NEW YORK — Funk musicians often speak, and sing, of the style in spiritual language. The funk, they say, will set you free; it will fill you with its irresistible power; it’s indestructible.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Garry Shider from Parliament and Funkadelic has died at age 56. The legendary guitarist known to fans as “Starchild” or “Diaperman” had been battling brain and ...

Garry Marshall Shider, iconic diaper-clad singer and guitarist and right-hand to George Clinton in the Parliament/Funkadelic menagerie, died on June 16, 2010 from complications stemming from an ...

Parliament–Funkadelic‘s Garry Shider, a 1997 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away yesterday of complications from cancer, The Star Ledger reports. He was 56. Known to fans as both ...

Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and rhythmically powerful playing provided one of the pillars of the influential Parliament-Funkadelic sound of the 1970s and ...

His habit of wearing a loincloth onstage earned him the nickname "Diaperman." But there was nothing infantile about Garry Shider's approach to the funk. The Plainfield native and Rock and Roll Hall of ...

Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament-Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56. Mr. Shider was known to millions of fans as ...

Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament-Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56. By Billboard Staff Legendary funk guitarist Garry ...

Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and earned him a spot in the ...

TRENTON, N.J.TRENTON, N.J. — Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe ...