Funky 9ers | ja

FUNKY MONKEY BABYS（ファンキー・モンキー・ベイビーズ）は、日本のヒップホップグループである。メンバー全員が東京都八王子市出身。2004年結成。所属レコード会社はドリーミュージック。それぞれシングルのジャケットとプロモーションビデオに芸能人を起用することで話題を呼んでいる。実は英語の“BABYS”はスペルミスであり、“BABIES”と綴るのが正しい。だがそれも意図的なものである。通称ファンモン。 .

Back in 1995 a 17-year-old MC took to the hip-hop scene in the UK. Armed only with a few demos and oblivious of how to prosper in the music industry, little did he know he would end up being one of the few pioneers of hip-hop in the UK. Funky DL started earning props when his music received regular air play on stations such as Kiss FM, Choice FM and Radio one by the likes of veteran Jockeys such as DJ 279, Max LX and Dave VJ and Tim Westwood. In 1996 Funky DL went on to win the well...

When you ask “Funky C” about his musical influences, the Chilean-born composer will start telling you an eclectic list of musicians that expand from the baroque to the grandmasters of funk, soul, rock, Latin jazz, bossa-nova and Latin alternative rock. On any given day, his house was filled with music starting with his very own father’s, Hugo Moraga Lacoste, one of the most prolific singer/songwriters in Chile to the recordings and LPs from Jobim, Frank Zappa, Hector Lavoe, James Brown, Prince, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Stevie Wonder to Argentina’s Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly García as well...