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2 unusual facts about funky


Emmanuel Y Linda

They have released one album, called Volver, with three singles "Buscaré", "Regénesis" which features the RoJO guitarist Oswaldo Burruel, and the Puerto Rican rapper Funky, who also helped wiritng the song.

The album has four guests, in 3 songs, Oswaldo Burruel, in the song "Regénesis" in the guitars, also in that song Funky, in the rap-bridge of the song (also, written by Funky), the Mexican Worship Leader, pastor, singer and songwirter Jesús Adrián Romero, in the song "Llueve", a worship song in the album, and the youth ban "SPIN 3", formed by the singer's kids.


Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars

Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars is a 1998 project of producer Dan The Automator in which music from 1970s funk Bollywood composer duo Kalyanji-Anandji (Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah) was taken and given a funky remix.

Break Anotha

Bill Lamb from About.com thought that while "beatboxing is part of the mix", "Blake's vocals are front and center in the instantly funky mix" and he has "really enjoyed listening to 'Break Anotha'", although he was disappointed by the Audio Day Dream cover design.

Cashiers du Cinemart

In 2010, BearManor Media published a collection of articles from Cashiers du Cinemart titled Impossibly Funky.

Clon

Some of their songs, such as "Funky Tonight", "Cho Ryun" (First Love) and "Come To Me" appear in Pump It Up, ez2Dancer and Korean versions of Dance Maniax.

College Roomies from Hell!!!

The phrase "The horror! The funky horror!" is one of the catchphrases in the comic – adapted from the last lines of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now: "The horror... the horror...", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

Collings Guitars

SoCo Deluxe: Named afer Austin's funky and eclectic South Congress Avenue, the SoCo Deluxe brings in elements from both the I-35 and CL models to create a unique hybrid.

Dáithí O'Cléirigh

Other Irish artists he has composed and performed with include such luminaries as Eamonn Dowd and The Racketeers, Bird, The Funky Souls, Loose Booty, Greg Pearle, Blink, and The Keltic Posse.

Dean Tidey

Dean has written & recorded with many other artists including Ozzy Osbourne, Alex Lloyd, Funky Bottom, Emm Gryner, Moozak, Circle, Kim Richey, ManOrMouse?

Evil Ways

Alex Gimeno samples the riff from Evil Ways in his track "Funky Bikini" from his musical project titled Ursula 1000.

Female of the Species

Written and sung by frontman Tommy Scott in tribute to his late father, who was reported to dislike his son's taste of music, "Female of the Species" is a funky, upbeat Latin-flavoured number with feel-good sounding vibes and vocals reminiscent of lounge singers such as Perry Como and Frank Sinatra combined with keyboardist Franny Griffiths' trademark sound effects and Scott's dark humoured lyrics.

Funky Child

"Funky Child" was the second single released from the Lords of the Underground's debut album, Here Come the Lords.

Funky Fresh Few

Funky Fresh Few also mixed the second disc on the 2005 Grand Central Records compilation, Underground Crown Holders.

Funky Gibbon

"Funky Gibbon" is a song by Bill Oddie and recorded by The Goodies.

Funky Monks

Funky Monks is a 1991 documentary (also the title of a song from the 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik) about the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and the recording of their highly successful 1991 Warner Bros. debut Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Funky Skunk

Funky Skunk, a mix album released in late summer 2005, has been framed within the project Public Works billed as a DJ Shadow/Obey reconstruction and co-production between Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) and Shepard Fairey, in concordance with a product line of shirts, stickers and box set.

Funky Winkerbean

Over the week of July 7, 2008, Pearls Before Swine parodied the tendency of Funky Winkerbean towards killing off main characters when it killed off Rat and the strip's own author, Stephan Pastis (the two would later be returned to the strip via the intervention of United Feature Syndicate), even utilizing Batiuk's representation of the Angel of Death.

Gareth Mitchelson

Other notable performances have included participation in many Folk Festivals and Fiddlers Rallys, in the Capitol Theatre and His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, several Royal performances, commission pieces for Scottish Dance Traditions (Generating Heat & Funky Faeries), twice appearing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and several TV Hogmanay Shows.

Ghetto Cowboy

The harmonica instrumental was performed by Jimmy Zavala (aka "Jimmy Z"), who also had a popular single of his own called "Funky Flute" with Dr. Dre in 1991.

