George Clinton – the contemporary of John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, was born in North Carolina, grew up in New Jersey and later in Florida. At the beginning of his musical career he wrote song for the first afro-american label Motown. Still a teenager he formed his first band, the Parliaments, later re-named Parliement. At the same time he founded a more funk oriented band, the Funkadelic, with whom he recorded his first hits such as I Wanna Testify.