Shakatak is an English jazz-funk band founded in 1980[3] by Bill Sharpe, Nigel Wright, Roger Odell and Keith Winter.

[3] This record introduced their instrumental-unison vocal sound[clarification needed] to a much wider audience, and the track stayed in the UK Singles Chart for seventeen weeks.

[4] Jill Saward (formerly of Fusion Orchestra, Brandy and Citizen Gang) became their sole lead singer to make Shakatak's fifth album, Down on the Street (1984).

[6] The band gained a huge popularity in Japan, were they released a series of largely instrumental albums such as Da Makani (1988) exclusively for the Japanese market.

Keyboardist Bill Sharpe worked with American jazz pianist Don Grusin on a joint project called Geography released in 2007.