Michael Cooper received a call from his daughter on Valentine’s Day last year telling the co-founder of the R&B band Con Funk Shun to check out a video she had sent him. “I clicked on the link and the ...

"Soul Train" ended in 2006 after a 35-season run and since then, there have been no revivals of it or any other musical variety show of its kind. Lakeside and Con Funk Shun's concert proved that the ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) — The soulful rhythms of the 1970s are set to echo through downtown Alexandria as legendary R&B and funk band Con Funk Shun takes the stage at RiverFête on Friday, May 2, from 8 ...

With most of us still a bit hungover from yesterday’s Super Bowl festivities, it’s understandable that there hasn’t been that much Valentine’s Day celebration. After all, who’d want their brand-new, ...

Con Funk Shun may not be exactly like the swallows at Capistrano and appear once every year. Closer to a blue moon, which occurs every two or three years. Fact is, not even founder Michael Cooper ...

BACK TO YOU, AARON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, THE BAND FROM VALLEJO THAT BROUGHT SEVERAL R&B FUNK HITS IS BACK WITH MUSIC JUST IN TIME FOR THE SUMMER. AND WE’RE GETTING TO LISTEN TO ONE OF THEIR NEWEST ...

The Early Years Con Funk Shun was formed in Vallejo, California by high-school classmates Louis A. McCall and Michael V. Cooper. With Louis on drums and percussion and Michael providing lead vocals ...

Working the Solano County Fair was never a standard gig for Michael Cooper. Never will be. Not when flashbacks come as easy as song lyrics. Not when fans and friends from the time Con Funk Shun began ...