Vinyl Wednesday: Con Funk Shun - Organized Con Funk Shun
The neverending stories of music... This band was found in California by high school students as "Project Soul"; they would become a back up band for Stax artists. Stax was founded by Estelle Axton and her brother Jim Stewart. Estelle also had another label called Fretone. She signed Con Funk Shun to Fretone, and so they released their first two albums on this label. One of the band members,
Felton Pilate, would later become a famous producer, not only for Con Funk Shun but also for MC Hammer. Their joint effort with Hammer sold over 30 million albums from 1989 to 1992... Read more on
Wikipedia.
The band appearently is still existing and performing!
on 07/06/2017
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