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Candi Staton is a House act. Their sound grew out of K-Klass, Shapeshifters, George Jackson, The 411 and In the Ghetto. Those roots explain a lot about how Candi Staton arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Rose Royce, Gwen McCrae and Anita Ward, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into You Got the Love, Ralph, Moko, Florence + the Machine and The Soul Stirrers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Candi Staton, reaching back through K-Klass and forward to You Got the Love. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Candi Staton connections
Candi Staton grew out of K-Klass, Shapeshifters, George Jackson and The 411, shares an orbit with Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Rose Royce and Gwen McCrae, went on to shape You Got the Love, Ralph, Moko and Florence + the Machine. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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