Enteje salutes the talented musicians who helped to define funk music in Ohio andthe world.
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Enteje Featured Artists
The Isley Brothers
Founded in Cincinnati in 1955,A?The Isley Brothers are one of the few groups that have charted hits in five different decades. (from the late 1950s to the early 21st century.) They formed originally as a gospel group in Lincoln Heights, a small mostly black town just outside of Cincinnati.A?Read more…
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins was a child prodigy of the funky bass, as he was personally recruited by the Godfather of Soul to play in the James Brown Band, before he was out of high school. He was born in Cincinnati on October 27, 1951.A? Bootsy played with James Brown from 1969 to 1971. In 1972, he joined George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic conglomerate and anchored such funk essentials as “Mothership Connection.” Read more…
The Ohio Players
The Ohio Players were founded in Dayton in 1968.A? These trailblazers and titans of Ohio Funk celebrated 35 years in the music business in 2003. Still on “Fire” when it comes to their live shows, the bandA?features founding member Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner.A? Read more…
Roger & Zapp
No Ohio Funk artist or band has had a greater influence on the Hip Hop generation–and no artist or band is more beloved than Zapp featuring Roger.A?A?Founded in Dayton in 1978, Roger Troutman was a guitar virtuoso and a funk genius. Read more…
Slave
Founded in East Orange, NJ in 1976, Slave is the hardest rocking of all the Ohio Funk bands. Their hit “Slide” has been covered by by alternative rock bands as recently as 2001. Read more...
Lakeside
Lead vocalist Mark Wood had “it,” whatever the charismatic “it” is, when he was in middle school 35 years ago in Dayton, Ohio, and founded what would become Lakeside in Dayton in 1968. Read more…
Heatwave
Heatwave was founded by the Wilder brothers, Johnny and Keither, after their honorable discharges from the US Army and while they were still in Germany in 1976. Read more…
Stage Corporation
In the dawn of the 1980’s, four hopeful twenty-somethings formed R & B vocal group from Columbus, Ohio. Eventually they changed the group’s name to The Stage Corporation. Read more…