Their position in pop history is as among the most versatile soul bands to spring forth from the fertile years of the seventies. With ten gold and/or platinum albums (seven of which were #1 R&B charters) and eight #1 charting R&B singles (five of which went multi platinum), Rufus' material spanned from the sublime balladry of "Sweet Thing" and "Hollywood" to the hard-thumpin’ grooves of "Ain’t Nobody" and "Tell Me Something Good." Over a total of thirteen albums (ten with Chaka), Rufus honed a fierce reputation that resulted in them sharing stages with everyone from Santana and the Commodores to Elton John and the Rolling Stones. It’s so sad they couldn’t do it but we donated to their school and ended up going with a choir in Los Angeles which was such a beautiful experience to see them singing it.Legendary band Rufus label "funk band" does not begin to describe the multi-faceted musical legacy of Rufus, the ever-changing interracial group formed in the seventies that launched vocal superstar Chaka Khan. “We had this children’s choir in Melbourne all set up to go but the day before they were booked to sing, Melbourne went down into lockdown again. “Obviously with Tyrone becoming a new father, during the process of making the record we started talking about having a children’s choir in there both to capture that sense of new innocence but also of us kind of washing ourselves clean of the past,” George says. With added children’s choir on the single Next To Me. Musically, it remains quintessentially Rufus, straddling the electronic pop spectrum from darker soundscapes to euphoric melodic release. Fisher folk like Clarion Fracture Zone, Wanderlust, Bernie McGann, Ten Part Invention, and many others have come on board. Over the years it’s become something like a dugong, dipping and searching for food. Rufus Records has floundered along since 1993.
But his influence on country music and one particular performer in particular, Hank Williams, has been documented through the years. Welcome to Rufus Records an adventurous Australian jazz label.
Three years later, Surrender is a far more romantic record in the wake of the Rufus du Sol singer marrying his partner Malorie and welcoming their son Ziggy. Rufus Payne may not have really been a hillbilly music singer or performer in the strictest sense of the word.
Solace was a darker musical affair, the lyrics heavily weighted by Lindqvist’s emotional turmoil after a break-up.
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