◇ image via WikipediaCorey Hart
Corey Hart is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Dan Hill, Billy Joel and Culture Club. Those roots explain a lot about how Corey Hart arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Glass Tiger, Loverboy, Thompson Twins, Rick Springfield and Wang Chung, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Res, Céline Dion and Tiga, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Corey Hart, reaching back through Tom Jones and forward to Res. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Corey Mitchell Hart is a Canadian singer, musician and songwriter known for his hit singles "Sunglasses at Night", "Never Surrender" and "It Ain't Enough". He has sold over 16 million records worldwide and recorded nine US Billboard Top 40 hits. In Canada, 30 of Hart's recordings have been Top 40 hits, including 11 in the Top 10, over the course of over 35 years in the music industry. Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1984, Hart is an inductee of both Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame, and is also a multiple Juno award nominee and winner, including the Diamond Award for his best-selling album Boy in the Box. He has also been honoured by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).
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Corey Hart connections
Corey Hart grew out of Tom Jones, Paul Anka, Dan Hill and Billy Joel, shares an orbit with Glass Tiger, Loverboy, Thompson Twins and Rick Springfield, went on to shape Res, Céline Dion and Tiga. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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