*So fresh was the sound of Con Funk Shun just the name has become a genre. The band whose music has been covered by R&B group Dru Hill (“Love’s Train” produced by Keith Sweat) on their multi-platinum ...

Eric “EQ” Young needed a break. It was Saturday and he worked a few hours for his mom in Richmond in the same yard he played in growing up. “Cutting a tree down is not fun,” Young said. “I’m done.” ...

Covers have existed since the creation of modern music, sometimes with the secondary artist achieving the same acclaim as the one who performed the original. Whether done for sheer attention, as many ...

The seven men are handsome and gloriously Afro’d, decked out in suits sharp enough to slice a ham. They look like businessmen, not funkateers, posing in front of a huge safe presumably inside a bank.

Michael Cooper received a call from his daughter on Valentine’s Day last year telling the co-founder of the R&B band Con Funk Shun to check out a video she had sent him. “I clicked on the link and the ...

"Soul Train" ended in 2006 after a 35-season run and since then, there have been no revivals of it or any other musical variety show of its kind. Lakeside and Con Funk Shun's concert proved that the ...