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After being kicked out of the quintet <ref>officially for staying too long in Brazil on his honeymoon; the real reasons we can't really guess</ref>, Hancock restarted his solo career. He proved to be just as experimental and wide-ranging as his mentor Davis, incorporating [[Funk]], rock and [[Soul]] into his music and becoming the first jazz musician to fully embrace synthesizers and electric keyboards. With his 1974 album ''Head Hunters'', he helped pioneer jazz fusion and obtained another [[Signature Song]], "Chameleon". He moved in a more pop-oriented direction in the late seventies (which is frequently regarded as a [[Seasonal Rot]] by fans and critics), then in an electronic-industrial style alongside Bill Laswell in [[The Eighties]] (which gave him another big hit, "Rockit"), before returning to fusion and experimentalism in [[The Nineties]], where he's stayed since. He won a Grammy in 2007 for his album of [[Cover Version|Cover Versions]] ''River: The [[Joni Mitchell|Joni]] Letters''.

 

* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: The hip-hop-electro-industrial hit "Rockit".

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Sampled Up]]: It's happened a few times - "Bring Down the Birds" (for "Groove Is in the Heart" by Deee-Lite), "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" (for "All Nite (Don't Stop)" by Janet Jackson), the ''Head Hunters'' version of "Watermelon Man" (Sanctuary" by Madonna) and "Cantaloupe Island" (for [[US 3]]'s "Cantaloop").

* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: Appeared in an episode where he showed off the capabilities of electronic synthesizers.

* [[Signature Song]]: "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Chameleon" and "Rockit".

* [[Surreal Music Video]]: "Rockit".

 

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