calvin simon

Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder Calvin Simon has died at the age of 79. His former bandmates Bootsy Collins and George Clinton announced the news on social media. “We lost another Original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” Collins wrote on Instagram. “A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic. He’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen members of P-Funk! R.I.P” “Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon,” Clinton wrote on Facebook. “Longtime Parliament-Funkadelic vocalist. Fly on Calvin” Simon was born in Beckley, West Virginia in 1942, and grew up singing in a church choir for weekly radio broadcasts. His family eventually moved to New Jersey, and at age 13 Simon took a job as a barber. ...