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 ...

Young shakes hands with a student at Starting Gate before returning home to Sacramento. The bass player for 'Con Funk Shun' visited the Vallejo school Friday morning. (Rich Freedman--Times-Herald) ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have gifted fans with a Silk Sonic cover of Con Funk Shun's "Love's Train" for Valentine's Day. Hot on the heels of .Paak's Super Bowl LVI halftime show appearance for ...

Felton Pilate and Michael Cooper of Con Funk Shun have a new accomplishment to add to their glowing resumes. The musicians have received honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from the Christian Bible ...

Con Funk Shun formed in Vallejo and released several popular albums through the 1970s, including “Loveshine,” “Candy” and “Spirit of Love.” The band’s biggest hit is the catchy “Ffun,” off the 1977 ...

"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 ...

Con Funk Shun”s played in front of more than 100,000 fans, hit gigs across the country via Lear jet in the same day, and had its share of Top 40 R&B tunes. Those days may be memory, but that”s OK with ...