Ivan "Funkboy" Bodley is bass player and Musical Director to the stars. He has performed with 17 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame™ inductees and counting. He has traveled to 24 countries around the world so far playing to audiences of up to 30,000 in situations ranging from jazz duos to 150-member symphony orchestras.

He is musical director with Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave), The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Tokens and has performed with artists like The Uptown Horns, Peter Wolf, Solomon Burke, Bo Diddley, Gloria Gaynor, Buster Poindexter, Percy Sledge, and Rufus and Carla Thomas, to name but a few. He is also a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music.

Ivan is a creative and versatile bassist, performer, producer, musical director, composer, arranger, vocalist, and instructor. He plays acoustic, electric, fretted, fretless, four-string, five-string, eight-string, and piccolo basses. He has solid professional experience in diverse musical genres: hip-hop to bebop.