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Dazz Band

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The Dazz Band is an American R&B, funk band whose popularity exploded in the early 1980s. [1]

51 relations: Backing vocalist, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Clarinet, Cleveland, Con Funk Shun, Dance Club Songs, Dazz (album), Dazz Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, Funk, Geffen Records, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Jazz fusion, Joystick (song), Karma (American band), Let It Whip, List of jazz fusion musicians, Los Angeles, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Ohio, Philip Bailey, Portmanteau, Radio personality, RCA Records, Rhythm and blues, Roger Troutman, Saxophone, Sennie "Skip" Martin, Singing, Sirius XM Holdings, Soul music, The S.O.S. Band, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Trumpet, United Kingdom, 1980 in music, 1981 in music, 1982 in music, 1983 in music, 1984 in music, 1985 in music, 1986 in music, 1988 in music, 1996 in music, 1997 in music, 1998 in music, 2001 in music, ..., 20th Century Fox Records. Expand index (1 more) »

Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Con Funk Shun

Con Funk Shun (formerly known as Project Soul) is an American R&B and funk band whose popularity began in the mid-1970s and ran through the 1980s.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Dazz (album)

Dazz is a 1979 album by R&B band Kinsman Dazz.

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Dazz Band

The Dazz Band is an American R&B, funk band whose popularity exploded in the early 1980s.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American major record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M Records imprint.

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Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1970 and 2011.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Joystick (song)

"Joystick" is a 2010 single by singer-songwriter Simon Curtis as part of Curtis's album 8Bit Heart (2010).

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Karma (American band)

Karma was a soul/funk/jazz band which recorded two albums for the A&M Records imprint Horizon Records in the 1970s.

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Let It Whip

"Let It Whip" is a 1982 hit single by the Dazz Band and their biggest hit, peaking at number one on the R&B chart for five non-consecutive weeks.

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List of jazz fusion musicians

The following are notable jazz fusion performers or bands.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Philip Bailey

Philip Irvin Bailey (born May 8, 1951) is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as an early member, and one of the two lead singers (along with group founder Maurice White) of the band Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Radio personality

A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English), commonly referred to as a "disc jockey" or "DJ" for short, is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Roger Troutman

Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999), also known mononymously as Roger, was an American singer, composer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and heavily influenced west coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sennie "Skip" Martin

Sennie "Skip" Martin III (born June 25, 1957, in San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American musician, now based in Las Vegas.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sirius XM Holdings

Sirius XM Satellite Radio is an American broadcasting company that provides three satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States: Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio, and Sirius XM Radio.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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The S.O.S. Band

The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written SOS Band; abbreviation for Sounds Of Success) is an American R&B and electro-funk group who gained fame in the 1980s.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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1980 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980.

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1981 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1981.

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1982 in music

This is a list of notable events in music from 1982, a year in which Madonna made her debut and Michael Jackson released Thriller, which still holds the title for the world's best selling album.

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1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.

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1984 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.

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1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.

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1986 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.

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1988 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.

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1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.

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1997 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.

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1998 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.

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2001 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2001.

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20th Century Fox Records

20th Century Fox Records, also known as 20th Fox Records and 20th Century Records, was a wholly owned subsidiary of film studio 20th Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazz_Band

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