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Diamond Life is a House act. Their sound grew out of Steely Dan, Joan Armatrading and Timmy Thomas. Those roots explain a lot about how Diamond Life arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Future Shock, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, Soul II Soul and Caron Wheeler, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Diamond Life, reaching back through Steely Dan and forward to D'Angelo. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Diamond Life is the debut studio album by English band Sade, released in the United Kingdom on 16 July 1984 by Epic Records and in the United States on 27 February 1985 by Portrait Records. After studying fashion design, and later modelling, Sade Adu began backup-singing with British band Pride. During this time, Adu and three of the original members of Pride—Paul Anthony Cook, Paul Denman, and Stuart Matthewman—left the group to form their own band called Sade. After various demo recordings and performances, Sade received interest from record labels and signed to Epic.
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Diamond Life grew out of Steely Dan, Joan Armatrading and Timmy Thomas, shares an orbit with Future Shock, went on to shape D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys and Soul II Soul. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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