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George Clinton
George Clinton
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Tony Allen
Tony Allen
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Delicate Steve
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Los Amigos Invisibles
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A.R. Kane
A.R. Kane
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Bill Ware
Bill Ware
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Ambitious Lovers
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George Porter
George Porter
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Gorillaz
Gorillaz
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Del the Funky Homosapien
Del the Funky Homosapien
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King Sporty
King Sporty
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Grant Green
Grant Green
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Parliament-Funkadelic
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Tom Zé
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Susana Baca
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Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers
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Pamelia Kurstin
Pamelia Kurstin
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Greg Kurstin
Greg Kurstin
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The Rapture
The Rapture
American band
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Man Parrish
Man Parrish
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Ziggy Modeliste
Ziggy Modeliste
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Richard Russell
Richard Russell
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Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn
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Joseph Bowie
Joseph Bowie
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver
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The Meters
The Meters
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Head Wound City
Head Wound City
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Miles Tackett
Miles Tackett
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The J.B.'s
The J.B.'s
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Kindness
Kindness
musician
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Shuggie Otis
Shuggie Otis
American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist
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Dannic
Dannic
Dutch DJ and electro house producer
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Hopsin
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Dizzy Wright
Dizzy Wright
American rapper
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Clyde Stubblefield
Clyde Stubblefield
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Mr Eazi
Mr Eazi
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Mandrill
Mandrill
American funk band from Brooklyn, New York
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Hot Chip
Hot Chip
British electronic music band
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Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry
American funk rock band
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Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
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Luke Slater
Luke Slater
British musician
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Lit
Lit
American band
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Jarren Benton
Jarren Benton
American rapper
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Vic Mensa
Vic Mensa
American rapper from Illinois
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Will Holland
Will Holland
British musician
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Actress
Actress
British electronic musician
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Davido
Davido
Nigerian singer
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Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
American jazz musician
William Onyeabor
Nigerian funk musician

William Onyeabor

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Nigerian funk musician

William Ezechukwu Onyeabor (/ɒnˈjɑːbɔː/, on-YAH-baw; 26 March 1946 – 16 January 2017) was a Nigerian funk musician and businessman. His music was widely heard in Nigeria in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but he remained an enigmatic figure, private and reclusive.

Onyeabor's songs are often heavily rhythmic and synthesized, occasionally epic in scope, with lyrics decrying war, sung by both Onyeabor himself and female backing vocalists. In the 2010s, some of his songs appeared on various compilations, most frequently his biggest hit, "Better Change Your Mind", which appeared on Africa 100, World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing – The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa, and Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970's Funky Lagos, through labels such as Luaka Bop.