Create your page here
Rufus (band)
Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", and "Ain't Nobody".
Biography
Origins
In 1968, The American Breed (Gary Loizzo, Al Ciner, Charles (Chuck) Colbert and Lee Graziano) had a top ten hit with the classic rock single, "Bend Me, Shape Me". After much success, Colbert and Graziano (without Loizzo who pursued a successful production career) created a new group, adding latter day "Breed" members Kevin Murphy on (keyboards) and Paulette McWilliams (vocals), plus James Stella (vocals) and Vern Pilder (guitar) from the bar band "Circus". They re-emerged in 1969 under the name "Smoke". In 1970, after switching their management to Bob Monaco and Bill Traut, the group's name changed again to "Ask Rufus", the name taken from the title of the advice column in Mechanics Illustrated. At this point, Ciner came back to replace Pilder and Willie Weeks was added on bass after Colbert left.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Rufus_(band)
Latest News for: rufus (band)
Edit
Joan as Police Woman: ‘I don’t measure anything by No 1s’
The Irish Times 06 Jul 2019
The woman behind the Joan as Police Woman moniker spent most of her 20s and early 30s performing in other people’s bands (Rufus Wainwright, Antony & the Johnsons among them) before she put pen to paper ... “I played violin for a really long time in bands, and had no interest in singing; no interest in writing songs....
Edit
The Morning Call
20 Jun 2019
Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week
The Morning Call
20 Jun 2019
1. CHAKA KHAN/MICHAEL MCDONALD. Chaka Khan is the Queen of Funk, whose five-decade career has won her 10 Grammy Awards. She started in the 1970s as vocalist of the funk band Rufus, with the hit “Tell Me Something Good,” and as a solo singer she was the first R&B; artist to have a crossover hit featuring... ....
Edit
Billboard's 2019 Indie Power Players: The Execs Behind Drake, John Prine, Lauren Daigle and BTS
Billboard 17 Jun 2019
“We’re signing artists out of passion,” notes Loeffler, a lifelong musician himself who says he “gets their process” when he speaks of his roster that includes John Fogerty, Huey Lewis, Rufus Wainwright, Bad Company, Dickey Betts, Marc Cohn and The Allman Betts Band....
Edit
Allan Roth, who brought music to Herman’s Hideaway on South Broadway, dies at 79
Denver Post 23 May 2019
A tribute concert was held in his honor and the bands included Bad Rufus, Chris Daniels, Hazel Miller, The Simpletones, Nina Storey and Wendy Woo ... Even bands from out of town want to play ... “It’s not so much coming to Herman’s as it is coming to see the band....
Edit
VOTE NOW on vindy.com for best high school music video
The Vindicator 30 Apr 2019
The Vindy High School Music Video Challenge is available to watch online now ... We invited several Valley bands to offer up songs. The Vindys, Rufus Blaq, Northern Whale, Spirit of the Bear, Spy Convention, Radio Lark, Leo D’Angelo, Jordan DePaul, East 9th and Fred Whitacre, JD Eicher all offered up songs for videos ... ....
Edit
Soundbites: Celebrating the Continental, a Buffalo-style model tolerance and acceptance
The Buffalo News 16 Apr 2019
This year, the bands (Pauline & the Perils, Monkey Wrench, Evil Rufus K, the Enemies, Orations, Painkillers, Iron Fist, Johnny Revolting, Irving Klaws, Virus X, 53 Days) will perform in the Leopard Lounge in the front of the club, while DJs (Jeffrey Naughton, David Hall, ......
Edit
What Coachella taught us about the future of dance music
Sacramento Bee 15 Apr 2019
This means that ambitious acts that want to stand out have to evolve and maybe act more like a live band if they want to command a stage ... Coachella is about moments – the acts that succeed out there are going to be the ones that give people a reason to share their experience," said James Hunt of the Australian band Rufus Du Sol....
Edit
Greenwich Time
12 Apr 2019
The Fab Faux brings fan favorites, Beatles solo years to Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y.
Greenwich Time
12 Apr 2019
Rounding out the line-up are lead-singing drummer/producer Rich Pagano (Rosanne Cash, Patti Smith, Ray Davies, etc.), guitarist Frank Agnello (Marshall Crenshaw, Phoebe Snow, etc.) and ace keyboardist/guitarist Jack Petruzzelli (Rufus Wainwright, Patti Smith, Joan Osborne Band, etc.)....
Edit
5 acts to look out for at the #CTIJF2019
Independent online (SA) 29 Mar 2019
The American singer-songwriter, who’s been active for almost 50 years since she began her career as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus, has a massive resumé ... The Lady Day Big >Band (Saturday). The Lady Day Big Band is one of the fresh new acts at this year’s festival. ...
Edit
Lineup announced for 2019 Cobblestone Live Music & Arts Festival
Buffalo Rising 28 Mar 2019
Langhorne Slim and The Lost at Last Band Aqueous Joywave Billy Strings Sloan TAUK Thunderpussy Black Caviar Tropidelic The Sadies Kat Wright Soul Patch HOT POT Funktional Flow Mikey Palermo B2B B-Rad Workingman’s Dead PA Line Rufus Gibson Tim Britt Band The Tins Nate Howell B2B Dave Sif Witty Tarbox Mom Said No ... ....
Edit
Cobblestone Live Music and Arts Festival unveils lineup for 2019
The Buffalo News 27 Mar 2019
2 and 3, has announced the first 29 bands that will perform across four stages - two outdoor and two indoor - with much of the outdoor action on Illinois and Columbia streets ... While the vast majority of bands - ranging from pop to reggae - are from Buffalo, a few of the bigger names come from out of town ... Langhorne Slim and The Lost at Last Band....
Edit
Sting Revisits, Reimagines Police, Solo Hits on 'My Songs' Collection
Billboard 27 Mar 2019
My Songs, recorded in various locations, makes use of both existing and newly recorded tracks, with members of Sting's touring band (guitarist Dominic Miller and his son Rufus, drummer Josh Freese) and of the Last Bandoleros and Sting's manager Martin Kierszenbaum -- who also ......
- 1
- 2
- Next page »
