Kool & The Gang People Just Wanna Have Fun

R&B, funk and soul icons Kool & The Gang return in 2023 with the new album, People Just Wanna Have Fun. With six decades of hits, the internationally celebrated group is led by founding members Robert "Kool" Bell (bassist) and George "Funky" Brown (keyboardist, drummer and producer of this album). Continuing to release music that makes the good times better and the bad times more bearable, this collection will be the band's thirty-fourth studio album, featuring some of the last studio work by founding horn players, Kool's brother Ronald "Khalis" Bell and Dennis "D.T." Thomas, who passed in 2020 and 2021. Lead vocals on the album also include Sha Sha Jones, Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole'. Both Bell and Brown view People Just Wanna Have Fun as a summation of their long career, during which they sold 70 million albums worldwide with hit singles like "Celebration," "Ladies Night," "Get Down on It," "Hollywood Swinging" and beyond.