The music has many flavours to it and is essentially therapeutic in these troubled times.
Evidence of this can be found on Robert's book Pop Poetry at www.xlibris.com/poppoetry.
Our influences date from way back with giants such as Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Berry Gordie, Norman Whitfield, Larry Graham, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Gap Band, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Janis Joplin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Average White Band, Edgar Winters, Prince and of course Quincy Jones.
As mentioned this music cannot be defined as world music nor can one place it as African music. It is FUNK music made by Africans with a cosmopolitan background.
In January 2007 FUNKMATA was chosen as a Top5 finalist by SOTY songoftheyear.com for the instrumental Realpayback and was given a Web Award.
In March 2007 the single Is it True? was chosen for the suggested Artist of the month by SOTY again.
Unisong.com which is a songwriting competition judged by songwriters based in California, voted the song Real Payback in it's Top 20 list of finalists for instrumental songs for the year July'06 to June'07.
This was awarded in June '07.
On the 11th of July '07 Logginspromotion.com conducted a radio survey of the song Realpayback and obtained the best rating of 4 (****)stars for the song. This manifests the potential of that track if airplay was effected nationwide in the States. FUNKMATA is strivng to attain greater heights with hard work and planning.
This is just the beginning, since we are aware that Africa wants Trade and not Aid and will relentlessly pursue our business plan until we break on thru' to the other side.
We are convinced at this juncture many will follow in F'mata's footsteps and try to make something out of the blue.
We have the belief. We have the faith. We have the power of the mind. Let's make something happen.
We promise to surprise you even more with the next album TRANCELATION.
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We do not need to get rid of record companies. They will get rid of themselves. The writing is on the wall. Corporate greed worldwide has spun us into a recession, due to ineptness of managers and decision makers to undertake financial transactions with due diligence and transparency. This is the cancer of the entertainment industry where executives in A&R will only promote friends and family members, instead of talented musicians. Record labels out there have dropped sales by more than 25% in the last five years, and have started laying off a lot of their staff. This void is being filled by companies on the Net marketing songwriting competitions for a fee of course and A&R production companies. Not to mention all the Indies labels and the radio promotion companies. All these...
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- 16th in Electronic / Electro-Pop, July 2008
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Blessings,
Monique
I wish you all the best.
Monique
Best,
Teraj
Check out the Track with T-Pain! its a definite number 1 so VOTE please! B.R.I.C.K.S.
just go to
OURSTAGE.COM,
click on the word MUSIC, and then look for the STEP IN THE RING contest with T-Pain.
Then look me up. Like i said, my name is
L-YeT
Thank you so much for that!!!Teardrops has caused a little bit of controversy since I entered it...lol...I almost pulled it out of the comp the other day...The critiques haven't heard the original..so...What can I say...You have absolutely made my day Mr Funkmata...and that complement coming from you means, the world to me...
Big hugs to you
Jen