Shango Members, Gear & Sound

80s funk group led by Afrika Bambaataa

Members

Select a Shango band member to check out the music gear they use live and in the studio.

Bill Laswell

Roles:

Bassist Music Producer

Groups:

Praxis Painkiller Outland Possession Activities of Dust New York Gong Transmutation The Big Guns Timezone Phantom City Divination Flying Mijinko Band Blind Light Astral Night Rollers Charged Cymatic Scan Autonomous Zone The Ginger Baker Band Third Rail Method of Defiance Equations of Eternity Mandingo Griot Society Two Against One Blixt Axiom Funk Curlew The Blood of Heroes Toy Killers Radioaxiom The Phillip Wilson Project Surds Psychonavigation Bladerunner Automaton Soup Arcana The Golden Palominos Material Massacre Dubadelic Cobra Strike Shin.e Mandingo Buck Jam Tonic IZA Sypher Tokyo Rotation K2 Henry Threadgill & Make a Move Deadline Sacred System Tabla Beat Science Somma Purple Trap Last Exit Bill Laswell India Project Niels and the New York Street Percussionists Second Nature Blue Buddha Kai Bass Invaders

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Michael Beinhorn

Roles:

Keyboardist Music Producer

Groups:

Red Hot Chili Peppers New York Gong Material Deadline Toy Killers

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Afrika Bambaataa

Roles:

Rapper Music Producer

Groups:

Zulu Nation Time Zone Sirius B Artists United Against Apartheid Legends of Hip Hop Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5 We Are Family Collective Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force Afrika Bambaataa and Family I.F.O. Spirit of the Forest Zulu Nation Cosmic Force

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Bernard Fowler

Roles:

Singer Drummer

Groups:

The Rolling Stones Herbie Hancock (band) The Rockit Band Tackhead Peech Boys Mick Jagger & The Brothers of Sodom Sinnamon The Smurfs Snatch

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Amad Henderson

Groups:

Time Zone

No gear added

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Wilfred Fowler
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