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Asha Puthli is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Neil Sedaka, Say She She, Ornette Coleman, J.J. Cale and Bill Withers. Those roots explain a lot about how Asha Puthli arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dorothy Ashby, Betty Davis, Rotary Connection, Gwen McCrae and Fatback Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kano, Raveena, P. Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G. and Dilated Peoples, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 46 connections around Asha Puthli, reaching back through Neil Sedaka and forward to Kano. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Asha Puthli is an Indian-born American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress. She moved to New York from Mumbai with a dance scholarship, and in 1970, she was signed to CBS Records and subsequently released several solo albums. Her recordings cover blues, pop, rock, soul, funk, disco, and techno music. She also starred in films by Merchant Ivory and Bruno Corbucci. In 2025, Puthli was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Asha Puthli connections
Asha Puthli grew out of Neil Sedaka, Say She She, Ornette Coleman and J.J. Cale, shares an orbit with Dorothy Ashby, Betty Davis, Rotary Connection and Gwen McCrae, went on to shape Kano, Raveena, P. Diddy and The Notorious B.I.G.. 46 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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