List of P-Funk members
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Over the years, Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk, soul and rock music collective headed by George Clinton. Their style has been dubbed P-Funk. Collectively the group has existed under various names since the 1960s and has been known for top-notch musicianship, politically charged lyrics, outlandish concept albums...

 and the associated P-Funk
P-Funk
P-Funk is a shorthand term for the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and the distinctive style of funk music they performed...

 musical collective, often referred to as the "Funk Mob," have included a tremendous number of musicians and singers. While some of their contributions have gone uncredited, the following individuals and bands contributed to various P-Funk projects; most of them have been credited on at least one album.

The sixteen people whose names are shown in bold italics were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...

 as members of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997.

A

  • Jerome Ali - guitar
  • Jimmie Ali - bass
  • Gene "Poo Poo Man" Anderson - vocals
  • Mickey Atkins - organ

B

  • Bob Babbitt
    Bob Babbitt
    Bob Babbitt is an American bassist, most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk Brothers, from 1966–1972, as well as his tenure as part of MFSB for Philadelphia International Records afterwards. Also in 1968-1970, with Mike Campbell, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith...

     - bass
  • Tinker Barfield
  • Harold Beane - guitar
  • Chris Beasly - guitar
  • Danny Bedrosian - keyboards
  • Pedro Bell
    Pedro Bell
    Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator. He is best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums....

     - artwork
  • Henry Benefield - vocals
  • Muruga Booker
    Muruga Booker
    Muruga Booker is an American drummer, recording artist, and Orthodox priest.- Biography :Booker was born Steven Bookvich in Detroit, Michigan on December 27, 1942 and is of Serbian decent. His father, Melvin Bookvich, was a shoemaker who played accordion. He has a wife, Shakti; a son, Aaron; and a...

     - percussion
  • Taka Boom
    Taka Boom
    Taka Boom is a female R&B and dance music singer and is the younger sister of Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens of Aurra. She sang background vocals for several Parliament albums in the 1970s...

     - vocals
  • Langston Booth - drums
  • Frankie Boyce - guitar
  • Richard Boyce - bass
  • Steve Boyd - vocals
  • Greg Boyer
    Greg Boyer
    Greg Boyer is an American trombonist known for performing with many successful R&B and funk bands.Born in Washington, DC, Boyer grew up in Bryans Road, Maryland. An avid music lover at an early age, his first steps into the world of playing music were on alto saxophone at the age of 10...

     - trombone
  • Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey - drums
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

     - saxophone
  • Randy Brecker
    Randy Brecker
    Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...

     - trumpet
  • Gary Bronson - drums
  • Ron Bykowski - guitar
  • Jeff "Cherokee" Bunn - bass

C

  • Sammy Campbell - vocals
  • Gordon Carlton - guitar
  • Dennis Chambers
    Dennis Chambers
    Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...

     - drums
  • David Lee Chong, pseudonym for David Spradley - keyboards
  • Thomas Clarke - drums
  • Jessica Cleaves
    Jessica Cleaves
    Jessica Cleaves was lead singer for Friends of Distinction in the 1960s. Founded by Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, the Friends of Distinction also comprised Barbara Jean Love .Cleaves also performed and recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire, and for a brief time performed with...

     - vocals
  • George Clinton
    George Clinton (funk musician)
    George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

    - vocals
  • Ryan Clinton - Backup dancer
  • Phelps "Catfish" Collins
    Catfish Collins
    Phelps "Catfish" Collins was a rhythm guitarist known mostly for his work in the P-Funk collective. Although frequently overshadowed by his younger brother, Bootsy Collins, Catfish played on many important and influential records by Parliament, Funkadelic, and Bootsy's Rubber Band.In 1968, the...

     - guitar
  • William "Bootsy" Collins
    Bootsy Collins
    William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...

    - bass, guitar, drums, vocals
  • Kenny Colton - drums, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Grace Cook - Eddie Hazel
    Eddie Hazel
    Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel was a guitarist in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic...

    's mother; he often used her name as a pseudonym, especially for song-writing credit
  • Kenneth Cook
    Kenneth Cook
    Kenneth Cook was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy.Born in Lakemba, New South Wales, Cook...

