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Concha Buika

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JazzLatin

Concha Buika is a Jazz and Latin act. Their sound grew out of Chavela Vargas, Yasmin Levy, Nina Simone, Cesária Évora and Billie Holiday. Those roots explain a lot about how Concha Buika arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Diego Carrasco and Antonio Mairena, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Chucho Valdés, Pat Metheny, Seal, Nelly Furtado and Anoushka Shankar, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Concha Buika, reaching back through Chavela Vargas and forward to Chucho Valdés. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Concha BuikaChavela VargasYasmin LevyNina SimoneCesária ÉvoraBillie HolidayAmy WinehouseTeitur LassenJavier LimónChucho ValdésPat MethenySealNelly FurtadoAnoushka ShankarChick CoreaCharles AznavourJason MrazDiego CarrascoAntonio Mairena

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Concha Buika grew out of Chavela Vargas, Yasmin Levy, Nina Simone and Cesária Évora, shares an orbit with Diego Carrasco and Antonio Mairena, went on to shape Chucho Valdés, Pat Metheny, Seal and Nelly Furtado. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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