Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A studio group portrait of Labelle in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1975. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns) R&B/funk group Labelle, ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups embodied the late ’70s blend of funk, disco, and soul quite like Heatwave. Formed in the mid-1970s, the group became internationally known for their infectious grooves ...

Anthony “Baby Gap” Walker, a former member of the legendary funk and R&B group The Gap Band, is dead at age 60. TMZ reports Walker, who was performing with other former Gap Band members in a group ...