Funk siren Dawn Silva brings an all-star line-up of her band the Brides of Funkenstein to the Great American Music Hall Saturday night. Born and raised in Sacramento, Silva gravitated towards music at ...

Funk vocalist Dawn Silva’s moniker as the “Funk Queen” didn’t come out of nowhere — her legendary stints with Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic, the Gap Band and as the frontwoman of The ...

The funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic is often described as a wild, brilliant and world-changing musical collective. But when the group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, none ...

The evolution and influence of funk music and Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd. “American Black Journal” host Stephen Henderson talks with Satori Shakoor, who was a member of the Brides of ...