George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American musician, widely considered one of the forefathers of
funk. He was the mastermind of the bands
Parliament and
Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was a solo funk artist as of 1981. He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. In Plainfield, he ran a barber salon, where he straightened hair, and soon formed a
doo wop group, inspired by
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, called
The Parliaments. Despite initial commercial failures, The Parliame…
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