     - Guitar
  • Gary "Mudbone" Cooper - vocals
  • Ruth Copeland
    Ruth Copeland
    Ruth Copeland is an English singer known for her involvement with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.- Early career :Copeland was born in Consett, County Durham, in the north-east of England. She initially pursued her music career as a blues and folk singer, however she gained her first break...

     - vocals
  • Lawrence Glenn "Flip" Cornett
    Flip Cornett
    Lawrence Glenn "Flip" Cornett was an American funk guitarist and bassist.He died at the age of 46.Flip Cornett appears as rhythm guitarist and bassist on the album "Bootsy Collins and Bootsy's New Rubber Band: Keepin´ Dah Funk Alive 4-1995", recorded live in Tokyo....

     - guitar, bass
  • Bennie Cowan - trumpet
  • Benjamin Cowan - drums
  • Star Cullars - bass
  • Lige Curry - bass
  • Guy Curtis - drums
  • Rodney "Skeet" Curtis - bass

D

  • Derrick Davis - bass, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Ray "Stingray" Davis
    Ray Davis (musician)
    Raymond "Ray" Davis was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic. His regular nickname while he was with those groups was "Sting Ray Davis". Aside from George Clinton, he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the...

    - vocals
  • Gregory Deanda - bass Let The Monkey Go
  • Darryl Dixon - saxophone
  • Gwen Dozier - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Captain Draw, pseudonym for Pedro Bell
    Pedro Bell
    Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator. He is best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums....

     - artwork
  • Ron Dunbar - vocals

E

  • "Stozo the Clown" Edwards - artwork
  • Janice Evans - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...


F

  • Joseph "Amp" Fiddler
    Amp Fiddler
    Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is an American keyboardist, singer, songwriter and record producer from Detroit, Michigan, U.S.. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment, and as part of George Clinton’s...

     - keyboards
  • Greg Fitz - keyboards
  • Ron Ford - vocals
  • Kendra Foster - vocals
  • Cynthia Franklin - vocals
  • Mallia Franklin
    Mallia Franklin
    Mallia Franklin was a vocalist with P-Funk and was also known as the Queen of Funk. She introduced friends George Clinton and Bootsy Collins in 1971...

     - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

     and The Sterling Silver Starship Band
  • Larry Fratangelo - percussion
  • Scott "Skyntyte" Free - guitar, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood
    Tiki Fulwood
    Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood was a drummer for the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic...

    - drums

G

  • Rick Gardner - trumpet
  • Michael Gatheright - vocals
  • Andre Giles - guitar
  • Jimmy Giles
  • Cynthia Girty - vocals, Godmoma
    Godmoma
    Godmoma was a trio of female vocalists. The trio consisted of Cynthia Girty, Carolyn Myles, and Tony Walker.Godmoma released an album, Godmoma Here, in 1981, on Elektra Records...

  • Glen Goins
    Glen Goins
    Glen Lamont Goins was a singer and guitarist for Parliament Funkadelic in the mid-1970s. Goins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His first recordings were as part of the group "The Bags"...

    - vocals, guitar
  • Kevin Goins
  • Gabe Gonzalez
    Gabe González
    Gabriel González is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. He pitched for the Florida Marlins for three games during the 1998 Florida Marlins season.-External links:...

     - drums, vocals
  • Lonnie Green - drums, vocals
  • Richard "Kush" Griffith - trumpet
  • Clayton "Chicken" Gunnells - trumpet

H

  • Michael Hampton
    Michael Hampton
    Michael Hampton is a funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic....

    - guitar
  • Wil Harris - guitar, vocals, Funkadelic
    Funkadelic
    Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

     and Mutiny
  • Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins
    Fuzzy Haskins
    Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins is a former singer with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments. He is a founding member of the groundbreaking and influential 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as Parliament-Funkadelic. He left Parliament-Funkadelic in 1977 to pursue a...

    - vocals, guitar, drums
  • Nowell Haskins - vocals
  • Larry Hatcher  - trumpet, vocals, keyboards, Horny Horns
  • Shirley Hayden - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Eddie Hazel
    Eddie Hazel
    Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel was a guitarist in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic...

