◇ image via WikipediaAlexandra Burke
Alexandra Burke is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Freemasons, Cheryl Cole, Chase & Status, Whitney Houston and The Jackson 5. Those roots explain a lot about how Alexandra Burke arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Saturdays, Leona Lewis, Cheryl, Nicole Scherzinger and Cheryl Cole, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into JLS, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 59 connections around Alexandra Burke, reaching back through Freemasons and forward to JLS. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She won the fifth series of the talent television show The X Factor in 2008. Following the show, she was signed to Syco Music and released the winner's single "Hallelujah", which became the European record holder for the most singles sold over a period of 24 hours, selling 105,000 in one day, and became the top-selling single of 2008 in the UK and the UK's Christmas 2008 number one.
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Alexandra Burke connections
Alexandra Burke grew out of Freemasons, Cheryl Cole, Chase & Status and Whitney Houston, shares an orbit with The Saturdays, Leona Lewis, Cheryl and Nicole Scherzinger, went on to shape JLS. 59 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Alexandra Burke
Sounds and acts that shaped Alexandra Burke.
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Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Alexandra Burke.
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