James Brown revolutionized music with his infectious grooves and high-energy performances. His influence spans generations, ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

Billboard Arabia’s February cover star reflects on his journey from Gaza to global stages, exploring the diverse cultural ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

Credited with bringing Chinese funk music to the mainstream through the group’s performances on iQIYI’s hit rock music show The Big Band, Ricky has garnered multiple comparisons to legendary musical ...

Rod Stewart has always had a deep love for soul music. While best known for his raspy rock vocals and chart-topping hits like ...

Their beats became the mothership of hip-hop and dance music. Their live shows were legendary ... or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force ...

Photographs in illustration by Santiago Felipe/; John Atashian/; Paul Bergen/Redferns/; Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/; BSR Agency/Gentle Look/; Jim McCrary/Redferns/; Michael Putland/; Frank ...

He blended jazz with electric funk, soul, and a smorgasbord of other musical flavors but arguably his most critical innovation was moving away from instrumental music. “I realized that when you ...

Hip-hop and classical music might seem worlds apart ... “It breaks away from the 16-bar rhyme structure, and there are elongated musical interludes inserted into the pieces at totally unexpected ...

From pulsating big band funk to throbbing electro-soul jams and sizzling acid jazz grooves, Britfunk showed how British Black music reshaped its American influences. While punk and New Wave ...