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The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit -based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972. Its members are considered among the most successful groups of studio musicians in music history.
The Funk Brothers. , y Piano) The Funk Brothers fue una banda de sesión estadounidense de soul conocida por haber participado en prácticamente la totalidad de las grabaciones de todos los artistas del sello Motown Records, incluyendo a Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops o a Marvin Gaye, entre muchos otros.
After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, they were still in contact with Motown's house band, the Funk Brothers and when they started their own recording company, with the intention of self-producing the songs they wrote, they asked the Funk Brothers to play on those songs.
Nicknames: Igor, Funk, Diego Diegerson. Musical Influences: Ray Brown, Paul Chambers. Instruments Played: 1957 Fender Precision, 1962 Fender Precision (The Funk Machine), German Upright bass, Fender 5 string, Hagstrom 8 string
The Funk Brothers. They are the factory workers of the hit machine, heard on more No. 1 records than those by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones – combined. They are the Motown studio musicians, helping to create “the Sound of Young America” in the basement of Hitsville U.S.A. And they are unsung heroes ...
Si bien la mayoría de los músicos de apoyo de Motown eran afroamericanos, y muchos originalmente de Detroit, los Funk Brothers también incluían jugadores blancos, como Messina (que fue el guitarrista destacado en el programa de televisión de jazz nocturno de Soupy Sales en la década de 1950), Brokensha ( originalmente de Australia), Coffey y Babbitt, nacido en Pittsburgh.
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