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Anita Ward is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Stacy Lattisaw and Frederick Knight. Those roots explain a lot about how Anita Ward arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Amii Stewart, Cheryl Lynn, A Taste of Honey, Thelma Houston and Andrea True Connection, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into A Taste of Honey, L'Impératrice, INOJ, Stacy Lattisaw and Snap!, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Anita Ward, reaching back through Stacy Lattisaw and forward to A Taste of Honey. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Anita Ward (sources differ) is an American singer and musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Beginning her professional music career in the late 1970s, Ward is best known for her 1979 million-selling chart-topper R&B/Disco hit "Ring My Bell": it was no. 1 on the United States Hot 100, R&B, and Dance charts, and in the United Kingdom.
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Anita Ward connections
Anita Ward grew out of Stacy Lattisaw and Frederick Knight, shares an orbit with Amii Stewart, Cheryl Lynn, A Taste of Honey and Thelma Houston, went on to shape A Taste of Honey, L'Impératrice, INOJ and Stacy Lattisaw. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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