Known foremost as an exemplary collaborator across genres and generations, Amp Fiddler was above all an R&B musician, a keyboardist who put funk into everything with understated elegance and minimal flash, and a singer who could soothe and galvanize in the same verse. A vital Detroit player and connector for over 40 years, Fiddler came up in the '80s as a touring keyboardist with Enchantment, R.J.'s Latest Arrival, and Was (Not Was) before he entered the Parliament-Funkadelic galaxy. A P-Funk associate for well over a decade, he concurrently stretched out as a versatile sessio...