Lige Curry, the eldest of 6 siblings, developed a passion for music at an early age, influenced at home by his mother being an avid music lover. Lige started out singing and playing guitar for his many aunts, uncles and grandparents and he shortly picked up the bass guitar. Playing for the church was one of his early outlets, as well as performing for company at home. Blues, Pop and Gospel music filled his early learning years.
13 year-old Lige and his cousins formed a that over time became The Electric Sparks Band, which lead to a chance encounter with one of their musical hero’s at an after party given by a band member. George Clinton and P-Funk attended the after party, and The Electric Sparks Band performed a P-Funk classic, Maggot Brain, which impressed Mr. Clinton. Lige’s older cousin, Michael Hampton, was offered a job with P-Funk, and later became know as Kid Funkadelic.
Lige was asked to join P-Funk in 1978 as a back- up singer. He started studying with then P-Funk bassists, Bootsy Collins and Billy (Bass) Nelson, as well as current bassist Rodney (Skeets) Curtis and Cordell (Boogie) Mosson. Opportunity knocked that same year when Skeets Curtis left to take a job with the famous Maceo Parker and Boogie Mosson moved over to guitar the door was open for the Lige Curry Adventure to begin! Several decades later, you can see Lige perform at Word of South as part of the 70th Anniversary of P-Funk line-up, a free event in the Adderley Amphitheater, Saturday April 5.