George Clinton

CTL-E-6016 · Person · musician · 1955–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07245 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6016.

George Edward Clinton, born July 22, 1941, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, is the singer, songwriter, producer, and bandleader who built Parliament-Funkadelic, the defining collective of funk. As a teenager he formed the doo-wop group the Parliaments while working in a Plainfield barbershop, and later worked as a Motown staff songwriter. In the 1970s he directed two bands drawn from one pool of musicians: Parliament, with its horn-driven dance funk and Mothership stage spectacle, and Funkadelic, with its psychedelic guitar rock, together developing P-Funk's mix of Afrofuturist imagery, surreal humor, and dance-floor discipline. He launched a solo career with Computer Games in 1982, home of 'Atomic Dog,' and his catalog became a foundation sample source for hip-hop and G-funk. Clinton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic, and in 2019 he and the collective received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards.

The record

• Also known as: George Edward Clinton, Dr. Funkenstein

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no George Clinton entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6016 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 11 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1096). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — National popular-music record; P-Funk's Chicago relevance runs through the graph's funk and sampling lineages rather than residence. Vital status: LIVING — verified: a July 2026 Men's Journal report marks his 85th birthday and describes him as still active; Wikipedia lists years active as 1955–present. No tribute language used. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Chart count as reported by Men's Journal (July 2026): 40 hit R&B singles, including No. 1 records 'Flash Light,' 'One Nation Under a Groove,' 'Aqua Boogie,' and '(Not Just) Knee Deep' — a single secondary source; no competing count found in the sources read, and the figure is attributed rather than stated as CTL-verified. MEDIA: photo HELD (Named candidate: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1997 induction photograph of Parliament-Funkadelic (Hall of Fame media collection; rights unverified — PHOTO-001 record required, HELD). named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6016-george-clinton.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No Short in the Shorts Link Map has George Clinton as its subject. No video attached.) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Funkadelic — related to
  George Clinton founded and led Funkadelic (Person/group CTL-E-5287) as the guitar-rock arm of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective he directed.
• Parliament — related to
  George Clinton founded and led the Parliaments, the group that became Parliament (Person/group CTL-E-5289); documented professional relationship, Clinton as founder-leader.

Sources

• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Parliament-Funkadelic inductee page — 1997 induction, George Clinton named among the sixteen inductees, the collective's place in funk history — http://rockhall.com/inductees/parliament-funkadelic/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, George Clinton (funk musician) — born July 22, 1941, Kannapolis; Plainfield upbringing; Parliaments barbershop origins; Computer Games 1982; 2019 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(funk_musician) (build store)
• Men's Journal, 'How Old Is George Clinton?' (July 2026) — turns 85 on July 22, 2026 and still active; 40 hit R&B singles including 'Flash Light' and 'One Nation Under a Groove' — https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/how-old-is-george-clinton-birthday (build store)

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