Let’s Groove: Royalty Free Funk Music

History

Despite the fact that the peak of popularity and heyday of the Funk music came in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, thanks to such performers and musical groups as James Brown, George Clinton and his Funkadelic, a little later Earth, Wind & Fire, Barry White, after, in the 80s, elements of funk music began to be traced in the works of Michael Jackson, Prince, George Michael, Steve Wonder and other world idols.

Funk is a mix of two genres: soul and rhythm and blues (R&B). However, these old school giants laid the foundation for so many new directions with a touch of funk:

• Pop Funk – pop + funk
• Uptown Funk – pop-funk + boogie + electro + soul + disco
• Jazz Funk – jazz + funk
• Soul Funk – soul + funk
• Drum Funk – Drum’n’Bass variation
• Electro Funk – funk + hip-hop performed by using electronic musical instruments (synthesizers, electronic guitar etc.)
• Instrumental Funk – just music, no words (read: just funk, no comments).

Nowadays

Modern performers of funk music cannot achieve the popularity that their predecessors had (sorry, Bruno Mars), but this does not prevent the genre from remaining a favorite of many generations and being the best solution for saving any event or work with musical accompaniment. It is popular, especially among royalty-free funk music creators.

By providing free licenses for funk – no copyright extra fees at the same time – they allow to spread this great sound all over the world. Thanks to royalty-free music services, such as SevenSkiesMusic, this became possible to share your “funky” talent with people all around the world with benefits for both parties: creator monetizes his/her passion, people, who are not able to produce such groove, have an opportunity to buy funk music online.

Areas of application of royalty-free funk music

Purchasing of funk music for commercial use can be helpful if you consistently produce videos for YouTube or/and social media channel(s), look for mixes for your DJ work, explore new ways of sampling for musicians you work with, or if you just a big fan of funk music and want to go away from urban pop dogma toward urban groove relax.

Here are how you can use copyright free music, funk pieces alone or/and as a part of multi-genres combination.

• Royalty Free Funk Beats – ideally for creating funky atmosphere even when listening to classical music.
• Royalty Free Funk Tracks – right for long-track videos, movies, cartoons etc.
• Royalty Free Funk Samples – it’s where you can do your best job with genres-combining.
• Royalty Free Funk Songs – great for contests, auditions, skill exams, where your own work required.
• Royalty Free Funk Loop – cost-effective solution when used for short sketches, Instagram Stories and Reels, TikTok videos etc., combined into a single film after gathering the independent scenes, on which the sound is superimposed.

Explore our expanded music library for funk background music free download, and enjoy it anywhere you are.