About Us

Family Funk is an ultimate leader in event entertainment with a with a spirited group of the finest musicians on offer. Renowned for playing the best of 70s and 80s soul, funk and disco classics as well as many of today’s chart-topping hits performed in the spectacularly distinctive Family Funk style.



The band first found success in 2003, when they were invited to play for HRH Prince William’s 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle. They have also performed alongside Lionel Richie to celebrate 150 years of Louis Vuitton and supported The Scissor Sisters.


Alongside these special events Family Funk are regularly invited to perform at parties in idyllic locations such as the Amalfi Coast, Cannes and Southern France as well as their regular appearances at popular residencies on the London music scene.


Family Funk create an undeniable electrifying impact on-stage with incredible vocalists and a full band comprising a complete horn section, backing vocalists and percussion. Family Funk are guaranteed to fill any dance floor and make every occasion one to remember!


Equally at home playing parties, clubs, weddings, corporate and charity events Family Funk is made up of a select group of in-demand session musicians spanning a wide range of musical backgrounds who have performed at all leading music venues throughout the UK, Europe and worldwide.

Song List

  • Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye/Diana Ross/Roberta Flack
  • Ain’t no stopping us now – McFadden & Whitehead
  • Ain’t no sunshine – Bill Withers
  • Am I the Same Girl - Barbara Acklin
  • Another Star – Stevie Wonder
  • As If – Stevie Wonder
  • Beggin’ – Frankie Valli/Madcon
  • Best of My Love – The Emotions
  • Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
  • Boogie on reggae woman – Stevie Wonder
  • Chain of fools – Aretha Franklin
  • Cupid – Sam Cooke/Amy Winehouse
  • Dancing in the streets – Martha and The Vandellas
  • Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
  • Do I Do – Stevie Wonder
  • Don’t you worry about a thing – Incognito
  • Feeling good – Nina Simone
  • Fell In Love with a Boy – White Stripes/Joss Stone
  • Georgy Porgy – Toto
  • Give Me the Night – George Benson
  • Got to have your Loving – Mantronix
  • Got to be real – Cheryl Lynn
  • Hard to handle – Black Crowes
  • Have a Good Time – Brand New Heavies
  • Heard it through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
  • Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson
  • Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder
  • How Sweet it is (to be loved by you) Marvin Gaye
  • Keep the fires burning – Gwen McRae
  • I can’t get enough of your love baby – Barry White
  • I Feel Good – James Brown
  • I will survive – Gloria Gaynor
  • I Wish – Stevie Wonder
  • It’s Your Thing - Ann Peebles
  • If I ain’t got you – Alicia Keys
  • If you want me to stay – Sly & The Family Stone
  • Kiss – Prince
  • Knock on wood – Eddie Floyd
  • Living in a bottle – Gil Scott Heron
  • Love Train – The OJays
  • Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett
  • Moment of my Life – Inner City (feat. Jocelyn Brown)
  • Move on up – Curtis Mayfield
  • My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small
  • My first, my last, my everything – Barry White
  • My girl – The Temptations
  • Never Too Much – Luther Vandross
  • Nowhere to run – Martha Reeves and The Vandellas
  • No no no – Dawn Penn
  • Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – Temptations
  • Piece of my heart – Janis Joplin
  • Proud Mary – Tina Turner
  • Rescue Me – Aretha Franklin
  • Respect – Aretha Franklin
  • Rock with You – Michael Jackson
  • Sex machine – James Brown
  • Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
  • Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
  • Some kind of Wonderful – Joss Stone
  • Son of a Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
  • Stand by me – Ben E. King
  • Sunny – Bobby Hebb
  • Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
  • Sweet Thing – Chaka Khan
  • Street Life – Randy Crawford
  • Superstition – Stevie Wonder
  • Super Duper Love – Joss Stone
  • Take me to the River – Al Green
  • Teardrops – Womack & Womack
  • The House that Jack Built - Aretha Franklin
  • The Weight - Aretha Franklin
  • Twenty Five Miles - Edwin Starr
  • Think – Aretha Franklin
  • Thinking of you – Sister Sledge
  • Too Hard to Handle – Otis Redding
  • Twisting the night away – Sam Cooke
  • Turn your love around – George Benson
  • We are family – Sister Sledge
  • You are the sunshine of my life – Stevie Wonder
  • You can’t hurry love – The Supremes
  • You to me are everything – The Real Thing
  • Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton
  • Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
  • What a Man - Linda Lyndell

