The Grooveline

The Grooveline PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT LEGENDS SINCE 1995!
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RIP... 🙏🥺
14/10/2025

RIP... 🙏🥺

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

Trail blazer...
06/10/2025

Trail blazer...

Don Cornelius once turned down a million-dollar buyout from Dick Clark — because he refused to let a white producer own the image of Black music. Clark had tried to launch a rival show in the early 1970s, hoping to cash in on Soul Train’s momentum. Cornelius saw it for what it was: cultural theft dressed up as opportunity. He not only said no — he doubled down, syndicating Soul Train himself, a radical move for a Black entrepreneur in an industry run almost entirely by white executives. It worked. His gamble made him one of the most powerful independent producers in television.
Cornelius’s entire life was stitched from defiance. He was a Chicago cop before television, hustling side gigs in radio until he scraped together enough money to rent studio space for a local dance show. He filled it with neighborhood kids in Afros and bell-bottoms, filmed it on shoestring equipment, and brought in local soul acts. Sponsors told him it was “too Black” for national TV. Cornelius smiled and kept building. Within two years, Soul Train was a national phenomenon — and for the first time, Black kids saw themselves as stars on Saturday mornings, not stereotypes.
What the cameras didn’t show was Cornelius’s iron grip. He controlled the dancers’ look, their moves, even their personal lives. He once pulled a rising singer aside and told her bluntly, “You can’t come on Soul Train looking like that.” He was feared, but also respected — because people knew he was protecting the brand, guarding it against the whitewashing that devoured so much Black culture.
He also used the platform to quietly shift America. Afros, dashikis, hip-hop… Soul Train made them mainstream long before Madison Avenue dared to touch them. Cornelius put q***r dancers front and center in an era when TV erased them. He insisted advertisers film spots featuring Black models — turning the commercial breaks into another kind of revolution.
But the untold story is how much it cost him. He suffered migraines so severe he sometimes couldn’t host. He struggled with depression, later confessing he felt trapped by the empire he’d built. By the 2000s, he seemed haunted, his famous sign-off — “Peace, love, and soul” — sounding less like a blessing than a plea.
Don Cornelius was both gatekeeper and liberator, tyrant and visionary. He fought off cultural vultures, built the most radical Black stage in television history, and paid for it with his own peace of mind.

30/09/2025

Pop Fiction takes a fun wedding to another level!!! 🚀🎶
(Stick around for the crowd surfing at the end! 😜)

RIP ICON... 🤘😞🤘
22/07/2025

RIP ICON... 🤘😞🤘

Osbourne's family says he was "surrounded by love" when he died, just weeks after his farewell gig in his hometown of Birmingham.

I'll be rocking Vallejo with the awesome Pop Fiction this Friday the 27th! Come get your dance on!!!
24/06/2025

I'll be rocking Vallejo with the awesome Pop Fiction this Friday the 27th! Come get your dance on!!!

This Friday, June 27th - Pop Fiction at Vallejo's Bands & Brews!
Blue Rock Springs Park
650 Columbus Pkwy, Vallejo, CA
6:30 - 8 PM. Free Show - All ages welcome

Another super fun, POPtastic gig with Pop Fiction at the Sweetwater!
15/06/2025

Another super fun, POPtastic gig with Pop Fiction at the Sweetwater!

Absolute genius. RIP...
11/06/2025

Absolute genius. RIP...

Brian Wilson, the co-founder of the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.

Pre gig feast! Delicious! Fueled and ready to rock!!! 🤘😋🤘
06/06/2025

Pre gig feast! Delicious! Fueled and ready to rock!!!
🤘😋🤘

18/04/2025

🤘🎺🤘 Lemmy would approve...

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THE Grooveline

THE Grooveline show is not your ordinary "cover band." Their mix of contemporary dance hits with 70s Disco, 80s New Wave/Dance, and 90 Dance Hits, as well as Rock Favorites, is legendary for bringing riotous life to even the most staid of events. And the music is just the half of it! THE Grooveline is world renowned for their audience engagement. They pride themselves on making the audience feel like they are included in every part of the show - from song choice to dance moves to the evening's flow. A recent Grooveline show at Atlantis the Bahamas went from the scheduled two and half hours to a whopping three hours and forty-five minutes, with no sign of slowing down from the band or the audience. This is not uncommon for Grooveline shows.

THE Grooveline has been one of the world’s premier cover shows, entertaining ecstatic audiences across the globe, for over twenty-five years. Venues as far and wide as the Louvre in Paris, Piccadilly Circus in London, the Copacabana in Rio De Janeiro, the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, and The French Riviera in Monaco. Past and present clients have included Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, The San Francisco 49ers, Eddie DeBartolo and Family, The NFL, Cisco Systems, Michael Dell and family, as well as countless stars from across Hollywood and the world of sports. Events include multiple Olympics and Super Bowls (for NBC and Sports Illustrated). From 1995 to 1999 Grooveline was the house band at Rob Schneider’s DNA Lounge Night Club in San Francisco, sharing the stage with legendary stars Prince, the Red-Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Farley, and many more.

THE Grooveline show can be tailored to the needs of any event - whatever the theme or requirements (with enough notification.) And although the core consists of the four original members, other frequent members can be added to include female singers (one or more,) horn section, keyboards, percussion, etc. based on the client's wants and needs.