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Art Neville formed the Meters in New Orleans in 1965. The funk band would exist in many incarnations into the 2010s.

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Next, Neville formed Art Neville and the Neville Sounds with brothers Aaron and Cyril. By 1965, that band morphed into the Meters, which created New Orleans funk. As the house band for Allen Toussaint ...