Godfather

Godfather

Godfather may refer to:
*Godparent, the original meaning from which others arose
*"The Godfather" (album), an album by Hector El Father featuring many artists.
*"The Godfather" (novel), a 1969 novel by Mario Puzo about the fictitious Italian Mafia family headed by Don Vito Corleone
**"The Godfather", the 1972 film based on the novel
**"The Godfather Part II", the 1974 sequel to the first film
**"The Godfather Part III", the third film in the trilogy, released in 1990
**"", a 2006 video game based on the novel and film
**"The Godfather II (video game)", a 2009 video game based on the second film
*Crime boss, as a nickname adopted from the novel of the same name
*"Varalaru - History of Godfather", a 2006 Tamil film starring Ajith Kumar and Asin Thottumkal
*"Godfather" (1991 film), a Malayalam film directed by the Siddique and Lal starring N.N. Pillai, Mukesh, and Innocent Vincent
*Godfather (cocktail), a cocktail made with Italian Amaretto and Scotch whisky
*The Godfather, one of Grimm's Fairy Tales
*The GodFather, a mass music renaming/tagging computer program
*Charles Wright (wrestler), a wrestler who used the pseudonym "The Godfather"
*Godfather (band), a sleaze/funk/hip hop band from Cambridge, UK
*The Godfathers, an alternative rock band from London, England
*God the Father, part of the Christian Trinity

Honorary title

It may also be bestowed as an honorary title to a pioneer in a particular field, especially in musical genres, as:
*Godfather of Soul, James Brown
*Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop
*Godfather of Heavy Metal, Ozzy Osbourne
*Godfather of Funk, George Clinton (funk musician)
*Godfather of Grunge, Neil Young
*Godfather of Irish Music, Tommy Makem
*Godfather of Hip Hop, Afrika Bambaataa
*Godfather of Noyze, Rahzel M. Brown
*Godfather of Latin Jazz, Ray Barretto
*Godfather of Go-go, Chuck Brown
*Godfather of House Music, Frankie Knuckles
*Godfather of Nu Metal, Ross Robinson
*Godfather of Fitness, Jack LaLanne
*Godfather of Cantopop, Roman Tam
*Godfather of Historic Preservation, Charles E. Peterson
*Godfather of Grappling, Gene LeBell
*Godfather of Drum and Bass, Fabio
*Godfather of Gangsta Rap, Eazy-E
*People known as the father or mother of something

ee also

*Godmother (disambiguation)


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