Their work with Soul Children as well as some minor releases on a small label resulted in the group being signed by Mercury Records and releasing their 1976 eponymous major label debut. It provided a moderate hit single with "Sho Feels Good To Me," but major acclaim would arrive a year later with the first single from their next album. "Ffun" became an out of the box dance smash, hitting #1 on the Soul charts and leading the album Secrets to gold status.

The prolific group produced a solid string of hits that continued for nearly a decade. Their funky dance numbers such as "Ms. Got the Body," "Chase Me" and the Earth Wind & Fire influenced "Too Tight" were complimented by great slow jams such as "Love's Train" (recently remade by Dru Hill) and their smooth crossover hit, "Baby I'm Hooked."

By 1986, the group had run its course and Pilate left for a successful career as a producer, most notably working with M.C. Hammer. Cooper split a year later and began a notable solo career, scoring big with the singles "To Prove My Love" and "Should Have Been You." In the mid-90s, Cooper and Pilate reunited with some former and some new members to tour again as ConFunkShun, and began a rebirth for the group that has continued to this day, and which included a well received live album for Intersound Records in 1996. Tragically, around that time group co-founder Louis McCall was murdered in Georgia.

The current version of ConFunkShun continues to perform in multi-act funk shows (the group still sounds terrific) and plays at least annually on the Tom Joyner show. The line-up consists of Michael Cooper (lead vocals, guitar), Felton Pilate (lead vocals, trombone, keyboards), Karl Fuller (trumpet), Eric Young (bass), Ron Moton (sax), Kurt Clayton (keyboards) and Darwin Tillary (drums). There have been a number of very good compilations of ConFunkShun's biggest hits, the best of which are the Mercury Records "Funk Essentials" collection The Best of ConFunkShun and the 1998 Ballads Collection. Cooper and Pilate also continue with their solo careers, with Cooper recently releasing Are We Cool and Pilate putting out Nothing But Love Spoken Here.

As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, ConFunkShun is still going strong.  In May, 2008, ConFunkShun celebrated 35 years together with a special anniversary cruise with many of their biggest fans.  A second annual cruise is scheduled for February, 2009. The band also was part of the Legends of Funk show that performed for the troops in Iraq and Kuwait and toured a hospital in Germany.

By Chris Rizik