    - guitar, vocals
  • Larry Heckstall - vocals
  • John Heintz - bass, percussion
  • Kenny "Jam" Holmes - vocals, guitar
  • Sonja Holmes - vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Sheila Horne
    Sheila Horne
    Brides of Funkenstein member Sheila Horne was hired as a back-up singer for original Brides Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva in 1978. She became a main singer with Silva and Jeanette McGruder in 1979 for the second Brides album Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy and joined Rick James on tour in 1981 as an...

     - vocals, The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...


J

  • James Wesley Jackson - comedian
  • Cheryl James - vocals
  • Garry "Dee Dee" James - guitar
  • Prakash John
    Prakash John
    Prakash John is a Canadian rock bassist.Born in Bombay, India, John was a student at the Cathedral and John Connon School, enrolling at the age of four in 1951. He migrated to Toronto in 1960....

     - bass
  • Joel "Razor-Sharp" Johnson - keyboards
  • Robert "P-Nut" Johnson - vocals, Bootsy's Rubber Band
  • Renny Jones - bass
  • Giles "Killa G" Judd - keyboards, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...


L

  • Tyrone Lampkin - drums
  • Trey Lewd, stage name of Tracey Lewis - vocals, guitar
  • Jaki Liebezeit
    Jaki Liebezeit
    Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"....

  • Patrice "Emerald" Llewellen - vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Overton Loyd
    Overton Loyd
    Overton Loyd is an artist best known for creating the cover art for the Parliament album Motor Booty Affair. His style of art varies often from work to work, and can range from loose sketches and paintings to fully fleshed out pieces...

     - artwork

M

  • Lynn Mabry
    Lynn Mabry
    Lynn Mabry is an American vocalist. She got her start in Sly and the Family Stone, along with Dawn Silva. In 1977 she joined P-Funk . The following year Mabry and Silva became the original Brides Of Funkenstein, releasing their first album Funk Or Walk. Lynn became pregnant and left the band in 1979...

     - vocals, The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...

  • Romeo Magruder - drums, squeaks, vocals
  • Kim Manning
    Kim Manning
    Kim Manning is a singer, songwriter, activist, dancer, reality television personality and actress.-Early life:Manning was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma and moved to Santa Rosa and then Los Angeles. Manning relocated to the Bay Area in 2007...

     - vocals
  • Foley McCreary
    Foley (musician)
    Joseph McCreary, Jr., known professionally as Foley, is an American composer, musician, and photographer who is best known as the "lead bassist" with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1987 until 1991...

     - drums
  • Robert McCullough - saxophone
  • Eric McFadden
    Eric McFadden
    Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...

     - guitar
  • Jeanette McGruder
    Jeanette McGruder
    Jeanette McGruder, born , is a singer.As a child, McGruder discovered a natural ability to sing. Taught by her stepmother, she joined a female trio called "New Dawn" which would perform at nightclubs, and one black panther rally. During her schooling, McGruder played violin with Earl Klugh in a...

     - vocals, The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...

  • DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight - guitar, bass, drums
  • Carlos McMurray
  • Dwayne "Sa'D Ali" Maultsby - vocals
  • William "Billy" Mims - guitar, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Ray Monette
    Ray Monette
    The American Ray Monette started his public career as a songwriter and musician in Detroit. In 1967 with an ephemeral band called 'The Abstract Reality', a 45 rpm single Love Burns Like A Fire Inside was released. With Mike Campbell, Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar, and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion...

  • Walter "Junie" Morrison
    Walter Morrison
    Walter "Junie" Morrison is a musician and producer born in Dayton, Ohio. Morrison was a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early 70s, where he wrote and produced their first major hit, "Funky Worm"...

    - keyboards, vocals, guitar, bass, drums
  • Cordell "Boogie" Mosson - bass, guitar, drums
  • Lonnie "Mongoose" Motley - bass, vocals
  • Carolyn Myles - vocals, Godmoma
    Godmoma
    Godmoma was a trio of female vocalists. The trio consisted of Cynthia Girty, Carolyn Myles, and Tony Walker.Godmoma released an album, Godmoma Here, in 1981, on Elektra Records...


N

  • Richie Shakin' Nagan - percussion
  • "Billy Bass" Nelson
    Billy Bass Nelson
    William "Billy Bass" Nelson is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic....

    - bass, vocals

P

  • Maceo Parker
    Maceo Parker
    Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...

