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Bobby Byrd
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Bobby Byrd (born Bobby Day on August 15, 1934) is an African American funk/soul/R&B/gospel musician, best known as James Brown's longtime sideman and co-vocalist on songs such as "Licking Stick - Licking Stick", "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" and "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved". Byrd also recorded many solo funk tracks, most famously "I Know You Got Soul" (1971), which have been sampled by musicians including Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Ice Cube, LL Cool J and A Tribe Called Quest.
Bobby Byrd and James Brown met in a youth detention facility. It was Bobby Byrd's family that took in James Brown after that.
Byrd was leader of a group called The Avons when Brown joined in the mid-1950s. The Avons later became The Flames, then The Famous Flames, before they were repackaged with Brown as the frontman.
He was married to funk singer Vicki Anderson, another James Brown collaborator. His step-daughter is Carleen Anderson.
In October 2004 Bobby Byrd's songs "I Know You Got Soul" and "Hot Pants" were featured on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack, playing on fictional radio station Master Sounds 98.3. Also, in September 2005 his song "Try It Again" appeared on the soundtrack of Indigo Prophecy.
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