Today we lose another New Orleans music legend. According to sources close to his family, Art Neville died Monday morning. He suffered years of declining health. He spent a half-century shaping the sound of New Orleans music. He was keyboardist, singer and a founding member of the Meters and the Neville Brothers. He was the voice of the Carnival season anthem “Mardi Gras Mambo”, and the classic “Tell It Like It Is”,
A list of hits include: “Hey Pocky A-Way”, “Fire on the Bayou”, “People Say”, “Cissy Strut”, and many more to his credit.
“Papa Funk,” as he would later be called, was 81.
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