     - saxophone, flute
  • Sharla L. Patrick - keyboards, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Michael "Clip" Payne
    Michael "Clip" Payne
    Michael "Clip" Payne is an American musician. He has been a member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective since 1977. First credited on Parliament's 1979 release "Gloryhallastoopid" with "Choir Chours", he has appeared on over 20 Parliament-Funkadelic collective recordings primarily as a vocalist...

     - vocals, keyboards
  • Brian Photar - vocals, bass
  • Peter "Keys" Pisarczyk - keyboards, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Ben Powers Jr. - drums, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...


R

  • Jesse Rae
    Jesse Rae
    Jesse Rae is a Scottish singer from St Boswells. His single "Over the Sea", reached number 65 in the UK Singles Chart in 1985. The video for the single – which features a kilted, helmeted, claymore-brandishing Rae in both New York City and the Scottish Highlands – won a Vira award...

  • Ronald Rolling - trumpet
  • Lucius "Tawl" Ross
    Tawl Ross
    Lucius "Tawl" Ross was the rhythm guitarist for Funkadelic from 1968 to 1971 and played on their first three albums. He left the band in 1971 soon after a debilitating experience with LSD. He moved back to North Carolina and dropped out of the music scene, but resurfaced in 1995 after a nearly...

     - guitar, vocals
  • Derrick "Frogg" Rosson - Rapper
  • Rufus Roundtree - trombone
  • Ricky Rouse - guitar
  • Ryan "Number 1" Maloney - Bass

S

  • Nairobi Sailcat
  • Marion Saulsby - keyboards
  • Joseph Scott Jr. - vocals, guitar, bass
  • Garry Shider
    Garry Shider
    Garry Marshall Shider was an American musician and guitarist. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.-Early life:Shider was born in Plainfield, New...

    - vocals, guitar
  • Kevin "K-Star" Shider - guitar, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Linda Shider
    Linda Shider
    The wife of Garry Shider, Linda sang background on many P-Funk products.She also wrote a few P-Funk songs including Are You Dreaming? for Parlet on the Pleasure Principle album in 1978.-References:...

     - vocals
  • Nate Shider - vocals, guitar
  • Tim Shider - vocals, bass, keyboards
  • Dawn Silva
    Dawn Silva
    Dawn Silva is an American funk vocalist.Silva was born in Sacramento, California. She started her career as a background vocalist for Sly and The Family Stone. She joined P-Funk in 1977. She was the only original Brides of Funkenstein member to continue through Brides' career. In 1978, with Lynn...

     - vocals, The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...

  • Calvin Simon
    Calvin Simon
    Calvin Eugene Simon is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic....

    - vocals, percussion
  • Carl "Butch" Small - percussion
  • Herb Sparkman - vocals
  • Chong Spradley, pseudonym for David Spradley - keyboards
  • David Spradley - keyboards
  • Donnie Sterling
    Donnie Sterling
    Donnie Sterling is a musician brought in by Parlet's Mallia Franklin in 1978 as Parlet's band leader and bass player. After writing three songs on Parlet's second album, Invasion Of The Booty Snatchers, Sterling and Franklin both left Parlet in 1979....

     - bass, vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

     and The Sterling Silver Starship Band
  • T.M. Stevens
  • Sly Stone
    Sly Stone
    Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...

  • Michael Syme - guitar
  • RonKat Spearman - guitar, vocals
  • Ramon Spruell Sr. - National Promotions Director

T

  • Scott Taylor - saxophone
  • J.S. Theracon, pseudonym for Walter "Junie" Morrison
    Walter Morrison
    Walter "Junie" Morrison is a musician and producer born in Dayton, Ohio. Morrison was a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early 70s, where he wrote and produced their first major hit, "Funky Worm"...

     - keyboards, vocals, guitar, bass, drums
  • Gene "Just-A-Gene-O" Thomas - guitar, vocals, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Grady Thomas
    Grady Thomas
    Grady Thomas is a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

    - vocals
  • Greg Thomas - saxophone
  • Tony Thomas - guitar
  • Roger Troutman
    Roger Troutman
    Roger Troutman was the lead singer of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the Funk movement and heavily influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years...

