Parliament Funkadelic vocalist Clarence ‘Fuzzy’ Haskins has died on the age of 81.
Haskins’ former bandmates confirmed the information that he had handed away on Friday (March 17) on their official social media. “Resting on the verge of getting it on, Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy” Haskins (born June 8, 1941-March seventeenth, 2023) of Parliament-Funkadelic!” they wrote. No reason for demise has been confirmed.
Haskins was one of many unique members of the Parliaments when the band fashioned as a doo-wop group in 1960, singing alongside George Clinton and his bandmates Ray Davis, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. The group then rebranded as an R&B and funk ensemble referred to as Parliament Funkadelic in 1970, a change in course that was largely spearheaded by Haskins and Clinton, in accordance with Clinton’s web site.
Haskins quickly left the band in 1976 resulting from rising tensions between the group’s members and launched a solo album; ‘A Entire Nother Thang’, that very same yr. He then returned to Funkadelic a yr later however left once more shortly after alongside Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas, with the unique members turning into disillusioned by an inflow of latest members to the group. Haskins additionally recorded a second solo album, ‘Radio Lively’.
The three of them recorded an album collectively, ‘Connections and Disconnections’ beneath the title Funkadelic in 1980, although stickers on the album made it clear that the brand new iteration of the band had no affiliation with George Clinton. Clinton later took them to court docket over use of the title.
Haskins went on to turn into a preacher for a time, earlier than reuniting with Simon, Thomas and Ray Davis to type Unique P, which excursions and performs a few of Parliament Funkadelic’s traditional hits.
Parliament Funkadelic was inducted into the Rock N’Roll Corridor Of Fame in 1997.
Calvin Simon, one other of Parliament Funkadelic’s founding members, died in January 2022 on the age of 79.
