For the third time in less than two months, the city of New Orleans has lost an essential figure in its rich music lineage with the passing of the legendary Art Neville on July 22 at the age ...

Art “Poppa Funk” Neville shaped the sound of New Orleans music for a half-century. The keyboardist and singer co-founded the Meters and the Neville Brothers, two of the most important ...

Art Neville is New Orleans music. He began in a ragtag R&B group called the Hawkettes, which cut a piece of local history with the 1956 record "Mardi Gras Mambo," and went on to record the ...

Art Neville isn’t entirely steady on his feet, but he’s the last man standing on Valence Street. He still rocks the same Uptown block that nurtured the Neville Brothers, New Orleans’ first ...

Art Neville, a giant of New Orleans music who helped co-found the Neville Brothers and the funk outfit the Meters, has died, Nola.com reports. He was 81. Neville’s longtime manager, Kent Sorrell ...

Art Neville, a member of a storied New Orleans musical family who performed with his siblings in The Neville Brothers band and founded the groundbreaking funk group The Meters, died Monday. The ...

Art Neville, the oldest of the Neville Brothers, the seminal New Orleans band, and a fixture of the Louisiana music scene for 65 years, died on Monday at his home in New Orleans. He was 81.

Art Neville, one of the Grammy Award-winning Neville Brothers and a founder of the funk band The Meters, died at his New Orleans home on Monday. He was 81. “It was peaceful,” Kent Sorrell ...

When Art Neville’s passing was announced on Monday, the role he played in the musical heritage of postwar New Orleans was given the kind of close-look appreciation that echoed the introspection ...

I had the Meters, and Aaron had the Soul Machine. Charles was in New York.Not only was their uncle pushing the idea of the Neville Brothers; so was their mother. Among Amelia Nevilles dying wishes was ...

Art Neville, A New Orleans Icon, ... With songs like "Fire on the Bayou" and "Cissy Strut," the Meters became popular both in New Orleans and much further afield.

Three of the Neville Brothers music group Art (far left), Charles and Cyril Neville pose as they arrive at the taping of the 37th annual NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles, California February 25 ...