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Club Nouveau is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Oh Happy Day and Bill Withers. Those roots explain a lot about how Club Nouveau arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Pebbles, Paula Abdul, Will to Power, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and DeBarge, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Luniz, Puff Daddy, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. and Doggumentary, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Club Nouveau, reaching back through Oh Happy Day and forward to Luniz. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Club Nouveau is an American R&B group formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California, following the breakup of the Timex Social Club. The group's name was changed from its original incarnation, "Jet Set", to capitalize on the breakup. The group was signed by Warner Bros. Records, on which Club Nouveau released its first three albums. Club Nouveau's go-go version of Bill Withers's song "Lean on Me" won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1987.
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Club Nouveau connections
Club Nouveau grew out of Oh Happy Day and Bill Withers, shares an orbit with Pebbles, Paula Abdul, Will to Power and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, went on to shape Luniz, Puff Daddy, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. and Doggumentary. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Club Nouveau
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