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Robert Kool 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
Pressings credited
527
Albums
6
Decades active
1,362
In collections
Biography
Robert Earl "Kool" Bell (born October 8, 1950), also known by the name Muhammad Bayyan, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is the last surviving founding member of the American R&B, soul, funk and disco band Kool & the Gang.
Bio from Wikipedia
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
To The 5 Boroughs
2004
All Eyez On Me
1996
Do They Know It's Christmas?
1984
The Anthology
1999
Beats, Rhymes And Life
1996
Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
1993
Greatest Hits
1998
Celebrate!
1980
Fishscale
2006
Special
2022
Emergency
1984
Welcome 2 America
2021
I Am...
1999
janet.
1993
Ladies' Night
1979
Game Theory
2006
Blank Face LP
2016
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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