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Anita Baker is a House act. Their sound grew out of George Duke, Dianne Reeves, Emotions, Nathan East and Mary Wells. Those roots explain a lot about how Anita Baker arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Miki Howard, Toni Braxton, DeBarge, Mary J. Blige and Rufus, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elle Varner, Dangerously in Love 2, Joe Sample, The Manhattan Transfer and Cina Soul, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Anita Baker, reaching back through George Duke and forward to Elle Varner. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Anita Baker connections
Anita Baker grew out of George Duke, Dianne Reeves, Emotions and Nathan East, shares an orbit with Miki Howard, Toni Braxton, DeBarge and Mary J. Blige, went on to shape Elle Varner, Dangerously in Love 2, Joe Sample and The Manhattan Transfer. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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