     - vocals

W

  • Frank "Kash" Waddy - drums, Bootsy's Rubber Band
  • Tony Walker - vocals, Godmoma
    Godmoma
    Godmoma was a trio of female vocalists. The trio consisted of Cynthia Girty, Carolyn Myles, and Tony Walker.Godmoma released an album, Godmoma Here, in 1981, on Elektra Records...

  • Jeanette Washington
    Jeanette Washington
    Jeanette Washington is a funk vocalist best known as a member of the band Parliament.Washington appeared as a background singer on recordings by James Brown in 1975. That year she joined Parliament with Debbie Wright, becoming the first female members of the group...

     - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Lenn Washington - vocals, bass
  • Steve Washington
  • Butch Watson - guitar
  • Harry Watson - guitar
  • Fred Wesley
    Fred Wesley
    Fred Wesley is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...

     - trombone
  • John "Johnny Fly" Wiley - keyboards, Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Andre "Foxxe" Williams - guitar, vocals
  • Kelvan Wilkins - vocals, guitar
  • Ernestro Wilson - keyboards
  • Belita Woods
    Belita Woods
    Belita Woods is a former lead singer of late 70's R&B group, Brainstorm. Brainstorm had a disco hit in 1977 called "Lovin' Is Really My Game". Their follow-up album, 1978's Journey To The Light featured a more soul-funk sound, anchored by the album tracks "We're On Our Way Home" and "If You Ever...

     - vocals
  • Bernie Worrell
    Bernie Worrell
    George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

    - keyboards
  • Lawrence "L*A*W" Worrell - vocals, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica & organ
  • Debbie Wright - vocals, Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Ron Wright
    Ron Wright
    Ronald James John Wright was an Australian cricket test match umpire.He umpired 13 Test matches between 1948 and 1959...

     - drums
  • Philippé Wynne
    Philippe Wynne
    Philippé Wynne , born Phillip Walker, was an American R&B singer. Best known for his role as the lead singer of The Spinners , Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband Man",and "One of a Kind ",...

     - vocals

Bands

  • 420 Funk Mob
  • Bootsy's Rubber Band
  • The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein
    The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...

  • Children of Production
  • Enemy Squad
  • Funkadelic
    Funkadelic
    Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

  • Godmoma
    Godmoma
    Godmoma was a trio of female vocalists. The trio consisted of Cynthia Girty, Carolyn Myles, and Tony Walker.Godmoma released an album, Godmoma Here, in 1981, on Elektra Records...

  • The Horny Horns
    The Horny Horns
    The Horny Horns were a horn section associated with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band led by trombonist Fred Wesley. The group also featured saxophonist Maceo Parker and Rick Gardner and Richard 'Kush" Griffith on trumpets.While they are best-known for their contributions to other...

  • INCorporated Thang Band
  • Jimmy G and the Tackheads
  • Kiddo
    Kiddo
    Kiddo was a P-Funk offspring group at A&M Records, formed by former Parliament - Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton and writer Donnie Sterling, in the early 1980s.-History:...

  • Let The Monkey Go
  • Mutiny
  • Original P
    Original P
    The Original P is an American funk band formed in 1998 by four founding members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Ray Davis and Grady Thomas...

  • Parlet
    Parlet
    Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975.-Studio albums:...

  • Parliament
    Parliament (band)
    Parliament was a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

  • The Parliaments
    The Parliaments
    The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand. After some early personnel changes their lineup solidified with George Clinton, Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas...

  • P-Funk All-Stars
    Parliament-Funkadelic
    Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk, soul and rock music collective headed by George Clinton. Their style has been dubbed P-Funk. Collectively the group has existed under various names since the 1960s and has been known for top-notch musicianship, politically charged lyrics, outlandish concept albums...

  • Quazar
  • The Sterling Silver Starship Band
  • Sweat Band
    Sweat Band
    Sweat Band is the title of the 1980 debut album by the P-Funk spin off act the Sweat Band. The album was the first official release on the Uncle Jam Records label, formed by George Clinton and his business manager Archie Ivy, and distributed by CBS Records...

  • Zapp
    Zapp (band)
    Zapp is a soul and funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, Terry Troutman, Bobby Glover and Gregory Jackson [Cincinnati Ohio Funk Keyboardist]...

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