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Fuzzy Haskins

American funk singer (1941–2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins was an American singer. He performed with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments, and was a founding member of 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as Parliament-Funkadelic. He left Parliament-Funkadelic in 1977 to pursue a solo career. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. In 2019, he and Parliament-Funkadelic were given Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fuzzy Haskins” is american funk singer (1941–2023). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fuzzy, Haskins and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1997, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fuzzy, Haskins and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american funk singer (1941–2023)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1997 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fuzzy Haskins” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.