Artists like Cola Boyy

Say She She is an American disco/funk group from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2021. The group is led by classically trained singers Piya Malik, Sabrina Cunningham, and Nya Brown, who are supported by a backing band. Their music, self-described as "discodelic soul" with "dreamy harmonies," prominently combines disco and 70s funk, among other influences. The group cites Nile Rodgers and Chic as major influences on their sound. Their most recent album Cut & Rewind was released in October 2025.

Adrian Quesada is an American musician, producer, and songwriter. He is best known for his work with Black Pumas. Quesada is an eight-time Grammy nominee and won Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album as a member of Grupo Fantasma in 2011. In 2024 he co-wrote and sang “Like A Bird” from the film Sing Sing receiving an Academy Awards nomination for Best Original Song.

The Budos Band is a North American instrumental band from Staten Island, New York, formed in 2005. AllMusic describes the group as a "doom rock Afro-soul big band with a '70s touch" that joins "musical universes from trippy psychedelia and Afro-funk to '70s hard rock and late-'60s soul." They have described themselves as "70's Psychedelic Instrumental Music," and "Afro-soul inspired by Ethiopian music with a soul undercurrent" and "sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top." One press release described the band as “sounding as if Quentin Tarantino was the music supervisor for a Bond film". Their more recent albums have incorporated sounds from 1970s jazz, funk, Afro-Beat, underground rock, and proto-metal. They have been signed to Daptone Records throughout their career.

Louis Maxwell Cole is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and video producer who is the drummer, keyboardist, and bassist of the independent electronic jazz-funk duo Knower. He is speculated to be a member of the avant-garde musical duo Clown Core.

Nu Genea, formerly Nu Guinea, are an Italian musical duo formed in 2014 consisting of musicians Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina.

Vincent Fenton, known professionally as French Kiwi Juice or the abbreviation FKJ, is a French multi-instrumentalist, singer, and musician from the city of Tours. He is known for his solo live performances, where he does live loopings through Ableton Live and showcases his multi-instrumentalist skills. His self-titled debut album, French Kiwi Juice, was released on 3 March 2017.

Busty and the Bass is a music collective founded in Montréal, Canada. The group is known for its approach to a diverse range of musical genres, including soul, jazz, R&B, folk, funk, hip hop, and dance music, and for its signature incorporation of its horn section.

L'Impératrice is a French pop and nu-disco band from Paris, formed in 2012. They are signed to French independent record label microqlima.

Alice Phoebe Lou is a South African musician and singer. She has released six self-funded studio albums to date — Orbit (2016), Paper Castles (2019), Glow (2021), Child's Play (2021), Shelter (2023) and Oblivion (2025) — alongside two live albums, three EPs and various singles.

Sinkane is a Sudanese-American musician who blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop. He is signed to City Slang Records.

Jack Stratton, also known by the mononym Vulfmon, is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and video producer based in Los Angeles. He is best known as the founder and bandleader of the funk band Vulfpeck. He released his first full-length album, Here We Go Jack, in 2022 and has since released three additional albums.

Marc Rebillet is an American electronic musician and YouTuber from Dallas and based in New York City. He is known for his improvised funk, hip-hop, and electronic music with free-flowing, humorous lyrics. He distributes his work primarily through YouTube videos and Twitch live streams using a loop station, keyboard, vocals, and percussion instruments to produce his songs in his apartment. He has released three studio albums under his legal name: Marc Rebillet, Europe, and Loop Daddy III; two extended play records, and three projects under his "leae" moniker: Pod 314, the Rattlebrain EP, and the week | ep.

Ibibio Sound Machine is an English electronic afro-funk band from London. The band currently consists of vocalist Eno Williams, guitarist Alfred Kari Bannerman, percussionist Afla Sackey, drummer Joseph Amoako, bassist Philip PK Ambrose, trombonist/keyboardist Tony Hayden, trumpeter/keyboardist Scott Baylis and saxophonist/keyboardist Max Grunhard.

Neal Francis is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Influenced by classic New Orleans artists such as Dr. John, the Meters, and Allen Toussaint, in addition to Sly Stone, Billy Preston, and Curtis Mayfield, he released his first album in 2019. His second album, In Plain Sight—a "revelatory blast of soul, R&B, and off-the-rails piano jams"—was released on ATO Records in 2021.

ESG is an American dance punk/funk/rock band formed in the South Bronx in 1978. ESG has been influential across a wide range of musical genres, including hip hop, and dance-punk. The band's track "UFO" is one of the most sampled songs in history.