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Clinton is regarded, along with James Brown and Sly Stone, as one of the foremost innovators of funk music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, alongside 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. In 2019, he and Parliament-Funkadelic were given Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards .
Jul 22, 2021 · George Clinton, the Godfather of Funk, is 80 years old today. It's impossible to overstate the impact Clinton has had on modern music. His 1970s bands Parliament and Funkadelic made some of the most ground-breaking music of that decade, melding funk, psychedelic rock, soul and R&B in a way no one else had before.
Watch George Clinton perform his classic hit "We Got the Funk" live on YouTube. Enjoy the best of funk music and groove with the legend.
Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the ’70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-’60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone.
Mar 4, 2023 · Official site of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic - Home of the extraterrestrial brothers, Dealers of funky music P.Funk, uncut funk, The Bomb.
Jun 7, 2024 · George Clinton (born July 22, 1941, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.) is a highly influential funk music singer, songwriter, and musician who organized and produced Parliament-Funkadelic, a genre-bending theatrical collective of performers who defined funk music in the 1970s.
Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.
