◇ image via WikipediaCaterina Valente
Caterina Valente is a Bossa nova act. Their sound grew out of Bobbejaan Schoepen, Edu Lobo, Thad Jones, Duke Ellington and Sidney Bechet. Those roots explain a lot about how Caterina Valente arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lolita, Connie Francis, Nana Mouskouri, Doris Day and Udo Jürgens, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Caterina Valente, reaching back through Bobbejaan Schoepen and forward to Bing Crosby. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Caterina Valente connections
Caterina Valente grew out of Bobbejaan Schoepen, Edu Lobo, Thad Jones and Duke Ellington, shares an orbit with Lolita, Connie Francis, Nana Mouskouri and Doris Day, went on to shape Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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