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Bar-Kays
American band
2
Leon Haywood
American singer and songwriter
3
Bobby Bland
American soul & blues musician
4
Rockers Revenge
5
Spyro Gyra
American jazz band
6
Archie Bell & the Drells
American vocal group
7
Dazz Band
American funk band
8
The Undisputed Truth
American band
9
One Way
American rhythm and blues band
10
Rufus
American funk band
11
Parliament
American funk band most prominent during the 1970s
12
Surface
American band
13
Mike Stock
British record producer, songwriter
14
The Gap Band
American R&B and funk band
15
Trouble Funk
American band
16
The Crusaders
American jazz fusion group
17
Lakeside
American band
18
Denise LaSalle
American R&B, soul and blues singer, songwriter, and record producer
19
The Boomtown Rats
band
20
Steve Arrington
American musician
21
Ini Kamoze
Musical artist
22
Rose Royce
American soul and R&B group
23
The Equals
band
24
D. Train
American musical ensemble
25
Whodini
American hip-hop group
26
Midnight Star
band
27
Haircut One Hundred
British new wave/jazz-funk group
28
Michael Wycoff
American singer
29
Shannon
American recording artist and singer
30
Eugene Wilde
American singer
31
Oliver Cheatham
American singer
32
Calvin Harris
Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer
33
The S.O.S. Band
American band
34
Juliet Roberts
British musician
35
Yellowjackets
American jazz fusion band
36
Rodney Franklin
American musician
37
The Fat Boys
American hip hop trio
38
Average White Band
Scottish R&B band
39
Stephanie Mills
American musician
40
Philip Bailey
American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor
41
Freeez
band
42
The New Power Generation
band that plays funk
43
Eddy Grant
Guyana born British reggae musician
44
J. Blackfoot
singer
45
Jamiroquai
British acid jazz band
46
Earth, Wind & Fire
American band
47
Teena Marie
American singer
48
Perri "Pebbles" Reid
American dance-pop singer-songwriter
49
Richard Anthony Hewson
English record producer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist
50
Today
American R&B vocal group
51
David Steele
English musician, songwriter
