Quazedelic's music is heavily influenced by funk musicians George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Sly Stone.

The United States singer and musician James Brown was one of the first funk musicians.

Franklyn Leon "Frankie" Smith (born 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American funk musician and R&B/soul songwriter.

He cites 1970s funk musicians such as George Clinton, Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield as his primary musical influences.

Rick James was the first funk musician of the 1980s to assume the funk mantle dominated by P-Funk in the 1970s.

The song contains vocal samples of American funk musician James Brown's 1974 song "Funky President (People It's Bad)".

Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Roger and Zapp) (d. 1999)

But that issue is really separate from the larger one of how a vanilla suburb, to use the funk musician George Clinton's famous phrase, adapts to being part of the American swirl.

Ms. Clinton is the granddaughter of the funk musician George Clinton, for whom Mr. Salley, 30, worked as a stagehand before being fired two years ago.

William Onyeabor is a funk musician from Nigeria.