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Liberty Funk Productions started in the late 90's as an off-shoot of the incredible UK funk band Liberty.
The band Liberty was founded in the 80's, and at the root of this UK funk outfit is Kevin Sutherland aka KeviKev.
Kevin first started his musical career playing Keyboards in the pentecostal church band and from there learned to play; trombone, guitar, bass and drums.
Whilst at school Kevin started his first band and it evolved over the years into the well-known UK funk band Liberty, who went on to have success in the early to mid 90's with releases such as "My Girl" and "A Rose By Any Other Name". They featured on many UK radio stations such as Kiss and ChoiceFM and won the Capital Radio Band Of The Year - the equivalent to today's reality TV shows like "Americal Idol".
Liberty went on to tour and supported Artists such as Wet, Wet, Wet, Jamiroquai and La Toya Jackson at various arenas and festivals all over Europe.
Liberty were last in the public eye fighting for their name in the High Court of Justice in 2002. Unfortunately, runners up of a reality TV show pop band "flopstars" signed by Richard Branson's label, V2, decided to use the name without authorisation and found themselves in court. The intellectual property rights of the one and only true LIBERTY remain protected as they won their case on a "passing off" basis! The pop band "flopstars" had to change their name.
This battle with the UK justice system, inspired Liberty to write new material and focus on producing other Artists and thus Liberty Funk Productions was born. Over the last few years they have worked with Artists such as;
Craig David, Lemar, Jamelia, Basement Jaxx, Heatwave, Rose Royce, Odyssey, Alexander O'Neal, Shola Ama, Bond, Jamiroquai, Kathy Brown, Nicole Russo, KayJay and many others earning themselves a fierce reputation in the music industry for being hardcore business men (with shit-hot lawyers!) and incredible musicians and producers! But most of all they have integrity (rare in this day and age) and a passion for what they do - they're real asset to anyone they work with.
Liberty, as a band, have since taken a sabbatical (raising families etc.) but will be writing and recording new material in 2007 with a view to touring again, so watch this space....! It ain't over til the fat lady sings.....!!
Liberty Funk Productions pride themselves on creating real music, with real musicians and have established their own definitive sound that can be heard on many commercial records. This sound still influences many up and coming UK Artists who truly know and respect their funk roots!
Kevin has been busy this year producing & co-writing a 7-track EP "Intuition" for the UK's funkiest female artist, KayJay who is already riding high on the success of her No.13 dancefloor smash hit - "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" - which also happens to feature a retro rap by Kevin himself!
Liberty Funk just keeps on groovin'...!!