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"Free Your Mind" is a song by American female group En Vogue from their second album, Funky Divas (1992). The track was composed and produced by Foster and McElroy. [citation needed] They were inspired by the Funkadelic song "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow."
The album and its title track, a feedback-drenched number taking a third of the album's length, introduces the subversion of Christian themes explored on later songs, describing a mystical approach to salvation in which "the Kingdom of Heaven is within" and achievable through freeing one's mind, after which one's "ass" will follow.
Foster & McElroy are best known as the founders of the group En Vogue, [3] listed by Billboard as one of the Top 10 Girl Groups of All Time. [4] In addition to producing music for various television shows, they are also credited for songs in numerous movie soundtracks including The Great White Hype , Lean on Me , and Who's That Girl .
Funky Divas is the second studio album by American recording group En Vogue, released by Atlantic Records division East West on March 24, 1992, in the United States. . Conceived after the success of their Grammy Award–nominated debut album Born to Sing (1990), En Vogue reteamed with their founders Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy to work on the ent
Free Your Mind may refer to: Free Your Mind (Cut Copy album), 2013; Free Your Mind (Maliq & D'Essentials album), 2007; Free Your Mind (MTV award), an award granted by MTV "Free Your Mind" (song), a 1992 song by En Vogue; Free Your Mind, a 2009 EP by Anarbor; Free Your Mind 33, a 1998 album by Dragon Ash; Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will ...
Hardcore Jollies was released one month after Funkadelic's final album for Westbound Records, Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, which was recorded during the same sessions. Hardcore Jollies was the last Parliament-Funkadelic studio album to include three of the original members of The Parliaments: Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas.
One Nation Under a Groove is the tenth studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic, released on September 22, 1978, on Warner Bros. Records.Recording sessions took place at United Sound Studio in Detroit, with one song recorded live on April 15, 1978, at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana. [10]
Funkadelic signed to Westbound in 1968. Around this time, the group's music evolved from soul and doo wop into a harder guitar-driven mix of psychedelic rock, soul and funk, much influenced by the popular musical (and political) movements of the time. Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, The MC5, and Vanilla Fudge were major inspirations. [3]