KINSMAN DAZZ & FUNKY THUG PRODUCTIONS

KINSMAN DAZZ & FUNKY THUG PRODUCTIONS ARTIST.

BIG MIKE CALHOUN, THE PRODUCER

The Founding Member of the Kinsman Dazz, has been working hard with his son,Malik Calhoun BKA Malik Crooks, on their Album , father & son. Its full of funkadelic tracks, mixed with raw street hip hop, with father and son together.Mixing the soul of oldschool & new school.Their  making music you can feel in your bones.Get ready for this father & son to be around for along time.......

MALIK CALHOUN BKA MALIK CROOKS WAS BORN IN CLEVELAND OH.MALISZE IS ONE OF CLEVELANDS RAW & HOT UNDERGROUND HIP HOP ARTIST. HE HAS WORKED WITH SOME OF CLEVELANDS BEST PRODUCERS, & DJS, THAT HAS HAD THE CITY ROCKIN. NOW ITS TIME FOR HIM TO TAKE IT TO THE WORLD WITH THE (KINGS) OF CLEVELAND (BONE THUGS). MALISZE IS ON MO THUGS RECORDS, LAYZIE BONES RECORD LABLE, OF BONE THUGS. SO LOOK OUT FOR HIM CAUSE HE"S COMING.

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{FEMME FATALE} ,FUNKY THUG PRODUCTIONS, next artist to come out.This little lady,can do it all,rap, sing,& dance. Right now she is working with Malik Crooks on a few songs that will be on her album. Malik Crooks is working on his album. But the father & son album is done.Mike Calhoun & Malik Crooks.Your going to love it. Mike Calhoun has an album out right now called {IN BLUE}. You can buy that album at {littlefishrecords.com} its hottttt....

FUNKY THUG PRODUCTIONS ARTIST. FEMME FATAL

ALBUM {IN BLUE} YOU CAN BUY IT AT{ littlefishrecords.com}

GOOD FRIEND

MIKE CALHOUN & PHILLIP BAILEY, WHO PRODUCE KINSMAN DAZZ ALBUM.

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ABOUT KINSMAN DAZZ.................

The Dazz Band was a funk music band based in Cleveland, Ohio that enjoyed brief popularity in the United States in the early 1980s. The name of the band is a concatenation of "Danceable Jazz". The group's hits included the songs "Let it Whip" and "Joystick". The Dazz Band grew out of fusion group Telefunk, which comprised {MIKE CALHOUN} Bobby Harris, Isaac "Ike" Wiley, Jr., his brother Michael Wiley, and Kenny Pettus. Telefunk eventually became {Kinsman} Dazz}, named after the street in Cleveland where Harris had grown up. The group changed its name before the unrelated song 'Dazz' became an R&B hit for Brick in 1976. {Kinsman Dazz} was signed to {20th Century Records} by Joe Lewis. The group went to Los Angeles to record for producer Marvin Gaye. Owing to illness, Gaye had to back out of the duties. Harris requested and got {Philip Bailey}, the vocalist of {Earth, Wind & Fire}, to produce the group's first album, {Kinsman Dazz}. Bailey would co-produce the second album, Dazz, and had a major input into the group's vocal arrangements. The {Kinsman Dazz} became the Dazz Band in 1980. Separately, the 20th Century Records label was closed, and the Dazz Band was signed to Motown. The group expanded from the original quartet — Harris, Pettus, and the Wiley brothers — with newcomers Kevin Frederick, Steve Cox, Eric Fearman, Pierre DeMudd, and Sennie "Skip" Martin. Martin was vocalist for almost all the Dazz Band hits. Dazz's first album for Motown was Invitation to Love, a self-produced set. The group's next album, Let The Music Play, featured the minor hit single "Knock! Knock!". The group's breakthrough came with Keep It Live (1982) containing the hit "{Let It Whip}" which reached #5 on the R&B charts and won a {Grammy Award} for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocalsand was also redone by Boyz ll Men in 2004 . They would go on to score R&B hits with 'Swoop (I'm Yours)', 'Joystick', 'Let It All Blow', and 'Party Right Here'. After Keep It Live, Dazz Band recorded On the One, Joystick, Jukebox and Hot Spot, all for Motown. The band was known for its live performances, often proving more popular than the headlining act. In, 1985 Fearman and Frederick left the group, and were replaced by Marlon McClain and Keith Harrison. In 1986, Dazz Band recorded Wild & Free under the Geffen label, and moved to RCA shortly later. The group's commercial success was now over, and Skip Martin left to join Kool & The Gang after original lead man James "JT" Taylor left the group for a solo career. The band continues to tour. In October 2004 Let It Whip appeared in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on Funk radio station Bounce FM.

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