Kool & The Gang has sold over 70 million albums and influenced the music of three generations. Thanks to songs like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer Madness and Open Sesame, they’ve earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits, and 31 gold and platinum albums. Kool & The Gang has performed continuously for the past 35 years, longer than any R&B group in history. Their bulletproof funk and tough, jazzy arrangements have also made them the most sampled band of all time. In 1979, Kool & The Gang unveiled a smooth new sound with Ladies Night. it became their first platinum album. The ’80s would see them dominate the mainstream, starting with the double platinum-selling album Celebrate (driven by the international monster hit Celebration, which spent six weeks atop the R&B chart and became a #1 Pop single). The smashes Get Down On It, Take My Heart, Let’s Go Dancing, Joanna, Tonight, Misled, Cherish and Fresh solidified the group’s international superstardom. With the explosion of hip-hop in the ’90s, Kool & the Gang’s incredible catalog of grooves made them DJ favorites. 2004’s The Hits Reloaded found the band collaborating with such acolytes as Lil’ Kim, Sean Paul, Ashanti, and Blackstreet, among others. In 2007, they released Still Kool. They followed that up with Icon in 2011. Kool & The Gang continues to perform to packed audiences of new and old fans around the world.