Grapevinyl's Love Fest

The evening started with The Shouting Ground rocking out their funky tunes and an awesome cover of the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour.

Gwen McCrae

Also in 2010, her single "Funky Sensation" was heavily sampled in the German Language single "Get Up," by DJ Thomilla featuring Afrob.

Hold It Now, Hit It

The song contains samples from "The Return of Leroy" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch, "Drop the Bomb" and "Let's Get Small" by Trouble Funk, "Funky Stuff" by Kool & The Gang, "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James, "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow and "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh.

Jazzy Jeff

MC Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Miree), a member of the U.S. hip-hop group Funky Four Plus One

Jonas Ridderstråle

Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance was published in 2000, and has been ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury Publishing survey of the best business books of all time.

Jovan Roms

Jovan has also composed songs for other artists, such as Funky (Lithuanian pop group) and Milana, who participated in Eurovision preselection in Lithuania with Jovan's song Eternal Love in 2004 and scored a top ten hit in Lithuania with the song's Lithuanian version.

Krafty Kuts

FSUK Records, a Ministry of Sound offshoot, signed Krafty to release a string of singles; "Funky Elements", "Wild In the Aisles" (a tribute to Reeve’s appearance on the TV show Supermarket Sweep) and "Return of the Elements".

L.A. Jail

"Funky People" is incredibly similar to "Smells" from Richard Pryor.

La Cucina

La Cucina was an English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers".

Lloyd Lindsay Young

It is Young who says "it's a trip, it's got a funky beat, and I can bug out to it" in the Beastie Boys song "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" (in the "Mike on the Mic" segment) from the 1989 album Paul's Boutique.

Make It Funky

Ice-T sampled "Make It Funky" in a song of the same name on his 1987 album Rhyme Pays.

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

The band's approach centred around the "time, no changes" approach of Miles Davis and John Coltrane applied to slow, funky grooves with voodoo lyrics inspired by Dr John alternating with blaring big-band horn riffs and improvised free-jazz solos reminiscent of Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler.

Maurice John Vaughn

In 1994, his song "(Everything I Do) Got To Be Funky" was released on the soundtrack for the film Major League II.

Men with Guns

The various styles include: cumbias, the Colombian dance music; a brass band; an orquestra, of Mayan culture; Peruvian Susana Baca singing a cappella; El General's funky hip-hop; and Mason Daring's bass marimba and Spanish guitar-driven score.

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.

Phoenix Heights

Piers Gough described the development as 'humanist architecture of raw funky collage'.

Pipe Layin' Dan

This album includes the comic's "toasts" to Buccaneer and Hitler and the most famous bit being her raunchy fairy tale of "Pipe Layin' Dan" describing a woman named "Big Fat Funky Susie Ann", who hadn't had sex because of her homely features, while describing "Pipe Layin' Dan" as someone who "made a dying woman live" and even "made a solid brick wall cum".

Quasamodo

Upon completion he released a track called "Move Sucka" with Basement Freaks on Goodgroove Records, a pioneer label in the Nu-funk scene in 2008, then "Let's Funk" for Manmade Records in 2009 and did the vocals for Basement Freaks track "Ya Need a Funky Band" on SunsetSoul Records again in 2009.

Scarlet Rivera

She has also appeared on albums by Tracy Chapman (Crossroads), Keb Mo' (The Door), Dee Dee Bridgewater (Just Family), David Johansen (Funky but Chic), Ian McNabb (Head Like A Rock) Kori Carothers,' Trilium' and others

This Time Make It Funky

"This Time Make It Funky" is the third single from Tracie Spencer's second album, Make the Difference.

WBLK

With a playlist called the "Funky Forty", at 3 PM that Monday in July of that year, when Don Robinson flipped the switch and the stereo light flickered on, the first song was "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye.

We Got the Funk

The song's beat, characterized by a slow funky guitar loop, deep bassline and pounding drums, samples "It's So Different Here" by Rachel Sweet.

You Gotta Believe

You Gotta Believe is the second and final album by American hip hop group, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (Mark would go on to make two albums with reggae artist Prince Ital Joe without the Funky Bunch before later going on to become an actor).


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