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Bill Champlin is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Ambrosia, Richard Page, Lee Ritenour, Michel Berger and Joseph Williams. Those roots explain a lot about how Bill Champlin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Pages, Finis Henderson, Dare, Average White Band and Jim Messina, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kim Carnes, Earth Wind and Fire, George Benson, REO Speedwagon and Al Jarreau, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Bill Champlin, reaching back through Ambrosia and forward to Kim Carnes. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bill Champlin connections
Bill Champlin grew out of Ambrosia, Richard Page, Lee Ritenour and Michel Berger, shares an orbit with Pages, Finis Henderson, Dare and Average White Band, went on to shape Kim Carnes, Earth Wind and Fire, George Benson and REO Speedwagon. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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