Editing Fuzzy Haskins (section)

==Early life==
Haskins was born in [[Elkhorn, West Virginia]], and grew up in New Jersey.<ref name = Genzlinger>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/arts/music/fuzzy-haskins-dead.html|title = Fuzzy Haskins, 81, Who Helped Create P-Funk Music, Dies|date = March 24, 2023|accessdate = March 24, 2023|last = Genzlinger|first = Neil|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|page = A21|url-access = limited}}</ref> Starting in the late 1950s, he was a founding member of [[doo wop]] vocal group [[The Parliaments]], led by [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]. The group originated as a [[Barbershop music|barbershop quintet]] in the back room of a barber shop on West 3rd Street in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]].<ref name = Genzlinger/> Haskins often sang lead in the group. They started traveling to [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]] on weekends in order to audition for [[Motown Records]] and to participate in the fertile music scene there {{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}. The Parliaments released [[single (music)|singles]] on several record labels, but did not have a hit until 1967 when "(I Wanna) Testify," on the small Detroit imprint Revilot Records, reached #3 on the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' R&B singles chart. The song was actually recorded by George Clinton and a group called The Holidays, as the other Parliaments didn't make it to Detroit that week. Revilot went out of business, and in the process, the group lost their name, The Parliaments.