George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American funk musician and record producer who led the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. The group’s origins date to 1956 with the formation of the doo-wop group the Parliaments in Newark, New Jersey. The Parliaments achieved a hit single in 1967 with “(I Wanna) Testify”. After moving to Detroit, Clinton signed the raw funk project Funkadelic to Westbound Records and released the debut album Funkadelic (1970). That same year, the smoother funk group Parliament released the album Osmium. In 1974, Clinton signed Parliament to Casablanca Records and released Up for the Down Stroke. The collective achieved commercial success with the albums Mothership Connection (1975) and One Nation Under a Groove (1978) and hit singles such as “Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)” (1976) and “Flash Light” (1978). In 1982, the collective recorded the hit album Computer Games, which was released as a Clinton solo effort and featured the Number 1 hit “Atomic Dog”. He released the album Urban Dancefloor Guerillas (1983) under the name P-Funk All Stars and the reunion album T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (1996). Clinton and fifteen other members of the collective were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2019, Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
