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“It’s his message, to let the world know how he feels about all the things that’s going on in the world”: Kool and the Gang drummer spent 20 years on a solo album but didn’t live to see its release

George Brown of Kool and the Gang.

Spare a thought for George Brown. A stalwart member of Kool And the Gang – he co-founded the funk and disco legends back in 1964. The drummer had spent twenty years working on a solo album. But sadly, he never got to see its release – he died last November of lung cancer before he could get the project over the line.

The record, Where I’m Coming From, is now being released posthumously. His widow Hanh Brown explained the record is her late husband's "message to the world" and it means a lot to her and their family.

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