SOUL/R&B

  • Ain’t Nobody – Rufus & Chaka Khan
  • All This Love I’m Giving – Gwen McRae
  • Always There – Incognito
  • And the Beat Goes On – Fatback Band
  • Back To My Roots – Odyssey
  • Boogie Oogie – Taste of Honey
  • Blame It On The Boogie – The Jackson’s
  • Candy – Cameo
  • Carwash – Rose Royce
  • Celebration – Kool & Gang
  • Disco Inferno – The Tramps
  • Funky Nassau – Beginning of the End
  • Good Times – Chic
  • Heartbreak Hotel – Michael Jackson
  • Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
  • I Believe in Miracles – Jackson Sisters
  • I Feel For You – Chaka & Rufus
  • I’m coming out – Diana Ross/Chic
  • I’m every woman – Chaka Khan
  • I wanna be your lover – Prince
  • Jamaica Funk – Tom Browne
  • Joyous (instrumental) – Pleasure
  • Jungle Boogie – Kool and the Gang
  • Keep the fires Burning – Gwen McRae
  • Lady Marmalade – Labelle
  • Le Freak – Chic
  • Let’s Groove – Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Master Blaster – Stevie Wonder
  • Outstanding – The Gap Band
  • Pick up the Pieces (instrumental) – Average White Band
  • PYT – Michael Jackson
  • Relight my Fire – Dan Hartman
  • Rock Steady – Aretha Franklin
  • September – Earth Wind & Fire
  • Shake your body (Down to the ground) – The Jacksons
  • Sing a song – Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Somebody Else’s Guy – Jocelyn Brown
  • Soulpower (instrumental) – Maceo Parker
  • Still Waiting – The Grey Boy All Stars
  • Tell me something good – Rufus & Chaka
  • Tenor Man – The Grey Boy All Stars
  • Time Is On My Side – Maze
  • Upside down – Diana Ross
  • Use Me – Bill Withers

FUNK/DISCO

  • Ain’t no other man – Christina Aguilera
  • All about that bass – Meghan Trainor
  • All night Long - Lionel Richie
  • American Boy – Estelle
  • Bad Habit - Ed Sheeran
  • Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke
  • Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
  • Come Together -The Beatles
  • Closer- Neyo
  • Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
  • Crazy in Love – Beyonce
  • Deja Vu – Beyonce
  • Diamonds – Rihanna
  • Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa 
  • Don’t stop believing – Journey
  • Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
  • Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
  • Finally – Ce Ce Peniston
  • Forget You – Cee-Lo Green
  • Get Back - The Beatles
  • Get down saturday night – Oliver Cheatham
  • Get Lucky – Daft Punk
  • Golden – Jill Scott
  • Happy – Pharrell
  • Heaven – Emeli Sande
  • Hotel California – The Eagles
  • I got a feeling – Black Eyed Peas
  • I wanna dance with Somebody – Whitney Houston
  • I’m so excited – The Pointer Sisters
  • I’m yours – Jason Mraz
  • I need a dollar – Aloe Blacc
  • Is this Love – Bob Marley
  • Just Dance – Lady Gaga
  • Lady (Hear me tonight) – Modjo
  • Let's Dance - David Bowie 
  • Locked out of Heaven – Bruno Mars
  • Long Train running – Doobie Bros
  • Love on top – Beyonce
  • Love the one you’re with - Crosby, Stills & Nash
  • Love will keep us together – Captain & Tenille
  • Marry you – Bruno Mars
  • Mercy – Duffy
  • Moves like Jagger – Maroon 5
  • Nine to Five - Dolly Parton
  • Only girl in the world – Rihanna
  • Rehab – Amy Winehouse
  • Runaway Baby – Bruno Mars
  • Satisfaction - The Stones
  • Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
  • Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon
  • Shape of You - Ed Sheeran
  • Show Me Love - Robin S
  • Shivers - Ed Sheeran 
  • Sing it back – Moloko
  • Smooth – Santana
  • Stuck in the middle – Steelers Wheel
  • Smooth – Santana
  • Teenage dream – Katy Perry
  • The Way you make me feel - Michael Jackson
  • Treasure – Bruno Mars
  • Use Somebody - Kings of Leon 
  • Uptown Funk – Bruno Mars
  • Valerie – Amy Winehouse/The Zutons
  • You got the love – Candi Staton
  • You Make Loving Fun - Fleetwood Mac
  • We can work it out – Beatles/Stevie Wonder
  • Working day & night – The Jackson’s

