| Description: | Die R&B-, Funk- und Soul-Ikonen Kool & The Gang melden sich mit einem neuen Album zurück -
"People Just Wanna Have Fun" erscheint am 14. Juli 2023 über Astana Music Inc.
Mit sechs Jahrzehnten an Hits tourt die international gefeierte Gruppe weiterhin durch die Welt.
Die Band wird von den Gründungsmitgliedern Robert "Kool" Bell (Bassist) und George "Funky"
Brown (Keyboarder, Schlagzeuger und Produzent dieses Albums) geleitet, deren Buch "Too Hot:
Kool & the Gang & Me" am 11. Juli 2023 erscheinen wird. Doch bei all dem Erfolg sind Kool & The
Gang ihren Wurzeln treu geblieben und gleichzeitig in die Zukunft gesto�en. Bell sagt über das
neue Album: "Wir haben den Funk, wir haben die jazzigeren Stücke, wir haben ein paar Balladen
darauf. Dann gibt es Songs, die in den Pop-Bereich übergehen. Wir gehen von den 70ern über
die 80er bis ins Jetzt. Es ist Old School, es ist New School - wir haben alles irgendwie hier
eingefangen. Bei all unserer Musik im Laufe der Jahre hatten die Leute Spa�. Ich würde also
sagen, dieses Album fasst alles zusammen." - .. WANNA HAVE FUN / MULTI-COLOR VINYLLegendary Funk Band's 2023 Album on Multi-Color Double LP!R&B, funk and soul icons Kool & the Gang are returning with a 2023 album release - People Just Wanna Have Fun. With six decades of hits, the internationally celebrated group continues to tour the world. The band is led by founding members Robert "Kool" Bell (bassist) and George "Funky" Brown (keyboardist, drummer & producer of this album), who has a new book coming out called Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me. Continuing to release music that makes the good times better and the bad times more bearable, this collection will be the band's 34th studio album, featuring some of the last studio work by founding horn players, Kool's brother Ronald "Khalis" Bell and Dennis "D.T." Thomas, who passed in 2020 and 2021. Lead vocals on the album also include Sha Sha Jones, Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole'. Both Bell and Brown view People Just Wanna Have Fun as a summation of their long career, during which they sold 70 million albums worldwide with hit singles like "Celebration," "Ladies Night," "Get Down on It," "Hollywood Swinging" & beyond. Since their start in 1964, the group has amassed two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kool's bass guitar is even featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. From Newark to Nairobi, Kool & the Gang have performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history and are the most sampled R&B band of all time, including by Madonna, Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill and P. Diddy. Not to mention their music on soundtracks from Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction to Wreck-It Ralph and many more. Yet, throughout all the success, Kool & the Gang has remained true to their roots while pushing into the future. Bell says of People Just Wanna Have Fun: "You've got the funk, you've got the jazzier tracks, we have a few ballads on there. Then there are songs that cross over to a pop sort of thing. We go from the '70s, the '80s, right into now. It's old school, it's new school - we kinda captured it all here. With all our music over the years, people have had fun. So I'd say this album just about sums it all up." Kool & The Gang - People Just Want To Have FunLimited double colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release from the iconic R&B, funk and soul group. With six decades of hits, the internationally celebrated group continues to tour the world. The band is led by founding members Robert "Kool" Bell (bassist) and George "Funky" Brown (keyboardist, drummer & producer of this album). Continuing to release music that makes the good times better and the bad times more bearable, this collection will be the band's 34th studio album, featuring some of the last studio work by founding horn players, Kool's brother Ronald "Khalis" Bell and Dennis "D.T." Thomas, who passed in 2020 and 2021. Lead vocals on the album also include Sha Sha Jones, Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole'. |
