They give you “ Organized Con Funk Shun” alright ! From “Balladeers” to “Funk-a-tiers”, they will always have “ A Song For You” and give you “More Than Love”. They were choreographing steps before New Edition! Member Michael Cooper describes the Confunkshun sound as “Emotional Funk, Happy Rhythms and Loves Songs”. You believe you discovered a new sound only to find through research that Confunkshun, the originals of Funk music planted the seeds. Confunkshun’s “ Spirit of Love” album was sampled by “ Lil’ Wayne“. Young folks who are not familiar “ With The Sound of Grown Men” listen closely to some of your favorite hip hop or rap tunes and you’ll recognize sampled melodic hooks and chords.
We couldn’t just sit and be cool,Ĭonfunkshun grooved and it made us move to classic Billboard hits like “Chase Me”, “Shake and Dance With Me”, and “Too Tight”. They pick us up and we went out to dance, they took our hands and we had “Fun Fun Fun”. We fans were touched by their “ Burning Love” to provide many years of quality music. Elliot of “A-List Musiq Circle” production! Felton welcomed all the first-timers into the Confunkshun family…Say “hi to your cousins”, Felton Pilate, Michael Cooper, Ron Moton, Eric “EQ” Young, Kurt “KC” Clayton, Brian Collier, and special guest Skip Martin of the “ Dazz Band“, and René Escovedo of the Latin Jazz family “ The Escovedos“, and cousin to “ Sheila E“.Īlthough they hail from Vallejo CA., this “ Electric Lady” and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area claim Confunkshun as our “Hometown Guys”too. We were swooped up in the vortex of another Forever AWESOME Mark T. I’ll take you to the stage honey gonna sing sweet love to you… Confunkshunizeya“.ĬON-FUNK-SHUN sho nuff hypnotized and mesmerized the filled to capacity “ Happy Face(s)” at Yoshi’s Jazz club. “You can take it to the floor baby and do what you do.