POP/DANCE

  • Agua de bebe - Astrud Gilberto
  • All of me - Billie Holliday
  • Ascension – Maxwell
  • At Last – Etta James
  • Baby I love you – Aretha Franklin
  • Besame Mucho – Cesaria Evora
  • Can’t take my eyes off you – Frankie Valli
  • Cantaloupe Island – Herbie Hancock
  • Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
  • Englishman in New York - Sing
  • Fallen – Randy Crawford
  • Feel like making love – Roberta Flack
  • Feel Like Making Love - George Benson
  • Fever – Peggy Lee
  • Fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra
  • For your love – Stevie Wonder
  • Georgia – Ray Charles
  • Have I told you lately – Van Morrison
  • Human Nature - Michael Jackson
  • If I ain’t got you – Alicia Keys
  • I’m yours – Jason Mraz
  • I Can’t Help it - Michael Jackson
  • I got you babe – Sonny & Cher
  • I say a little prayer for you – Aretha Franklin
  • Isn’t she lovely – Stevie Wonder
  • It had to be you – Frank Sinatra
  •  It only Happens - Aretha Franklin
  • Just the Two of Us – Bill Withers
  • Just the way you are – Bruno Mars
  • Lately – Stevie Wonder
  • Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole
  • Let it flow – Grover Washington Jnr
  • Let’s stay together – Al Green
  • Little Sunflower – Freddie Hubbard
  • Lullaby of Bird Land - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Make me a memory – Grover Washington Jnr
  • Make you feel my love – Adele
  • Marry You – Bruno Mars
  • Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes
  • Memphis Underground – Herbie Mann
  • Moon dance – Van Morrison
  • My baby just cares for you – Nina Simone
  • My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
  • My First My Last My Everything – Barry White
  • My girl – The Temptations
  • Moon dance – Van Morrison
  • Mr Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jnr
  • My Funny Valentine - Chaka Khan
  • Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
  • Nature Boy – George Benson
  • Next to me – Emeli Sande
  • Ordinary people – John Legend
  • Our Day will come – Ruby & The Rubettes/Amy Winehouse
  • Our love is here to stay - Ella Fitzgerald
  • Put your records on – Corrine Bailey Rae
  • Sign your name – Terence Trent Darby
  • Smile - Nat King Cole/Natalie cole
  • Smooth Operator - Sadé
  • Something Something – Maxwell
  • Stand by me – Ben E. King
  • Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald
  • Sunny – Bobby Hebb
  • Sweet Love – Anita Baker
  • Sweet Thing – Chaka Khan
  • The girl from Ipanema – Tom Jobim
  • The lady in my life – Michael Jackson
  • The look of love – Diana Krall
  • The way you look tonight – Frank Sinatra
  • Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
  • Unchained Melody – The Righteous Bros
  • Watermelon Man – Herbie Hancock
  • What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong
  • What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
  • When a man loves a woman – Percy Sledge
  • Wine Light – Grover Washington Jnr
  • Wish I didn’t miss you – Angie Stone
  • You are the sunshine of my life – Stevie Wonder
  • You give me something – James Morrison
  • You Send Me - Sam Cooke
  • Your Love is King – Sade
  • Your Song – Elton John
  • What a difference a day makes - Dinah Washington

JAZZ/DINNER MUSIC/FIRST DANCES

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