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Chocolate Milk

A strutting, colourful funk band who made their name in the late 1970s, Chocolate Milk's squelchy bass lines, swaggering grooves and infectious falsetto hooks were later sampled by many early hip-hop artists. Originally formed in high school by Amadee Castendell, Frank Richard and Mario Tio, the New Orleans friends cut their teeth playing for tourists on Bourbon Street and at local clubs and attracted the attention of legendary producer Allen Toussaint. They backed Toussaint at live shows and worked for him as session musicians on records by Patti LaBelle, Irma Thomas and Lee ...