locking into these grooves which were incredibly fun to play...We naturally gravitated towards being 'funky'," drawing influence from South Bronx band ESG.

Sensational spelling

In the 1980s it became common with funk artists such as Prince (e.g. "U Got The Look", "I Would Die 4 U"), and eventually came to be epitomized in the rap and hip-hop genres, with both song titles and artists' names (e.g. Ludacris, Phanatik, Timbaland, Xzibit, Gorillaz) using the form.


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Patrick van Deurzen

This could be music by Monteverdi, as in the fourth part of his Lamento della ... from his string quartet Seven(2006), but also Miles Davis in ' "Six: a line is a dot That went for a walk (2007), or Tom Waits inLove Song(2009) and funk music in the fourth part of hisFour solos for Bass clarinet(2000-01).