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Robert Kool Bell
real name Robert Earl Bell
Youngstown, United States
Robert Kool Bell is credited on 1,250 releases across 527 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,250
Credits
527
Albums
6
Decades active
1,488
In collections
Biography
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American singer, bassist and founding member of Kool & The Gang, born 8 October 1950 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
Brother of Ronald Bell.
Also known by his Muslim name Muhammad Bayyan and as Kool.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,250 releases · 527 albums · active 1970–2025
- Performance · 1,607
- Other credits · 28
- Production · 5
Studios: Mediasound · The Hit Factory · Flyte Tyme Studios · Sony Music Studios, New York City
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Illmatic
1994
The Chronic
1992
Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track)
1977
Ready To Die
1994
Midnight Marauders
1993
Pulp Fiction (Music From The Motion Picture)
1994
Voodoo
2000
All Eyez On Me
1996
To The 5 Boroughs
2004
Do They Know It's Christmas?
1984
Beats, Rhymes And Life
1996
The Anthology
1999
Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
1993
Greatest Hits
1998
Fishscale
2006
Special
2022
Emergency
1984
Celebrate!
1980
janet.
1993
Welcome 2 America
2021
I Am...
1999
Game Theory
2006
Ladies' Night
1979
Amplified
1999
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kool & The Gang
- Kool And The Gang
- Kylie
- Robert Palmer
- Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
- Nas
- P.O.V.
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